Real Estate Wisdom

This has all been said many times over, that over the years, more people have become wealthy, and retained their wealth through real estate, than all other means combined.

“I am the basis of all wealth, the heritage of the wise, the thrifty and prudent. I am the poor man’s joy and comfort, the rich man’s prize, the right hand of capital, the successful partner of many thousands of successful men.  I am the solace of the widow, the comfort of old age, the cornerstone of security against misfortune and want.  I am handed down to children, through generations, as a thing of greatest worth.  I am the choicest fruit of toil.  Credit respects me, yet I am humble.  I stand before every man bidding him to know me for what I am, and to possess me.  I grow and increase in value through countless days.  Though I seem dormant, my worth increases, never failing, never ceasing; time is my aid and population heaps up my gain.  Fire and elements I defy, for they cannot destroy me.  My possessors learn to believe in me; invariable they become envied.  While all things wither and decay, I survive.  The centuries find me younger, increasing in strength.  The thriftless speak ill of me.  The charlatans of finance attack me.  I am trustworthy.  I am sound.  Unfailing I triumph and detractors are disproved.  Minerals and oils come from me.  I am sound.  I am producer of food, the basis for ships and factories and the foundation of banks.  Yet I am so common that thousands unthinking and unknowingly pass me by.
-         I am Real Estate
-         Author unknown…….but wise!