Turner is the exception in an industry where it's commonplace for folks to put on a facade. Read his stories; you'll be fascinated."-Ryan Fletcher, Defeat Mega Agents"Great information, great stories, and most of all timely and useful advice that I wish I had heard a long time ago." -Kirsten Wallace, The Firm Real Estate Group"This book should be required reading for all real estate professionals." -Debbi Myers, real estate broker of 20 years and certified real estate instructorLike most entrepreneurs, Mike Turner learned a lot of things the hard way. He navigated the mixed messages and bad advice that are so prevalent in the real estate industry and countered them with an insatiable appetite for learning and a head-on approach to the challenges of the business. It paid off. Looking back, most of us can say we would have saved ourselves hardship, time, money, and stress--not to mention a lot of emotional scars--if we'd known then what we know today. Hindsight is 20/20, but does it have to be that way? Why don't they teach in real estate school what you really need to know to be successful? Why do you have to spend years doing things the hard way before discovering a better approach? You don't. Agent Entrepreneurs is every agent's guide to avoiding the pitfalls that leave so many real estate professionals feeling chewed up, spit out, broken, and demoralized. Skip the painful and expensive lessons and learn how to create and sustain the business you've always wanted. Here are the most important, effective, and impactful truths every agent should know. No magic wands. No gimmicks. And no holds barred.
Discover how Mike Butler managed 75 rental properties while working full-time as a police detective--before he hired any part-time help For many investors, landlording is a pain, but not for those who use Mike Butler's Landlording on Autopilot system. It's a simple, proven method for managing rental properties in your spare time--without the headaches. Mike Butler developed this system while he worked full time as a police officer. Before long, he was buying and managing dozens of properties--and consistently bringing in more than 100% of his rents. Includes free customizable, downloadable forms! Butler shares all the vital techniques of autopilot landlording: * Screening and finding great tenants you can trust * Training tenants to do your landlording work for you * Increasing your cash flow with a simple push-button management system * Using little-known tax breaks available to full-time or part-time landlords * Easily complying with landlording regulations and legal stuff you might not think of * Identifying the most profitable types of properties * Marketing and advertising your properties at little or no cost * Utilizing powerful, ready-to-use landlording forms * Getting rid of bad tenants quickly, safely, and cheaply when buying properties * Using creative tactics to consistently bring in more than 100% of the rent Once you've learned Mike Butler's system, you'll make more money in less time with less effort. Today, Mike Butler is retired from the police force and enjoys more than $1 million a year from his rental properties. Using the techniques and strategies of Landlording on Autopilot will help you achieve your dreams.
HOW TO BECOME A TICKET BROKER: Make a full time income working 10 hours per week. In association with makemoneyfromhomelionsclub.com Want to learn all the secrets to getting exclusive tickets for all the hottest concerts and sporting events? Want to make thousands of extra dollars per month with only a few hours of work on the side? "The most comprehensive guide available for anyone who wants to start earning easy money buying and selling tickets online." "A fantastic way to make some side income from home, even if you don't have a lot of time on your hands." "I made an extra $1,000 in one month with only five hours of work! It's not difficult once you know what you're doing!" Here are just a few of the things taught in my book: * How to do proper research to know EXACTLY what tickets will make profit. * Tricks to get into venue presales, credit card presales, and fan club presales (and how to get the passwords for free!). * How the professionals pull tickets from Ticketmaster (and how to beat them!). * The exact way to set up Ebay and StubHub listings to optimize sales. * The secret ways to get sports season tickets, College Bowl games tickets, NCAA Final Four tickets, and Superbowl tickets. * How to develop repeat customers to keep your business in constant growth. * How to study your own track record to constantly improve your craft. NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH TICKETMASTER OR EBAY REQUIRED! ALL INSTRUCTIONS ARE FULLY DETAILED AND STEP-BY-STEP SO ANYONE CAN FOLLOW THEM EASILY! LEARN HOW TO MAKE A SIX FIGURE INCOME WORKING PART-TIME JOB HOURS!
Real-estate tips from a proven seller. Presented in a succinct, easy-to-use format, this guide is an entire real-estate seminar in book form, written by an expert with more than thirty years in the industry. From prospecting and presentations to negotiations and customer service, these instructions provide a clear map to success in today�s real estate market. Includes sample letters, checklists, and other useful resources.
Negotiate like a millionaire and get the best value every time! In their runaway bestseller Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate, Mike Summey and Roger Dawson revealed a powerful formula for making a killing in real estate during your spare time. Now, the fourth book in the Weekend Milionaire Series, Weekend Millionaire Secrets to Negotiating Real Estate teaches the fine art of negotiating in every kind of real estate climate. The authors arm you with proven negotiation secrets and tactics for buying properties at wholesale values, meeting seller's needs, and making the highest profits on your investment. Weekend Millionaire Secrets to Negotiating Real Estate shows you how to negotiate with: Sellers Sellers through real estate agents Sellers in foreclosure Banks Title companies Closing attorneys Property managers Contractors
Want to become a truly great trader - either for yourself or for a proprietary trading firm? This book will help you get there. This unique approach is the closest thing to signing up for a "trader boot camp" yourself! You'll learn by watching new traders walk through actual trades, explain what they've tried to do, and try to survive brutally tough expert critiques. One trade at a time, The Playbook reveals how professional traders must think in order to succeed "under fire," how they assess their own performance, and how they work relentlessly to improve. Using concrete, actionable setups drawn from his extensive trading and training experience, Bellafiore walks through an extraordinary array of trades, showing readers how to maximize profits and avoid disastrous hidden pitfalls. He covers support plays, bull-and-bear flags, opening drives, important intraday levels, bounce and fade trades, pullbacks, scalps, technical opportunities, consolidation, relative strength, market trades, and more. He also presents indispensable insights on psychology and trader development, based on his work with hundreds of traders on a major commodity exchange and an elite prop firm's trading desk. Packed with color, personality, and realism, this is an exciting guide to real-world trading.
Goal setting for Losers" Is based upon my passion to help the millions of people who have tried and failed to find a winning formula to help achieve their goals. Despite the best efforts of my "Alter Ego Mike James" once I incorporated the Power of the Universe into my goal setting I became a winner, despite the many challenges and distractions I encountered along the way. This is a "Bull Crap" free book that will empower you to success in achieving your goals. Follow my promptings and you too will enjoy a life of abundance you may never have imagined. I will share with you how by incorporating The Law of Attraction as the power behind what I call Win, Win goals you too will become a winner!
Insights for today's hot stocks, and winning strategies fortomorrow's, from Wall Street's #1 Tech Analyst This is not your grandpa's Wall Street. Stocks are more volatilenow than ever. Even with all their potential for meteoric success,high tech investments are synonymous with high risk. Thisentertaining primer, by one of the leading tech analysts on WallStreet, offers a practical step-by-step guide for identifyingtomorrow's hot stocks today. Why do certain technology companies succeed while others falter anddisappear? Which businesses will rule the post-PC era? Kwatinetzdiscusses what's coming down the pike in the next few years and whothe key players will be. He shows how to filter out the noise, and come up with anindependent assessment of how much a stock is worth, and revealsten rules of thumb that will help investors build a powerfulportfolio.
According to the National Association of REALTORS(R) there are over 1.3 million real estate agent or broker members in the United States. The publisher selected ten top real estate agents and brokers from around the county to contribute to this book. Mortgage lenders are a critical component of most real estate transactions. The publisher also selected a top mortgage company branch manager and loan officer to contribute to the book to describe lending strategies for successful real estate transactions. Each of the contributors has a high volume of completed transactions, is highly rated by their clients, and is an advocate for their clients' success. The contributors are spread out geographically across the United States. Each contributor has provided their insights for home buyers and/or sellers in their respective area and with strategies that can work anywhere in the country. We hope that this book will become a useful reference for consumers interested in buying or selling homes around the United States.
The U. S. led coalition won the war in Iraq with few American casualties. But the real war didn't start until after Saddam Hussein's statue fell. Warring factors wreaked havoc, with kidnapped civilians often paying the ultimate price- beheaded rather than released. As the risks are high, convincing Americans to work in Iraq is difficult-but not impossible. An enormous salary provides many takers ... many of them younger in age looking for a fast buck and a lot of excitement. Terminated unexpectedly and desperate, three men and a retired Marine Sergeant well past their prime, old guys who should have been able to enjoy their retirement, take the risk of driving trucks in Iraq alongside men half their age. Unwanted and ridiculed by the more aggressive drivers, their world is a living hell- until it gets even worse. Until they make a decision to take the greatest risk of all: lay down their lives for men who have made their own lives so miserable. This story tells how men from an older generation follow terrorists into Iran to save the lives of the younger men kidnapped in an attack on the trucker camp. To succeed they must withstand unthought-of hardships, face up to their fears, and overcome almost insurmountable obstacles in an attempt to redeem themselves in society and prove their own self worth. This is the story of The Old Guys.
A man discovers that quitting his job comes with a price—his life—in this breakneck financial thriller from the acclaimed author of the Joe DeMarco series. With his reputation permanently marred by an insider trading conviction, Jamison Maddox, a young Wall Street broker, reluctantly takes a job doing research for a small company in the sleepy town of Redemption, Illinois. But when he falls in love with a beautiful and enigmatic colleague, Gillian, Jamison begins to realize that he may be doing illegal work for the company. So when she asks him to run away with her, he agrees wholeheartedly. The two set off across the country, hoping to secure some money and go into hiding. The company is soon on their tails, pursuing them with the single-minded goal of silencing them forever. If Jamison hadn’t realized how dangerous these people really are, he now realizes they will stop at nothing to protect the company. And he has no idea that his lover, a stunning woman shrouded in mystery, is as dangerous as the people he’s running from. “[An] excellent legal thriller. . . . Lawson’s meticulous plotting keeps upping the suspense to nearly unbearable levels. This basic plot worked wonders 30 years ago for John Grisham in The Firm; in Lawson’s capable hands it’s once again a winner.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for Mike Lawson “A reliably excellent writer . . . As always, Lawson’s plotting is ingenious and his characters memorable.” —Seattle Times “What a pleasure to read a book by a writer who gets everything right—the engaging protagonist, the fluid and often funny dialogue, the quick-paced and believable plot . . . Grade: A.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “Lawson remains at the top of his game.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “This is a consistently entertaining, well-crafted series. The real mystery here is why Lawson has yet to garner a major award.” —Booklist (starred review)
The creators of the bestselling Weekend Millionaire franchise return with this resource. Featuring answers to the real estate questions most frequently asked through their popular Web site, this guide addresses all the aspects of becoming and succeeding as a Weekend Millionaire.
Neal Egan's life has reached the tipping point. When the former cop turned golf hustler's beautiful and manipulative ex-wife is accused in the brutal shotgun slaying of her washed-up action movie star lover and becomes a fugitive from justice, Neal is hired by her wealthy and powerful father to track her down. Suspected by the police as an accomplice and tormented by the explosive end of his turbulent marriage Neal fears success; finding Desiree Diaz means confronting his own unresolved feelings about her and facing his profound guilt about his relationship with his own family. Aided by his friends: an eccentric recording studio owner and information broker, a brilliant renegade computer hacker, and a roly-poly lothario of a private investigator, he tries to reconcile his memory of Dez with the overwhelming evidence that she is a cold-blooded killer. His quest leads him into a violent world of methamphetamine-stoked bikers, Mexican Mafia thugs, and twisted internet pornography. To find his way out, he must put everything on the line: his freedom, his self-respect, and the love of the woman who has long been his loyal friend and roommate. A novel of suspense, mystery, betrayal and redemption, Shotgun Start plays out in the sun-baked high desert of New Mexico and in the seamy underbelly of its largest city, Albuquerque.
Mike Fiedler, created Advocates for Retirement Readiness to help people plan for and be financially secure in their retirement years. He has been in the financial services business since 1989 and has helped hundreds of people accomplish their retirement goals by teaching them a little-known IRS approved Tax-Free retirement strategy used by some of the largest corporations, millionaires, politicians and wealthiest people in the know.You can retire and maintain your standard of living, it's not impossible. Mike teaches people from all over the county how to do this every day. Once they see his retirement savings model, they are amazed to see how easy it is.You don't have to understand high finance and you won't need a business degree. All you need is a little common sense. If you can make a deposit at the bank into your checking and savings account, you can do this.
Who is Mike Hill? For 49 years, he attempted to answer the question, to no avail. Hill was known to the world as the polished, versatile talent with multi-decade broadcast experience. After joining ESPN in 2004, Hill made a name for himself at the network, beginning at the highlight desk for ESPN News and later transitioning to some of the carrier's highest-priority programming, appearing as a host on SportsCenter, NFL Live, Baseball Tonight and NBA Tonight among others. In August of 2013, Hill joined FOX Sports. The embodiment of professionalism, Hill appeared to be living the American Dream; however, his private, internal struggles were taking a toll on his ability to live and to love.Eventually, the mounting trauma resulting from childhood memories of witnessing his mother victimized by domestic violence, a lack of proper male tutelage, discovering that his stepfather was a murder for hire, and the demise of two marriages, forced Hill to his breaking point. Amidst a silent cry for help and a quest to heal from within, forced him to pick up his pen to chronicle the most prolific moments of his life.
A trustworthy repository provides assurance in the form of management documents, event logs, and audit trails that digital objects are being managed correctly. The assurance includes plans for the sustainability of the repository, the accession of digital records, the management of technology evolution, and the mitigation of the risk of data loss. A detailed assessment is provided by the ISO-16363:2012 standard, "Space data and information transfer systems—Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories." This book examines whether the ISO specification for trustworthiness can be enforced by computer actionable policies. An implementation of the policies is provided and the policies are sorted into categories for procedures to manage externally generated documents, specify repository parameters, specify preservation metadata attributes, specify audit mechanisms for all preservation actions, specify control of preservation operations, and control preservation properties as technology evolves. An application of the resulting procedures is made to enforce trustworthiness within National Science Foundation data management plans.
Financial World Publishing has developed a series of dictionaries on international banking and finance. As the publishing imprint of an educational institute that delivers and administers professional finance qualifications at a variety of levels around the world, they appreciate the need for and are able to deliver simplified explanations of terms in use within the global financial system for students and practitioners alike. Their range of dictionaries has been developed with an international audience in mind, and each provides succinct, clear explanations. This reference work is for those involved in import, export, transportation and the associated documentation. There are of course a huge number of codes and regulations governing international trade finance, many laid down in ICC documentation. This dictionary picks up hundreds of technical terms contained within this documentation and provides a simple explanation. In addition it features many terms concerned with international shipping rules and duties applicable in certain parts of the world.
A distinctive and incomparable collection from "Mighty" Mike McGee, the class clown of spoken word and poetry slam's geek champion. This debut includes his most notable performance poems, stories, humorous anecdotes and how-to's. This handbook moves between serious love tomes, like "Open Letter to Neil Armstrong" and "Every Day," to his most irreverent and requested works, like "Puddin'" and "Like." A true road-dog, McGee travels with words and camera, many results of which are captured in this collection. The humor contained in these pages are a campfire on a lonely winter night, the poetry – a reason to shout about love.
Unable to kill the Master - the powerful vampire behind the epidemic infesting New York City - Dr. Ephraim Goodweather begins to self-destruct as battle lines are drawn. It's now up to a handful of humans to stop an ancient evil from devouring the human race.
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