Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

Flowers bloom on the land. Vegetables are grown on the land.

Real estate prices certainly fluctuate; however, history reveals that a person cannot go wrong by owning a quality piece of property that can be farmed, used for grazing livestock, or built upon in the future. My Italian grandfather was a hardworking man who, as my grandmother teased, “had so many irons in the fire that none of them were hot!” He was a coal miner, songwriter, and magazine publisher, and still found time to pastor a church in Gorman, Maryland, which he constructed in 1959. He lived in Davis, West Virginia, a small community of about seven hundred people. During his lifetime he purchased several pieces of real estate, along with apartments, turning them into six pieces of rental property. Often I was with him when he went from apartment to apartment making minor repairs and talking to the renters. As a child, I recall him saying, “If you invest in anything, invest in land. People always need land and a place to live. You can never go wrong having property, if it is good property.” Granddad retired at age seventy-nine and lived to be eighty four years old. Until his departure, he received monthly income from five apartments and continually kept them rented. The rentals assisted his income and helped during tax season. I saw, however, the greatest benefit after he passed away. Grandmother was eventually able to sell all of the property, live off the income, and leave her two daughters some additional money in her will after passing at age eighty-six. Granddad