Paul Taylor Quotes

There's a lot of drama that goes into just buying a house, let alone renovating a house.

Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.

Fifty years ago or a hundred years ago, generally, most people would buy a house the way you buy a car. When you buy a car, do you think, 'I better buy this year rather than next year because car prices might go up?'

I still think, from an individual perspective, the best deal investment you can make is to buy a primary residence that you're the owner-occupier of.

Sendai is the place that helped me build my basement.

We love renovating spaces to maximize a home's equity.

When a family buys a house, they know when it's the right one - the fixer upper where they can spend all their time and grow old together.

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

We did a whole fraternity house. We made them over.

Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.

The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it?

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.