Cy Coleman Quotes

The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.

Some people get a kick out of Taylor Hicks being their landlord.

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.

We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

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

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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

I've always liked lost, old New York.

My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.

I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.

I want to be a successful landlord. I like real estate.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

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

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.

To me, I love real estate because you can feel it.

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

I want to be known internationally as one of the most creative real estate developers in low-income communities. I want to be known as someone who actually promotes economic diversity and does a great job.

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It's never delightful to glamorize one's youth. My neighborhood was poor. But people felt part of the neighborhood. This was in Rockaway Beach, Long Island.

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.