Condo Crazy

Condo Crazy
Author: Yvonne Rediger
Publisher: BWL Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0228620414

Welcome back to Musgrave Landing. Gladys Wyatt is busy with her home bakery business. She needs to keep up with the expenses on her new condo. It would help if Linda would stop flooding the place. Freddie isn’t much bothered by the damage Linda's causes. He is more caught up in defending his medical plants from Lara Finkle, the one-time mistress of the late embezzler mayor. How can Lara afford a unit in the new building anyway? Arlie Birch thinks he knows, but not everyone agrees. It would also be great if Enid, the building manager and Dwayne, the condo board president, would stop coming up with new bylaws that threaten her bakery business. This makes the condo board meetings quite contentious. When Gladys is accused by Ann Westcott of hanging prank banners on the water works building, is it possible the pranks could be related to the thief plaguing the village? Gladys suspects it was the thief who injured Matthew's dog. She is shocked to find a body, half outside of the garage. Could the thief also be responsible for the murder? She reminds her granddaughter to keep the condo doors locked, but will that be enough?

Buy It, Rent It, Profit! (Updated Edition)

Buy It, Rent It, Profit! (Updated Edition)
Author: Bryan M. Chavis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501147080

Now updated for today’s bullish real estate market, this is the go-to, classic entrepreneurial guide for landlords and real estate investors who want to buy and manage rental properties for long-term wealth. There’s never been a better time for buying rental properties—interest rates are low and credit is more freely available to those who want to buy and invest. But where does one begin? With more than twenty plus years of experience in real estate and as the founder of The Landlord Property Management Academy, Bryan M. Chavis knows all phases and aspects of working with rental properties. In Buy It, Rent It, Profit! he explains why rental properties are such a wise investment in today’s real estate world and outlines the steps and systems you need to implement to become a successful landlord and property manager. This updated edition of the modern classic includes advice on being a profitable and professional landlord, protecting your investment, learning what types of property you should be purchasing, and adapting to the ever-changing world of technology in real estate. Chavis also provides systems on how to attract quality tenants, negotiate lease agreements, collect rent, finance a mortgage, and manage the property overall—everything you need to become a smart, profitable, and professional property manager. In addition, this updated edition features a workbook section with easy-to-use, universal forms for leases, evictions, property evaluations, and more. Buy It, Rent It, Profit! is the ultimate how-to procedures manual for buying and managing rental properties and a practical, realistic tool you can follow to become a profitable landlord and property manager.

Condo Conquest

Condo Conquest
Author: Randy K. Lippert
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774860383

When condominiums first emerged in North American cities in the 1960s, they were a new kind of housing governed by boards of resident owners volunteering in a community. Condo Conquest shows how the condo and its inner governance have since become something else entirely, taken over – or conquered – by an assemblage of firms specializing in condo law, real estate, security, and property management, as well as growing numbers of non-resident investors who purchase condo units as commodities. Drawing on the accounts of residents and board directors in Toronto and New York and myriad other sources, Randy Lippert takes a close look at the inner workings of condoization. He shows how condo governance increasingly involves a complex set of legal, social, and spatial relationships among various elements assembled together, including commercial agents, forms of knowledge, and technologies. The first major study of condominium governance in North America, Condo Conquest questions assumptions about the condo and its governance. By illuminating the complex set of agents, processes, and forms of knowledge that have taken over the condo world, Lippert discerns a number of troubling trends that imperil the condo’s future and undermine the integrity of urban communities.

The Condo

The Condo
Author: Richard S Hillman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-10-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781614937432

Richard S. Hillman lives happily with his wife in a Florida condo. The Hillmans have travelled the world with Semester-at-Sea and have lived in New York, Brazil, Jamaica, and Venezuela. Richard has published eight texts on Latin America and the Caribbean as well as three novels. When not reading or writing, he can be found on a tennis court or in his kayak. For more information about the author: amazon.com/author/richardshillman Stan and Barb, successful New Yorkers, seek early retirement from the pressures of their professions as an advertising executive and a fashion model. So they sell their brownstone in the Village and move to the coast near Tampa Bay. They are close to another NY couple, who also make a move to Montgomery, Alabama to become engaged in the struggle for racial equality. The two couples, intimately entwined, soon discover that the complexities they flee are impossible to escape. The narrative centers around Stan's irrepressible need to become involved with community affairs, in this case, the homeowners' association. Stress abounds even in Paradise- much of it comic with some underlying threats and a few surprising plot twists involving the Cuban Mafia, a Norwegian beauty, a transsexual and some crazy tennis players.

I Still Dream About You

I Still Dream About You
Author: Fannie Flagg
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0679604049

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The beloved Fannie Flagg is at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future. Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up living a life so different from the one she dreamed of as a child. But just when things seem completely hopeless, and the secrets of Maggie’s past drive her to a radical plan to solve it all, Maggie discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems, has at least one little secret. I Still Dream About You is a wonderful novel that is equal parts southern charm, murder mystery, and that perfect combination of comedy and old-fashioned wisdom that can be served up only by America’s own remarkable Fannie Flagg. Praise for I Still Dream About You “[Fannie Flagg is] a born storyteller.”—The New York Times Book Review “Undoubtedly [Flagg’s] wisest book, comic and compassionate . . . Born of a tender heart and nurtured by an imaginative mind, it’s certain to touch the reader’s soul.”—Richmond Times Dispatch “A fun and rollicking Nancy Drew mystery for grown-ups.”—The Birmingham News “Classic Fannie . . . What [Flagg] writes about, time and again, are the touching, terrifying, heartbreaking, hysterical, extraordinary, everyday things that make us human.”—Southern Living

The Score

The Score
Author: Kiki Swinson
Publisher: Dafina
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617739677

GOING ONCE . . . Identity theft mastermind Lauren Kelly has always had a taste for the finer things. With her lover and accomplice, Matt Connors, by her side, there’s nothing she can’t buy or steal. But she’s not the only one... GOING TWICE . . . When their partner, Yancy, stumbles onto a tycoon’s multi-million dollar bank account, Lauren expects the latest scam will go smoothly—until she discovers Matt and Yancy are planning the ultimate betrayal... SOMEONE’S GOING TO DIE . . . Fortunately, Lauren is one step ahead of Matt. Once she disappears with every last dollar, they’ll have no doubt they chose the wrong woman to deceive. But all three of them chose the wrong target... “Treachery, betrayal and revenge add to the twists and turns. . . . Loved it!” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars “Reads like a block-buster movie.” —AAMBC Reviewer

Dragum

Dragum
Author: K.c. LaSaga
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2021-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1663218080

Naïve young Kali Colombe craves to venture out into the world. Instead, she falls into a risqué relationship with another woman. Losing sight of her travel plans to Paris, Kali begins settling into life with her newfound love. Confident her parents will be thrilled to hear she’s staying in the country, Kali is quickly proven wrong. She fights to maintain balance within, falling victim to depression despite her grandfather’s intuitive energy called “dragum.” Conflicts consume Kali, but she has no time to stop and take a breath. Alone and crowded by the opinions of others, she loses sight of her dragum powers and her very own identity. With her intuition compromised, she endures a silent battle inside her head. As her body mutates and her nightmares consume her, Kali is the only one who can save herself. Hanging on for dear life, she seeks a place of acceptance from her internal battle against social norms. She now travels the world on a quest for her essence of home.

Make Money with Condominiums and Townhouses

Make Money with Condominiums and Townhouses
Author: Gary W. Eldred
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471481173

In the Make Money series, renowned real estate investor andbestselling author Gary W. Eldred shows you how to profit from thesafest, most reliable wealth builder in the world-real estate. Withcoverage of all the fundamentals-from finding the right propertiesto financing and managing them-Eldred shows you the ropes so youdon't have to learn important lessons the hard way. Unlike generalguides to investing in real estate, each title in the Make Moneyseries gives you the specialized expertise necessary to fullyprofit from a select investment strategy. Make Money with Condominiums and Townhouses shows homebuyers andinvestors how to travel the road to real estate wealth-often withlittle or nothing down. As an affordable investment vehicle,condominiums and townhouses offer numerous advantages over othertypes of rental property-they require relatively little day-to-daymanagement, they tend to attract more desirable tenants than otherrental properties, and they offer low risk and high returns. Fullof time-tested techniques and proven money-making strategies, MakeMoney with Condominiums and Townhouses will show you how to: * Relax while you put your money to work * Find properties with high rates of appreciation * Evaluate homeowner association finances * Choose profitable locations * Understand the changing demographics that may affect yourinvestment * Finance your properties with little or no money down * Achieve positive cash flow quickly * Build up equity * Understand by-laws, disclosure statements, and managementcontracts

Dreams in the New Century

Dreams in the New Century
Author: Gary R. Mormino
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 081307231X

Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award A leading Florida historian explores one of the state’s most consequential eras It was a time of stunning episodes of boom and bust, an era of extremes, a decade of historic changes that point to Florida’s future. In this book, eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history. Following Mormino’s milestone work Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, which details the dynamic history of Florida from 1950 to 2000, Dreams in the New Century explores the state’s tumultuous next chapter, a period that included the Bush v. Gore election, 9/11, the housing bubble and Great Recession, and the election of Barack Obama. During these years the Elián González story engrossed the country, Tim Tebow rose to football fame, and Donald Trump became a Florida celebrity. From hurricanes to Ponzi schemes, red tides, climate change, the “Stand-Your-Ground” gun law, demographic diversity, and more, Florida offered nonstop news fodder that reflected its extraordinary internal trends and its importance in the nation. As Mormino shows, Florida is a place of deep conflicts—North and South, liberal and conservative, newcomer and local, growth and conservation—with histories that can be traced back centuries. In 2000‒2010, Mormino argues, these tensions collided to produce a “Big Bang” that will continue to resonate in years to come. Mormino takes stock of this crucible of change and explains the social, cultural, and political intricacies of a state the world struggles to understand. Dreams in the New Century unravels Florida’s complicated recent history in a gripping, informative, and fascinating narrative.

Giving My All to You

Giving My All to You
Author: Nicole Cifax-Garner
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2009-09
Genre:
ISBN: 1449019161

Successful civil engineer Quinton Barnes, is a man whose occupation demands constant travel, giving him numerous opportunities to meet women. As he travels, he acknowledges, yet ignores being the object of desire of every woman he encounters; every woman except Tiffany, his girlfriend of the past three years. Quinton was understandably devastated after viewing the contemptible evidence that Tiffany has been cheating on him. What he couldn't understand was her motivation. He gave her all the things women demand from the man in their lives; exclusivity, financial support and respect! Everyday, Quinton wrestles with himself over his failure to recognize the telltale signs of a failing relationship with Tiffany. He internally struggles to find the answer to why she would hurt, humiliate and leave him dispirited and...Alone! Thoughts of how he could allow his relationship with Tiffany bind for three years torment him daily! Now, Quinton has to devise a plan to escape Tiffany's emotional chokehold! Can he disregard his constant thoughts of revenge before he does something irrational? Despite his Tiffany-inflicted turmoil, Quinton makes the bravest decision of his life after meeting the very intelligent, equally sexy Jasmine Perry. Although Jasmine is a woman with a shielded heart, Quinton chooses not to ignore his instant, magnetic attraction to her, growing more determined to pursue his quest for real love and happiness, not allowing love to elude him again. Can he pull it off when Jasmine is in just as much pain from continuous, haunting memories from the past as he is? Can he and Jasmine love another past that pain when Tiffany would stop at nothing to regain his affections? Can Quinton get past the anger, hatred and hostility he continually feels for Tiffany to allow his relationship with Jasmine to flourish? He is determined to try.