Advanced Guide to Real Estate Investing or Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Advanced Guide to Real Estate Investing: How to Identify the Hottest Markets and Secure the Best Deals

Author: Ken McElroy

If you're interested in real estate investing, you may have noticed notice the lack of coverage it gets in mainstream financial media, while stocks, bonds, and mutual funds are consistently touted as the safest and most profitable ways to invest. According to real estate guru Ken McElroy, that's because financial publications, tv and radio programs make the bulk of their money from advertising paid for by the very companies who provide such mainstream financial services. On the other hand, real estate investment is something you can do on your own--without a large amount of money up front! Picking up where left off in the bestselling The ABC's of Real Estate Investing, McElroy reveals the next essential lessons and information that no serious investor can afford to miss. Building on the foundation of real estate investment 101, McElroy tells readers:

• How to think--and operate--like a real estate mogul
  
• "The Top Ten Real Estate Markets to Watch"
  
• How to identify and close expert deals
  
• Why multifamily housing is the best real estate investment out there
  
• How to surround yourself with a team that will help maximize your money
  
• How to avoid paying thousands in taxes by structuring property sales wisely
  
• Important projections about the future of real estate investment


• And more.

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Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History

Author: Jan R Van Meter

“By necessity, by proclivity, by delight,” Ralph Waldo Emerson said in 1876, “we all quote.” But often the phrases that fall most readily from our collective lips—like “fire when ready,”  “speak softly and carry a big stick,” or “nice guys finish last”—are those whose origins and true meanings we have ceased to consider. Restoring three-dimensionality to more than fifty of these American sayings, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too turns clichés back into history by telling the life stories of the words that have served as our most powerful battle cries, rallying points, laments, and inspirations.
In individual entries on slogans and catchphrases from the early seventeenth to the late twentieth century, Jan Van Meter reveals that each one is a living, malleable entity that has profoundly shaped and continues to influence our public culture. From John Winthrop’s “We shall be as a city upon a hill” and the 1840 Log Cabin Campaign’s “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” and Ronald Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” each of Van Meter’s selections emerges as a memory device for a larger political or cultural story.  So the next time we hear or see one of these verbal symbols used to sell a product, illustrate a point, make a joke, reshape a current cause, or resuscitate a forgotten ideal, we will finally be equipped to understand its broader role as a key source of the values we continue to share and fight about. Taken together in Van Meter’s able hands, these famous slogansand catchphrases give voice to our common history even as we argue about where it should lead us.

Michael O. Eshleman - Library Journal

That the LC subject headings use miscellanea six times in this book's CIP data shows its neither-fish-nor-fowl nature. Van Meter, a retired public relations executive, examines five dozen phrases, most historical ("fifty-four forty or fight!") but some from sports and pop culture ("say it ain't so, Joe!"). Yet the book isn't about the slogans themselves, their origins or their legacy; they are an excuse to walk through American history. "The buck stops here" provides the life of Harry Truman, and "old soldiers never die" gives the story of the Korean War. It is as if Van Meter is writing for an audience completely ignorant of history. He also ignores how some phrases, such as "Give me liberty or give me death," first appeared decades after they were supposed to have been uttered, akin to Parson Weems's story about Washington and the cherry tree. Librarians should instead be sure to have Ralph Keye's scholarly and broader The Quote Verifier, which is focused on the words and their origins.