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- Simply a must read for all real estate agents and buyers
- So far, *so* good
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The New Home Buying Strategy: Solve Your Cash Crunch with Team Buying Power
Marilyn D. Sullivan
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The resource unlocks the door to the American dream - Home ownership.
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Simply a must read for all real estate agents and buyers.......2007-01-09
This book is a breakthrough manual for "how-to" buy real estate. Using simple language, a large number of examples, and an organized approach to each chapter, Marilyn Sullivan shows every real estate agent and home buyer innovative techniques for obtaining real estate.
I knew that Equity Sharing was a proven technique to buy and sell real estate, but this book outlines strategies for real life situations. If you are getting a divorce and want to keep your home, The New Home Buying Strategy shows you how to do it! If you don't have enough money for a downpayment, and if you wisely don't wish to buy with 100% financing, then the New Home Buying Strategy shows numerous examples of exactly how to locate an investor and make your dream come true. By the way, a hidden benefit of this book is that it is a significant help to investors as well as buyers. The book is filled with tables, illustrations and real life examples of how to calculate ownership percentages, payoffs, buyouts, etc. In other words, what I loved about this book was that it is truly an operating manual, not just another overview book. I highly recommend this book, its author, and the concepts around which the book is written.
So far, *so* good.......2007-01-09
I have only read the first three chapters, but so far, I find the content clear, direct, and nicely repetitive -- just enough to function as cumulatively self-drilling in the basics of joint ownership. The writer clearly knows what she is talking about, and her enthusiasm comes through to make the read an eager one. I would have rated this a '5,' but I haven't finished the book yet, and who knows what's in store.
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Boating Magazine's Insider's Guide to Buying a Powerboat features tips and traps for the smart boat buyer. If you don't have an uncle in the boat-dealership business, here's the next-best thing: a longtime boat dealer and salesman who lets you in on trade secrets so you can buy a new or used boat without getting burned. J. P. Lamy lays out a step-by-step approach to finding the right small powerboat (under 30 feet) and buying it at a fair price with favorable financing.
You will learn:
- How salesmen are trained
- What their margins and markups are
- The use of the Internet for boat shopping
- What to look for, good and bad, in a new or used boat
- Checklists
- How to negotiate honestly but toughly
- How to shave thousands of dollars from an asking price
Endorsed by Boating magazine, Lamy's guide helps you take control and win in the bargaining process. When it comes to buying a boat, knowledge is power.
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Boating Magazine's Insider's Guide to Buying a Powerboat: Featuring Tips and Traps for the Smart Boat Buyer.......2007-04-12
Excellent overview for the virgin potential boat buyer like me.
Not buying a powerboat, but .......2004-12-04
I brought this book because I thought that I would be buying a powerboat. However after discussions with my wife I am now looking for a big yacht-a really major purchase!
I'm using the same techniques that he recomends in the book though. I'm making an offer as recomended and walking away.
The sellers that I have dealt with have not been angry. They seem to appreciate an honest valuation.
I have not brought yet, but then I don't need to.
New to Boating (A Year Ago).......2004-11-16
I purchased this book a year ago at a point where I knew nothing about powerboats. Reflecting back... this was a really good book in that it explains everything you want to know (and don't want to know) about purchasing a powerboat. There are entire sections dedicated to helping you decide specifically what type of powerboat you may want as well as sections dealing with boat inspections, sea trials, and techniques for purchasing.
The book is well worth the money.
Quick Read, Fantastic Advice.......2004-09-20
This book is short and easy to read, but contains outstanding advice. It walks you through the process of figuring out what type of boat might work best for you, and then helps you locate and evaluate potential boats. The checklists were great - they helped us be very thorough in looking over boats, and helped us realize when we found a boat that was a great steal. In addition, the author walks you through the negotiating process and gave us tips that saved us hundreds of dollars. He deals with the emotions of the process, which was very helpful as well. We always negotiate on all our purchases, but some of the tips here were new to me and worked extremely well. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone thinking about buying a boat.
No meat to this book.......2003-10-11
While this book is a good overview of buying a boat, it contains no surprises - and I knew nothing about boats before buying it - save reading two magazines.
What did it tell me ?
- There is approx 30-35% markup on price of a new boat
- you get a good deal if you get 12-15% of that in negociating.
What else?
Nothing much but common sense, and repeated info.
An organised person could generate the checklists themselves with or without the help of this book or a couple of boating magazines.
Anyone who has purchased a new or used car would go through the same tactics with the dealer/seller.
What would I reccomend instead ?
I also purchased "The Complete Idiots Guide to Boating and Sailing" which gave me a better (but still reasonably high level) introduction to boats/buying.
What has really impressed me is my latest purchase (reccomended from Amazon Reviews) and that is the so called "Bible of Boating" Chapmans Piloting. It sounds a bit high-brow, but covers everything and anything a novice or experienced person could want to know. It is letter sized hardcover with 650 color pages - well worth thirty five bucks. Buy that and forget wasting thrity bucks on three empty paperbacks.
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Outsourcing is now increasingly used as a competitive weapon in today's global economy. The Outsourcing Handbook is a step-by-step guide to the whole outsourcing process. It looks at key factors in the success of a project as well as problem areas and potential pitfalls. It provides an objective, repeatable process that allows organizations to maximize returns on outsourcing investments. Unlike most outsourcing books, The Outsourcing Handbook takes a process-oriented, actionable, and structured approach to understanding the intricacies of constructing, managing, and even terminating an outsourcing engagement.
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The Outsourcing Handbook: How to Implement a Successful Outsourcing Process.......2006-09-02
The book is an easy read.. takes the reader step by step through the outsourcing lifecycle. Provides best practices and practical tips
A definitive study of corporate outsourcing as the evermore popular weapon in the multinational competition of global economics.......2006-06-14
The Outsourcing Handbook: How To Implement A Successful Outsourcing Process, a collectively written descriptive analysis by Mark J. Power (President of ROS Incorporated), Kevin C. Desouza (Information School, University of Washington), and Carlo Bonifazi (Co-founder and Vice-President of ROS Incorporated), is a definitive study of corporate outsourcing as the evermore popular weapon in the multinational competition of global economics. Providing and an expansive grasp of strategic assessment, defining ones needs, vendor assessment, negotiation and contract management, project initiation and transition, management of relationships, continuing, modifying, and terminating arrangements, and the repeating process -- all in aide of developing the readers skills in the outsourcing process -- The Outsourcing Handbook is a comprehensive, "user-friendly", nicely organized reference and guide which is confidently recommended reading, especially for corporate leaders and governmental policy makers.
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A good resource.......2007-04-02
This book gives a great overview, tool by tool, of what to look for when your in the market for a new power tool. It explains the terminology used in specs, reviews features that are useful, and gives you thoughts to consider when comparing different models. It does NOT make editor's recommendations, or recommend specific brands or models.
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Community Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics (Community Sourcebook of Zip Code Demographics)
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Community Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics contains accurate demographic information for every U.S. ZIP Code, based on the release of ESRI's 2006/2011 projections of key population and income data. Updated variables for population, households, families, income, race, age, and consumer spending for a wide variety of products and services are included in this reference tool. Community Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics includes: 2006 updates and 2011 forecasts 2005 post-hurricane population findings Data methodology statements All residential and nonresidential U.S. ZIP Codes Total businesses and total employment information for the dominant industry in each ZIP Code Spending potential indexes for 20 product and service categories Dominant Tapestry lifestyle consumer type in each ZIP Code Tapestry segment descriptions Summary data for quick comparisons of any ZIP Code to state and national information State maps that delineate three-digit ZIP Code boundries
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An exposé of the realities facing poor black children in our consumer socieity.
What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the consumer lives of poor and working-class black children, Elizabeth Chin enters the world of children living in hardship in order to understand the ways they learn to manage living poor in a wealthy society.
In order to move beyond the stereotypical images of black children obsessed with status symbols, Elizabeth Chin spent two years interviewing poor children living in New Haven, Connecticut, about where and how they spend their money. An alternate image of the children emerges, one that puts practicality ahead of status in their purchasing decisions. On a twenty-dollar shopping spree with Chin, one boy has to choose between a walkie-talkie set and an X-Men figure. In one of the most painful moments of her research, Chin watches as Davy struggles with his decision. He finally takes the walkie-talkie set, a toy that might be shared with his younger brother.
Through personal anecdotes and compelling stories ranging from topics such as Christmas and birthday gifts, shopping malls, Toys-R-Us, neighborhood convenience shops, school lunches, ethnically correct toys, and school supplies, Chin critically examines consumption as a medium through which social inequalities-most notably of race, class, and gender--are formed, experienced, imposed, and resisted. Along the way she acknowledges the profound constraints under which the poor and working class must struggle in their daily lives.
Elizabeth Chin is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
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A Review of Elizabeth Chin's Purchasing Power.......2001-10-05
When faced with the concept of "Black Kids and American Consumer Culture," I immediately turn my thoughts to the image of African American males killing each other for a specific brand of basketball shoe. Conversely, Elizabeth Chin defeats this myth of "combat consumerism" in her recent ethnographic study Purchasing Power. By studying a group of young African American children in Newhallville, Connecticut, Chin develops and explains a new brand of consumer culture that many previous anthropologists fail to recognize. Chin's research contradicts the stereotypical images in society and those portrayed by the media. She defines a new image of African American youth consumer culture-one that goes against commodity fetishism and the need for brand name goods. She discovers one that deals with the harsh world of being poor and black where opportunity and survival are major factors of consumer culture. Chin demonstrates the complexity of this issue by displaying how it is woven in with and affected by society. In this way, she relates consumerism to social injustices, race relations, class diversity, gender differences, cultural baggage and social relationships. Thus, Elizabeth Chin's book Purchasing Power is an informative and profound piece that intrigues the reader with an alternative image of Black Kids and American Consumer Culture.
Throughout her book, Elizabeth Chin does a tremendous job of blending anthropological research information (both others' and her own), and her engaging style of prose writing. This is evident from the onset of the book. In her first two chapters, Chin not only effectively conveys the purpose and results of her work (pp. 4-6), but also does so in a way that the reader is intrigued by the personal stories she tells about the children she interviewed in Newhallville. Her ongoing connections between theories and real life issues with Asia, Natalia, and Tionna are especially strong at the beginning of the book. In this way, readers are compelled to not only understand Chin's idea of the consumer sphere as a medium for social inequality (p. 23), but also to learn and discover what consumer life is like for the specific children interviewed.
In chapter two, Shadow of Whiteness, Chin briefly relates several different ideas from theorists such as Marx, Willis, Genovese and Fisk to her work. For some readers who are less familiar with these pieces, this section might seem somewhat confusing and a little burdensome. In this situation, more background information on the main ideas of the theorists' works would have been helpful. However, one must understand that Chin's overall purpose of the book is not to explain previous anthropological research, but to explain how her participant-observer approach to her ethnographic study of Newhallville children is important to consumer culture.
Chin's Shadow of Whiteness chapter is also very strong with the discussion of similarities between slavery and present-day consumerism. Chin illustrates how current stereotypical attitudes of black consumption have been deeply rooted in society since the time of slavery. Her discussion of slave fashion (pp. 39-41) is especially powerful and affective to her argument. Chin could easily build upon her ideas in this section and create a more in-depth anthropological comparison.
A final section in chapter two that was particularly strong was the analysis of "combat consumerism" and how society feeds on hyperbolized media stories and fraudulent police theories. Chin states several stories of juvenile violence where the media has portrayed the youth criminals as extremely brutal because of trivial material goods desired. Chin's reaction to this societal phenomenon is valid and influential in her overall argument of the book. Chin forcefully conveys her point when she writes,
The understanding that kids like those profiled above are somehow typical combat consumers not only misreads their consumer patterns at material levels but misinterprets the social impact and genesis of these patterns. It is a portrayal tapping a particularly insidious American myth: that the poor are highly susceptible to commodity fetishism, that they are addicted to brands, and that they are willing to acquire expensive things even at the cost of their own (or someone else's) health and/or well-being. Connected to this idea is a whole rat's nest of assumptions about poverty, money, and consumption: that the poor are poor primarily due to their own lack of discipline and self-control; that the poor do not know how to economize or prioritize expenses; and that the commitment of the poor to consume somehow ends up costing "us," whether through crime, welfare, dependency, teenage motherhood; that these depravities lead to murder, drugs, sex crimes. (pp. 56-57)
At this point in her book, Chin returns her focus to her work with the Newhallville children. A common theme begins to come forth throughout the next few chapters. Chin does a tremendous job of demonstrating how social relationships influence consumption. This is first evident in her section on "School Lunch," and later in the accounts of shopping sprees where children decided to spend money on family members. These sections have vast similarities to previous anthropological research on kinship and reciprocity, especially those who have completed fieldwork like Malinowski's research on the Kula. Chin could have enhanced her argument by examining the similarities in the research. In this way, Chin could have been able to generalize that the young African Americans in Newhallville are not a special case of consumer culture, but share similar characteristics of other cultures and societies.
As briefly stated in the previous paragraph, the idea of generalization seems to be one point that Chin fails to address adequately in her book. Although her research focuses on Newhallville children, it would not be out of her anthropological context to try and generalize from her results. Since she fails to sufficiently generalize her ideas, the sub-title of her book is resultantly problematic. Chin blatantly states that Purchasing Power will pertain to "Black Kids and American Consumer Culture." With Chin's choice to write specifically on black Newhallville kids, she consequently should not place them in the category of all black kids without stating the possible similarities or differences.
Further research topics that should have been considered in Purchasing Power that would have enhanced the overall argument would have been to interview different ages of children. The choice of using third and fourth grade children might have been a slightly young age to examine. Unlike the Newhallville children, I personally grew up in an upper-middle class family in a middle-class community. However, at this age I did not really understand consumerism and what I truly desired. I found myself purchasing many material goods for other people, similar to the children in Chin's study. Chin possibly decided to use this age group because this could be a truer form of consumer culture, one before society was able to taint consumer choices. An older group of children might have been affected more by society. In either case, using different age groups would still be an interesting anthropological research topic to consider.
One final idea that would enhance the study would be to examine how a child from a socioeconomic situation like Newhallville would react when placed in a different socioeconomic position. For example, would his or her consumerism change when placed in the care of a family who was from a higher-class community? Would the child then begin to find commodity fetishism and the need for brand name goods important? Today in my small town community of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, many families host foster children. It is an amazing phenomenon to witness how children from lower class cities adapt to the consumer culture of the majority middle class population. They begin to shift their priority of buying necessary, conservative items to buying higher-priced brand name goods.
Overall, Elizabeth Chin's recent book Purchasing Power is an intriguing and thoughtful book that displays a different type of consumer culture. Unlike many previous anthropological studies and the media, her research shows how commodity fetishism and brand name goods do not dominant lower socioeconomic children of Newhallville, Connecticut. Instead there is often a great deal of prioritizing and economic discipline with their consumer choices. Furthermore, the social injustices, race relations, class diversity, gender differences, and social relationships around them shape their consumer culture. Chin uses an informative, yet almost amusing style of writing that effectively develops her argument. Although there are several areas in which her book could have been stronger, her ethnographic work with the children is tremendous and well worth the reader's time. Therefore, Elizabeth Chin's Purchasing Power is an engaging and alternative theoretical model of African American youth consumer
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This book analyzes consumer organizing tactics and the decline of the Seattle labor movement in the 1920s, as a case study of the U.S. labor movement in the 1920s. The book examines the transformation of the movement after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919 by showing that workers organized not only at the point of production, but through politicized consumption as well, employing boycotts, cooperatives, labor-owned businesses, and union label promotion. It pays special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns, as trade union men sought to persuade their wives to "shop union," and to the racial dynamics of campaigns organized by white workers against Seattle's Japanese-American businesses.
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International Parity Conditions: Theory, Econometric Testing and Empirical Evidence
Imad A. Moosa , and
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For most boaters, buying a powerboat is one of the biggest financial commitments they'll ever make. More importantly, it is a decision that will affect the quality of their leisure time for years to come, as they either relish or regret their purchase.
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How to Choose your... .......2006-11-10
Includes very useful information including basic information about boat and trailer handling. A book to consider if you don't know anything about boats and are considering purchasing one.
Much too general.......2001-11-23
Might be somewhat useful for a used boat buyer. If your looking for information on what to look for in a new boat save your money. There is little or no information on what makes one boat better made than another. What information there is, is of the most basic kind ("drip pans under the engine should have no oil in them"..duh). Some of the information is outdated also. I finished the book in about 20min and will donate it to the library.
Gould's Book Very Helpful to Beginner.......2000-10-01
I bought "How to Choose Your First Powerboat" before I spent much time shopping for a boat. I was approaching the project with no boating experience at all, and really felt the need for some general information about boats.
I thought "How to Choose Your First Powerboat" gave me a thorough overview of boats without getting into minute details. No way did I expect that any one book would make me completely informed, but I wasn't comfortable proceeding in complete ignorance, either. During the (successful) shopping process for a used boat, more than one seller or broker tried to make some fairly far fetched claims about different boats and I had learned enough from "How to Choose....." to avoid at least one carefully laid trap.
Gould does an excellent job of communicating important basic concepts. There are moments of humor, and the style is easy to read.
I would recommend this book to anybody getting into boating for the first time.
Powerboat basics.......2000-08-04
As an experienced sailor switching over to powerboats I have been reading both magazines and " How to Choose," books on powerboating.I figure with such a large purchase you can never be to well read.I found Gould's book to be too basic for someone with boating experience.The chapters are brief and often read like a text book.I also purchased Lamy's boat buying book and found it to be more detailed and loaded with interesting anecdotes. Gould's book does get into more details on boat accessories such as anchors, air-conditioning, refrigeration,and electronics and these topics are not well covered by Lamy.Lamy gives tremendous detail on the purchase process, but only briefly covers accesories and primary systems. I recommend this book as a quick read to inexperienced boat buyers,but recommend that experienced boaters also read a few other books to suppliment "How to Choose Your First Powerboat."
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