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I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

I'm tired of being considered property.

It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

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

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me.