Tom Anderson Quotes

We bought property after Iniki in '92. I figured we'd never find better bargains. As it turned out, we didn't get a bargain, but we did find the spot we wanted to live on. It actually took a couple years to secure that spot. Then, after we moved, it took over 10 years to start construction on the house. It's still a work in progress.

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

I want to build a house in Indian Harbour, that's all.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.

I think of real estate as a little bit like cooking or like art.

Jonathan and I love flipping homes. We've been renovating and flipping houses since the '90s.

I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet.

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

I like to build houses.

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

I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.

I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why do you have to change? Why don't you just accept that this is how you are? Why do you have to grow from an experience?

One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

The first thing I did when my career started moving was to buy a small house.

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

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.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.