/blogs/beezus/2015/04/23/its-time-to-debate-the-growth-of-holiday-homes-major-gamechanger/ Exploring South Africa with a Pomchi Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 /blogs/beezus/2015/04/23/its-time-to-debate-the-growth-of-holiday-homes-major-gamechanger/#comment-964 Michael Jackson Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:32:45 +0000 /blogs/beezus/?p=738#comment-964 I don’t agree. I owned a holiday home in Barberton, Mpumalanga for ten years. I spent over R300k on it in renovations and it cost me around R12k a month to run with security, a permanent housekeeper and ancillary services. Each trip there saw me spend over R3000 in local stores, fuel and supplies. Would you rather I hadn’t contributed? And, for the record, people purchase holiday homes at the Cape with a view to retirement. It’s a long term investment which pays off if bought early enough. A different view? #useit/don’tuseit

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