WHEN JOCK SMITH, president of The Cochran Firm, bought a luxury home in the gated community of Audubon Estates in southwest Atlanta last December, he opted to pay cash instead of seek financing.

“It’s unusual to do it that way,” he acknowledges, explaining that he prefers to have low or no debt and high equity. “I have equity in all my properties around the country, and that’s a biggie for me,” Smith says. “It makes all your properties liquid.”

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