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The Real Estate Game is a comprehensive guide to successful real estate investment from one of the masters in the field. Drawing upon four decades of experience developing, owning, and managing properties and on almost thirty years of teaching at the Harvard Business School, William J. Poorvu offers an insider’s perspective on how to make smart decisions about real estate. The real estate “game” is played by people, and it’s the stories of real people that make Poorvu’s introduction to the industry colorful and interesting. The reader meets players ranging from real estate moguls to small-scale developers to individual investors in exotic investment instruments. Their stories evolve throughout the book… More >>
The Real Estate Game: The Intelligent Guide To Decisionmaking And Investment

One of the best-selling real estate career books of all time is back and better than ever! Your Successful Real Estate Career has long been the bible for countless aspiring real estate professionals. The book takes readers through the many opportunities and challenges they’re likely to face, so they know what to expect and how best to succeed. Now updated and expanded, the fifth edition of this indispensable resource offers all-new research and up-to-the-minute information and guidance on the constantly shifting marketplace. Along with practical tools and enlightening real-world examples, readers will find detailed, down-to-earth advice on topics including: * getting a real estate lice… More >>
Your Successful Real Estate Career

As it currently operates, the commercial real estate construction industry is a disaster full of built-in waste. Seventy-percent of all projects end over budget and late. The buildingSMART Alliance estimates that up to fifty-percent of the process is consumed in waste. Almost every project includes massive hidden taxes in the form of delays, cost overruns, poor quality, and work that has to be redone. Building new structures is a fragmented, adversarial process that commonly results in dissatisfied customers and frequently ends in disappointment, bitterness, and even litigation. The industry must change—for its own good and that of its customers. But while the industry has tried to reform itself, it ca… More >>
The Commercial Real Estate Revolution: Nine Transforming Keys to Lowering Costs, Cutting Waste, and Driving Change in a Broken Industry

Learn the new rules of real estate marketing! Old rule: Your website is all about you.
New rule: Your website is all about the customer. Old rule: Online advertising will surpass offline advertising.
New rule: Integrated offline and online advertising wins every time. Old rule: Delivering leads is the only job for a website.
New rule: The best websites deliver leads and customer service. These are just some of the new rules of online marketing that you’ll find in this helpful, hands-on guide. In the REAL ESTATE RAINMAKER® Guide to Online Marketing, Dan Gooder Richard offers new solutions and proven ways to use the Internet to drive your real estate business. Whether you’re a novic… More >>
Real Estate Rainmaker: Guide to Online Marketing

The realtor’s essential guide to harnessing true earning power How to Become a Power Agent in Real Estate gives real estate agents both the powerful sales techniques and the practical management tips they need to double their income by closing more transactions. Based on the outstanding success of Darryl Davis’s seminar “The POWER Program,” this motivational guide utilizes POWER Principles to help the new agent as well as the experienced top producer dramatically increase listings and sales. The book is full of Davis’s surefire methods for managing the sales process, including time management for agents, prospecting for listings, handling the seller’s and buyer’s concerns, maintaining a winning att… More >>
How To Become a Power Agent in Real Estate : A Top Industry Trainer Explains How to Double Your Income in 12 Months

Praise for After The Fall “Steve Bergsman provides his readers with one of the most comprehensive, yet concise overviews of real estate and all its property types.”—Christopher Macke, Vice President, GE Real Estate “This is an extraordinary work of detailed research and compelling writing. I’ve never seen the subject presented in such a cogent and skillful manner.”—Phil Hall, editor, Secondary Marketing Executive “The way out of the financial crash of 2007/2008 will come through skilled operations, astute investing, and the ability of real estate practitioners to give up their mental memory of the future! The heated success of ten-year, unprecedented growth in the real estate ind… More >>
After the Fall: Opportunities and Strategies for Real Estate Investing in the Coming Decade

Classic Insight into Building a Fabulous Career in Real Estate
Welcome to the world of real estate sales! Now, you control your destiny. A career in real estate offers endless opportunities, the freedom of flexible hours, and the potential to earn fabulous amounts of money. But to reach your goals you need to be prepared. Before you dive in, you must learn everything you can and discover the edge that will take you to the top.
Inside, experienced and top-notch real estate professional Dirk Zeller presents the secrets to success that will allow you to excel from day one. Full of practical answers and step-by-step solutions to the field’s most common obstacles and challenges, Your First Year in Real … More >>
Your First Year in Real Estate: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional

Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan on health care—yet few would argue that our health care system is twice as good. Instead, startling new evidence suggests that one out of every three of our health care dollars is squandered on unnecessary or redundant tests; unproven, sometimes unwanted procedures; and overpriced drugs and devices that, too often, are no better than the less expensive products they have replaced. How did this happen? In Money-D… More >>
Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much

Every year, thousands of Americans make the leap to an exciting, rewarding new career in real estate. If real estate is your dream career, passing the real estate license exam is the first step to success. With real estate basics and unbeatable study tips, Real Estate License Exams For Dummies will help you pass the test with flying colors — and get your new career off to a great start. If you want to get the best possible score on the exam, you need the kind of practical test preparation guidance you’ll find here — all at a much cheaper price than you’d pay for a test preparation seminar or class. Real Estate License Exams For Dummies covers all the basics on: How — and what — to … More >>
Real Estate License Exams For Dummies

A front row seat into the world of high-stakes commercial real estate investing “A must-read book … one of the best real estate investment books I have ever read. On my scale of 1 to 10, this unique book rates an off-the-charts 12.” —Robert Bruss Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur is for the individual who is ready to get serious about investing. Not a rah-rah or get-rich-quick book, this book is for someone who is prepared to think about what he or she wants to accomplish. James Randel provides the how and why. James Randel has been a successful investor and educator for 25 years. He teaches investing through stories and anecdotes – bringing to the li… More >>
Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur: What It Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate

Many traders go around searching for that one perfect trading strategy that works all the time in the global FOREX (foreign exchange/currency) market. Frequently, they will complain that a strategy doesn’t work. Few people understand that successful trading of the FOREX market entails the application of the right strategy for the right market condition. 7 Winning Strategies For Trading Forex covers: – Why people should be paying attention to the FOREX market, which is the world’s largest and most liquid financial market – How understanding the structure of this market can be beneficial to the independent trader – How to overcome the odds and become a successful trader – How you can select high-probability trade… More >>
7 Winning Strategies for Trading Forex: Real and Actionable Techniques for Profiting from the Currency Markets

Want to get rich through real estate? Then you need The ABC’s of Real Estate Investing. It’s the definitive guide that will teach you how to find property, evaluate its worth, negotiate the deal and make money in the process. There are no ‘get rich quick’ tricks on these pages, just proven methods that deliver bottom-line profits and increased property values. -Ken McElroy, Real Estate Investor, Property Management Expert, Business Owner, and Author The ABC’s of Rea… More >>
Rich Dad’s Advisors®: The ABC’s of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss

Quit your day job! Make a million in real estate! It’s easier than you think! A few years ago, Matthew Martinez was a lot like you – he worked hard to make as big a salary as he could. But it wasn’t enough. He worked by the clock, and yearned to be his own boss. With a small amount of savings, he acquired his first rental property. Two years later, he was making more from his rentals than he was working 9 to 5, so he quit his day… More >>
2 Years to a Million in Real Estate

Foreign currency exchange—”Forex”—is today’s #1 new investment opportunity. Revolutions in technology, regulation, and globalization have made Forex trading accessible to every active investor. Only one thing has been missing: An objective, clear “user’s guide” to Forex trading. Now it’s here—and it’s in your hands. Simply and clearly, Forex Revolution reveals everything you need to know to trade Forex hands-on—from fundamental and technical trading s… More >>
Forex Revolution: An Insider’s Guide to the Real World of Foreign Exchange Trading