"Real estate investing is always a topic of conversation, whether you're at a cocktail party, a networking event, or even a family gathering. But every year, thousands of investors make devastating mistakes that cost them thousands or even millions of dollars. Through thirty-eight tales, property management and commercial brokerage expert Cliff Hockley tells the stories of dozens of real estate investors, their mistakes, and how they corrected them--if...

Whether you're trying to protect your home from foreclosure of buy foreclosed properties, reliable information and expert advice to protect your investment.

An expert in home renovations and real estate investment, McGillivray provides advice on maintaining and renovating your home, tips on attracting the right tenants and strategies for preparing your house for re-sale.

"Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love. Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss's son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money,...

"Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression"-- The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The new cities that rose rapidly from the teeming wetlands spawned a new subdivision civilization-- and an egregious large-scale assault on the environment...

Traces the investigation of reporter Carter Ross into the house fire deaths of two boys whose mother claims she was working two jobs to support them, a story that is thrown into dispute by a corrupt government program and the disappearance of the mother's boyfriend.

"When a house near Lee and Joe's home goes up for sale, the couple teams up with Lee's aunt and uncle, Nettie and Hogan, to buy it, remodel it, and resell it for a sweet profit. But after the owners of the house, the Baileys, accept their offer, a local developer, Richard 'Spud' Dirk, suddenly swoops in with a higher one, and it seems their dreams might be snatched away. Lee, never as passionate about the plan as her husband and uncle, is anxious...