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Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Real Estate Online Courses – What Should you Study?

You juggle many daily duties as a working professional and it may seem almost impossible to fit in education to pursue a fulfilling, lucrative career in real estate. With online distance learning, you can take real estate classes at your own time and pace rather than having to attend scheduled classes. Because distance learning is so flexible and convenient, the Washington Post reports that by 2008, one in ten students pursuing higher education will be enrolled in an online learning program.

Imagine moving mountains to make money in real estate! Selling land, selling houses, listing houses for sale and determining the value of homes are a sampling of the exciting professions available in real estate. Distance learning courses are offered online in several areas of the real estate profession, such as:

Real Estate salesperson or brokers license.

To sell houses, land or other real property, you need a real estate license. This course will prepare you for the licensing exam with courses in forms of ownership, recordation, rights and interests in land, license law, agency, rules and regulations, contracts, closings and closing costs, seller’s net, leases, title transfer, finance, appraisal, Fair Housing and taxes. At the end of the required course, you can take the final exam with a proctor, such as a librarian. A student who passes the final exam is qualified to take the State Real Estate Licensing Examination to work in real estate sales. Students may also pursue a brokers license after performed as a salesperson. A real estate broker is allowed to transact business for their own company and employ other people who hold a real estate license.

Real Estate courses to prepare for exams.

If you are anxious about taking state examinations to become a real estate salesperson or a real estate broker, you can take preparation courses online prior to the big test. Preparation courses traditionally offer practice questions, activities to help you remember the material covered in the course, a list of relevant real estate terms and basic tips for taking an exam. These courses are not a requirement to take the real estate examination but they help to put many students at ease about taking the test.

Real Estate courses to meet continuing education requirements.

When you earn you real estate license, continuing education is required to maintain the license and qualify for renewal. Distance learning gives busy real estate professionals a chance to fulfill these necessary continuing education requirements while they continue to earn money.

Real Estate courses in home inspection

Real estate inspectors educate buyers about the physical condition of a perspective home to assist them in making a wise decision. Inspectors ensure a home is suitable to reside in and does not violate local laws according to the guidelines of the National Association of Home Inspectors (NAHITM). The online course in real estate inspection teaches you the basic standards of performance for a residential home inspection written report.

Real Estate courses in appraisal.

Requirements for appraisers vary from state to state but all students basically have to complete certain courses and pass a state licensing examination. Real estate appraisers decide the value of a home based on its condition, amenities and the current market value of similar homes in the area.

Distance learning gives you an accessible way to learn how to become real estate professionals. For current realtors, online courses are a flexible way to fit continuing education into your hectic schedules. With online education, you can land that long-awaited, lucrative position in real estate you always dreamed of.

About the Author

M. Jackson is a web contributor for http://www.distance-learning-college-guide.com where you find information on distance learning colleges and accredited online degrees.

10 Birds with 1 Stone: Philosophical Snippets from One of America’s Leading Real Estate Innovators $9.99 In a handy, pocket-size package, 10 Birds with 1 Stone offers 52 carefully honed teachings that can be appreciated quickly, often and over and over again. Perfect for sampling, the book acts on one level as a kind of concentrated MBA course with seasoned advice on how to succeed in business. But its deeper insights sneak up on readers like the wisdom of a Sufi Master. This isn’t just about business; it’s a philosophy for anyone who wants to live a life of self-realization and fulfillment.

A Castle in the Backyard $19.95 In one of the most beautiful river valleys in Europe, in the region known as Perigord in southwest France, castles crown the hills, and the surrounding villages seem carved all of a piece out of the local stone. In 1985, in the shadow of one of these medieval castles, Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden fell in love with a small stone house that became their summer home. Like any romance, this one has had its ups and downs, and Betsy and Michael chart its course in this delightful memoir. They offer an intimate glimpse of a region little known to Americans–the Dordogne valley, its castles and prehistoric art, its walking trails and earthy cuisine–and describe the charms and mishaps of setting up housekeeping thousands of miles from home. Along with the region’s terrain and culture, A Castle in the Backyard introduces us to the people of Perigord–the castle’s proprietor, the village children, the gossipy real-estate agent, the rascally mason, and the ninety-year-old widow with a tale of heartbreak. A celebration of a place and its people, the book also reflects on the future of historic Perigord as tourism and development pose a challenge to its graceful way of life. Winner of the 2002 August Derleth Nonfiction Award, awarded by the Council for Wisconsin Writers

After the Fall $24.95 According to author Steve Bergsman, the next decade will produce multiple investment currents in real estate. This book will help the sharp investor find the right current and stay the course for a long, profitable ride. By separating the asset classes that will remain stable from those that will continue to lose value going forward, Bergsman offers an essential roadmap to the changing real estate market. As a result, savvy investors will be able to capitalize on opportunities created by the trillions of dollars in mortgage-backed investment vehicles that essentially became worthless for a moment in time in 2007.

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay $16.78 A wildly humorous account of the author’s travels across Paraguay-South America’s darkly fabled, little-known island surrounded by land. Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette’s eye-opening book-equal parts travelogue, history, and unorthodox travel guide-breaches the boundaries of this isolated land, and illuminates a little-understood place and its people. It is a wonderfully animated telling of Paraguay’s story: of cannibals, Jesuits, and sixteenth-century Anabaptists; of Victorian Australian socialists and talented smugglers; of dictators and their mad mistresses; bloody wars and Utopian settlements; and of lives transplanted from Japan, Britain, Poland, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, and the United States. The author travels from the insular cities and towns of the east, along ghostly trails through the countryside, to reach the Gran Chaco of the west: the green hell covering almost two-thirds of the country, where 4 percent of the population coexists-more or very-much-less peacefully-with a vast array of exotic wildlife that includes jaguars, prehistoric lungfish, and their more recently evolved distant cousins, the great fighting river fish. Gimlette visits with Mennonites and the indigenas, arms dealers and real-estate tycoons, shopkeepers, government bureaucrats and, of course, Nazis. Filled with bizarre incident, fascinating anecdote, and richly evocative detail, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig is a brilliant description of a country of eccentricity and contradiction, ofbeguilingly individualistic men and women, and of unexpected and extraordinary beauty. It is a vivid, often riotous, always fascinating, journey.

California Real Estate Law $73.97 California Real Estate Law is intended as a textbook for the required broker prelicensing course Legal Aspects of Real Estate and for California’s unique salesperson continuing education elective by the same name.

Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War $155.36 At the start of the great Civil War, the Chesapeake Bay was a crucially important piece of watery real estate, with North and South struggling for its control. Up the Potomac, the Chesapeake’s second-largest tributary, lay the capital of the United States; up the James, the Chesapeake’s third-largest tributary, lay the Confederate capital. Whoever controlled the Bay would determine the course of the war. On the Rappahannock and other rivers of the region, fierce and tragic battles were fought. Down the Bay, the greatest American army ever assembled waged war. In Chesapeake waters, naval warfare was transformed forever, and on the rivers and the open Bay, the Civil War was finally won. This thoroughly readable narrative covers events in Chesapeake country, from the months preceding the conflict to shortly after the death of Lincoln. Throughout the war the Bay was a marshy danger zone crawling with privateers, smugglers, and spies. It was a place where classic army-navy operations were carried out, where runaway slaves became contraband, where brother literally fought brother, and where freedom was denied, for the sake of preserving freedom.

Commercial Investment Real Estate $42.95 Commercial or Investment courses at proprietary real estate schools, as well as 2 and 4 year schools. Not a main text for traditional real estate Investment course.

Connecticut Real Estate Sales Exam $22.98 To become a licensed real estate salesperson in Connecticut, it is necessary to pass the Connecticut Real Estate Sales Exam. This one-stop guide includes four full-length practice tests, updated to the standards for the new online test specs. In addition, it contains a Connecticut state real estate refresher course that reflects all recent changes to laws and policies; study tips from the Learning Express Test-Prep System and Real Estate Essentials; a glossary of terms; math review; complete answer explanations to reinforce learning; and certification information.

Dear Future Homeowner, the Market Has Turned in Your Favor! $10.82 Dear Future Homeowner, The Market Has turned In Your FAVOR! is a guide for all first time homebuyers in today’’s real estate market. Readers will be educated on how to avoid the common mistakes of un-seasoned buyers, in addition to a crash course on short sales and foreclosures, which dominate the market currently. In this book, readers will also learn how to properly dispute discrepancies on their credit report and most importantly how to present themselves before the lender, particularly if they have had a bankruptcy, foreclosure and any other extenuating circumstance.

Dolf de Roos’ Real Estate Investor’s College $129.9 Let property investment guru Dolf de Roos demonstrate insider techniques and field-tested strategies designed to maximize property value for all levels of real estate investors. The Property Investor’s School on 10 CD’s provides a dynamic audio record of Dolf’s mentoring sessions previously available only in-person. Real Estate Riches on 3 CD’s abridges the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller to create a portable audio compendium of how-to tips for creating property income. Finally, sit in on Discussions with Dolf, a DVD bonus comprising of an international question-and-answer session featuring specific real estate queries from program participants. Covering everything from lenders to leases; trades people to tenants; Dolf de Roos’ Real Estate Investor’s College is your graduate course in financial security!

E-filming Digital Drive, 360? Rotating Panorama Camera Base P-30B $599 E-Filming 360?Panorama Photo System for DSLR Cameras… The new E-filming Digital Drive 360? Panorama Camera Base is an automatic systemfor making panorama, spherical and 3D rotation photographs quickly, easily and affordably. Panorama, Spherical, and 3D rotation photographs and presentations are much simpler now that digital cameras and software can stitch several digital pictures together. In order to create these images, a level shooting platform and a camera rotation device are required. Until now most panorama camera bases were manually rotated and operated like scientific instruments. Photographers had to move the camera slowly and try to match all the rulers and markers in the process. It was a difficult and time-consuming process that only experienced photographers could do with good results. The E-Filming Digital Drive Panorama Camera Base changes all that. Panoramic picture taking is now easy, quick and automatic. With the included Cool Stitch and 3D Maker software, virtually anyone can make their own panorama, spherical, and 3D rotation photographs in minutes. It provides a new dimension in photography for all photographers. Of course, for the serious photographers and professionals who require more sophisticated software, there is additional photo software commercially available to get even more stunning effects while using the E-filming Digital Drive Panorama Camera Base. The uses for this product are endless. Here are some suggestions: Ultra detailed giga-pixel panorama images. Product 3D rotational display on the internet for better product presentation. Real estate 3D or panorama room showcase. Weddings, parties, and major events photography. Custom automobile, boats, aircraft, and other transportation interior showcase. Electronic mapping. Vacation spot super panorama photos. DSLR Camera Models Supported: N1: Nikon F6, F5, F90, F90x, F100, D3, D1/D1H/D1X, D2/D2H/D2X, D3/D3X/D100/D200/D300/D700, Kodak DSC-14N, Fujifilm S3Pro/S

Essentials of Real Estate Economics $59.32 Completely updated and one of the most direct and practical approaches to presenting the factors that cause real estate value to change, McKenzie and Betts have updated the fifth edition while adding graphics and coverage of contemporary topics. This text works well for individuals with little or no background in formal economics, providing current information needed for a successful course in real estate economics for real estate agents, appraisers, and investors.

Evil in Paradise: The Triumph of Faith & Love Over Greed & Power $20.95 Peter and I stared at each other, digesting the shocking news. What was this misguided loose cannon of a prosecutor doing? Would he really take the risk of ruining our lives without any evidence of a crime? The answer was obviously yes.The thought of being arrested! The very idea pierced my heart. My mind raced at hyper speed. I had never committed a single criminal act. I was a wife, a mother, and a hard-working professional in the field of real estate development. After many years of faithful service, my bosses, Peter Durkee and Jack Wood, made me an equity partner in Durkee Development Group, a developer of golf course communities in Naples. Now I was being accused of being a partner in crime, a corrupt individual, an influence peddler, who had sought to bring illegal pressure on government authorities with respect to a golf course development called Colisseum Golf.My life had just spun totally out of control.

Evil in Paradise: The Triumph of Faith & Love Over Greed & Power $30.95 Peter and I stared at each other, digesting the shocking news. What was this misguided loose cannon of a prosecutor doing? Would he really take the risk of ruining our lives without any evidence of a crime? The answer was obviously yes.The thought of being arrested! The very idea pierced my heart. My mind raced at hyper speed. I had never committed a single criminal act. I was a wife, a mother, and a hard-working professional in the field of real estate development. After many years of faithful service, my bosses, Peter Durkee and Jack Wood, made me an equity partner in Durkee Development Group, a developer of golf course communities in Naples. Now I was being accused of being a partner in crime, a corrupt individual, an influence peddler, who had sought to bring illegal pressure on government authorities with respect to a golf course development called Colisseum Golf.My life had just spun totally out of control.

Florida Real Estate $43.17 Florida Real Estate Principles, Practices & Law is the most comprehensive prelicensing text in the state of Florida. Published annually, this text reflects the most recent legislative changes in Florida. The content conforms to the Florida Division of Real Estate’’s prescribed Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC) Course I Syllabus for the prelicense course for sales associates.

Florida Real Estate Broker’s Guide $136.44 Going beyond the principles and practices studens have already learned, this new edition explores the skills necessary for building and managing a successful real estate brokerage. Based on the revised FREC broker course syllabus, Florida Real Estate Broker’s Guide provides a complete source for your broker prelicensing curriculum. Highlights include: * Four new case studies prepare students for real world practice. * Timely, comprehensive couverage of all course topics makes supplemental material unnecessary. * Web resources encourage students to explore key topics. * Free Instructor Resource Guide includes chapter outlines, matching exercises, vocabulary lists and two practice exams.

Florida Real Estate Exam Manual For Sales Associates and Brokers $25.23 Updated annually with Florida Real Estate Principles, Practices & Law, the purpose of this book is to provide a framework for reviewing the subject areas on the required end-of-course exam and the license exam for prospective real estate licensees. It is designed to allow coverage of the subjects in a relatively short span of time and to offer thorough practice with examination questions.

Food for Thought: Bringing Estate Planning to Life $5.62 Writing a will and taking care of other aspects of estate planning can be intimidating and complicated. But putting off dealing with these issues, or avoiding them altogether, is not the solution. Food for Thought takes you by the hand and allows you to listen in on a group of people coming to terms with the kind of estate planning questions we all face. And while the characters may be fictional, the issues are only too real. Food for Thought follows a dinner club seven friends at various ages and stages of life through the course of a year. Each chapter revolves around a dinner party where the friends and neighbours gather to share fun and good food (recipes included!), but also their experiences with some of life’s major events and tougher situations, all related to estate planning. As the characters work their way through experiences with aging parents, sudden death in their circle of friends, planning for the welfare of their children, and more, readers will learn how to deal with these legal and financial issues as well. Each chapter is in three parts. First the lively conversation and bon temps of the dinner party, which touches on one or two estate planning subjects. Part tow follows with an informative discussion of the legal and financial issues, in the tone of an experienced but friendlier estate lawyer. And part three features the dinner party menu, complete with seasonal recipes and advice on preparation and serving. Food for Thought makes the subject of estate planning more palatable by presenting it in the context of the finer and more pleasurable things in life friends, family, good conversation, and delicious recipes.

Insider Investing for Real Estate Agents: How to Profit from Your Intimate Knowledge of the Market $15.72 The Real Estate Investing Guide Just for Agents If you’re a real estate agent, your knowledge of the industry can give you a big leg-up when it comes to investing. Insider Investing for Real Estate Agents shows you how to maximize your returns using your special, insider knowledge of listings, local markets, and trends, as well as your connections with local buyers and sellers. In this one-of-a-kind guide, Walter Sanford shows you not only how your experience as an agent can aid your investing, but also how investing can make you a better agent leading to more customers, listings, and sales. Filled with all the tools you need to combine and improve your skills as an investor and agent, this practical, hands-on resource includes more than 100 handy forms, checklists, and worksheets all designed to help you make wise decisions, spot bargains, and manage properties with a minimum of risk. Inside, you’ll find unbeatable advice on: Insider tactics for obtaining investment financing Using your natural advantages as an agent to find great properties Working honestly and ethically as both an agent and an investor Tapping into your lead generation skills to invest better Performing due diligence the way only an agent can Insider tenant acquisition tactics that really work More and more agents are putting their skills to use in investing and making it payoff big. If you want to learn how to use your inside knowledge and experience to find and purchase properties with great money-making potential, Insider Investing for Real Estate Agents will put you on course for investing success.

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer $7.09 From one of the most poetic and gifted comic-strip artists working today–andauthor of The Jew of New York –comes the first collection about his beloved protagonist, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. From the Publisher Julius Knipl (the word means nest egg in Yiddish) is short, overweight, and of an uncertain age. He wouldn’t dream of going out into the street without a tie, jacket, and fedora. His devotion to conventional dress, his thin mustache, and his acceptance of his marginal existence suggests that he actually belongs to a vanished generation. Although Knipl is never without his camera, he seldom takes photographs. His function is to observe, reflect, and in the course of his small adventures, catalogue aspects of city life that elicit nostalgia. The city in which Julius Knipl lives, loafs, and perambulates is the nirvana of luncheonettes, the Atlantis of wholesale novelty showrooms, the Valhalla of one desk syndicates, the El Dorado of second story friendship-league lecture halls. (Luc Sante) From Publishers Weekly Katchor (The Jew of New York) creates whimsically poetic comic strips out of the observational found-verse he extracts from the petty commercial economy at the grungy low end of classic city life. Katchor transforms hustling salesmen, obscure municipal agencies, nonspecific ethnics and cheapo real estate brokers into wonderfully comic literary surrogates for the real world cast of smalltime urban capitalism. He’s equally talented at recreating the brooding, sign-clotted, mix-matched architectural ambience of a charmingly dingy and mammoth city in his quirky but precisely rendered b&w pen-and-wash drawings. The guide to Katchor’s unnamed city (it could only be New York) is Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, also the name of the comic strip that Katchor has produced since 1988. This book collects strips published in weekly newspapers from 1994 to 1997, plus one original story. Knipl travels throug

Lapham Rising $1.01 From The Publisher:Harry March’s troubles begin when Lapham, a self-aggrandizing, ostentatious multimillionaire, commences construction of a 36,000-square-foot house (complete with a cutting-edge air-conditioner that cools his entire eight-acre property) directly across the creek from Harry’s island home in Quogue, in the Hamptons. Harry, an island himself, is something of a wreck and half-nuts, but principled. His wife has left him for an event planner in Beverly Hills; he cuts the polo player out of his shirts; and he speaks mainly with his dog, Hector, a born-again Evangelical and a capitalist who admires Lapham’s monstrosity as a symbol of American progress. But to Harry, Lapham represents everything that is ruining modern civilization. So he sends daily notes to his nemesis by way of a remote-control toy motorboat, which read: Mr. Lapham, tear down that house! When his efforts fail, he turns to politics by other means.Lapham Rising follows Harry’s progress during a single day–through the strange habits of Hamptons social life; the power of local real estate (embodied in Kathy Polite, who advertises her agency by swimming naked from her boat every morning); the odd workings of his own mind, such as it is; and into his elaborate plot to devise a weapon of individual destruction with which to bring down Lapham and all the Laphams of the world. Of course, it backfires.About The Author:Roger Rosenblatt’s essays for Time magazine have won two George Polk Awards, among other honors. His television essays for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS have won him the Peabody and the Emmy. He is the author of eleven books, which have been published in thirteen languages. They include the national bestseller Rules for Aging, three collections of essays, and Children of War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written four Off-Broadway plays. Lapha

Los Angeles in Maps $50 An illustrated cartographic history of the City of Angels from the colonial era to the present. Los Angeles inhabits a place of the mind as much as it does a physical geographic space. A land of palm trees and movie stars, sunshine and glamour, the city exists in the imagination as a paradise; of course, the reality is much bigger than this. Through seventy reproductions of seminal and historic documents, Los Angeles in Maps presents the evolution of this almost mythical place. Maps featured include historic Spanish explorers” charts from as early as 1791, as well as more recent topographic surveys, tourist guides, real estate maps, bird’’s-eye views, and more. Like the course of the Los Angeles River, the book winds through essential terrain: the discovery of oil, the rise of Hollywood, the streetcar system, Los Angeles Harbor, earthquakes, sprawl, and splendor.

Massachusetts Real Estate Sales Exam $34.95 With property values at a historic high, more and more people want to become real estate agents. Massachusetts is no exception. This thorough guide features four full-length practice tests – updated according to the state’s standards for the new online tests – with complete answer explanations to reinforce learning. It includes a Massachusetts real estate refresher course; study tips from the LearningExpress Test-Prep System; a glossary of terms; information on certification; and a CDROM with additional questions, answers, and explanations.

McE for Texas Real Estate Professionals $18.41 Prepares real estate licensees in Texas who must take a 30-hour renewal course within three years of obtaining their license and those licensees who must take 15 classroom hours of continuing education every two years.

New Jersey Real Estate Sales Exam $34.95 New Jersey Real Estate Sales Exam, written specifically to address New Jersey’s testing requirements, includes four, full-length practice tests, and is fully updated according to the standards for the new online test’s specifications. Packaged with a CD-ROM filled with additional questions, answers, and explanations, this book will help ensure success. New Jersey Real Estate Sales Exam also includes a refresher course that incorporates all the recent changes to New Jersey real estate laws and policies, study tips, and a glossary of terms adapted from Real Estate Essentials — it’s like having the test in advance!

Nothing but Blue Skies $9.99 There are many reasons why British summers are either non-existent or, alternatively, held on a Thursday. Many of these reasons are either scientific, mad, or both–but all of them are wrong, especially the scientific ones. The real reason why it rains perpetually from January 1st to December 31st is, of course, irritable Chinese Water Dragons. Karen is one such legendary creature. Ancient, noble, nearly indestructible and, for a number of wildly improbable reasons, working as a real estate agent, Karen is irritable quite a lot of the time. But now things have changed, and Karen’’s no longer irritable. She’’s furious.

Ohio Real Estate Law $58.86 This practical guide to understanding real estate law meets all Ohio state education standards for the required Real Estate Law course, and provides students with a reliable set of rules and concepts for a professional understanding of this material. It is Ohio state-specific, but fully discusses federal laws that come into play. Actual case briefs allow students to apply their knowledge in the real-world.

Out to Canaan $109.45 Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his talented and vivacious wife, Cynthia, are pondering the murky uncertainties of retirement. They’re also trying to locate the scattered siblings of Dooley Barlowe, the mountain boy they love as their own. A brash new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development, and a tough survivor must hunker down for the fight of her life. Worse, the Sweet Stuff Bakery may be closing, and a suspicious real estate agent is trying to turn the beloved house on the hill into a spa. Can change be coming to Mitford? The buzz on Main Street says yes. Change is certainly coming to the tenderest regions of several townspeople’s lives. A woman struggles every day to stay on course after years of hard living. A man tries to forgive himself for a tragic mistake. And the town’s most eligible bachelor leaves Mitford – and returns with a stunning surprise.

Pennsylvania Real Estate Fundamentals and Practices $49.95 Easy-to-understand, practical and concise, this text is the single-volume source for Pennsylvania-specific information for students taking the pre-license real estate course. Step-by-step explanations of presented concepts make learning real estate principles easy for all users. Study features such as end of chapter summary points and review questions further assist the exam preparation process.

Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 $29.95 Estate planning documents not valid in Louisiana. PLUS: Nolo understands that protection and planning reach beyond the scope of the estate plan, so Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 provides 10 additional estate planning, retirement, finance and family care resources to keep you and your loved ones covered: Make Your Own Living Trust (eBook) When you create a living trust your property bypasses lengthy probate proceedings and goes directly to the people you’ve designated. This eBook shows you how to create various living trusts, transfer assets to your trust, including real estate, name beneficiaries for all trust property, and much more. The Executor’s Guide (eBook) A Nolo bestseller, The Executor’s Guide provides the legal and practical information you need at a difficult time so you can get organized and get the job done. Find out how to make sense of a will, claim life insurance, Social Security & other benefits, deal with family members and work with professionals. Plan Your Estate (eBook) Plan Your Estate untangles the complexities of estate planning, covering everything from basic wills to sophisticated tax strategies. It explains wills, how to leave property to children, and much more. IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans (eBook) Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes (eBook) Estate Planning for Blended Families (eBook) Long-Term Care (eBook) Nolo’s Crash Course in Estate Planning Basics (audio) 101 Law Forms for Personal Use (eBook) Your Little Legal Companion (book, paperback) System Requirements: * Processor: Pentium 400 MHz * Operating System: Windows XP / Vista * Memory: 512 MB RAM * Hard Disk Space: 22 MB (29 MB to install) * Drive: CD-ROM, 2X speed * Miscellaneous: 56 Kbps modem required to access online features; Any printer supported by Windows XP / Vista; Microsoft Explorer 6.0 or higher; Adobe Reader (optional)

Real Estate Law Review Manual $118.95 This brief paperback manual was written as a review manual for legal assistants studying for the real estate certified legal assistant specialty (CLAS) exam. Sponsored by National Association of Legal Assistants, Inc. It can also be used for any real estate law course for legal assistants. Written by attorney-paralegal team, it is designed to provide the legal assistant with the knowledge needed to be an effective asset in every aspect of a law practice which emphasizes real property.

Real Estate Principles $138.85 This leading textbook for the college introductory real estate principles course is a comprehensive, well written text known for its easy to understand and practical approach to the principles of real estate. Highlights include: * Instructor Resources available online at www.dearbornRE.com, including a PowerPoint presentation. * Real Estate Today advisory boxes analyze specific legal cases and controversial issues in the industry. * A recurring case study is woven thoughout the book, highlighting the decision process in a typical real estate transaction. * Close Ups, Legal Highlights and Case Studies appear thoughout to provide real world applications of the concepts. * Contains a student study guide CD ROM with interactive case studies.

Realtors Never Die…: They Just Become Listless $10.95 Follow Connie Joyner and fellow real estate agents in western Massachusetts over the course of 30 years in the business. Connie and her colleagues encounter all sorts of humorous and dangerous situations in the line of duty. Agents are on call 24/7 and lifetime friendships are formed–even though competition is part of the business. In most cases, names have been changed to protect the innocent!

Sanditon and Other Stories $22 When the English-speaking world fell in love with Jane Austen’s six great novels, hungering for more, the hunt began, of course, for any unpublished manuscripts she may have left behind. Treasure was found, and all of it is in this volume that rounds out the Everyman’s Library edition of Jane Austen. Sanditon is the novel she was working on in the last year of her life. Its subject matter astonishes: here is Austen observing the birth pangs of the culture of commerce. The setting is a seaside town that is being promoted as a resort. The country-bred heroine, the handsome baronet who models himself after irresistible seducers he has met in novels, the family of hypochondriacs, the mysterious West Indian heiress, and others, play out their satirical or romantic or melodramatic roles against a background hum of real-estate development: modern times loom. The Watsons, begun in 1804 but never completed, tells the story of a young woman, Emma Watson, who was raised by a rich aunt and is suddenly shipped back to the comparative poverty and social clumsiness of her own family: girls explicitly on the hunt for husbands. What husbands they find we will never know. But we can check our hopes that the appealing Emma will make the right choice (she is, incidentally, the only Austen heroine ever courted by a lord) against the author’s plans for her, as recollected by Jane Austen’s sister, Cassandra. Lady Susan, written before Pride and Prejudice, is a complete epistolary novel. It is Jane Austen’s only novel whose protagonist is a villainess, and a denizen of sophisticated London society. The alluring Lady Susan subtly, single-mindedly, and ruthlessly pursues her own fortunes. She bullies her shyyoung daughter. She dissembles, she maneuvers, she manipulates. She makes the reader both pray for her comeuppance and regret that (as a modern novelist quoted in the preface remarks) Austen never again wrote a novel with a scheming widow for its heroine.

Scenes from the Life of a City: Corruption and Conscience in Old New York $37.99 Glittering and glamorous, New York in the mid-nineteenth century was also plagued by political corruption, sanitation problems, and a growing gulf between rich and poor. In this book, Eric Homberger brilliantly evokes the life of a city through vivid portraits of New Yorkers struggling to reconstruct a sense of community amid the selfish materialism of their urban environment. Homberger focuses on four main characters who played important roles in various reform efforts of the period: Ann Lohman, known as Madame Restell, the world-renowned medical expert, whose services as an abortionist were partly responsible for the creation of a harshly repressive public policy toward abortion that persisted for more than a century; Slippery Dick Connolly, comptroller of New York City, who escaped to Europe with millions of the city’s dollars and betrayed his confederates in the Tweed Ring; Dr. Stephen Smith, a young surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, who was able to show that dozens of cases of typhus had originated in a single tenement on East 22nd Street; and Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect-in-chief of Central Park, who brought into reality a concept promoted by the aristocracy for the benefit of rich and poor alike. In the course of telling the stories of these New Yorkers, Homberger describes a host of other characters: cynical politicians employing the ever-effective language of racism, real estate speculators angrily contesting who was to reap the benefits of Central Park and who was to pay, well-meaning preachers, cunning lawyers, destitute immigrants, curious journalists, wealthy New Yorkers who anxiously feared the city’s mobs, moral reformers, and many more. Wonderful reading, Homberger’s book is also timely, for his account of the struggle to define and create a community within a diverse and contentious city evokes similar struggles taking place in cities today.

Second Best $15.95 On the rocky shores of Connecticut, 200 year-old church steeples stick up from every town. In the colonial shadows, men like Dunker and Robbie tend to lose their dreams and sink deep into a comfortable rut. But a collision with a woman who has her own ideas about steering from one day to the next can knock any mother’’s son for a loop. Second Best is about surviving such head-on accidents.Nadine, a real-estate agent and former college hockey player, harbors a yen for nautical adventure. Joan, a psychiatrist with a latent sense of humor, is itching to turn the tables on her fugitive financier husband. Together they lead their partners far, wide, and a little bit astray. Along the way, these unlikely pairs battle with baseball playing arsonists, motorcycle riding senior citizens, pool hustling teenagers, and the pesky jaws of history. From Curacao to the lower Rio Grande, the creatures of habit break with the past and bend the course of events in directions none of them could have predicted.Of course anyone you meet on Main Street will tell you that the hardest part of a wild ride is getting back on your feet when it stops.

Sell Your Home Faster With Feng Shui $14.22 This practical, well-organized guide shows homeowners, real estate agents, and others how to use the ancient Chinese art of placement without undertaking an exhausting course of study or subscribing to a belief system. When potential buyers walk into a home that has good feng shui, they feel a sense of harmony, peace, and openness. Property instantly becomes more inviting and more valuable. Provided are anecdotes, illustrations, charts, and checklists that demonstrate the process of creating balance and harmony in their homes and offices.

Shut Up and Sell: How to Say Less and Sell More Today $13.95 Are you in sales? Want fast results selling more? Then this book is for you. The sales methods given in this book apply to salespeople of all kinds–from clerks selling in retail stores and servers in restaurants to sales representatives in high-end golf communities selling homes for millions of dollars. Veterans and beginners alike will benefit from this new approach to sales that gets fast results. Thousands have already gained the benefit of the methods given in this book. It is a great advantage to anyone wishing to improve their selling techniques and earn more money immediately. Numerous golf course communities, new home and real estate companies, and manufacturers” representatives throughout the United States have been using these techniques for years, generating billions of dollars a year in new revenues. Now you can apply these proven techniques to say less and sell more with fast results today.

Shut Up and Sell: How to Say Less and Sell More Today $23.95 Are you in sales? Want fast results selling more? Then this book is for you. The sales methods given in this book apply to salespeople of all kinds–from clerks selling in retail stores and servers in restaurants to sales representatives in high-end golf communities selling homes for millions of dollars. Veterans and beginners alike will benefit from this new approach to sales that gets fast results. Thousands have already gained the benefit of the methods given in this book. It is a great advantage to anyone wishing to improve their selling techniques and earn more money immediately. Numerous golf course communities, new home and real estate companies, and manufacturers” representatives throughout the United States have been using these techniques for years, generating billions of dollars a year in new revenues. Now you can apply these proven techniques to say less and sell more with fast results today.

TDC Games 7108 G is for Golf Murder Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle $11.99 TDC1023: The G is for Golf Jigsaw Puzzle Game contains two 500 piece puzzles that have been diabolically mixed in the same bag. As real estate developer Richard Duffer was test playing his brand new exclusive golf course, he didn’t know it would be his last round. The goal of the game is to read the story and assemble the two puzzles. The puzzles represent a before and after picture of a crime scene, and once they have been successfully assembled, you must solve the crime! Features: -Includes separate before and after crime scene puzzles -Puzzles are 500 pieces -Read the story, piece together the puzzles and solve the crime -For ages 12 and up

Texas Real Estate $59.95 Readable, accurate and complete, this basic introductory text introduces the beginner to the principles and practices of real estate. The concise format makes the text content easy for Instructors to cover in allotted course time. The text also covers all necessary requirements from the Texas Real Estate License Act. Examples are used to make the material most understandable and practice exams assist test preparation.

Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency $110.11 Master agency relationships with TEXAS REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE AND LAW OF AGENCY! Through a straight-forward and step-by-step approach, this real estate text provides you with the up-to-date information that you need to succeed in this course and your career. Discussion questions, answers to most-asked questions, current forms, index of terms and major headings, and recent court cases are just a few of the tools found throughout the text that make learning easy.

Texas Real Estate Contracts $45.51 Ideal for both new and experienced real estate licensees and for paralegals, and pre-law or law students, this text includes all of the elements specified by the Texas Real Estate Commission for inclusion in the required Law of Contracts course. Combining the insights and expertise of an attorney and a real estate broker, the text integrates the theory of contract law and its impact on the real estate transaction with practical Texas real estate employment and sales contracts.

Texas Real Estate Contracts $52.95 This text integrates the theory of contract law and its impact on the real estate transaction with practical instruction on Texas real estate employment and sales contracts. Written by an attorney and a real estate broker, you’ll find it offers a fully blended view of real estate contracts from two active participants in their respective fields. All required course elements specified by the Texas Real Estate Commission are included along with current real estate contracts and addenda.

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course Real Estate Investment $19.95 A complete curriculum for profiting in today’’s tough market!Opportunities abound in the real estate market. In order to find the best investments, though, you need to understand the changes brought on by the turbulence of recent years. Bringing you completely up to date on today’’s market, The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Real Estate Investing offers a fast-paced but thorough and well-rounded education on profiting in real estate.Revealing secrets previously reserved for industry insiders, veteran Jack Cummings offers the knowledge you need to get moving right away. This three-day crash course provides checklists and proven insider tips on how to: spot the hot properties of tomorrowcalculate potential profits before investingincrease property valuesmake offers and counteroffersfind the best sources of financingGet tips and advice from a true industry insider and start building your fortune now with The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Real Estate Investing.

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Real Estate Investing Course $1.01 Cummings, a widely-published and immensely successful real estate pro, has produced a guidebook to investing strategies packed with learning objectives, key terms and concepts, common questions with straightforward answers, study and review sections, and a variety of case studies that aptly illustrate how real estate investing works in the real world. Illustrations.

The New City $17 A thought-provoking thriller and a literate page-turner, Stephen Amidon’s The New City takes aim at the suburban American dream and captures the real nightmare behind it.It is 1973, the Vietnam War is winding down and the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. But Newton, Maryland, is a model community, an enclave of harmony and prosperity. Through years of cunning legal maneuvering and smooth real-estate deals, the white lawyer Austin Swope has made the dream of this new city a reality. His best friend is Earl Wooten, the black master builder who raised Newton from its foundations. Their teenaged sons. Teddy and Joel, each the repository of his father’s deepest hopes for the future, are inseparable buddies.But cracks begin to appear in this pristine and meticulously planned community, and an innocent misunderstanding is about to set the two men who control its quiet streets on a fateful collision course.

The Six-Figure Second Income $24.95 In the course of building an eight-figure real estate information marketing business, Lindahl and Rozek tested dozens of tools and techniques. This volume centers around principles they derived from all the tests they ran, tools they used, and money they spent.

The Water Room $111.08 They are detection’s oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even ordinary men and women to the most shocking crimes…. They are living legends with a reputation for solving even the trickiest cases using unorthodox, unconventional, and often completely unauthorized methods. But the Peculiar Crimes Unit headed by Detectives John May and Arthur Bryant is one mistake away from being shut down for good. And when the elderly sister of Bryant’s friend is found dead in the basement of her decrepit house in Kentish Town, they find themselves on the verge of making exactly that mistake. According to the coroner, Ruth Singh’s heart simply stopped beating. But why was a woman who rarely left the house fully dressed for an outing? And why was there river water in her throat? Convinced that the old lady didn’t die a natural death, the detectives delve into a murky case with no apparent motive, no forensics, and no clues. And they’ve barely launched their investigation when death claims another victim. Suddenly they discover some very unnatural behavior surrounding Ruth Singh’s death by natural causes-from shady real estate developers and racist threats to two troubled marriages, from a dodgy academician working London’s notorious grey economy to a network of antiquities collectors obsessed with Egyptian mythology. And running beneath it all are the sweeping tentacles of London’s vast and forgotten underground river system. As the rains pour down and the water rises, Bryant and May must rely on instinct, experience, and their own very peculiar methods to stem a tide of evil that threatens to drown them all. From the Hardcover edition.

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