Some book reviewers say that when they don’t like a book, they simply don’t review it. I’d love to take the easy way out, but when I think about it from a reader’s perspective I want to know when a book sucks. I recently had to give low ratings to a book. I posted it on Amazon and no where el…
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Winning a writing contest can feel like a crap shoot. You never know what the contest judges are looking for. One of the most frequent questions we’re asked at Write and Publish Your Book is, “How do I win a writing contest?”
There’s no perfect answer to the question. Sure, if you write…
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Commercial Real Estate Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) Spot the best times to buy, hold, or sell
The fun and easy way to break into the business of commercial real estate
Thinking about becoming a commercial real estate investor? This friendly guide covers the entire process, offering practical advice on negotiating and closing win-win deals and maximizing profit. From office buildings to shopping centers to apartment buildings, you’ll see how to find great properties, size up sellers, finance your investments, protect your assets, and increase your property’s value.
Discover how to:
Determine a property’s worth
Find the right financing for you
Handle inspections and fix problems
Make big money in land development
Manage your properties or hire a pro
Customer Review: A “must have” for beginning commercial real estate investors
I love commercial real estate so I have read a lot of books. Most of them are dry and hard to read. This one spoon feeds you all the way to the end.
I recommend this book for anyone interested in investing in the wonderful world of commercial real estate. It is also a great reference book for experienced investors. It is on my shelf! Peter Conti and Peter Harris have written a great book…Good job guys! Rob from www.WealthLifelines.com
Customer Review: Another High-Priced Sales Pitch
I thought this book was well written. Certainly better than most of the real estate investing books out there.
However, . . . they mention their website a few times in the book and claim to have additional materials and information available on the website that wouldn’t fit in the book. When you go the website, you must put in your contact information to access these additional materials. Fair enough.
Later, you will be contacted by a “mentor,” offering you the chance to join their coaching program for the bargain basement price of $9800! That’s right! $9800.
Plus, as a special promotion, they will only take 50% of the first $100,000 you make in your real estate investing career. (Not sure what they do if you don’t make any money.)
I was really disppointed. I thought I had finally come across a well-written book that wasn’t just a come-on to get you to join a ridiculously expensive “training progran.” I was wrong.
Oh, one more thing. The authors let you know that they are good Christians who give thanks to the Lord. I guess they are extremely thankful that a sucker is born every minute.
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Have you started your book yet? No, why not? Perhaps you hesitate for the same reasons many of us hesitated. You wonder, “Will my book sell in a crowded book market?” Good question. Everyone wants to know before they invest time, effort and most of all money. Here are a few tips to help you kno…
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Creative Writing Tips -
What a plot is and what a story is can be sometimes confusing. If you think they are the same They are not. A plot is the outline of your story. The story is everything included.
I will illustrate the difference by asking you to visualize two pictures
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Doing Business And Investing in Nepal (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
Bootstrappers business trip
I recently had to conduct some rentoid business interstate. The content of the trip is irrelevant, what’s relevant is the context. rentoid is a small startup with a long road ahead. Cashflow is important vital, so we conserve it where …
Court: Paper Money Discriminates Against Blind
Court: Paper Money Discriminates Against Blind
Those of us who are sighted recognize many of the advantages we have over those who are not, but there are subtle, pernicious discriminations they face countless times a day which we don’t. Here’s one I hadn’t thought about before, but a lot of Americans will start thinking about today: A fede…
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Tags: Money, Courts, Currency, blind, DisAbilities, Federal Courts, Treasury, disabled, Visually Impaired, treasury department, dc circuit
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Symantec Sees Strong First-Half Business
Symantec Sees Strong First-Half Business
Corporate demand for security software fuels strong Symantec sales…. Attend WINDOWS EMBEDDED ACCELERATION WORKSHOPS Are you ready to learn how you can bring your next-generation embedded device to market faster?…
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None of your business (by Russell Roberts)
My wife recently took our 13 year-old son to the doctor for his annual checkup. He’s doing fine. At the end of the visit, the doctor asked my son if he wanted my wife to leave so he could talk freely to the doctor about anything he …
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Tags: Investing book, Business Book, Business
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Following on the PART 1, where I outlined the basis and reasons for doing a project like this, here is a list of 12 questions which you could use when contacting the Experts. (you can change amend as you like to suit your project)
TWELVE QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEWING THE REAL EXPERTS
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Social bookmarking is an online tool that allows anyone to easily bookmark their favorite sites into an online archive. The bookmarks can be categorized and even organized with subject tags. By far the greatest advantage of having an online bookmark is that, up until now, when you saved a bookmar…
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No user manual? Surely you jest!
It may seem comical, but it’s a surprisingly common situation. I’ve encountered many companies that don’t provide any user manuals with their products. If they do, their manuals are often horribly incoherent, or else years out of date. It shouldn’t happe…
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Investing in Corporate Social Responsibility: A Guide to Best Practice, Business Planning & the UK’s Leading Companies * Of interest to analysts dealing in international socially responsible funds
Customer Review: Highly Recommended!
This book describes in great detail how major British corporations have become more socially responsible. Editor John Hancock includes in-depth chapters from various British experts and executives on key topics related to social responsibility, including investing, the environment, corporate governance and improving the quality of life. The contributors describe how the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement is changing the way many U.K. companies conduct their day-to-day operations. U.S. corporate managers who are contending with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance may feel somewhat challenged as they read about how their U.K. counterparts now feel obligated to conduct business in a way that meets CSR standards. In fact, many U.S. business leaders may feel that the CSR push smacks of unprecedented outside interference in company goals. Since this movement is likely to strengthen, we believe this book is essential for British executives, of great interest to their U.S. peers and important to all corporate strategists and leaders. Never mind that the text is dry, and the various authors’ subjects sometimes overlap. Senior executives who even skim it will get a pretty clear idea of capitalism’s next phase - and many may not like what they learn.
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