Real Estate
Cry Wolf Quotes
It is almost impossible to sell any real property in New York City at the present time at its assessed value.
The owners of real property are becoming terrified by the number of laws which have been enacted affecting real property in New York City…in each succeeding year there is a law passed…This compels the owner to expend…large sums of money, which…are absolutely needless and useless.
To my mind this is all wrong….The experience of the past proves conclusively that the best government is the least possible government, that the unfettered initiative of the individual is the force that makes a country great and that this initiative should never be bound...
[The New York Herald noted that the owners claimed the order amounted to] a confiscation of property…
