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

“Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.”

“A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.”

“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.”

“Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.”

“Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You come home and you say do not tell me. You say, I have hunted the elk all over the snowfields of the Selway, and I do not want to know what happened here. And then there is a morning you walk in and take a look in your own house, like any traveler.”