"A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816.
"No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity." --Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes, 1821. ME 19:408
"If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education." --Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1818. FE 10:99
The second half does a calculation of what prices should be based on appreciation between 3% and 5% per year compounded. This will give you a list up to 2007 of the range of prices that the house should cost. Again, this does not account for major upgrades such as adding an extension onto the house or completely knocking down and rebuilding; thus increasing square footage.