Today's property and mortgage markets offer some of the most advantageous opportunities of any time in the recent past. This is one of the best times in history to implement a real estate investment strategy. In Big Profits from Small Properties, author Michael E. Heeney presents a step-by-step guide to creating financial independence, developing a lifetime income, and building personal net worth through real estate investing. Drawing on Heeney's personal experience, this down-to-earth guide provides practical advice and specific strategies for investing in real estate. Heeney shows how anyone can build a steady, guaranteed income in real estate with a small amount of capital to realize substantial profit and shares information about how you can -create investment objectives and goals; -realize what type of income property works best; -negotiate for good prices and terms; -finance property buys a dozen different ways; -make improvements that provide for extraordinary returns; -buy, upgrade, and operate apartments; -handle tenants; -buy a single-family home; -implement money-saving tax strategies; -grow and protect an estate while avoiding the dangers of over expansion; -realize the keys to finding the right properties and motivated sellers; and -assemble a portfolio of excellent income producers. Using the steps outlined in Big Profits from Small Properties, you can build a lifetime of income and wealth. Start succeeding today!

The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point. As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the world's faith in central bankers. That extraordinary feat was just one pivotal episode in a decades-long career serving six presidents. Told with wit, humor, and down-to-earth erudition, the narrative of Volcker's career illuminates the changes that have taken place in American life, government, and the economy since World War II. He vibrantly illustrates the crises he managed alongside the world's leading politicians, central bankers, and financiers. Yet he first found his model for competent and ethical governance in his father, the town manager of Teaneck, NJ, who instilled Volcker's dedication to absolute integrity and his "three verities" of stable prices, sound finance, and good government.