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Y2K Gold Rush

Published in Paperback by Gold Leaf Pr (January, 1999)

Author: Wade B. Cook

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Misnamed

After debunking the Y2K concern as a scam by "Chicken Littles" trying to sell stuff, Mr. Cook attempts to fill the pages of his latest book with generic "investment" data that we have all heard before. Subjects such as getting out of debt, paying off your mortgage in half the time, and how to form corporations and trusts have no place in a book entitled Y2K - other than to fill up pages. Furthermore,another 13 pages,(10% of the book) is dedicated to selling his other books and audiotapes. I am compelled to agree with him when he complains about people using the Y2K issue as a means to sell products!

First Wade Cook Book: Info is still relevant

Wade Cook gave some basic info to new gold investors. While some of the information is dated, much is still relevant in 2002 with gold getting ready to make a long anticipated run.

A GREAT READ!!!

Over the last fourteen years, in his financial seminars, Wade Cook has encouraged people to buy gold coins. Gold retains its value, becoming a hedge against inflation. If a need should ever arise for cash, to buy some groceries or to pay a doctor's bill, then all you have to do is go to a coin dealer and cash in. Gold coins are legal tender.

This book is about how to invest in gold. By reading Y2K Gold Rush, you will understand the historical importance of gold. You will learn about the ownership of gold coins and gold stocks, and the benefits of both. You will see that adding gold to your investment portfolio will diversify your assets, safeguard you and your family against catastrophe, and add excitement and profits.

Wade Cook is Chairman of the Board of Wade Cook Financial Corporation and a proud investor in gold. He has a positive outlook on the future and is worried about potential problems, but focuses on solutions. He is preparing for the new millennium. The question is, are you?

Y2K Gold Rush, by Wade Cook, shows the value in gold investment:

Historically, the gold standard set currency rates Gold is a marketable item and easy to use Gold keeps pace with inflation Millions of gold collectors exist in the world Gold investing brings security (your IRA can own it) Gold is a hassle free investment

Keys to Buying Foreclosed and Bargain Homes (Barron's Business Keys)

Published in Paperback by Barrons Educational Series (15 April, 2000)

Authors: Jack P. Friedman and Jack C. Harris

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Keys to Buying Foreclosed & Bargain Homes

This book was extremely disappointing. It is too high level and superficial to provide any actionable information. It provides the same level of detail I'd expect from a magazine article, not a book.

Over simplified and short

I've read about 6 books on real estate bought from Amazon, and I have to say that this one is the most oversimplified. It is like reading one of those "pocket MBA" books, which just tells you terms and procedures. Don't expect to read this book and be able to transact "foreclosed and bargain homes". It is far from that! For instance, the chapters on how to identify and find a "bargain" home comes down to this: look it up at a bank, MLS, or internet. Heck! I could have told you that for free! Given that that is the most important step, I was really disappointed with this book. Don't waste your money...

If you want to buy an overview or basics book on home buying I sugget the "Unofficial Guide to Buying a Home" which is much more detailed and straightforward about buying a home. And it covers in better details what are the pitfalls of buying a bargain home.

A good read for those searching for discounted real estate.

I got this book because I became disenchanted with attempting to purchase real estate through tax liens and was searching for a better way. What I have found by reading this book is that it is possible to purchase real estate at a discount if one is willing to do the leg work.
The authors do a good job defining bargain homes, dicussing strategies on getting the best price and locating repossessed homes. Also the book has a useful glossary, helpful checklist and locations of Hud and VA offices around the country.

Robert Irwin's Power Tips for Buying a House for Less

Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill Trade (18 May, 2000)

Author: Robert Irwin

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new people only\\\\

what a waste.if your new great buy it. if not a total rehash of basics.i was quite dis appointed.

Very well organized

I'm the type of buyer who will do LOT's of research before I make a decision (to make sure that my decision is correct). I have a pretty good selection of 'How To' books, as this is my first house purchase, however the one book that had the most answers to my questions was this one. I highly recommend it (5 out of 5 stars obviously), and have already loaned it to my brother who will be buying a house next year.

Incredibly useful - Highly recommend!!

This book is very useful. It showed us how to find and then buy a home in a market where prices were going up and there were many multiple offers. It had tips that our agent never told us about (I suspect she didn't know) that allowed us to lock up two houses and then get out of the deals when we decided we didn't like them. The third try was the charm and we got the house, even though there were other offers. We give this book a recommendation of 5 out of 5.

How to Sell Your Home Fast, For the Highest Price in Any Market

Published in Paperback by Hyperion (01 April, 1997)

Author: Terry Eilers

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Expert of Real Estate BS and Nothing More

Total waste of time. Has a few trivial points on dealing with realtors. Buy Effros book on "Sell Your Home in 5 Days" if you want to go the FSBO route. I am an investor who owns 40 residential properties. This book will go on my shelf as minor reference because I maintain a library. I only recommend this book if you are so shaky in the knees that you are affraid of trying Effros round robin auction on your home.

No facts only a promotion of real estate agents

This book is useless because of its clear bias against selling by owner. Even a real estate agent knows that the best way to sell your house fast and net the highest amount of money is to sell it yourself.

BOTTOM LINE: A poor attempt by a real estate agent to promote the commission-based real estate industry.
Book is useless!

Some good info, but biased against FSBO.

This book contains some very good advice if you are able to weed out the almost embarrassingly biasede pro-realtor misinformation.

Pros: Good info on writing ads, what to do--and not to do--when preparing the home for sale.

Cons: Biased and untruthful information for FSBO sellers, concentrates whenever possible on how difficult it is for FSBO to succeed without the special care that a professional real estate agent can bring to a sale. It would be laughable if it weren't intimidating to first time FSBO prospects.

If you can get past the manipulative realtor hype, there's good info here.

Don't pay full price for this one unless you aspire to being a realtor or are related to one.

Advanced Supply Chain Management: How to Build a Sustained Comptetitive Advantage

Published in Hardcover by Berrett-Koehler Pub (March, 1999)

Author: Charles C. Poirier

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Tons of Theory & Buzzwords, Zero practical application

Lots of talk about "mushroom-shaped business models" and "value constellations", and maybe 1 good framework that is useful (the phases of supply chain efforts).

Everything worthwhile is in the first couple of chapters - after that it devolves into hypothetical mumbo-jumbo without a supporting case study in sight.

Great if you want to examine the possibilities, but it smacked of the late-90's "any business model is possible" thinking.

Lots of stuff like "in the future, businesses will have to choose who in their supply chain will do all the purchasing for every company, and share costs and revenues". It sounded a lot like Marx's "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

I was looking for practical advice on how to move my company forward. I wasted 2 five-hour flights reading this.

Do you Have a Supply Network?

A useful and thought provoking text for supply / purchasing professionals looking for inspiration on how to improve their organisation, no matter how basic their organisation is - everybody has to start somewhere. Although mainly focussed on consumer / FMCG corporations Poirier writes in an entertaining and logical way, with plenty of case references to exemplify what he is explaining. Very relevant in these times of technicological change, poirier also explains how the web can enable supply networks to create a virtual "glass pipeline" of information.

A "must read" if you are serious about transforming your organisation.

Highly Recommended!

Cheers to Charles C. Poirier, who took a topic that almost cries out for unintelligible jargon and undecipherable graphs, and instead laid it plain, in common English, for all to understand. His essential notion: To achieve efficiencies you must develop a closer working relationship with the vendors that make up your supply chain. The goal is to share real-time inventory and production data so that your network of business partners - Poirier's supply-chain constellation - is better able to meet the end needs of the consumer. The major shortcoming of the book lies in its omission of information-based companies from its analysis. How can knowledge industry firms integrate their less tangible supply chains, and will they reap the same rewards as widget-makers if they do? Regardless, we [...] strongly recommend this book to anyone not an expert in the latest logistics-management techniques - and, unfortunately, that's almost everyone.

Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop Italy : The Ultimate Guide for Travelers Who Love to Shop

Published in Paperback by Frommer (15 December, 2003)

Author: Suzy Gershman

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Very disappointing

I agree with many of the other comments here. There are glaring errors all throughout this book, as well as the other Born To Shop books. If you have an older edition, there's no need to buy the new one, as there has been almost nothing updated. The Born To Shop books are a fun read, but do your own homework before following any of the suggestions. Sometimes I think Suzy Gershman really needs to get a clue!

A lot of errors

This guide gives a lot of information but some glaring errors. The Etro factory is in Milan not in Como, Pavia is a city south of Milan and not in Tuscany etc. I also do not necessarily want to know about the authors hot flashes while trying on cashmere sweaters.
Ann Dexter, Rome

Great Guides to European Cities

...even if shopping is not your primary travel goal.

Suzy is a hoot -- she reminds me of a little less mean Joan Rivers. I love all her Born to Shop books, and must admit that I use them to guide me through any city she's written about, even if I don't plan to do crazy shopping while there. If you're a person who, like me, learns more about culture and civilization in bars and shops all over the world than from great museums, these are for you. I have never had an experience with bad or out-dated information in her books, and her recommendations have guided me to treasured purchases that remind me of my European rambles and bring a smile to my face whenever I wear them. Suzy has a great eye and a lot of inside information and tips that will help you make the most of your mad money, even if all you plan to bring home with you is gifts. I especially appreciate her inclusion of street markets, vintage shopping and flea markets; great for fashionistas who are not glossy fashion magazine zombies, and for those who are looking for passable knock-offs of designer goods. Suzy's books also include wonderful cheap, on-the-go eating ideas for your busy, busy days, and she includes these stops as she tells you how to plan your shopping route to maximize your time.

The Paris, London and Italy books are superb. These, and skinny Eyewitness Top 10 guide books are all I need!

A Complete Guide to Planning, Building, Buying, Maintaining Inground Swimming Pools

Published in Paperback by D R Pool Co ()

Authors: Daniel Ricchio and Pools Inc

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This is not what is claims to be.

This book contains brief summaries of several topics related to building pools. It does not contain enough information on anything to enable you to build your own pool, or hire subcontractors to do it. It does not address how to hire subcontractors, what type of subs to hire, things to watch out for, etc, nor does it go into any degree of detail on how to build a pool. It is a basic intro to pools -- a waste of time if you need to get information to help you actuually do something. I would return it except postage will cost me about half the price of the book.

Pretty useless

The content of this book could have been condensed into 20 pages. The information was much too general, even for me (I'm a new pool owner and not technical or mechanical at all).

handyman in oak creek

book was clear and concise. No technical language to get confused. drawings are helpful and well done. swimming pool maintenance and equipment information was extremely helpful.

The Purchasing Machine: How the Top Ten Companies Use Best Practices to Manage Their Supply Chains

Published in Digital by The Free Press ()

Authors: Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner

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The Purchasing Machine, by supply-management professionals Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner, presents a strong argument for the growing importance of this highly specialized facet of the manufacturing process--incorporating "purchasing, money and material flows, ownership of acquisition and sourcing strategies, and even intellectual property movement and control"--along with a series of related measures that could carry companies to the top in years ahead. It also focuses on the leadership skills necessary to make them a reality. The authors admit that their best-practice companies (American Express, Flextronics, Whirlpool, Harley-Davidson, IBM, John Deere, Honda of America, Sun Microsystems, SmithKline Beecham, and DaimlerChrysler) aren't perfect in all areas, as evidenced by the recent tribulations of the latter automaker. But each has learned to excel in a particular area, such as customer relations or systems innovations, and the authors describe them and ways their examples might help others cut costs and turn resultant savings into "lower consumer prices, exciting products, or fatter shareholder returns." Nelson, Moody, and Stegner identify 20 of these best practices (such as Training, Supplier Information Sharing, and Loaned Executives), and show how "the discipline of acquiring and moving material" can be turned to strategic advantage. --Howard Rothman

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And where is the beef?

Based on an extensive research project this book promises a lot but delivers nothing. The first thing that you have to recognize is that there is hardly any structure at all. Repitions abound without adding any value. The style of writing is close to unbearable - they could have put the contents into a fourth of the pages. The cases are sketchy at best; they claim to offer best practices but are nothing new. The book tries to look into the future and puts forward a wildly speculative view of what the authors think lies ahead; again they do not offer a vision but describe the status quo in future tense. For people who like real satire I recommend Moody's Harley Davidson poem! Summary: Only recommended for those who need to own every book on the subject...

Very Average

As a purchasing professional, I turned to this book to gain insight to new or advanced purchasing practices that might help me in my work and I was very enthusiastic about the book when I began reading it. Instead of new knowledge, I found repetitive stories about the mass production environments in the automotive and related industries. Although some new thoughts or ideas were presented, I did not feel as if this book taught me anything novel or cutting edge. It is simply a repeat of purchasing concepts that can be found in many other operations or supply chain books flavored with managerial buzz words and the self-glorifying personal success stories of the authors and the companies they work for. If you work in a job shop environment or for a small to medium size business, this book is virtually useless. If you are in a huge mass production environment with a large budget, it might be of some value, but my guess is that you would already be familiar with the concepts presented.

Lots of words, little content

Ifyou are looking for a "how to" book, look somewhere else. This book appears to have only general rules of the thumbs , wrapped in lots of manager lingo (people resource allocation, globalization, etc.) Overal very disapointing. The only positive side are the occasional industry examples, but there are not enough of them to make this book a good buy.

Tips & Traps When Buying A Condo, Co-op, or Townhouse

Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill Trade (31 August, 1999)

Author: Robert Irwin

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not for city buyers

The title may talk about "condo, co-op, or townhouse" but it is clear the author has nothing in mind but those awful suburban townhouse or condo developments. There are numerous references to density being bad and to things like counting the number of parking places. Not of use to someone who is interested in purchasing actual city housing.

Somewhat helpful, lots of filler

Like all the books I've read on this subject, you'll get some useful advice, but you'll have to wade through a lot of filler.

A good primer.

As a prospective first-time property purchaser, I found this book to contain some good information on the particulars of condos and townhouses. I did not read the section on Co-ops however. Parts of the book seemed to contain redundant information, not necessarily for emphasis. Perhaps the chapters were intended to be somewhat self-contained. "Buying a home for Dummies" has been my first resource. I'd recommend reading something like it first in order to fully appreciate the differences w/condos and townhouses described in this book.

Investing in Fixer-Uppers : A Complete Guide to Buying Low, Fixing Smart, Adding Value, and Selling (or Renting) High

Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill Trade (18 February, 2003)

Author: Jay P. DeCima

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Misleading Title, Cover, and Table of Contents....

As with most of the other reviews, this book was disappointing. Instead of the title saying "Selling (and renting)" it should say just "Renting." He discourages selling consistently, so if you are looking for a book on buying, fixing, and selling, this is NOT it. He also seems to completely ignore the power of the internet in the process of marketing and selling houses, doing research on properties, etc. Additionally, he uses terms frequently that are never defined, especially for discussions on financing. Overall, a real disappointment... Too bad I did not read the reviews before buying the book. I would have made a different choice.

Not too much help

This book offers very little advice in the way of flipping real estate. If you are looking to buy houses and use them for rental property than this is the book for you. If you are looking to buy-fix-sell then this book overlooks that type of audience.

I really...

dont see the other reviewers beef with this book. Nowhere on the cover does the book mention anything about flipping. I also wonder if they bothered to read it. It clearly does not advocate becoming a "slum lord". It recommends against investing in these types of properties. It does recommend investing in older neighborhoods, in fact on pg. 97 it breaks down the 5 general types of areas or neighborhoods in most towns or cities and tells you exactly where to invest.
As far as flipping, if you follow Jay's advice instead of renting you could then sell. The book is all about how to find these types of properties and how to purchase them for the right price( As most real estate investors know, the profit is made in the purchase.)

Starting on pg. 56 he offers 4 ways to find such properties.

On pg. 73 he tells you step by step what to do when you find such a property.

On pg. 86 how to find the right real estate agent to help you.

It covers negotiating, fix-up strageties, where the profit centers to each deal are, financing and refinancing,finding partners, other avenues for investment monies and landlording skills towards the END of the book.

I really thought this a practical book full of good advice for the beginner.

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