DSNews delivers stories, ideas, links, companies, people, events, and videos impacting the mortgage default servicing industry.
Issue link: http://digital.dsnews.com/i/1424633
14 Good Reads Expand your skills, gain insight, and get inspired with these top picks. Start With a Win: Tools and Lessons to Create Personal and Business Success By Adam Contos In a self-penned book, the CEO of RE/ MAX Holdings, Adam Contos, fills the pages with practical advice he learned on his journey to become the head of "one of the most recognizable real estate brands in the world." Whether you have a team of 10 or 100, this book gives actionable advice on leadership skills, frameworks for stressful situations, and how to overcome fear. Drawing from his time in the military and law enforcement, Contos uses energetic style and compassion to help people realize their dreams by offering a roadmap on how to recognize risks and turn them into opportunities. Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing By Andrew Ross rough first-hand reporting, author and professor Andrew Ross exposes a hidden suburban and rural housing crisis wherein a minimum-wage worker can only afford an apartment in 145 of the 3,143 counties in America. Ross also finds that when people can't afford rent, they are sometimes pushed into homeless camps or seedy motels. Cruising the Route 192 corridor in Florida, the author takes readers on a 15-mile journey to properties from extravagant homes to the motels and camps where underpaid industry workers and displaced families struggle to live. In Sunbelt Blues, the author "reveals how ineffective government planning, property market speculation, and poverty wages have combined to create this catastrophe." A Wheelbarrow and a Shovel: The Story Behind America's Most Unlikely Real Estate Empire By John Boll In a true "rags-to-riches" story, author and real estate mogul John Boll tells readers how he started with a wheelbarrow and a shovel and ended up with a $2.3 billion publicly traded real estate empire. Using the thought of the American Dream as his motivating force, Boll developed an unlikely empire by buying, building, and improving manufactured home communities throughout the country which created 100,000 individual home sites in 36 states. Gimme Shelter: Hard Calls + Soft Skills From a Wall Street Trailblazer By Ivy Zelman Ivy Zelman was seven when she realized her dream of being a business success—now she is the one of the nation's foremost housing experts on Wall Street. An early voice on the housing crash, she faced backlash from colleagues, clients, and executives before starting her own boutique research firm Walter & Dunlop. is book is filled with stories about her journey as a female Wall Street trailblazer and when one needs to be brave and when to be vulnerable. Her vision comes from her willingness to work harder and study more than her competition and believes that any person who is passionate, determined, and has grit can become successful.