Abdul Halik Azeez

0. PROGRESS Colombo is a city obsessed with the future. Its skyline rises in glass and steel; its billboards promise luxury, efficiency, progress. Planners speak of ‘world-class living’, as if the city could reinvent itself in the image of Dubai or Singapore, sleek, vertical and aspirational. And finally catch up to the potential it lost due to decades of conflict. However, every new road, tower and reclamation project is also a monument to forgetting.

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I am really trying to stay positive but I feel like I have been spinning my wheels for the last 3-4 mos. I have evaluated 100s of properties , toured and budgeted well over 50 properties, put offers on on 7 or 8. Each offer was either beat out or ignored. I thought I had a house in Shaker this week and got beat out last minute by an all cash offer, even though mine was more. On the rental side finding houses that cash flow with high property taxes is next to impossible.