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Make Money with Affordable Apartment Buildings and Commercial Properties, Second Edition, shows you how to build wealth with affordable multi-unit residential and commercial buildings. Low-priced income properties can yield higher returns than single-family homes?especially if you manage them yourself. This book shows you how to find, assess, buy, and manage apartment buildings, retail offices, self-storage, and other overlooked investment alternatives. In today?s tough housing market, these properties offer great returns.

Author: Gary W. Eldred
Paperback:  240 pages
Company: Wiley  (2008-04-04)
ISBN: 0470183438
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Author: John Howells, Don Merwin
Paperback:  264 pages
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Author: James F. Gollattscheck, Daniel Murray
Paperback:  288 pages
Company: GPP Travel  (2008-01-01)
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Since its more affordable to live together & sex is 'on tap' yet you don't really want marriage, but would if you happened to have a kid. Its more affordable & you could combined 2 incomes to live in a better place & buy investment properties or travel, OR struggle to merely exist with not much available in life? (more...)

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Corporations don't give each other money - they buy each other! If a bank or auto company needs government money, then the government should buy them, lock stock and barrel. It's only poor negotiators in the government, who are not thinking about the best interests of the taxpayer, who basically give away the store for nothing. If we had Wall Street CEOs on OUR side negotiating with our money, We the People would own the whole banking sector and the whole automobile industry, and we'd have investment for human needs, and cars that were good for the environment and affordable for the working class. How much "liberty" does the average unemployed person feel? (more...)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Edwards, HAL editor Tel. 800-666-6380 OBAMA WANTS BILLIONS FOR PUBLIC HOUSING WASHINGTON, DC (December 12, 2008) -- Housing Affairs Letter, an independent online/print news service covering public, private, and assisted housing since 1961, learns the Obama administration intends to make restoration of deteriorating public housing a cornerstone of its domestic agenda. Insiders tell HAL that President-elect Obama and congressional Democrats propose as much as $5 billion for a new stimulus plan that would put thousands to work rehabilitating public housing. The intent is to make inroads into the estimated $32 billion backlog of critical public housing repairs, largely the result of deep cuts made to public housing since 2002, when the Bush administration made homeownership its priority. Public housing authorities have been forced to dip into capital funds for basic operations, making it difficult to afford little more than basic repairs. Making the problem worse are HUD rules that crimp PHA flexibility to use capital funds to leverage private and government financing to offset the loss. Without adequate money to leverage financing, PHAs are caught in a classic Catch-22 situation. The move to include public housing capital funding in a stimulus proposal accelerated after a study for the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities and Public Housing Authorities Directors Assn. showed replacing existing public housing would cost taxpayers $145 billion. The study says an $8.1 billion investment in public housing generated $8.2 billion in indirect economic activity in one year. Housing advocates and lawmakers point to the demonstrated investment benefits to argue for their massive effort to rebuild public housing while providing an economic stimulus. The reasoning is that not only would it restore the country's public housing stock to accommodate workers who don't earn enough to even afford what is commonly termed affordable housing, it would also allow hiring of thousands of workers, many semi-skilled and already public housing residents. Housing Affairs Letter has obtained a draft bill by Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), now circulating on Capitol Hill, calling for $5 billion to remain available through 2010. The funds would be in addition to any capital fund annual appropriation and be applied to repairs and renovations deferred by PHAs for more than six months because of lack of money. Priority in the measure would be awarded to PHAs that can complete requests for competitive bids within four months of the bill's enactment. Velazquez was chosen to shepherd that portion of the stimulus bill because her New York City district is plagued with deteriorating public housing. An economic stimulus bill, including a massive highway infrastructure restoration plan set to launch quickly, is expected to be ready by Jan. 20. To receive the most recent issue of Housing Affairs Letter, go to www.tryCDPubs.com and sign up for a free subscription Hey G do you mean the 20 million presently illegal alien workers? And Madd Vladd the link is in the last sentence, ever hear of cut and paste it in your address bar? I?m not posting my email again. Hey G: it?s been a long day, I mean amnesty for 20 million illegal?s would not just cost Billions the cost is infinite?and because I was basically homeless I did 22 months in a welfare housing project. As a disabled veteran I?ll never even be well to do, but I never thought I?d get rich when I signed the enlistment papers. Because I really care about our children and with all the well meaning pro-life, and human rights activists around it should be made mandatory for anyone using ANY kind of welfare or drug services to be on birth-control until they can stay clean and support themselves and their family. (more...)

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Seems our govt has an endless supply of borrowing money to invest in bad investments and further the taxpayers into debt ,rewarding poor investments to go after more, who keeps profiting from this? Is this to help the stock market so people will invest more and keep losing more? Is this an effort to make affordable homes to people of China and other countries that need to move here and prior to now could not afford our high home prices? Is this a guarantee to protect more bad subprime loans to anyone? ( Does not appear anything is any different other then more of the same) She it I do, yes I know people used to go through Canada to go to Cuba, now we have chips in our passports so one can be tracked at all times and why the great need! I guess it helps if your passport is not too new (more...)

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So let?s look at how we got here: ILLUSIONS Big part of what makes the American Dream is hope. However unrealistic, uneducated, and misinformed choices replace hope with illusions. Buyers had the illusion that homes would always keep increasing rapidly in value. However, they failed to understand that the real estate market has cycles. Some of the factors that create a change in the market are increased amounts of supply or demand, deregulation of the financial industry, easy and available credit, low interest rates and much more. People who bought homes they could not afford did it because they saw an opportunity to ?invest? their life savings and achieve the American dream. They viewed this opportunity as attainable because banks made it possible, unscrupulous agents/brokers made them believe it was possible, and because they lacked the knowledge necessary to understand the responsibilities, risks and benefits of owning a home. Other illusions buyers had was their wages. The had the illusion that their wages would go up enough year after year to cover their ever increasing debt due to a lavish life style. This illusion, the lack of financial education and self-control allowed for people to live well beyond their means. Today people, banks, and our government are drowning in debt. CREDIT Competition in the market forces business to improve on their products and allows the consumer to purchase those products at affordable prices. However, competition between banks in a booming economy and low interest rates created a credit bonanza. Instead of banks improving on their products and services, they began utilizing creative financial tools to attract more borrowers. They also lend money to risky borrowers with little regard of their qualifications. Anybody that had a pulse could literally get a loan. Banks can?t accommodate the demand for credit only with their money reserves. So if they want to lend more money, they sell these mortgages to commercial banks and Wall Street lenders. Financial Crisis: Who's Fault Is It, Anyway? Doesn't matter. Because just about everyone is to blame. Republicans opened the door through debt-based credit derivatives and deregulation. Democrats further contributed by turning a blind eye to Fannie and Freddie and insisting that even those who couldn't really afford mortgages be allowed to get them. The Bush Administration touted consumer spending as a means to boost the economy, and encouraged reckless consumer behaviors with billions in "stimulus"money, all while fueling the national debt through a disastrous war and tax cuts for people who don't really need them. And, of course, greedy banks and mortgage lenders went along, doing their best to bilk whoever came through door for whatever they could get -- before passing the risk on to equally greedy investment banks and hedge fund managers. Consumers came along for the ride, abandoning reasonable financial practices and using credit to fuel materialism -- as well as making poor decisions by buying homes they couldn't afford with "creative" mortgage financing. Nearly everyone shares some of the blame. This is not the time to bicker over who is most at fault. It doesn't matter. The past is past. It's time to move forward and fix the problem. REALLY fix the problem. With practical solutions (that's right, follow the link for just one alternative -- and better IMO -- solution) that don't involve throwing a large, arbitrary amount of money at the problem. This is something that requires measured thought. And a change in how our society now views debt, money and the economy. There's no reason to rush into a bailout plan right now. Instead, a little more analysis is needed. (more...)

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Here comes all the "empty suit" references from the rightwing mouthbreathing, knuckledragging squad. John McCain/Bush stands for a third term of the disasterous Bush administration, the guy should be stuffed and mounted and put in a museum somewhere in South Carolina. Here are some of Senator Barack Obama's positions: Opposed the Iraq war from the start. Voted to end the war in Iraq. Supports capturing and killing Osama Bin Laden. Favors a $1000 tax cut for every working American family. Will implement tax form simplification to reduce filing time. Provide tax credit for all middle class homeowners. Provide a tax cut for all families making less than $75,000 a year. Amend NAFTA to protect American workers. Amend NAFTA to strengthen environmental protections. Providing Flex Ed training accounts for workers. Extending Trade Adjustment assistance to service workers. Supported Patriot Employer Act of 2007 that gives tax credits to large companies that keep workers here in America. Double funds for basic federal research. Implement a long term research and development tax credit. Invest in green technologies. Reduce carbon emission gases. Tackle the challenges of global warming. Create an energy focused youth jobs program. Create Federal Renewable Portfolio Standard. Extend the Production Tax Credit. Expand Broadband into every community. Keep the Internet tax free. Expand high speed internet access in rural areas. Fight for passage of Employee Free Choice Act. Ensure freedom to unionize. Would overturn "Kentucky River" classifications of Bush's NLRB Protect rights of striking workers. Increase the mininum wage to index it to inflation. Crack down on predatory lenders. Provide a universal mortgage tax credit for homeowners who don't itemize. Sign the Stop Fraud Act to prevent lending fraud. Mandate accurate loan disclosure. Create a fund to protect people from foreclosures. Close the bankruptcy loophole for mortgage companies. Establish a credit card rating to improve disclosure. Ban utilateral credit card charges. Apply interest rate only to future debt. Prohibit credit card interest on fees. Prohibit Universal defaults. Require prompt and fair crediting of cardholder payments. Protect working people from unfair bankruptcy laws. Ban executive bonuses for bankruptcy companies. REquire disclosure of pension investments. Cap outlandandish interest rates on payday loans. Implement legislation to drive unscrupulous lenders out of business Create a bankruptcy exemption for people that went broke because of medical bills. Double funding for after school programs. Extend Family and Medical Leave Act. Encourage states to adopt Paid leave. Expand the Child Care Tax Credit Supports ratification of UN Convention Rights of Persons With Disabilities. Supports independent, community based living for people with disabilities. Expand educational opportunites for people with disabilities. Expand job opportunities for people with disabilities. Strengthen civil rights enforcement. Sign into law the Fair Pay Act. Sign law reversing recent SCOTUS rulings that permitted discrimination against women. Sign law reversing recent SCOTUS rulings that permitted discrimination against racial minorities. Strengthen federal hate crimes legislation. Eliminate the sentence disparities regarding crack cocaines. Establish drug courts for first time, non violent offenders. Create a prison to work incentive for those transitioning back into society. Passed a law to prohibit the practice of racial profiling. Supported reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act. Opposes all discriminatory barriers to voting. Helped reform death penalty system in Illinois to protect innocent people on death row. Voted to ban cluster bombs. Provide high quality affordable child care to families. Will quadrulple Early Head Start funding. Will increase Head Start funding. Creates early learning challenge grants. Abolish overly rigid teach to the test curriculum in schools. Improve accountability in public schools. Invest in intervention strategies to reduce dropout rates in schools. Increase funding for afterschool programs. Supports Step Up program to increase summer learning opportunities. Support English language learner programs. Expand college outreach programs. Create teacher service scholarships. Requires all public schools to be accredited. Create teacher residency programs. Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit for higher education. Streamline financial aid application. Introduced legislation to increase Pell Grant to $5,100. Reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. Confront deforestation. Promote carbon sequestration. Accelerate commercialization of plug in hybrids. Promote development of commercial scale renewable energy. Invest in low emission coal plants. Transition to new electric digit grid. Double science funding for clean energy products. Create Green Jobs Cor (more...)

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What Barack Obama Will Do An Obama administration will do more than a McCain administration for the cause of life, by drastically reducing abortions through giving women and families the support and the tools they need to choose life. Barack Obama will continue to strive to make a life with dignity for all from the beginning to the end of life possible - by making sure health care is affordable, combating poverty, providing good paying jobs, and ensuring security in life's final years. Support for Women and Families Sen. Obama supports paid maternity leave to make sure families won't lose their employment and much needed income from having a child. Sen. Obama supports legislation to allow 'sick-leave' to also cover one's sick children. Expand programs like the successful Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers. The Nurse-Family Partnership provides home visits by trained registered nurses to low-income expectant mothers and their families. Sen. Obama has committed to making investment in affordable daycare and supports a refundable Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit would allow families to receive a 50 percent credit on up to $3,000 of childcare. Sen. Obama will cut taxes for 95 percent of all working families and will cut middle class taxes three times as much as Sen. McCain. Fatherhood and Responsibility Obama is a cosponsor of the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act, which encourages personal responsibility and includes provisions for domestic violence prevention and improved collection and distribution of child support. Listen to Senator Obama's groundbreaking Father's Day speech on fatherhood and personal responsibility here. Health Care Obama is committed to signing health legislation by the end of his first term in office that will guarantee affordable healthcare for every American. Under the Obama health plan, no one would be denied health care coverage because of a pre-existing condition. He would change the bizarre practice of pregnancy being listed in many health coverage plans as a "pre-existing condition." Sen. Obama is a strong advocate for the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide health care to children in low-income families. Tackling Poverty Obama will expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to help lift many families out of poverty. His plan will increase the number of working parents eligible for EITC benefits, increase the benefit available to parents who support their children through child support payments, and reduce the EITC marriage penalty. Obama supports Catholic Charities USA's stated goal to cut domestic poverty in half in ten years. Obama will make sure that full-time workers can earn a wage that allows them to raise their families and live with dignity. Obama will raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011 and index it to inflation. Senator Obama supports the expansion of the leading program that provides nutritional support for low-income pregnant women and their infants and children (WIC). Supporting Adoption Sen. Obama has been a proponent of increased support for adoption agencies and an expanded adoption tax credit. Late-Term Abortion Obama opposes late term abortions, with a clear exception for the mother's life and health: "I have repeatedly said that I think it's entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don't think that 'mental distress' qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term." - Senator Obama in an interview with Relevant magazine, July 1, 2008 Sen. McCain has voted against measures that would support pregnant women and families that need it most: McCain voted against extending Medicaid coverage to pregnant women and infants up to one year of age with incomes below the Federal poverty line. Senator McCain voted twice against the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), one of the largest support programs for pregnant women and poor children, which would have provided health care to an additional 3.2 million children and continuing coverage for the more than 6 million children already dependent on the care. Senator McCain has opposed increases in funding to nutritional support program for pregnant women and infants (WIC) that has proven to be one of the most effective programs in supporting women to carry their pregnancies to term. McCain voted against increased funding for child care and does not have a plan to help families make child care affordable. Sen. McCain has voted to increase taxes on local small business nurseries and childcare providers. He has voted against minimum wage increases at least 19 times and voted to completely repe (more...)

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OK... so I studied Film and Digital art in school. Of course we always used Macs for these projects. I have also always used Macs in jobs or internships for these projects. I would love to be able to freelance and am saving up money in hopes to buy a Mac (I have an old crummy PC now) and also get the Adobe Creative Suite Package (probably CS3 since CS4 is coming out I'll be able to get CS3 for a more affordable price)... and I would also need to get Final Cut Pro for my Mac as editing software for film... My question here (to anyone who may know) what would be the best and most affordable option for my needs. I am not saying cheap, because I know this isn't a cheap investment... But I am trying to put together some digits to see how much more I need to save... SO! What would be a good Mac for digital art/film editing? Thanks! (more...)

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