Secure Your Financial Future Investing in Real Estate

Book Description

Property ownership can create a comfortable retirement income.

Stock market volatility is causing people to examine different investment options, and real estate is emerging as a leading choice. Learn how to create a fulfilling, predictable, and prosperous nest egg.

Secure Your Financial Future Investing in Real Estate, by two leading practitioners, Martin Stone and Spencer Strauss, presents time tested principles of planning, appraising, financing, purchasing and managing almost every type of profitable real estate investment. Secure Your Financial Future Investing in Real Estate advises readers how to build a retirement portfolio using techniques such as leverage, compound interest, and tax deferred exchanges. The authors believe that anyone who uses the moneymaking techniques can safely and successfully create a fulfilling, wealthy, and abundant retirement.

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Real world information on investing in real estate.......2003-10-25

This book is very helpful in figuring the proper way to look at profit potential in purchasing rental property. I also emailed the author Martin Stone asking some specific questions regarding particular types of properties and he was kind enough to respond with suggestions. I wouldn't hesitate to purchase his other book the unofficial guide to real estate investing.
Thanks Marty.

The right real estate investment book.......2003-08-09

'Secure your financial future investing in real estate' is a book that I recommend very highly. I have read over 25 books related directly to this topic and I have to tell you, I thought it was so good that I read it twice. I am what some would call an 'intermediate investor.' This book gave information that not only motivated me to do more with my real estate investments but how to aquire better and more properties so that I would have the future that I have always wanted. It is a more direct approach that gives you tools to go out and start the next day with the confidence that one would need in order to be a successful real estate investor. A more realistic approach aside from the other 'how to get rich' mentalities or the 'no money down' approach. It was an honest focus on not only the 'why' but the 'how' to get started and why you should not wait. If your intentions are to supplement your retirement with a few smart investments or develop a career in the real estate investing industry, this is the book for you. It covers the entire scope and lays the foundation for a profitable venture. The authors speak from experience and prove it by giving their personal email address that you can ask specific questions and get answers needed to succeed. It is like having a mentor at you finger tips and there is no way you could fail with support and advice like that. I strongly encourage anyone who is even thinking about the possibility of using real estate investments to achieve their goals and dreams. You + this book + a little desire = success!! Good luck!

A great place to start.......2003-07-06

There are many positive things about this book that should be noted. First, it is presented in a way that is simple and easy to understand. Second, regardless of where the reader is in his/her life there are facts and suggestions that are thought provoking and appropriate to that stage of life. Finally, it's good to see in print ideas that some of us may have embraced, but never had validated by anyone other than friends.
One of my childrren graduated from college last March, and the other should graduate this coming March. Because of the easy to read format, clear examples, and un-textbook like style, I plan on giving each of them a copy of this book - it will be "a great place to start" the next phase of their lives. With degrees in hand, it will be worthwhile for them to now get reality based instruction/information.

Talk about eye-opening!.......2003-06-12

This book is wonderful. I'm a 31-yr-old computer programmer with a good income and lots of equity in a townhouse. I'm a reasonably good saver and make regular contributions to my 401k. Will this put me on the path to retirement riches? Not by a long shot, and this book clearly explains why in simple and plain language. This book makes too much common sense to refute. But fortunately its purpose is *not* to stir up doom and gloom.

It's real purpose is to illustrate the riches to be made from the low-risk high-return world of long term real estate investing in income properties. The authors emphasize a long term investment plan, not the quick flipping pitched by so many marketing gurus. Through leverage we can turn a modest 5% property appreciation into a whopping 40%++ return on our money. How does that compare to 2% for your savings account, or 10% long term in the stock market? Throw in tax writeoffs, deferred capital gains, loan reduction and positive cashflow at the same time and I am hooked.

This is a great eye-opening book for those new to real estate, and for those who their think social security and 401k will provide a secure retirement.

Buy this book........2003-06-05

If you only buy one real estate book in your life, make sure it is this one. Clear, concise, easy to follow. You cannot lose money buying this.

This is not just a rich dad/poor dad book. This one works.

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Everything Investing Book: Make Money, Plan Ahead, And Secure Your Financial Future! (Everything: Business and Personal Finance)
C.P.A. Michele Cagan , and Brian O'Connell
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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Baffled by your company 401(k)? Don't know what to do with those stocks Grandpa left you? Or are you completely without a portfolio—and unsure how to proceed?
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This book presents a balanced blend of pure finance and contract theory in the presence of risk, alternative forms of information structures, and static and dynamic frameworks. In particular, it provides an introduction to the use of stochastic methods in financial economics and finance. The following topics are covered: financial risk and asset pricing and asset returns under alternative contractual arrangements, portfolio choice, individual behavior towards risk, general equilibrium under uncertainty in discrete and continuous time settings, indivisibilities and nonconvexities in a general equilibrium context, contract theory, mechanism design and principal-agent relationships in partial and general equilibrium contexts, credit markets, and option pricing.

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Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants provides a fresh and long overdue treatment of plant anatomy and morphology for the biology undergraduate of today. Setting aside the traditional plod through the plant taxa, the author adopts a problem-based functional approach, exploring plant diversity as a series of different solutions to the design problems facing plant life on land.

Functional Diversity of Plants in the Sea and on Land

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Functional Diversity of Plants in the Sea and on Land
A. R. O. Chapman
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Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants

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All coastal areas are facing a growing range of stresses and shocks, the scale of which now poses threats to the resilience of both human and environmental coastal systems. Responsible agencies are seeking better ways of managing the causes and consequences of the environmental change process in coastal zones. This volume discusses the basic principles underpinning a more integrated approach to coastal management and highlights the obstacles that may be met in practice in both developed and developing countries. Successful strategies will have to encompass all the elements of management, from planning and design through financing and implementation, as highlighted in this book. This book includes a CD-ROM with computer visualisation of field data and water quality modelling. There are also movie clips of spectacular scenes.

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To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Surface Science and to honour Harry Gatos, founder and editor of the journal for twenty-eight years, this book has been compiled.

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Single motherhood

unconventional mom learns she's not so different after all

Wonderful Wordcraft

A stellar debut!

i strongly recommend this book.

Playing Botticelli
Liza Nelson
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Release Date: 2001-01-09

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A refugee of the late '60s, Godiva Blue lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Dylan. Already unconventional, their lives take an unexpected turn when Dylan decides to search for the father she never knew....

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Single motherhood.......2003-08-29

The main character, Godiva Blue, is an artist, a janitor, and a single mother. She is a woman with mechanical skills. Her daughter's name is Dylan. We are in the Reagan years. It is possible to speak of terrorism in a bright disconnected manner. Godiva says that coping is an acceptance of less than you want.

The heroine sees her daughter's father on a wanted poster in the post office. It seems he is wanted in connection with a bombing. Botticelli is game, a variation of twenty questions. Details of the game are explained at the end of the book. The heroine recalls a time in 1970 when she was working on a mural with the students at the free school in Ann Arbor. The man, Hank, was too political for her. He was not a student.

Dylan is the daughter of a person living an alternative lifestyle. She participates in a Baptist youth group. She wonders what it would be like to be the daughter of the minister and his wife. She thinks her mother has no interest in doing what normal people do. No child has a mother like Godiva Blue. She is a forty year old red head with braids and hightops. Her friend tells Dylan that her mother is an iconoclast.

Dylan finds the conspiracy to bomb wanted poster with her father's face on it. Dylan notes that her mother is very energetic and needs only five hours of sleep per night. Godiva Blue's rel name is Judy Blitch. Godiva makes boxes. She has warned Dylan not to get boxed in to other people's expectations. Dylan is upset that her father's face has been purposely hidden from her. Dylan tries to read about the Weather Underground.

Godiva, her daughter explains, listens to National Public Radio every night for a half hour. This is as close to mass media as she gets. Dylan happens to hear a report about one of the members of the Weather Underground. This triggers a search for her father. Dylan says it is hard to imagine her mother living in a commune, a stage in her earlier life, since isolation is her big thing these days, althought she calls it independence.

Dylan travels from Florida to Delaware to Ohio and to New Mexico. She is given a stray child, Crescent, during her extensive travel by bus. Godiva should have known that something was amiss with the Christmas plans for visiting a grandmother, but she was caught up in her own adventures. She finds out Dylan is missing and is panicky. Contact is finally made. Dylan has verified the existence of her father even though she has met no man who claims to be Hank.

unconventional mom learns she's not so different after all.......2003-05-27

Wonderful story about artist/school custodian/aging hippie mom Godiva Blue, her fifteen-year old daughter Dylan, and Dylan's act of mom-defying teenage rebellion, her quest to discover the identity of and meet her father. The mother/daughter relationship themes are well-developed in the text; as much as Godiva wants to be unique and raise her child to be questioning & independent, she learns that she is no different than every other mom out there -- she wants her daughter to accept her values; she wants her daughter to be safe and loved & cared for (rather than striking off on risky adventures.) The book was definitely a page turner, but it left me hanging in the end. I wanted more -- I felt that the issues with Dylan's father were unresolved, and I was disappointed that the book ended when it did. Nonetheless, a very good novel.

Wonderful Wordcraft.......2002-11-07

I thoroughly enjoyed this book for Nelson's use of language alone. Her writing style is rich with imagery and rythmn and her 'voice' comes across as frank and genuine. Nelson's wordcraft isn't the only worthwhile aspect of this novel, however. The characters are colorful and exotic while retaining a sense of realism. Plot here really takes a backseat to its heroines, yet even the twists and turns of the story are interesting and dynamic.

As a mother, daughter, teacher and would-be artist, I identified with so many of the situations and people that I was often at odds with myself during conflicts in the story. This book is rife with spiritual introspection and relational expoloration and a worthwhile read for anyone who questions how they became who they are.

A stellar debut!.......2000-12-17

Judy Blitch, a/k/a Godiva Blue, is a free-wheeling spirit directly from the 60's. She rebelled against her upbringing, she marched on Washington and had a baby out of wedlock long before it was acceptable in social circles. She and her daughter, Dylan (after Bob, of course) are now living in Esmerelda, Florida, where Godiva works as the elementary school's custodian and makes beautiful boxes that are sold by a local art dealer. Dylan is a bit embarrassed by her eccentric mother, but adjusts to life in a small town.

Godiva's life takes a bizarre turn when she is the first person at an accident involving two local boys and their bicycles. Godiva comforts the boys, rides to the hospital with them and develops an affinity with the one who is seriously hurt. She is also attracted to the father of the second boy -- he's married, but she can't resist the seductive pull of his crooked smile.

Dylan's life makes an abrupt turn of its own when she discovers a photograph -- taken from the WANTED posters at the local post office -- of the man she believes to be her father. Being the resourceful child that she is, she implements an elaborate plan to find him and get some questions answered.

Liza Nelson has written a stellar debut novel about responsibility, family and finding our place in the universe. Her language is crisp, concise and rang true when compared with my own experiences from the '60's and with the puzzles of motherhood. Nelson is an author to watch.

Enjoy!

i strongly recommend this book........2000-05-23

i couldn't quite get into the book at first but once i did, i was hooked. it's well-written, as lyrical as a poem in places, and moves at a nice pace. there was one jarring place when the writer switched the point-of-view (from first person narrative to third-person), but otherwise i found the book delightful and have recommended it to my friends. (the reviewer who's never played 'b is for botticelli' must not have come of age in the sixties or seventies!)

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Playing Botticelli
Liza NELSON
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Playing Botticelli
Liza Nelson
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