68 Quotes by John Burns

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    This is a function of those companies seeing an opportunity to get in on the surging housing market. Obviously, the long-term demographics for people in their 50s and 60s play into this. Not everyone wants to live on a golf course in Florida.

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    You can't just buy a piece of junk and rent it out. What investors have to realize is that students are selective and sophisticated, and their parents are sophisticated.

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    This is the timing part. That's about the time those plants are really wanting to grow.

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    A blind person can use the machine and receive instructions on an audible track. We will have one of those machines in each precinct. This will allow truly secret ballots.

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    It's all supply and demand. There is no change in the demand in housing, the demand for landlords is not changing. But more people are looking for tenants. That's when the investment becomes speculative.

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    Eventually this will save us money by eliminating the old paper ballots. It's always been hard to estimate how many people will vote and plan to have enough ballots printed. That problem should be eliminated. We've had a trash barrel full of ballots left over because we had too many ballots printed and then have a low voter turnout.

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    Still more important perhaps, is the fact that labour of the humbler kind has shown its capacity to organise itself; its solidarity; its ability.

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    It's been years since we have seen any unsold inventory like this in Phoenix's new-home market. Too many builders went too far out and built houses that were too expensive.

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    I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

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