'50 Myths for HMO Landlords' aims to inform other HMO investors, and those thinking of entering the HMO market, of the many misconceptions in the business. It encourages HMO landlords to question the status quo and the generally accepted 'rules' and laws governing the business. Topics that are covered include: - Energy conservation saves money - Gas safety saves lives - Tenants object to paying Council Tax - Varying the rent affects demand - It is hard to evict a tenant - You need planning permission - Single parents make the best tenants - Money motivates staff - Tenancy deposits are worth taking - Inventories are worthwhile - Insurance is cost effective Innovative and controversial, you're unlikely to read another HMO author as frank as Jim Haliburton. In short, he covers everything you need to know to be a successful and profitable HMO investor.

Want to get started in property but worry you don't have enough money, time or experience? Stephanie and Nicky Taylor were there too. These dynamic sisters were working too hard, for too many hours. They wanted the time, freedom and options that property seemed to provide others, but they didn't know how to start and couldn't see anyone like them doing it. Since then, they have gone from financial uncertainty to building their own multi-million pound portfolio and creating an award-winning property business, HMO Heaven. Their unique Rent 2 Rent Success System will enable you to get started in property in a simple, ethical and low-risk way with little capital outlay. Their proven system has been used by hundreds of people across the country and has featured in publications, such as Entrepreneur magazine, The Telegraph and Property Investor Today. This book will: - Guide you right through the whole process, from getting into the right mindset to get started through to building and scaling up your portfolio - Reveal the 6 key areas you need to get right for rent to rent success - Share a proven, practical system that gets results, removes the stress and ensures you avoid expensive newcomer's mistakes If you're ready to become a gamechanger, join Stephanie and Nicky and get started on your property journey.

In the 10th Anniversary edition of this No.1 Best Selling property book, experienced property investor Simon Zutshi will share with you some of the secrets behind his Property Mastermind Programme, so that you can learn how to build a property portfolio and replace your income, using other people’s time, money and experience. The book is designed to open your mind and stimulate your thinking to make you aware of some of the current possibilities available to you in the world of property investing. It is packed full of inspirational case studies to help build your personal belief of what you could achieve, in a relatively short amount of time, by investing in property. Although this book is focused on investing in the UK property market, the concept of finding and helping motivated sellers to reach an ethical win/win solution, works in every property market all over the world. You can build your personal wealth whilst helping other people solve their property problems.

America started a grand experiment in the 1960s: deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The consequences were very destructive: homelessness; a degradation of urban life; increases in violent crime rates; increasing death rates for the mentally ill. My Brother Ron tells the story of deinstitutionalization from two points of view: what happened to the author's older brother, part of the first generation of those who became mentally ill after deinstitutionalization, and a detailed history of how and why America went down this path. My Brother Ron examines the multiple strands that came together to create the perfect storm that was deinstitutionalization: a well-meaning concern about the poor conditions of many state mental hospitals; a giddy optimism by the psychiatric profession in the ability of new drugs to cure the mentally ill; a rigid ideological approach to due process that ignored that the beneficiaries would end up starving to death or dying of exposure.

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.

Douglas Rushkoff was mugged outside his apartment on Christmas Eve, but when he posted a friendly warning on his community website, the responses castigated him for potentially harming the local real-estate market. When did these corporate values overtake civic responsibilites? Rushkoff examines how corporatism has become an intrinsic part of our everyday lives, choices and opinions. He demonstrates how this system created a world where everything can be commodified, where communities have dissolved into consumer groups, where fiction and reality have become fundamentally blurred. And, with this system on the verge of collapse, Rushkoff shows how the simple pleasures that make us human can also point the way to freedom.