The "Financial Times" writer who scooped the whole financial world with her warnings of an economic crash takes readers to the elite inner sanctums of the banking world to reveal the untold story at the heart of the boom and bust.
For typical homeowners, the monthly mortgage payment is either their largest or, after income taxes, second-largest expense item. When you're shopping for a mortgage without the proper knowledge, you could easily waste many hours of your time in addition to the financial losses suffered by not getting the best loan you can. Choosing the right ...
Young Isaac Holcombe grows up quickly when, in a small South Carolina town in the 1950s, he discovers that Billy, the father he has always known, is, in fact, not his father. And now Billy is under suspicion for the murder of Isaac's real father, a local ne'er-do-well named Holland Winchester. Told from many points of view, this debut novel ...
Easy-to-care-for, productive, inexpensive, and full of personality, chickens are popping up in backyards throughout the country - in the suburbs, rural towns, and even on city plots. All it takes to keep a small flock is a bit of land and a properly designed coop. Just like houses, chicken coops come in all sizes and styles to meet the needs of ...
You'll need to wear many hats in the business of property management: advertiser/promoter (in seeking tenants), host (in showing your property), handyman (in keeping up with and arranging repairs), bookkeeper (in maintaining records), and even counselor (in dealing with tenants and their problems). But Property Management For Dummies will help you ...
"The obvious place to start is the financial crisis and the clearest guide to it that I've read is Financial Shock by Mark Zandi...it is an impressively lucid guide to the big issues." --The New York Times "In Financial Shock, Mr. Zandi provides a concise and lucid account of the economic, political and regulatory forces behind this binge." - ...
It's raining cats and dogs! Good thing Rover is snuggled safe and dry inside his doghouse--until, one by one, a soggy menagerie of creatures shows up looking for a cozy place to sit out the storm. Who's the very unwelcome surprise visitor? Skunk, of course. Full color.
Leading medical experts and scientists team up with celebrity activists to help parents detoxify and green their households. Filled with easy steps and simple solutions, this book includes inspiring ideas for safe, eco-friendly cleaning methods, choosing healthier food, garden care, and more.
Respected green correspondent Barnett provides a down-to-earth guide to understanding how to alter the home and guard loved ones from the harmful effects of everyday household items.
How to protect yourself from accidents, muggings, burglary and attack John 'Lofty' Wiseman is the author of THE SAS SURVIVAL HANDBOOK, the bestselling guide to survival in the wild. Now he has compiled the even more necessary manual on survival in the urban jungle. With the clarity, common sense and directness you would expect from the SAS's ...
Expanded to include the exciting new communities being lived in and developed in the United States, "Cohousing" is invaluable to those looking for an affordable, neighborly, and much safer solution.
Control your financial destiny - and become a Weekend Millionaire! "Jam-packed with practical ideas that work. Mike and Roger take the potentially complex topic of real estate investing and turn it into a simple process that shows you how to build real wealth, real fast. It's a must read!" - Don Hutson, CEO, U.S. Learning, Inc. "If you're ready to ...
Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide gives small residential landlords who cant afford to hire high-priced accounting or law firms the guide they need to save money on taxes.Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide explains how to: fill out the dreaded IRS Schedule E-determine whether an expense is a deductible repair or depreciable improvement-take ...
This title shows how to get rich fast by making ugly houses beautiful! Want to find great opportunities and make big bucks in the hottest business there is? Now you can take advantage the nation's huge and growing demand for quality housing and get rich doing it! "Investing in Fixer-Uppers" helps you develop the knowledge and expertise you need to ...
Based on sound economic and finance principles, the primary goal of this market-leading text is to promote a greater understanding of how real estate financial markets work. The authors blend theory with practice applying the theoretical aspects of financial economics to explain how Real Estate financial institutions and markets have developed and ...
Thinking about becoming a landlord? "Property Management Kit For Dummies, 2nd Edition" gives you proven strategies for establishing and maintaining rental properties, be they single family or multi-resident. You'll see how to prepare and promote your properties, select tenants, handle repairs, avoid costly mistakes and legal snafus - and meet your ...
From telephone presentations to showing apartments to closing the deal--insider secrets to filling every apartment, every time Vacant apartments mean income lost--for property management companies, investment property owners, landlords, and anyone else who relies on rental income to pay the bills. In "7 Secrets to Successful Apartment Leasing," ...
- The practical guide for operating a successful Florida condominium association - Completely updated and cross-referenced not only to the Florida Statutes and the Administrative Code but also to Florida appellate court decisions - Written in clear, concise language, an indispensable working tool for officers, directors, homeowners, managers, ...
EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT requires knowledge, dedication, and a sincere interest in the well-being of horses. In this thoroughly updated second edition of her best-selling classic. Cherry Hill explains how to be a responsible steward of the land while providing horses with the best care possible. Drawing on decades of personal experience and ...
Throughout the centuries, squatting has been one of the most pervasive forms of human settlement. From resistance to the enclosure movement in early modern Europe to the gradual settlement of the USA, ordinary people have continually and illegally seized unoccupied and underutilized lands. By some reliable estimates, urban squatters make up one ...
Today, zoos and wildlife parks are much more than collections of exotic animals. They may house the few remaining members of an endangered species and are centres of research in animal care and conservation. This handbook brings together information gathered from studies of animal behaviour, advances in breeding, genetics and nutrition research, ...
A valuable reference for consumers and real estate professionals, this book covers the basic principles and the institutions that dominate and regulate the real estate industry. Designed to put readers in touch with current national market conditions, the book includes the most recent FHA/VA guidelines, as well as other recent developments.
This title contains book and CD-ROM. Take a look through the Forbes annual issue of the richest Americans, and you will find a majority of those personal fortunes have something to do with real estate. Real estate rental income rarely experiences wild swings in value, instead providing predictable returns at many times the rate of money market ...
Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer who defied conventional wisdom by hiring progressive architects to design Modernist homes for the growing middle class of the 1950s. He was known for his innovations, including "built-ins" for streamlined kitchen work, for introducing a multipurpose room adjacent to the kitchen, and for the classic atrium ...
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