Download or read book Scavenge Your Way to Wealth written by Steve Ames and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scavenge Your Way to Wealth is not your average real estate guide or business book. Through riveting and sometimes tragic stories from his childhood, Steve Ames teaches the principles he learned and developed while turning his life of poverty into one of tremendous success. Whether you're already in real estate or you're just starting out, this entertaining and informative book will demonstrate and explain recession-proof strategies that anyone can utilize. Steve will show you how to recognize the true value of properties, materials, relationships, and labor that others often miss. You don't need huge sums of money or years of experience to be successful in real estate--you just need the proper guidance and motivation to Scavenge Your Way to Wealth. Born in 1950 when most of America was prospering, Steve Ames grew up with "less than nothing" in rural Iowa as the fifth of six children. Surviving years of poverty, he learned from an early age how to make a profit from scavenging literally everything. Steve's unique approach to business and real estate has earned him millions and he has shifted his focus to giving back and teaching others how to be successful. Steve spends his summers in Iowa and his winters in south Texas. He is married, has two grown daughters, and is a proud grandfather.

Download or read book Scavenge the Stars written by Tara Sim and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-01-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rising-star author Tara Sim comes an epic new YA fantasy duology—a gender-swapped The Count of Monte Cristo retelling that's perfect for fans of All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace. When Amaya rescues a mysterious stranger from drowning, she fears her rash actions have earned her a longer sentence on the debtor ship where she's been held captive for years. Instead, the man she saved offers her unimaginable riches and a new identity, setting Amaya on a perilous course through the coastal city-state of Moray, where old-world opulence and desperate gamblers collide. Amaya wants one thing: revenge against the man who ruined her family and stole the life she once had. But the more entangled she becomes in this game of deception—and as her path intertwines with the son of the man she's plotting to bring down—the more she uncovers about the truth of her past. And the more she realizes she must trust no one? Packed with high-stakes adventure, romance, and dueling identities, this gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo is the first novel in an epic YA fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Sabaa Tahir, and Leigh Bardugo.

Download or read book Scavenge Your Way to Real Estate Riches written by Steve Ames and published by Scavenger House Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scavenging the purchase also encompasses swaying the deal, or using your influence to get better terms, a better price, or making everything about the purchase better for you, the buyer. " There are hidden treasures to be found in Steve Ames's eye-opening new book, "Scavenge Your Way to Real Estate Riches." Author of "Scavenge Your Way To Wealth," as well as the rest of the planned "Scavenge" series, Ames reveals the secrets he discovered from his years as a real estate investor-and helps "you" make the most of them! Through twelve chapters, a multitude of "how to" tips of the trade will show readers exactly how to hone their scavenger mind-sets for maximum investment potential. Learn how to spot the perfect purchase, use the Internet to your advantage, and find the expertise needed to turn your property purchase into a valuable asset for a fraction of the usual cost. Readers will soon realize that everything can be scavenged (even labor!) and that these cost-cutting methods, when used properly, can lead to some major financial returns.

Download or read book Book Scavenger written by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times-Bestseller! For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles). Upon her arrival, however, Emily learns that Griswold has been attacked and is now in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch. Then Emily and her new friend James discover an odd book, which they come to believe is from Griswold himself, and might contain the only copy of his mysterious new game. Racing against time, Emily and James rush from clue to clue, desperate to figure out the secret at the heart of Griswold's new game—before those who attacked Griswold come after them too. This title has Common Core connections.

Download or read book Ravage the Dark written by Tara Sim and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into an opulent world filled with risk, romance, and revenge and find out whether two unlikely heroes can save the world and stop corruption. For seven long years, while she was imprisoned on a debtor's ship, Amaya Chandra had one plan: to survive. But now, survival is not enough. She has people counting on her; counting on her for protection, for leadership, for vengeance. And after escaping Moray by the skin of her teeth, she's determined to track down the man who betrayed her and her friends. Cayo Mercado has lost everything: his money, his father, his reputation. Everything except his beloved sister. But he's well on his way to losing her, too, with no way to afford the treatment for her deadly illness. In a foreign empire also being consumed by ash fever, Cayo has no choice but to join Amaya in uncovering the mystery of the counterfeit currency, the fever, and how his father was involved in their creation. But Cayo still hasn't forgiven Amaya for her earlier deception, and their complicated feelings for each other are getting harder and harder to ignore. Through glittering galas, dazzling trickery, and thrilling heists, Cayo and Amaya will learn that the corruption in Moray goes far deeper than they know, and in the end the only people they can trust are each other.

Download or read book The Knowledge written by Lewis Dartnell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible? Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports us, happily utilizing the latest—or even the most basic—technology without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals out of rock, or even how to produce food for yourself? Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all interlinked and mutually dependent. You can’t hope to build a radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed to run it. But Dartnell doesn’t just provide specific information for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them all—the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the scientific method itself. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world.

Download or read book The Simple Path to Wealth written by Jl Collins and published by Jl Collins LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the world of investment, JL Collins is the fatherly wizard on the side of the path, offering a simple map, warm words of encouragement and the tools to forge your way through with confidence. You'll never find a wiser advisor with a bigger heart." -- Malachi Rempen: Filmmaker, cartoonist, author and self-described ruffian This book grew out of a series of letters to my daughter concerning various things-mostly about money and investing-she was not yet quite ready to hear. Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical. "But Dad," she once said, "I know money is important. I just don't want to spend my life thinking about it." This was eye-opening. I love this stuff. But most people have better things to do with their precious time. Bridges to build, diseases to cure, treaties to negotiate, mountains to climb, technologies to create, children to teach, businesses to run. Unfortunately, benign neglect of things financial leaves you open to the charlatans of the financial world. The people who make investing endlessly complex, because if it can be made complex it becomes more profitable for them, more expensive for us, and we are forced into their waiting arms. Here's an important truth: Complex investments exist only to profit those who create and sell them. Not only are they more costly to the investor, they are less effective. The simple approach I created for her and present now to you, is not only easy to understand and implement, it is more powerful than any other. Together we'll explore: Debt: Why you must avoid it and what to do if you have it. The importance of having F-you Money. How to think about money, and the unique way understanding this is key to building your wealth. Where traditional investing advice goes wrong and what actually works. What the stock market really is and how it really works. Why the stock market always goes up and why most people still lose money investing in it. How to invest in a raging bull, or bear, market. Specific investments to implement these strategies. The Wealth Building and Wealth Preservation phases of your investing life and why they are not always tied to your age. How your asset allocation is tied to those phases and how to choose it. How to simplify the sometimes confusing world of 401(k), 403(b), TSP, IRA and Roth accounts. TRFs (Target Retirement Funds), HSAs (Health Savings Accounts) and RMDs (Required Minimum Distributions). What investment firm to use and why the one I recommend is so far superior to the competition. Why you should be very cautious when engaging an investment advisor and whether you need to at all. Why and how you can be conned, and how to avoid becoming prey. Why I don't recommend dollar cost averaging. What financial independence looks like and how to have your money support you. What the 4% rule is and how to use it to safely spend your wealth. The truth behind Social Security. A Case Study on how this all can be implemented in real life. Enjoy the read, and the journey!

Download or read book The Way to Wealth written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Estate Planning 101 written by Vicki Cook and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the ins and outs of planning your own or your loved one’s last wishes with this easy-to-understand guide to estate planning. No one likes to talk about death, but being prepared for any unexpected tragedy can help your loved ones navigate your loss more easily in the long run. From creating your advanced medical directives to designating your beneficiaries, estate planning can ensure that your wishes are carried out when you are no longer around. With Estate Planning 101, you can get your affairs in order before any unfortunate incident occurs. This easy-to-understand guide comes with detailed information on what needs to be done to protect your estate. With information on creating a living will, minimizing estate taxes, choosing an executor, and more, you will be prepared for the future, no matter what it brings. Estate Planning 101 offers you step-by-step instructions and checklists to keep you organized for whatever life throws your way.

Download or read book Monarch written by Caleb A. Falke and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monarch By: Caleb A. Falke For Jabin, life within the safety of Sotaria’s walls is all he can imagine—which is a shame because he won’t be seeing the inside of Sotaria for much longer. Wrongly convicted of stealing his own front porch, he’s banished, forced to survive in the harsh lands outside of the city. But, in order to do so, he has to rely on the help of a roguish Vastlander. Worse still, her methods of helping seem to be either based in superstition or attempts to drive him insane.

Download or read book Scavenger Hunt written by Dani Lamia and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of wealth and power, siblings feuding over the estate of their recently deceased father are sent on a scavenger hunt with the family fortune as the prize. But things turn deadly as long-buried secrets are revealed and it becomes clear that only the winner will survive.

Download or read book Quit Like a Millionaire written by Kristy Shen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independence A bull***t-free guide to growing your wealth, retiring early, and living life on your own terms Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of thirty-one, and she did it without hitting a home run on the stock market, starting the next Snapchat in her garage, or investing in hot real estate. Learn how to cut down on spending without decreasing your quality of life, build a million-dollar portfolio, fortify your investments to survive bear markets and black-swan events, and use the 4 percent rule and the Yield Shield--so you can quit the rat race forever. Not everyone can become an entrepreneur or a real estate baron; the rest of us need Shen's mathematically proven approach to retire decades before sixty-five.

Download or read book The Way to Wealth written by Benjamin Franklin and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758, The Way to Wealth collects together Franklin's adages and advice from 25 years of publishing Poor Richard's Almanac. Given in the form of a speech given by Father Abraham, this work promotes frugality and hard work as the path to greatness and achievement. Many of the ideas from this famous work are well-known and useful words to live by today - "there are no gains, without pains", "one today is worth two tomorrows", "time is money", "the used key is always bright", "have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today", "the eye of a master will do more work than both his hands" and "early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

Download or read book Sidewalk written by Mitchell Duneier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on "the blocks" of one of New York's most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim's Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who make their livelihoods on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village selling secondhand goods, panhandling, and scavenging books and magazines. Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today's urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, its conflicts about class and race, and its surprising opportunities for empathy among strangers. Sidewalk is an excellent supplementary text for a range of courses: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY: Shows how to make important links between micro and macro; how a research project works; how sociology can transform common sense. RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: Untangles race, class, and gender as they work together on the street. URBAN STUDIES: Asks how public space is used and contested by men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor, and how street life and political economy interact. DEVIANCE: Looks at labeling processes in treatment of the homeless; interrogates the "broken windows" theory of policing. LAW AND SOCIETY: Closely examines the connections between formal and informal systems of social control. METHODS: Shows how ethnography works; includes a detailed methodological appendix and an afterword by research subject Hakim Hasan. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Sidewalk engages the rich terrain of recent developments regarding representation, writing, and authority; in the tradition of Elliot Liebow and Ulf Hannerz, it deals with age old problems of the social and cultural experience of inequality; this is a telling study of culture on the margins of American society. CULTURAL STUDIES: Breaking down disciplinary boundaries, Sidewalk shows how books and magazines are received and interpreted in discussions among working-class people on the sidewalk; it shows how cultural knowledge is deployed by vendors and scavengers to generate subsistence in public space. SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE: Sidewalk demonstrates the connections between culture and human agency and innovation; it interrogates distinctions between legitimate subcultures and deviant collectivities; it illustrates conflicts over cultural diversity in public space; and, ultimately, it shows how conflicts over meaning are central to social life.

Download or read book Timecop written by Dan Parkinson and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a diabolical game of cat and mouse as top TEC agent Jack Logan tracks a scavenger through time and history . . . USA, 2007: There's a deadly thief on the loose, with stolen millions and a time machine that could virtually shut down the planet. Now the world's most covert agency--the Time Enforcement Commission--must find him before he destroys the world. TEC cop Jack Logan gets his first glimpse of the scavenger at the Empire State Building--just seconds before a B-25 slams into it on a summer morning in 1945. The felon escapes, and Logan survives to discover huge disturbances in the timestream--all connected to the scavenger's shopping list. From the fabled Lost Dutchman Mine to a Mississippi steamboat and a cyberfortress unsettingly close to the nation's capital, Logan races to apprehend the scavenger before he executes his chilling plan of global murder . . .

Download or read book The Scavengers Manifesto written by Anneli Rufus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destined to become the bible for a bold new subculture of eco-minded people who are creating a lifestyle out of recycling, reusing, and repurposing rather than buying new. An exciting new movement is afoot that brings together environmentalists, anticonsumerists, do-it-yourselfers, bargain-hunters, and treasure-seekers of all stripes. You can see it in the enormous popularity of many websites: millions of Americans are breaking free from the want-get-discard cycle by which we are currently producing approximately 245 million tons of waste every day (that's 4.5 pounds per person, per day!). In The Scavengers' Manifesto, Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson invite readers to discover one of the most gratifying (and inexpensive) ways there is to go green. Whether it's refurbishing a discarded wooden door into a dining-room table; finding a bicycle on freecycle.org; or giving a neighbor who just had a baby that cute never-used teddy bear your child didn't bond with, in this book Rufus and Lawson chart the history of scavenging and the world-changing environmental and spiritual implications of "Scavenomics," and offer readers a framework for adopting scavenging as a philosophy and a way of life.

Download or read book The Way to Wealth written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the book that has defined the American spirit as rooted in a drive for self-improvement and inspired millions to live according to the practical values of hard work and thrift. Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin’s famous adages like “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” and “Never leave that till to-morrow, which you can do to-day.” These famous maxims derive from a 1758 essay, originally published as a preface to Poor Richard’s Almanack, that has since become one of the most widely circulated economic texts in history—appearing in over 1,100 versions and translated into over 26 languages before 1850 alone. An author, inventor, scientist, politician, and leading Founding Father, Franklin wrote the definitive text on the pragmatic path to prosperity that the average individual could follow. Well known for its simplicity and practicality, Benjamin Franklin’s Way to Wealth is America’s first, and likely most accessible, book on personal finance. In it, “Father Abraham” delivers a sermon to an audience that is a collection of Poor Richard’s best advice and aphorisms on life and work. Learn the timeless lessons responsible for the greatness of the American nation and its capitalistic systems. Frugality, work ethic, education, and community-mindedness—these are the commonsense principles that have inspired countless millions to improve themselves by taking responsibility for their future. Now you too can enjoy them as you apply their insight to better manage your finances, habits, and relationships. This new edition includes bonus content on “31 Quick Tips to Make Money, Get Out of Debt, and Achieve Early Retirement” inspired by Franklin’s financial treatise. Discover how Franklin’s lessons can be quickly and easily applied to modern scenarios in a 31-day plan for financial peace through effective time and money management.