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5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate
James E. A. Lumley Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471548251 |
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A new and revised edition of the commonsense guide to real estate richesMore and more people are discovering that real estate investing is a safe and affordable way to increase their cash flow and build lasting wealth. If you want to achieve financial freedom, then look no further. 5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate reveals the proven real estate investment strategies that many of today's millionaires used to make their fortunes. In fact, you don't even need a lot of money to start investing and start putting cash in your pocket today!
Real estate expert James Lumley offers simple, straightforward explanations of the most common and lucrative approaches to property investment--including fixer-uppers, lease/options, wholesales, buy-and-hold, and single-and multifamily rentals. You'll understand all the basics of real estate and learn to use these five strategies to make a killing in any economy. Packed with new information--including sections on the IRS's simplified tax exchange rules and the capital gains exclusion--5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate will show you how to:
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This book offers five simple but proven techniques that successful real estate investors use every day to make money. These effective, time-honored strategies offer a reliable way to generate cash for spending or reinvesting. Wannabe investors will learn about fixer-uppers, small- to medium-sized apartment buildings, and lease-purchase agreements among other techniques.Customer Reviews:
basic.......2004-04-20
The danger with these books are that readers new to the field might just strike off and try to do some of these things without further investigation. In his defense, I will say he is one of the few authors who explains some of the lien dangers involved with buying foreclosed properties (mainly IRS liens.)
Good Beginning Book, However.......2003-02-23
A Comprehensive Introduction to R.E. Investing.......2002-07-08
I read this book, loved it. Passed it to a friend, who passed it to a friend. I haven't the vaguest clue as to where it is now. The only reason that I write this is because the book is an awesome way to introduce people to real estate investing.
If you are already aware of what you can do to make money in RESIDENTIAL Real Estate then this book is not for you. There is very little detail that you would find useful in this book, that wouldn't be better explained in another more advanced book, or even a college course.
However, I stress that this IS "THE BOOK" for those new to Real Estate investing. It covers the basic strategies for those who are interested in knowing what options and methods are available to them in Residential Real Estate Investing. I hope this helps. Please vote if it does.
Very basic - too simplistic.......2000-11-27
I live in the Milwaukee area and have been investing in multi-families for five years. Real estate investing is a great and quick equity builder. The tricky part is that real estate has been very robust here. A lot of these authors write as if we were still in a recession. They act as if good quality homes are being auctioned at the sheriff's office or that banks are loaded up on suburban defaults.
Every sheriff sale that I have been to in the suburbs has a price above market value.
Most of the owners that will do lease / options are selling inner city junk. Flipping houses in a hot or expensive market is a very tricky act, because you have a commitment for a high capital product. For instance, take a house at $170,000. Monthly hold cost will be high - $ 2,000 (including taxes). Wisconsin has a title transfer fee. Add in a realtor's fee and you really have to buy low. There are realtors every morning searching the MLS for ubder valued properties. I know some of them. "Get a steal" is fairly difficult.
Another truth that I discovered, if there is a really good deal, investors with cash reserves, will step in and buy. That means approaching an owner in greater MILW suburbs with an under valued property with all owner financing does not go to far.
The key to finding a good property; get to the owners before the realtors do. Do a mailing to apartment owners. Call them up. I have never been yelled at or hung up on when I called an owner and told them I was interested in buying their property. That how I brought my last two.
Last note, novices at "fixing-up" property generally under- estimate cost (and the value of their time) is fixing up houses.
In general, I thought he gave specific numbers in each example. However, I though they were unrealistic and not applicable to this market. The book is good for someone not in real estate, who wants to get in. However, readers will some intermediate real estate knowledge will be bored with the book.
Great for Novices.......2000-08-27
I was expecting this book to be just a basic "overview" of Real Estate investing, but the author gives you a lot more inforation than just the basics.
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3 Book Book Real Estate Collection; How to Make Millions in Real Estate in 3 Years Starting with No Cash; the Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate; 5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate
Tyler G. Hicks , Mile Summey , Roger Dawson , and James Lumley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WU3I98 |
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3 Book Book Real Estate Collection; How to Make Millions in Real Estate in 3 Years Starting with No Cash; the Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate; 5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate.
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5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate
Lumley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WJ1JV8 |
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The Official Cat Codependents Handbook: For People Who Love Their Cats Too Much
Ronnie Sellers Manufacturer: Sellers Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1569060193 |
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8" x 8" Paperback Book; 128 pages (glossy stock). Features over 50 large, full color, humorous illustrations depicting the various ways that Cat Codependents indulge their cats. The book includes dozens of hilarious real letters and true life testimonials from Cat Codependents who have written to us over the years. Includes amusing chapters on symptoms, causes, consequences of, living with, and coping with Cat Codependency. The therapeutic value of this 'spoof' on self-help books is that people will laugh at themselves!Customer Reviews:
Funny and unbelievably true!.......2001-06-09
Laugh Out Loud -- NOT!.......2000-05-22
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Let Your Mind Alone
James Thurber Manufacturer: Amereon Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 089190266X |
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The funniest book on psychology ever written.......2001-11-30
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LET YOUR MIND ALONE!
THURBER Manufacturer: HAMILTON ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000RWVAR8 |
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Let Your Mind Alone!
Manufacturer: Hamish Hamilton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GLYXRY |
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Let Your Mind Alone!
James Thurber Manufacturer: HarperCollins (paper) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF4T44 |
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LET YOUR MIND ALONE!
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000I13I0K |
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Let Your Mind alone!
Manufacturer: Hamish Hamilton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HUCOQ6 |
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Let Your Mind alone!
James Thurber Manufacturer: Hamish Hamilton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000QRE0RQ |
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Let Your Mind Alone! And Other More or Less Inspirational Pieces
James Thurber Manufacturer: Hamish Hamilton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GM1DSK |
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LET YOUR MIND ALONE!: AND OTHER MORE OR LESS INSPIRATIONAL PIECES
JAMES THURBER Manufacturer: HAMILTON ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000S6YING |
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Let your mind alone!: And other more or less inspirational pieces
James Thurber Manufacturer: Harper & Brothers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00085QVM8 |
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Sam Spiegel: The Incredible Life and Times of Hollywood's Most Iconoclastic Producer, the Miracle Worker Who Went from Penniless Refugee to Showbiz Legend, and Made Possible The African Queen, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 068483619X |
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Prior to this meticulously researched biography, legendary producer Sam Spiegel had loomed large in countless Hollywood memoirs, but was rarely the subject of close examination. Praiseworthy for negotiating a maze of apocryphal stories and unverified details, Sam Spiegel solves many of the mysteries resulting from the falsehoods of "Spiegelese," for the renowned producer--whose crowning achievements included The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia--was perhaps the most inventive liar to gain prominence in Hollywood. With a refreshing absence of judgment, this unflinching study portrays Spiegel as a consummate manipulator, hedonist, philanderer, absentee father, sexaholic (a foot fetishist who favored young girls well into his '70s), and globetrotting entertainer of the social elite, "incapable of guilt" and so charming that he could achieve miracles (and numerous faked heart attacks, to disarm his detractors) while producing some of the greatest films of Hollywood's post-Golden era.As a first-time biographer, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni (a French journalist who worked as an assistant on Spiegel's final film, 1983's Betrayal) fails to plumb the depths of Spiegel's enigmatic character (so effectively hidden behind his luxurious lifestyle), offering little insight into Spiegel's unique combination of intellect and roguish insincerity. She compensates with a journalist's greatest assets: exacting research and seemingly limitless access to Spiegel's surviving contemporaries, from the late Billy Wilder to On the Waterfront director Elia Kazan and many, many others. The result is a fair and balanced portrait of one of Hollywood's classiest scoundrels, a master thief with impeccable taste and an uncanny instinct for cinematic prestige. --Jeff Shannon
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The incredible life and times of Hollywood's most iconoclastic producer, the miracle worker who went from penniless refugee to show biz legend, and made possible The African Queen, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, not to speak of many more, including movies as distinct as Suddenly, Last Summer; Nicholas and Alexandra; The Last Tycoon; and Betrayal; all of them sharing the unique vision that earned Spiegel twenty-five Oscars: star-filled, bigger-than-life, conceived on a vast scale, intensely dramatic, and overwhelmingly ambitious.
In this rich and brilliant biography, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, who had the advantage of knowing and working for Spiegel, brings into sharp focus a Hollywood legend who was at once crafty, unscrupulous, mendacious, and equally capable of great charm and petty meanness, who was sentimental and ruthless, a shrewd judge of talent, a gambler on a colossal scale, a man of almost unique artistic vision and courage who was, in the final analysis, that most elusive and rare of movie producers, a genius.
The story of a how a Jewish refugee without a penny to his name managed to produce several of the greatest films of all time is alone worth telling, but Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni has done more; she has drawn the definitive portrait of the man himself -- the elusive, witty, cynical adventurer who, like so many refugees, was able to live, succeed, and raise money everywhere, but who was at home nowhere. Spiegel surrounded himself with luxury and beautiful women but remained a loner despite his countless friends.
Spiegel was mysterious about his origins, prompting Arthur Miller to refer to him as "The Great Gatsby." In reality, he was born of middle-class Jewish parents in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Raised in Jaroslav, in western Galicia, Spiegel left home in his late teens and quickly became a hero of the Hashomer Hatzair, a Zionist youth movement.
Step by step, with immense research and a vast number of interviews, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni recreates the world of Sam Spiegel's childhood and youth, separating often self-serving fiction from fact. She follows Spiegel's dramatic flight from the Nazis in Berlin, a prison sentence in London, problems with the police in Paris and Mexico City, and finally his arrival in Los Angeles. In America his career languished for a time, though he acquired a reputation for being a supreme "fixer," a brilliant luftmensh on the fringes of Hollywood power, the ultimate party-giver who knew everybody's secrets and was always quick to charm women and take advantage of men. Billy Wilder called him "a modern day Robin Hood, who steals from the rich and steals from the poor."
With a brilliant sense of time and place and a deep understanding of Spiegel's complex personality, Fraser-Cavassoni traces his disasters, successes, romances, friendships, and tangled finances in a narrative that is rich with colorful Spiegel stories, scandals, and bon mots.
The cast of characters in Spiegel's life includes Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Robert De Niro, Barry Diller, David Geffen, Katharine Hepburn, John Huston, Elia Kazan, David Lean, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mike Nichols, Harold Pinter, Otto Preminger, Elizabeth Taylor, Gore Vidal, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Darryl F. Zanuck, bevies of beautiful women, three wives, countless members of high society, and, most important, Sam Spiegel himself -- the last of the great independent film producers who, in the swashbuckling tradition of David O. Selznick and Sam Goldwyn, operated alone, aimed high, and believed, above all, in their own star.
More than a major book about the movie business, Sam Spiegel is an intricate and engrossing biography, comparable in its richness, depth, and attention to detail to A. Scott Berg's acclaimed biography of Samuel Goldwyn. It is a marvelous, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience and an astonishing debut for Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni.
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Mediocre at best.......2004-05-06
The problem is, although his catalog of films can stand alongside that of anyone in the history of the industry, as a person he doesn't really have any particular standout characteristics that make you take any real interest in him beyond his work. Instead he seems to fit the bill as the stereotype of the Hollywood producer and maybe that alone is enough to make him interesting, but it doesn't come across. The best chapters focus on the films, not the man. There's no denying he was very good at what he did, but this book proved a supreme disappointment simply because I came away not knowing anything more than what I could have learned from a basic filmography. Three stars is a more than generous rating but I give it that because the films are worth the analysis.
Disappointing.......2004-01-16
French journalist?.......2003-04-06
This woman comes from as distinguised a line of BRITISH authors as can be imagined.
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HOLLYWOOD'S MIRACLES OF ENTERTAINMENT
John, Howard Reid Manufacturer: Lulu.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1411635221 |
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120 movies are detailed in this 8th book in the "Hollywood Classics" series. The movies range from marvels of special effects like "King Kong" to the first sound-on-disc feature, "Don Juan". Charismatic film stars like Humphrey Bogart, Jeanette MacDonald, Bing Crosby, Deanna Durbin, John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Eddie Cantor, Lana Turner, Alan Ladd, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Kay Francis, John Garfield, Jane Powell and Roy Rogers enlivened many of these classic films.
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Media Sense: The Folklore-Popular Culture Continuum
Peter Narvaez Manufacturer: Bowling Green State Univ Popular Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0879723432 |
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Monte Cooks Presents The Year's Best D20 (Sword & Sorcery)
Monte Cook Manufacturer: White Wolf Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1588467988 |
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Simply one of the best D20 products ever.......2006-12-13
A must for D20 gamers on a budget.......2005-11-29
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Enterprise Integration with Ruby
Maik Schmidt Manufacturer: Pragmatic Bookshelf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0976694069 |
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Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. Many of them are custom built in-house or by third parties, some are bought, others are based on Open Source projects, and the origin of a few--usually the most critical ones--is completely unknown.A lot of applications are very old, some are fairly new and seemingly no two of them were written using the same tools. They run on heterogeneous operating systems and hardware, they use databases and messaging systems from various vendors, and they were written in different programming languages.
See how to glue these disparate applications together using popular technologies such as:
If you're on the hook to integrate enterprise-class systems together, the tips and techniques in this book will help.
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RUBY RED INTEGRATION!!.......2006-11-12
Great book once you have learnt Ruby and are trying to use it at work.......2006-07-05
great book.......2006-05-31
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