MGC is closing Aug 1. Apparently MMY called Doug Greenfield in Florida where he is doing some investing. Now when MMY calls anyone Doug or Chris Johnson who runs Mandala 6 I am not sure what this means. I am sure he does not pick up the phone probably someone sets the call up and maybe he gets on. Who knows but that is another whole discussion. Also Doug Greenfield investing out of state and town as his office buildings are pretty empty here another whole discussion.
So MCG is closing they say because MMY felt it was a waste to be spending time building these individual homes here and around the country but mostly here and more focus needed to be put on building Peace Palaces with matching Peace Colony Homes built in mass right away yes shipped from somewhere overseas and pre fab. No one I know even would want one and the people I know in the process of building MSV either had already approved plans from MGC and are going ahead or dont give a flying hoot and when they build in the future on their land they will build whatever they want. I dont know if that starts happening if some entity with take MGC constructions place. They made about $15,000 in fees on each house not a whole lot to them with building slowing down and to the home owner alot. My negative guess is the movement did not like the small amount of money coming out of this plus the positive MMY really does want these Peace Colonies all over the world and is naive enought to think one prefab house will be suitable for all or any. I have no feelings what so ever that this is just another failed project and have heard nothing positive from the field about Peace Palaces or anyone getting paid etc. If any do work it will take years and my best guess is it will be a bunch of old TM Centers resurecting that after a few years due to lack of funds will close again. It is very sad really because we all came up thru those old days and they were great. But I think those days are over and I really give MMY kudos for trying but too little too late his army is now too small and not trusting. So there will be a big shift and transition here in FF hosuing whise building wise and the architext and builders who have here to for felt an alligance and ethical responsibity to only build what was certified will now have to chose do they eat or not eat and hopefully for the better where one can build what they want with no fees to the movement and the house will still be considered a viable house for resale. The reality is even a MSV certified house has little chance of resale at the price you pay to build it and if you get away with a small lose you are doing well. Any house here over $100,000 is risky and only a few people a year buy a house for a hundred thousand according to one local realtor. There is no appreciation here no investment like all our friends who live elsewhere whose house prices triple in 10-15 years or have over the past. So with all of that said it is just a new nice place to live that may if you chose have some SV principals and feel great for you for the next 20 years of your life. Still alot to have a nice new shiny clean house but you need to have the financial reserves and be smart about it and not pay $40,000 for a lot that is one acres etc Many here think that when Chris Johnson gives them a small lot for $26,000 that is a deal when you can buy outside of Vedic City for a few thousand an acres. I guess if you want Vedic City you pay the price or have the last 5 year. If demand slows down and he wants to eat guess he will have to lower his prices too. It is all in the eating factor :-) My guess is that is is buttoming out finally and there are steal of deals coming up so if you are in the market for a new SV house wait and watch. There have to be 15 or so MSV homes on the market and a few that realtors and accountants in town know are coming up and cant say and a few big not on the listings but hey if you want Earl Kaplans house sure you can buy it. Dimicks left behind one that are trying to dump for 1.9 million no one has that kind of money. I hear they may surface in a few years but dont want their house with kids being grown at that point but they are paying the taxes and maintenance they might as well live in it . As far as I see no one wants it and Chromens got off easy when some CA man who is not a Ru found theirs to be a great hidea way and bought it for under a million. I hear he comes with his kids but his wife hates it and does not come here. They took a huge lose but cut their loses and went. David and CAthy Chaladoff took less of a lose a few hundred thousand but they did and were smart and sold their home to the Jorgensens who got a good deal and they moved Chaladoffs to a 2 million dollar home in Carmel. He could have waited for a better buyer but he was smart and let it go for less. But currently the others sellers are delusional and think they can get what they paid for them or more or they think pundits will really come and their house value will go up espeically those in Vedic City. I just wonderded if anyone else had similar opinions and seems they do. I definitley feel a major slow down. The rich have left town the ones who built 5 years ago cant afford to stay in their houses due to no jobs, ill health, empty nesters , movment is slowing down for sure , popultion here is shrinking, all of the above. Life changes and you have to really protect any assest you have in FF. All said I would love one of these house just for the fact that it is new and mine is old but at a steal of a deal only as I know I will never recoup that money or very little. lets face it even if things were different who is going to be around in 20 years that would even buy it. We will all be old going to smaller one story or the assited living home or moving in with each other and taking care of each other and our less fortunate friends and will be poorer most and the movement and schools here and shrinking. OK I am done. I gather some agree. > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm curious what the MSV houses are going for in Ffld. > snip > > MSV houses in Ffld range from 400 sq.ft. trailers to Earl Kaplan's taj > mahal like mansion, with everything in between, so there's no avg. > price. MSV houses have sold for a large premium over similarly sized > and constructed homes in town, so the owners are at risk as the demand > seems to be slowing down now. Plus the premium was just for having > the official MSV approval -- many MSV homes were built very cheaply > and with toxic materials, ie, you were buying vastu not a quality > green home. > > To be "official MSV" you had to have your home designed and built by > maharishi global construction. I'm told by someone working there that > MGC has been told to shut down their residential business as all new > MSV homes will now be delivered prefab from a few officially approved > designs from int'l. Maybe someone here knows more about this. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
