The comfortable world of estate agencies has looked ripe for reinvention, to the benefit of customers, ever since the internet came along but it has never quite happened.
According to ʿArūẓī, Ferdowsī was a dehqān ("landowner"), deriving a comfortable income from his estates.
"A ferry is really my only choice besides the bus, and it's more comfortable," said Robert Shulman, a real estate executive from Upper Saddle River, N.J.
"Compared to a New York pace, it's a lot slower, which makes it more comfortable," said Sally Brodsky, a real estate agent in Brooklyn and a weekend gardener in Chatham.
Mr. Lincoln's clients, often young families in the New York metropolitan area, are typically what he described as "Wall Street meritocracy types" who are investing substantially in real estate and want comfortable homes that don't lose sight of their precociousness as young people.
My family should be depicted as a bland support network whose individual members are doomed to quiet, comfortable lives spent guiding my estate through various complicated tax loopholes.
Ardlussa House (01496 820 323, [email protected]) makes a comfortable alternative, staying on the Fletcher estate.
Khan, who is seventy, has been granted a comfortable, if restricted, retirement on an estate near Islamabad — a well-upholstered form of house arrest.
CONS: Anyone with an interest in keeping a co-op's solvency separate from the whims of commercial real estate might be more comfortable paying maintenance.
"The things I used to do are no longer out there," said Mr. Barnhardt, who had previously made a comfortable living investing in commercial real estate and operating heavy equipment.
