Real Estate Math

= Our house on Anderson Hill Road in Purchase, NY =

<> When I retired in 1984, we sold it for approximately $300,000. It is currently listed by a Westchester Real Estate Agency to be sold for $1,325,000. We moved to Heritage Hills in Somers, New York and purchased a Canaan Model residence for $135,000. Canaan residences now sell for nearly $500,000

<> In 1626, Peter Minuit, of the Dutch West Indies Company, bought Manhattan Island from its native Indians for 60 Dutch guilders, a sum later calculated to be about $24. As far as we know, no deeds were transferred and the transaction was not notarized. Afterward, the Island was named New Amsterdam. But not for long! In 1664 a British Fleet sailed into the harbor and the Dutch, under the governance of Peter Stuyvesant, surrendered. The British renamed the Island, New York, in honor of the Duke of York, brother of the British King Charles.

<> Biblical history records that Adam and Eve were evicted from the Garden of Eden but it neglects to say if they were reimbursed. Nor does it disclose the identity of those who moved into their vacated premises.

<> Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity is not comprehensive enough to make fiscal sense of all the above. But what Galileo muttered under his breath, while being inquisitioned, may provide a clearer rationale. He was overheard to say, "E pur si muove" - and so it goes." up, up and away!