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Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly
The Real Estate Adviser
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February 5, 2004

The Real Estate Adviser: How much is that 'free gift' costing?

By TOM KELLY
Special to the Journal

Maybe it's just the cold time of year, but a recent column about a woman who cashed in her air miles for a flight to the Canary Islands and a much needed getaway in the sun seems to have tweaked the emotional fascination for air miles and getaways.

Stan and Joyce Savaard, Canadian couple in their 60s, wrote to describe how much they enjoyed their Hawaiian getaway, the result of more than 80,000 air miles accumulated when they sold their family home of 20 years and bought another through the same real estate brokerage.


 
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