false 64736 0 0 6633912 0374165734 9780374165734 31 <![CDATA[The Good Soldiers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255606405m/6633912.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255606405s/6633912.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6633912-the-good-soldiers 4.37 71 It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. “Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,” he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them.

Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way.

What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.

]]> 64736 4.12 101 38 2009 286237 0793173655 9780793173655 1 <![CDATA[Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures: Without Cash or Credit]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173417088m/286237.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173417088s/286237.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286237.Making_Big_Money_Investing_in_Foreclosures_Without_Cash_or_Credit 3.12 8 Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures without Cash or Credit is a comprehensive money-making guide.

In this thoroughly updated guide, bestselling author Peter Conti shows real estate investors how to:

*Understand the concepts involved in investing in foreclosures

*Find a motivated seller P>*Structure the deals, including how to buy with little or nothing down

*Negotiate with sellers in foreclosure, including how to overcome obstacles and close deals

*Avoid costly contract pitfalls

*Hold on to newly acquired properties and grow a portfolio for long-term equity build-up

 

Peter Conti pulls all the pieces of the transaction together into a step-by-step action plan, so that investors can apply what they have learned and start making money.

An ex-auto mechanic turned real estate millionaire, Peter Conti is one of the nation’s leading real estate experts. Over the past 10 years, his students have bought and sold over $500 million of property.  He is the co-author of How to Create Multiple Streams of Income Buying Homes in Nice Areas with Nothing Down, which was selected as one of the all-time top three investing books by the American Real Estate Investors Association. Over the past eight years, thousands of investors have attended his workshops and seminars.

]]> 166053 3.59 27 5 64736 4.12 101 38 2003 286238 0793154154 9780793154159 2 <![CDATA[Making Big Money Investing in Real Estate: Without Tenants, Banks, or Rehab Projects]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173417088m/286238.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173417088s/286238.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286238.Making_Big_Money_Investing_in_Real_Estate_Without_Tenants_Banks_or_Rehab_Projects 3.57 7 Making great deals in real estate is one of the surest paths to financial and investment success. But with real estate, it’s all too easy to get bogged down with concerns about rehabbing, tenants, or bank financing. While the standard methods of investing-flipping, rehabbing, and landlording-can be effective, alternative strategies can create a much quicker positive cash flow.

In Making Big Money Investing in Real Estate without Tenants, Banks, or Rehab Projects, successful real estate investors Peter Conti and David Finkel share the money-making secrets of purchase option investing. There are numerous ways to invest using creative financing deals with little or no cash down. The co-authors’ field-tested tactics have worked for people from all walks of life-from stay-at-home moms to entrepreneurs. "If they can do it, you can do it," say the authors. They prove their point when sharing nearly 30 success stories and case studies.

Taking readers step-by-step through their model, the authors offer strategies and techniques, explaining what to do and how to do it. They share detailed checklists, marketing pieces, scripts, and forms-everything that investors will need to be successful. Each chapter is packed with proven advice for any reader who wants to:

• Negotiate the best price-including the actual wording that makes sellers say "yes."

• Overcome seller objections and close a deal.

• Build an escape hatch and otherwise lower risks.

• Buy property without ever talking to a banker.

• Sell for top dollar through rent-to-own deals.

]]> 166053 3.59 27 5 64736 4.12 101 38 2002 153195 047004537X 9780470045374 2 <![CDATA[The Maui Millionaires: Discover the Secrets Behind the World's Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172248776m/153195.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172248776s/153195.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153195.The_Maui_Millionaires_Discover_the_Secrets_Behind_the_World_s_Most_Exclusive_Wealth_Retreat_and_Become_Financially_Free 3.57 7 The Maui Millionaires, bestselling authors David Finkel and Diane Kennedy present their practical action plan for growing, maintaining, enjoying, and sharing extraordinary wealth. You’ll see how to win the money game, become financially free, and live a lifestyle that will not only increase your income, but also bring you immense happiness and fulfillment. Combining powerful, proven wealth creation strategies with inspiring real-life stories from Maui Millionaires, the authors reveal: <ul> <li> The five essential steps for making your dreams come true <li> How to make money without working <li> How to mastermind your way to millions <li> How to build wealth the right way—fast, balanced, and joyously <li>Six Ways to create a legacy that lives on beyond you.</div>]]> 674 3.54 102 16 64736 4.12 101 38 2006 304751 0471728314 9780471728313 2 <![CDATA[Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173564422m/304751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173564422s/304751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304751.Buying_Real_Estate_Without_Cash_or_Credit 3.83 6
Buy Real Estate Without Cash or Credit!

Imagine having two multi-millionaires take you by the hand and personally mentor you to get started making big money investing in real estate. That's exactly the step-by-step coaching you'll get in Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit, as Peter Conti and David Finkel, two of the nation's leading real estate experts, walk you through the fastest and easiest ways for you to launch your investing business.

You'll learn the same secrets, strategies, and organized action plans that their past mentorship students have used over the last decade to make millions. Best of all, you'll learn exactly how to do it without cash or credit!

This book will show you the fastest way to succeed investing in real estate--step-by-step, action-by-action, strategy-by-strategy.

You'll learn:
* The 5 fastest ways to close your first deal in 30 days or less!
* 21 scripts to negotiate profitable win-win deals
* The 6 best sources to fund your "nothing down" deals
* 7 ways to maximize your cash when investing


"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to live the American dream but thinks they can't invest in real estate for lack of cash or credit. Conti and Finkel make it simple to understand and easy to achieve."
--Attorney William Bronchick, coauthor of the bestselling book Flipping Properties

"David and Peter have done it again! They've taken their proven millionaire-making real estate program and broken it down into easy-to-use steps that anyone can use. This book will tell you how you don't need cash or credit to succeed in real estate investing."
--Diane Kennedy, CPA/Tax Strategist, coauthor of The Insider's Guide to Real Estate Investing Loopholes]]> 166053 3.59 27 5 64736 4.12 101 38 2005 552903 1893384152 9781893384156 0 <![CDATA[How to Create Multiple Streams of Income: Buying Homes in Nice Areas With Nothing Down]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175736240m/552903.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175736240s/552903.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552903.How_to_Create_Multiple_Streams_of_Income_Buying_Homes_in_Nice_Areas_With_Nothing_Down 4.00 2 These are the same two men who led a small group of investors to San Diego, California and locked up over $1.5 million worth of real estate with only $37 down! Now for the first time ever you can learn the inside secrets of exactly how they did it--and how you can too.

You learn:
How to buy homes in nice areas with nothing down.
7 fun, easy ways to earn up to an extra $100,000 this year investing in real estate.
How you can build a million dollar net worth in 5 years or less.
How to win the money game and earn a six-figure income investing from your home.

This book will share with you over 25 ways to find motivated sellers (including specific phone scripts and marketing materials you can use right away.) You'll learn the step by step negotiating system called the Instant Offer System that has made the authors two of the most famous real estate investor trainers of the past decade. And you'll learn how to sell your properties the fastest, easiest way possible. All this and more...

]]> 166053 3.59 27 5 64736 4.12 101 38 1999 123970 0471728306 9780471728306 0 <![CDATA[The Real Estate Fast Track: How to Create a $5,000 to $50,000 Per Month Real Estate Cash Flow (Creating Cash Flow Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171864432m/123970.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171864432s/123970.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123970.The_Real_Estate_Fast_Track_How_to_Create_a_5_000_to_50_000_Per_Month_Real_Estate_Cash_Flow 0.0 0 The Real Estate Fast Track, author David Finkel offers step-by-step guidance on building a real estate business that lets you earn more while you work less! You'll master all five of the core skills of the world's wealthiest investors and learn the advanced secrets that have helped Finkel's students and clients buy and sell over $1 billion of real estate, much of it without cash or credit. You'll build your real estate business until you can relax and watch the money flow in.

Plus, there's more: <ul> <li>Six forms of leverage you can tap into <li>Five fun, easy systems to find deal after deal <li>A simple, three-step system for safely evaluating any real estate deal <li>Twenty-one advanced deal-structuring strategies to close even the toughest deal <li>Fourteen advanced negotiating techniques to make up to an extra $25,000 per deal <li>Ten contract pitfalls that trip up most investors <li>Using true stories from real people to illustrate the basics of successful investing, this practical, step-by-step guide presents the kind of proven, reality-based advice you need to live the life of your dreams—with all the money and free time you want!

"Naysayers look out! The Real Estate Fast Track discloses step-by-step strategies that practically guarantee immediate cash flow, no matter what the real estate market does. This stuff works."
—Diane Kennedy, bestselling coauthor of The Insider's Guide to Making Money in Real Estate and author of Loopholes of the Rich

"This book is just like David: clear, organized, and intelligent with an easygoing style. The valuable information within is actually a blueprint or how-to manual on producing your own passive cash flowing real estate investment business! WOW, what an achievement!"
—Bill Tan, President of the San Diego Creative Investors Association and BTi Investments, Inc.

David Finkel is one of the nation's leading real estate experts. He is the coauthor of several books, including the Wiley titles Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit and How to Retire Fast Investing in Commercial Real Estate, as well as the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures Without Cash or Credit. Over the past decade, Finkel's clients have bought and sold over $1 billion of real estate.

]]> 64736 4.12 101 38 2006 7354309 1441851453 9781441851451 0 <![CDATA[The Good Soldiers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7354309-the-good-soldiers 0.0 0
Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Baghdad, and almost every grueling step of the way.

What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions Finkel grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, Finkel has also produced an eternal tale — not just of the Iraq War but of all wars, for all time.
]]> 64736 4.12 101 38 3243610 0.0 0 0 2010 361131 0471728292 9780471728290 0 <![CDATA[How to Retire Fast Investing in Commercial Real Estate]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/361131.How_to_Retire_Fast_Investing_in_Commercial_Real_Estate 0.0 0 64736 4.12 101 38 166053 3.59 27 5 2008 7275316 1400133416 9781400133413 0 <![CDATA[The Maui Millionaires]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7275316-the-maui-millionaires 0.0 0 674 3.54 102 16 64736 4.12 101 38 131742 3.12 25 5 2001 1080378 1400153417 9781400153411 0 <![CDATA[The Maui Millionaires: Discover the Secrets Behind the World's Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180821344m/1080378.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180821344s/1080378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1080378.The_Maui_Millionaires_Discover_the_Secrets_Behind_the_World_s_Most_Exclusive_Wealth_Retreat_and_Become_Financially_Free 0.0 0 674 3.54 102 16 64736 4.12 101 38 2001