I don't even use all of the house I have. There's still plenty of room. There are entire rooms that I seldom even visit.
Hell, I own two houses that I've never even seen all the rooms in them. I have another house that I haven't been in for like a decade. I used to own more. I even owned an apartment complex for a while.
If there's one thing I have a lot of, it's property.
And trees. Man, I own a fuck of a lot of trees.
Those are good things to own. They tend to hold their value over time.
LOL I own a whole block (six properties) in Detroit. There were 'houses' on them, but I had them all razed. None of them were suitable for rehabbing or anything. I couldn't even get the fire departments to come burn them for training.
All they cost was a handful of dollars and paying the back taxes - and then the cost to have them razed.
I've never seen them in person. I've never even been to that section of Detroit.
I pay the taxes and send someone in a few times a year to make sure the grass is trimmed and the garbage is picked up.
I figure Detroit will eventually rebound and I'll make a fucking fortune on the property. The value has already reached the point where I could sell at a profit.
Literally, a few dollars and the back taxes was the purchase price. The most expensive one was $600 (plus the taxes and razing). Now I have like 5 acres of Detroit. I bought them all because they were a block. I didn't even do the bidding myself.
I even own property outside of the US.
Someday that could be a very valuable piece of property
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