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  Ok, now I'm wondering if some of the folks who got rich in the 80s were just really good at Monopoly and thought about ways to apply lessons learned in game to real life.
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  Monopoly taught me the best way to win is to buy all of the houses and never upgrade to hotels, thereby making it highly difficult for everyone else to improve their own properties. >
  
  I can’t remember the difference in hotels/houses, can you explain the added difficulty by doing this? >
  
  You get to charge more if you have a hotel vs. if you have houses on the property but what they're referring to is that the rules are very clear that you can only use the houses and hotels in the game. If all the houses are currently used on the board then no one else can build a house until someone upgraded to a hotel and (in doing so) returned the houses they had on that property. 
  So a very effective strategy is to put houses on all your properties and never upgrade to hotels even if you can afford it. Then you get to charge more on your properties while starving anyone else of the ability to meaningfully do the same. >
  
  Which is a pretty good analogy for Nimby home owners passing zoning restrictions against new construction in order to make sure their property values stay inflated.