Quotes About Property

Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.

This economic arrangement worked only because their lives were so oriented toward the group that they didn't even consider their possessions their own but "had everything in common" (Acts 4: 32 ESV). While this probably didn't mean a one-time divestment of every single piece of individual property into a common fund, it absolutely meant people sold land and houses to share with the group.

As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated, or written in our DNA, or forced upon us by shitty parents, or careless teachers, or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state, it is a 'property', and when a person is in possession of enough 'property', it sometimes begins to define them.

Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated or written in our DNA or forced upon us by shitty parents or careless teachers or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state; it is a "property," and when a person is in possession of enough "property," it sometimes begins to define them.

Chances are good that if you walked away from your house after the real estate market collapsed, the Cavs now own it.

After a tour of the wards, it begins to look like consciousness is not a system property at all. It is a property of local brain circuits.

Classical theorists (foremost John Locke, a British philosopher greatly admired by the founders) captured the predicament in the idea of a preconstitutional "state of nature." In that state, Locke contended, free and equal persons hold broad rights to life, liberty, and property. However, they lack the means of enforcing those rights.

Although he had not participated in building their fences, he must not cross their fields.

It's my property and a gift from the Lord. Why should I pay tax on it?

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." —Thomas Paine

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Quality of Your Property Parallels the Quality of Your Tenant

Available Units Not showing all available units to prospective tenants or disclosing all available units.

Qualifying Standards You should have written qualifying standards for your property.

NEVER file an insurance claim for a stolen air conditioner, stolen tools, stolen supplies, stolen carpet, stolen pipes, stolen furnaces, vandalism, or stolen anything. Pay for this out of your pocket. You do not want to jeopardize your insurance record from these puny claims.

The more income you report, the higher the market value of your rentals.

Not Requiring Renters' Insurance This is your first line of defense in protecting your rentals from something caused by your residents. I expand a lot on this in the chapter on insurance. This is very important.

This system could be considered illegal, because if you have more than three rental units, you must rent your unit to the first qualified applicant.

This answer is amazingly simple. NEVER identify yourself as the Owner, real estate investor, or worse…"Landlord." The simple answer is to identify yourself as the "Property Manager.

Or better yet, identify yourself as a person who works for the Property Manager. This powerful, stuck-in-the-middle position allows you a boatload of flexibility to dodge all kinds of bullets. These two words give you an easy out to avoid making rash "shoot from the hip" decisions that may be emotionally charged or you may regret later.

Life Is Good with good, solid, almost-maintenance-free rentals.

Real Estate Investors invest in real estate primarily because they believe it is a real investment that they can control. You can see it, visit it, touch it, smell it, and show it off to friends and family. You can't do that with stock. You might be able to do it with gold and silver.

Investing in real estate is by far, the biggest common denominator of millionaires, multimillionaires, and megamillionaires and billionaires.