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In An Intelligent Guide to Real Estate Development, architect and successful international real estate developer Ron Forlee shares his many secrets in this high risk, high reward industry. With this practical "how to" guide, you too may be able to capitalize on the next real estate boom, or even the next burst of the real estate bubble.
This book is the perfect introduction to the industry for novice developers (although there is plenty of information...
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Best-selling novelist Anne Rivers Siddons transports you to the breath-taking South Carolina coastline where runaway development is colliding with traditional ways. Low Country is her tale of a beautiful middle-aged woman fighting to save her heritage, and ultimately, herself. Caroline Venable's life is nearly perfect-she enjoys prestige, wealth, and a handsome husband. But she has never accepted her daughter's death of nearly six years ago. Whenever...
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Are you the Next Donald Trump? Successful real estate developers can become enormously wealthy. However, the flip side is many developers run out of cash before cashing in. Poor cash flow is the primary cause of business failure for real estate developers. This new book details how to become a successful real estate developer and demonstrates step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful real estate development enterprise....
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vii, 363 pages ; 21 cm
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"Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years--ever since he missed his mother's deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle. Now sober, he lives an itinerant life in self-imposed exile, and his main confidant is his sponsor, a mysterious businessman who Tristram knows only as M. Deauville. One day, when his plane is unexpectedly diverted to Dublin, Tristram ends up where he started,...
7) Fallen land
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406 pages ; 24 cm
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"Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forbearer from a white landowner after a lynching. Now the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down-- a mini-massacre replicating the history of many farms before it, and the destruction of lives and societies taking place all across America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his ambition....
8) The castle
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A middle-class family living in Melbourne, Australia fights against the local government when they are told to abandon their family home in order to allow a nearby airport to expand.
9) Bloody bones
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Anita must juggle two jobs raising an entire graveyard and finding out what happened to three teenagers.
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331 pages ; 25 cm
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"In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early 20th century, Harley recounts that after his father's sudden death, his family migrated down to Florida-mere miles away from what would become Disney World-to join a community of Shakers. Led by Elder John, a generous man with a mysterious past, the colony devoted itself to labor, faith, and charity,...
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399 pages ; 21 cm
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Calling on his gift for revealing the unexpected dangers just below the surface of ordinary life, Charles Baxter focuses now on the Michigan town of Five Oaks and that precarious border where personal love and social responsibility intersect. At the center of Shadow Play is a Faustian contract made when Wyatt Palmer, the young assistant city manager of Five Oaks, meets up with a former classmate, Jerry Schwartzwalder, an ominous modern version of...
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1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by " borrowing" some water from a large and potentially destructive development site, he sets off a chain reaction that erupts into a humorous culture clash.
14) Dead of winter
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August Snow volume 3
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"Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican town native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried...
16) Uptown
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viii, 331 pages ; 21 cm
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Uptown dives into the high-rolling world of Manhattan real estate. When money, power, and respect are at stake, a Harlem family's bonds are strained to the breaking point.
18) The water room
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356 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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Arthur Bryant and John May of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit investigate when an elderly woman is found dead inside her own home with her lungs filled with river water, and they encounter a killer with a unique motive for murder.
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