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Informative book, though slick as a dolphin's back. The biggest drawback, in my view, is that the strategy is based solely on distressed properties--the so-called motivated seller. The authors make this clear from the get-go, defining "distressed property" on page 3, and cautioning the reader throughout the book to deal only with motivated sellers. This approach makes good sense, but it cuts out a world full of wonder: the physically sub-par house in the upscale neighborhood. Sellers in such places are seldom highly motivated, but who can deny that there are profits to be made there? Too, distressed properties are the domain of the giant wholesalers such as Homvesters,Inc., so… Read more
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Growing up in a city, I always wondered during car trips through ranchland how the people there lived. Was it a hard life? Lonely? Were they like us in the city? I knew from movies and TV that calves in pastures were grown into large steers through a gradual process of fistfighting and gunslinging, with the cowboys taking frequent breaks to drink whiskey and play poker. But that was only part of the story. What role did the women and children play? Why the windmills? Who provided basic services? All these questions and more have now been answered by a Supreme Court Justice, of all things. Lazy B is Sandra Day O'Connor's memoir of her girlhood on a ranch in the desert Southwest. The… Read more
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In reading KILLING PABLO, I was struck by the likeness of Pablo Escobar to later terrrorists such as UBL and Saddam. For example, the Colombian trafficker demands investigation of "human rights abuses" and backs up his demand with a threat to place a 10,000 kg bomb in a Colombian govmnt office. He sends a suicide bomber to blow up an Avianca jet in flight, killing all 110 passengers, then issues more demands: "We want peace...We do not accept the numerous arbitrary raids on our families, the ransacking, the repressive detentions, the judicial frame-ups, the anti-patriotic and illegal extraditions, the violations of all our rights..." To "make a statement to the… Read more
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