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In Real Estate Titans, Erez Cohen shares the advice and learnings of the world's leading real estate experts to create a guide for becoming a savvier real estate player. Cohen draws on his experience as a research and teacher's assistant at Wharton Business School with an investment expert-and his mentor-Dr. Peter Linneman. Throughout his career, Cohen has collected first-hand knowledge from meetings with such real estate titans as Ronald Terwilliger,...
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Make your first million and earn a steady income with this updated, essential guide to real estate investing. The collapse in real estate prices from 2007 through 2012 was the most significant event in the real estate industry since the Great Depression. But today, with the real estate market rebounding, a new generation of investors is entering the field, eager to make their fortune. Building Wealth One House at a Time, 2nd Edition provides you with...
3) Dirty sweet
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In the middle of the afternoon on a busy downtown Toronto street a man is shot in the head behind the wheel of his SUV. The killer drives away before the light changes. It could be road rage, or it could be a random act of violence.
It could be, but it isn't. What it is, is opportunity. For everyone involved.
The witness, Roxanne Keyes, a real estate agent trying desperately to lease out space in unwanted office space, recognizes the killer - a man...
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Birmingham real estate agent and former Miss Alabama Maggie Fortenberry learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life, and the dangers of impossible dreams as she struggles to keep Red Mountain Realty afloat and bury the heartbreaking secrets of her past.
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283 pages ; 22 cm
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A deliciously unsettling, darkly funny novel about a man who quietly spies on the private lives of his neighbors. You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he...
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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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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...
9) Arizona
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1 videodisc (83 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Cassie, a hard-up real estate agent and single mom finds herself in the middle of the 2009 housing disaster, she experiences scary incidences of harassment from an irrational home buyer who was skeptically talked into by her business to mortgage his house, which turned out to be a disastrous decision. Her messy life then quickly becomes even more unhinged and disturbing when she becomes an eyewitness to a killing.
A realtor and single mother...
10) Sunshine state
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1 videodisc (approximately 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A portrait of a richly diverse town on a sleepy Florida island threatened by real estate developers.
11) The good house
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Life for New England realtor Hildy Good begins to fall apart when she hooks up with an old flame of hers from New York. Based on the novel by Ann Leary.
12) Life of crime
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
13) Masters of death
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"Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the mansion has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he died, he refuses to move on. Fox D'Mora is a medium, and though he is also most definitely a shameless fraud, he isn't entirely without his uses -- seeing as he's actually the godson of Death. When Viola seeks out...
14) The big get-even
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"A disbarred lawyer and an ex-arsonist cross paths and find themselves organizing an elaborate real estate scam to bilk a shady rich speculator out of twenty million dollars. The sting is personal for ex-arsonist Stan and for a woman named Vee, who plays an essential role in the caper. Glen, the narrator and former lawyer, finds himself at first just along for the money. Eventually, as bonds deepen among the conspirators, Glen too discovers he has...
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"Summer is here and Julia Ducharme is ready for another season at the campground her family owns and runs. But when a wealthy developer wants to turn the only home she's ever known into a casino, Julia is desperate to find a solution that doesn't mean leaving behind the lake or the business her family has nurtured for decades. Afraid for the future, Julia looks to the stars to give her some perspective. Taking her telescope down to the dock one night,...
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The exploits of ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles continue. In Lavender Lies, the eighth volume (and second audio) in the series, China must put her upcoming nuptials on the back burner when a murder investigation entangles her friends and neighbors.Good riddance, is the response of every Pecan Spring resident to the murder of Edgar Coleman, a local real estate shark. With the small-town gossip mill running full tilt, it doesn't take long for China...
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Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in this novel. Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The...
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xxiv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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Understand today's home buying market and make the best deal with this time-tested guide. Discover how to find the right property, make smart financial decisions, and understand the latest lending requirements and tax implications.
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