Financial Intelligence

The Logic
of Luxury

Two questions decide everything: what does the second-home life truly cost — and how long will you wait to live it? The numbers answer both.

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Build your projection.

Set the scenario for a ROAM residence and watch the numbers come to life.

Your Scenario

$6,500,000

ROAM residences: typically $5.95M–$7M

Your ROAM Share (1/10) $650,000
4.0%
10
30

Each ROAM share includes 30 nights

$3,500

Luxury homes of this caliber in ROAM's towns

Option A

Whole Ownership

Purchase Price
$6,500,000
Annual Carrying Costs
$195,000
Taxes, insurance, maintenance, management
Total 10-Year Outlay
$8,450,000
Empty Nights / Year
335
You pay for all 365
Option B
The ROAM Way

ROAM Co-Ownership

Share Cost (1/10)
$650,000
Annual Dues
$18,000
All-inclusive management & concierge
Total 10-Year Outlay
$830,000
Capital You Keep
$7,620,000
vs. whole ownership over 10 years
Option C

Luxury Rentals

Nightly Rate
$3,500
Annual Rental Cost
$105,000
Total 10-Year Spend
$1,050,000
Equity Built
$0
No ownership. No appreciation. No asset.
ROAM Share Equity
Same Cash in Savings (2%)
Cumulative Rent Spent
Your Share Value
$962,140
Cash Equivalent
$792,339
Rent: Money Gone
$1,050,000

What a night really costs.

The honest math of a ROAM night: your annual dues plus the opportunity cost of capital, divided by the 30 nights your share includes — while your deeded share keeps appreciating underneath you. Compare that with writing a rental check that builds nothing.

Annual dues$18,000
Opportunity cost of capital (4%)$26,000
÷ 30 nights$1,467
Comparable rental night$3,500

Your Savings, Every Night

$2,033

× 30 nights = $61,000 a year — while owning the asset

The asset that pays in evenings.

Golden hour · every ROAM town

The Other Calculation

Wealth compounds.
The window doesn't.

Net worth rises over a lifetime. The energy to ski the bowls, wade the river, and chase your kids up a trail follows a different curve. Where the two meet is the window — and you're standing in it.

The Window

Means to live well × capacity to enjoy it

Wealth
Vitality
The Window

Don't Postpone Joy

Time is your greatest asset.

Most plans treat the second home as a finish line — the reward after one more deal, one more cycle, one more someday. But memories compound exactly like capital: the earlier they're made, the more they return. The powder mornings and beach evenings you bank this decade pay dividends at every dinner table for the rest of your life.

ROAM was built to move the timeline. A deeded share opens the door now — at a tenth of the capital — so the years of your greatest means overlap with the years of your greatest energy.

"Happiness isn't delayed. It's designed."

"Happiness is not somewhere ahead of you. It is now. The habit of postponing joy is the habit of missing life."
— Inspired by Alan Watts

Experiences beat possessions

Research consistently finds experiential purchases deliver more lasting happiness than material ones.

Time affluence

Control over one's own time is among the strongest predictors of life satisfaction.

Shared moments

Quality time with the people you love is the most reliable engine of well-being.

Growth through novelty

New places and new challenges measurably increase fulfillment — at every stage of life.

Among Luxury Assets

The only one you live inside.

Fine art hangs. Classic cars sit. Yachts depreciate at the dock. A ROAM share holds its value the way real estate does — and pays its dividend in mornings that belong to you.

Fine Art

Store of Value

High

Utility / Joy

Low

Limited to the room it's in.

Classic Cars

Store of Value

Medium

Utility / Joy

Limited

The more you drive them, the more they depreciate.

Yachts

Store of Value

Depreciating

Utility / Joy

Medium

How many weeks are you going to spend at sea?

ROAM Home

Store of Value

High

Utility / Joy

Maximum

The lifestyle asset

For the Best of Your Life

Run the numbers
on your own life.

We'll build a personalized projection for your town, your timeline, and your 30 nights — and walk through it together.

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