His statement makes sense financially if one wants to live in a luxury high-end property. 

You're not a dummy, just being seduced by the dark side of buying depreciating luxuries! 

This city is home to the training facilities for the Dallas Cowboys at the luxurious office building and shopping/nightlife complex called The Star.

Take a year and 1- listen to a BP Show per day, 2-cut your living expenses as much as you can believe it or not you can find $1,500/month by reducing rent & car & cutting luxury expanses and in a year you will have $18,000 - this will suck but it’s an investment!!

We live in a 'luxury househack' and have for 13 years. 

So for the single person, couple, or roommates a 2-bedroom is a luxury versus a 2-bedroom apartment that may have amenities, but has no yard or garage and doesn't feel like a test-run on buying a home.

It's also helpful to remind myself that luxury is not the end-goal (at least for me) but pursuing meaningful projects. 

Luxury househacking.   

I'm curious to know what's the right thing to do in this situation...I've explained to the Bottom tenant he has the luxury of controlling the temperature of the house.

Up sell at weekend event to binder of (choose one): (a) 1-2 long-winded talkers stretching 1-2 hours of material over the course of 15-20 hours of audio packaged in an overly extravagant binder or (b) DVDs of well dressed salesmen and trophy wives walking around luxury homes and fancy cars they rented for the shoot. 4.