Rents To Riches

This volume focuses on the political economy surrounding the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the value chain for natural resource management. From the perspective of public interest or good governance, many resource-dependent developing countries pursue apparently short-sighted and sub-optimal policies in relation to the extraction and capture of resource rents, and to spending and savings from their resource endowments. This work contextualizes these micro-level choices and outcomes.

The conventional path of life is no longer viable, nor is it desirable in and of itself. Should we all get a good education, work our butts off, save money and wait for retirement to enjoy the fruits of our labor? Chris Thomas believes there's another way. Short Term Rental Riches suggests that with the right mindset and a new way to think about wealth, you can end up rich and young. No need to become grey-haired in order to ride your Lamborghini, live in your dream house and have the freedom to do everything you ever wanted. You can do all while young and free.Learn the best way to invest in rental properties in this 30+ plus page book written by real estate investor Chris Thomas (rents more than 100+ rentals and owns none). This book gives you the exact details on how to finance, find, analyze, manage, and even get rich quick with rental properties. Where other books lack the details on how to actually make money in real estate, this book is all about the details. Discover How to: - Get rich in 1-2 years or less, with a lot of smart work (Compounding) and finally have the ability to live life with no restrictions and complete freedom.- Create systems that build them wealth. This doesn't mean avoiding work. It just means having the resourcefulness to think upfront of a system, build it, optimize it and automate it as much as possible.- Why rental properties will help you retire faster than other investments- The risks of investing in rentals- How to determine what a good rental property is- How to get a great deal on properties- How to invest in rentals with less cashThe moral of the story is, if we are not getting wealthy then we should stop doing whatever we're doing and do something else instead. Even if you get rich through the Get Rich Slowly Path, will you be young enough or healthy enough to enjoy it?

Rental renovations should be seen as a long-term investment, with your best asset in mind: your tenant. Knowing what renovations to undertake and how to do them will ensure that your money is well spent on renovations that will last the lifetime of the property and ensure that your tenants want to stay. The product of the author's experience in the construction trades and as a real estate investor in residential properties, the book offers investors in rental properties valuable insights and handy tips. Consult this book and attract and keep your tenants, improve cash flow and keep maintenance to a minimum.

This is the book that Finally tells "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth" about successfully investing in rental properties. The Truth is much different than the hype often presented by the real estate "gurus." Nothing in this book is sugar coated and there isn't any hype. Starting any business is difficult. The vast majority of people who try will fail! If you are to have a good chance of succeeding, you need to have the facts -- NOT A BUNCH OF MOTIVATIONAL NONSENSE! All the motivation in the world won't keep you in business if you don't have the cash flow! This book contains straight talk about finding rental properties at a huge discount; buying with no money down; how to calculate real world cash flow; nightmare tenants; evictions; the amount of work that is REALLY required; tenant screening; dealing with bad tenants; the reasons newbies fail; and much more!

Many baby boomers and working professionals dream of a comfortable (or even early) retirement, but have found most investment choices to be too time-consuming, too risky, or providing too meager of a return. In Retire Rich from Rentals, professional real estate investor Kathy Fettke will show you how to fund your retirement on passive income from real estate.Cash flow IS possible! By following Kathy's process for choosing markets, finding deals, and restructuring your portfolio, you can grow your passive income - without toilets, tenants, or getting your hands dirty.In Retire Rich from Rentals, you will learn: * Why real state is the highest leverage investment strategy * Little known strategies for growing your retirement funds faster by deferring taxes * Hands-free and stress-free property management * How to build a $1,000,000+ real estate portfolioRetire Rich from Rentals is a step-by-step plan for building and securing your wealth so you have money and the freedom to live life on your own terms!"We invested in 6 properties so far, and the income pays for two kids in college. Once they are out of college, it will convert to retirement income." ~Stehpanie Hahn"If you wish to maximize your leverage, use other people's money, and work with the best, become a Real Wealth Network member, and create lifelong wealth." ~Kathy Stewart"Now all I do is wait for my monthly e-mails regarding my online property management statements and double check my bank accounts to confirm the cash flow. Thank you very much! I am now on the hunt for additional investment opportunities." ~Ben Shatto

An all-time bestseller, Dolf de Roos?s classic Real Estate Riches shows you how to find great deals and make great profits in the real estate market. You?ll learn why real estate is such a reliable moneymaker and how to achieve the biggest return possible on your investment. Full of time-honored wisdom, proven tactics, and quick-and-easy tips, this book shows you how to find the best properties with the most potential, analyze deals, negotiate and submit offers, effectively manage properties, and dramatically increase the value of your real estate without spending much money. If you want to be your own boss and quit the nine-to-five life, Real Estate Riches shows you how.

The dominant neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets. But political economy is not merely an academic issue - it is a class issue, and this book forcefully argues that political economy should return to a central position in the study of the social sciences. Offering nothing less than a reconciliation of Marxian, Keynesian and neoclassical economics, the work opens with a discussion of the key, interconnected economic concepts which help us to understand capitalism: price, income, profit, value, growth and crisis. Prices reflect income distribution and therefore class relations, and the chapters show that the very emergence of capitalism resulted from mass empowerment of the so-called "lower orders". Profit is always available if entrepreneurs spend on net investment and create incomes for additional labour; this, in turn, requires expanding demand, and so therefore profit depends on rising mass incomes. Conversely, underdevelopment is the result of the destitution and disempowerment of the masses. In the Global South today, it is clear that enormous riches go hand in hand with widespread misery and poverty because the market does not transform wealth into the kind of investment that might benefit all. This book argues that the new wealth triggered by productivity increases has enabled the rich to liberate themselves from the capitalist constraints of competition and waste their new wealth in the form of rents. The main threat today is, in fact, the globalisation of rent. The text makes a point for a progressive counter strategy: capitalist structures that empower labour need to be transferred to the Global South. This requires political and economic efforts towards empowering labour in the Global South. This book demonstrates the analytical power of political economy for all social scientists and will be invaluable reading for economists, political scientists and sociologists in particular.