Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.