• I am the poor man’s joy and comfort, the rich man’s prizes, the right hand of capital, the silent partner of many thousands of successful men.
• I am the solace of the widow, the comfort of old age, the cornerstone of security against misfortune and want, I am handed down to children, through generation, as a thing of great worth.
• I am the choicest fruit of toil. Credit respects me. Yet I am humble, I stand before every man bidding him know me for what I am
  and possess me.
• I grow and increase in value through countless days. Though I seem dormant, my worth increases, never failing, never ceasing, time is my aid and population heaps up my gain. Fire and the elements I defy, for they cannot destroy me.
• My possessors learn to believe me; invariably they become envied. While all things wither and decay, I survive. The centuries find me younger, increasing in strength.
• The thriftless speak ill of me. The charlatans of finance attack me. I am trustworthy. I am sound. Unfailing I triumph and detractors are disproved.
• Minerals and oils come from me, I am producer of food, the basis for ships and factories, the foundation of banks.
• Yet I am so common that thousands, unthinking and unknowingly, pass me by.

I am Real Estate.  At Covington & Associates Realtors, we believe in Real Estate.