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GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED BY OUR TOP PICKS. The Power of Networking: Putting the Pieces Together By Rodney White Success coach Rodney White provides one-on-one coaching sessions, sales training, and team building seminars to business owners and professionals across a wide range of industries. His engagements are designed to help participants increase their ROI (return on investment) by harnessing the power of their ROR (return on relationships). White took his years of personal networking experiences and condensed them into a concise, easy-to-read handbook called The Power of Networking: Putting the Pieces Together, which enables, readers to focus on what's important in networking and business relationships. Follow his tips and techniques, and you can build an incredible sphere of influence in record time, saving yourself time and money. Jan Poscovsky, a 35-year real estate broker, says, "If you were not lucky enough to personally attend one of Rod's workshops on networking, have no fear—reading this book is the next best thing. If you have attended his seminar, this book will be a great reinforcement for what you have already learned. Either way, you are in for a treat!" The Power of Networking is available for purchase online at www.rw-andassociates.com. 30 American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership By Randal O'Toole When the housing bubble burst and turned the American Dream into a nightmare, finances and home values were just part of the collapse. Although it's been difficult to quantify, people's sense of security also burst. The home—something every American works hard to obtain, maintain, and protect— was no longer safe. The past few years were frightening, enraging, and—for many in this country— heartbreaking. Randal O'Toole's new book, American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership, just hit the bookshelves in mid-May. In it, O'Toole demonstrates how the 2008 financial crisis was not caused by deregulation, greedy bankers, or uninformed buyers alone, but instead it was the conflict of federal efforts to stimulate homeownership and state and local efforts to discourage singlefamily housing. While federal prohomeownership policies made the bubble worse, O'Toole contends without state and local antihome-ownership policies there would have been no bubble. He argues that Americans can rebuild the dream by eliminating federal, state, and local housing policies that distort the free market for housing. Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired By Brian Doherty Buy It, Rent It, Profit!: Make Money as a Landlord in Any Real Estate Market Enigmatic and surprisingly successful, Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) is unique among Republican politicians. He has strong, traditional conservative beliefs; he supports cutting taxes, shrinking government spending, and outlawing abortion. But he's equally passionate on such progressive-left stances as ending the drug war, halting military interventions in the Middle East, and constraining the Federal Reserve. Even with such contradictions, he has represented his conservative Texas district for 12 terms on and off since 1976. Paul is often condemned across the political and media spectrums as a radical kook, but to his growing number of activist supporters, he is the only national politician standing for the Founding Fathers' vision of constitutional liberty, and in the early days of the 2012 primary season, Paul captured a surprising number of votes. In this biography, journalist Brian Doherty details Paul's career, traces the evolution of his ideas, and explores his significance in American politics. The Paul revolution gave rise to a generation of cross-partisan activists who see this plain-talking iconoclast as the lone leader prepared to grapple with government overreach. With foreclosures continuing to mount, there's never been a better time to buy rental property—and to hang on to it for long-term wealth building. Drawing on his 10 years of experience managing and owning hundreds of rental properties, Bryan Chavis, founder of The Landlord Academy and Apartment Investment Advisors, shows how as little as $10,000 can be leveraged to produce a lifelong stream of wealth using nothing more than good instincts, smart research, and a little elbow grease. Learn how to buy desirable properties, attract quality tenants, negotiate lease agreements, collect rent, finance a mortgage, and manage the property. From leases to property-evaluation documents, readers will find a complete tool kit in this book, which contains every form and checklist needed to run a single-unit apartment or an entire rental building. With additional guidance from building maintenance experts, property attorneys, and tenants' rights organizations, Buy It, Rent It, Profit! is the go-to guide for anyone interested in becoming a landlord, achieving profitable and consistent results, and taking the fear out of being a landlord. By Bryan M. Chavis

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