Quotes About Property

Cities could open up their property and assets to sharing economy apps that make it easier to find parking spaces or homes for rent. By aligning private-sector incentives with the public good, cities will create confidence among taxpayers.

My first memory of flipping a house was when I was pregnant with my daughter Taylor. We bought a condo in Santa Ana, and I think we paid around $120,000. It was really exciting because when we went to auction, it was the first property we went to bid on and we won it.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

Our employment contract made it clear that anything we invented belonged to our company. My boss told me: "You sold it to us for one dollar, and we didn't pay you that dollar.

Everybody steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal. Thomas Edison, 1847-1931

There is a wonderful line in one of Cicero's letters to Atticus in which he describes moving into a property and says: I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

It's not about income, it's about assets that generate income.

You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.

The government will even lend you the money to fix up or rehabilitate the project if you qualify.

you should analyze 100 properties, make offers on ten of them, have three sellers say yes, and then buy one.

it takes shopping and looking at over 100 properties to buy one property.

We bought it out of foreclosure from a bank.

Analyze the rental market as well as the purchase market.

Be careful of investing in condominiums. Condominiums most often have a board of directors made up of homeowners. Homeowners and investors do not always see eye to eye.

Most homeowners want to keep their property nice, so they spend excessively on maintenance.

Kim and I own several thousand cash-flowing apartment properties, commercial properties, a luxury hotel, a boutique hotel, five golf courses, and oil wells. Every year we add more assets like those to our financial statement and pay less in taxes.

they held much of their wealth in real estate after they made it.

Is that why you say, "Your house is not an asset?" For most homeowners, their house is taking money out of their pockets. A: Yes. Even if your house is debt free, cash is still flowing out of your pocket for taxes, maintenance, insurance, and utilities.

he parked his wealth in real estate.

The income from real estate is passive income, the least taxed of all incomes.