Oil, gold, diamonds, wood and other natural resources were stolen from the earth and sold for lots of money.

to be honest even my $75k car loan isn't on a depreciating asset it's in a 16m I paid $265k for in 2015 and it's probably worth $400k today,but no bank on earth is going to look at a Ferrari as an asset but being one of 399 made it actually is.

I find they're interesting, informative, and down to earth. 

I had budgeted for some slip and slop, and yet made one fatal assumption: the capacity for rational action, on the part of the tenants with whom I do business, to do in any measurable capacity of decency what is in their own best interest.The man who sold me the property after his houses, as he said, "sucked the life out of him", commented ominously in reference to the tenants that "these people are the scum of the Earth."

Why on Earth, I have no idea.

I keep in contact with them just as a general business practice, waiting for them to 'come back to earth'.  

Bill thank you for your down to earth comments. 

But CA is a big place the weather in far northern CA is nothing like LA which is probably were you go on your business trips most of the time.There is NO state as diverse when it comes to natural wonders and beauty.. think Big Sur, Yosemite, lake Tahoe , Beach's of Socal , the awesome redwood forests of the far north tree's that were growing when Christ walked the earth.. there simply is no state like CA... then you take the chance to hit it big in the income side of things.. and if you invested correctly over the years you can be a multi millionaire on appreciation alone no need for cash flow.   

I would go to the ends of the Earth to avoid evicting someone who fell on hard times because of the pandemic.

Don't let the dapper suit and power tie fool you...he's down to earth as can be.Point being that this on line community doesn't have to be stuck on line.