Colleen Patrick has narrated 10 audiobooks on Listento.it by 9 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 8 ratings. The most-rated is Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book.
Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book
Summary
Do you want to purchase an apartment community but don't have prior real estate or apartment investing experience, don't have access to private capital, can't find a good deal, lack the skills to execute a business plan, or a combination of the four? The Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book is the only book that will solve these challenges. It provides a step-by-step system for completing your first apartment syndication deal and building a multimillion or multibillion dollar apartment investing empire. You will learn the exact process that I followed to go from making $30,000 each year at a New York City advertising firm to controlling over $570,000,000 in apartment communities, which includes: Becoming an expert on the apartment syndication terminology Setting a specific, quantifiable goal and creating a long-term, motivating vision Building a powerful brand that attracts passive investors Evaluating and selecting the real estate market that will be the launching point for your apartment empire Surrounding yourself with an all-star real estate team Tapping in to your existing network to find passive investors Creating a lead generation machine that pumps out qualified off-market apartment deals Selecting the ideal business plan to maximize returns to passive investors Learning the science behind evaluating, qualifying, and submitting offers on apartment deals Preparing and presenting an apartment offering to your passive investors and securing financial commitments Impressing your investors by effectively implementing the business plan and exceeding their return expectations
©2018 Joe Fairless (P)2019 Joe Fairless
Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Volume 1
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Inspirational stories with actionable advice from interview guests on the world's longest running daily real estate podcast. Here is just a fraction of what you'll learn from this audiobook: How to transition from single family to multifamily properties Step-by-step approach on raising money for your deals How to creatively invest in real estate, no matter how bad your current financial situation is Step-by-step approach for using market data to perform due diligence The most overlooked expenses by buy-and-hold and fix-and-flip investors Step-by-step blueprint for how to achieve financial independence A step-by-step process for how to successfully wholesale probate properties How lenders evaluate your loan application and what to do to get rid of it A creative financing method for newbie investors The Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Volume 1 is your gateway to unleashing your greatest investing potential.
©2016 Joe Fairless (P)2016 Joe Fairless
Different...Not Less
Summary
This book is a compilation of success stories from adults with autism and Asperger's syndrome. Each shares what helped them during their childhood and young lives that made them the independent adults they are today. One of the most important missions Temple Grandin has is making sure people with autism and Asperger's make something of their lives. As Temple says quite bluntly, being on Social Security is not a job choice. These unique individuals often have great potential in parts of their minds that neurotypicals never even start to tap. This needs to be shared with the world. However, in order to share their hidden genius, they have to overcome many social obstacles. The point of this groundbreaking work is - it is possible, and it is worth it. Let these crusaders, handpicked by Temple herself, show how it can be done. Let this work by Dr. Temple Grandin inspire you to your true potential. You will soon see why it means so much to her.
©2012 Temple Grandin (P)2016 Future Horizons
The Way I See It
Summary
Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the real issues of autism, the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful dos and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her insider perspective and a great deal of research. These are just some of the specific topics she delves into: How and why people with autism think differently Economical early intervention programs that work How sensory sensitivities affect learning Behaviors caused by a disability vs. just bad behaviors Teaching people with autism to live in an unpredictable world Alternative medicine vs. conventional medicine Employment ideas for adults with autism This revised and expanded edition of The Way I See It contains 32 new subjects based on the most current autism research, including: The role of genetics and environmental factors in causing autism Understanding the mind of a nonverbal person with autism Finding mentors and appropriate colleges Teachable moments give the child time to respond And more!
©2015 Temple Grandin (P)2016 Future Horizons
Heir Today
Summary
How far would you go to retrieve a quarter-million dollars? Investigative journalists Paige and Max Alper drop everything, leave their jobs behind, and hopscotch from San Francisco to San Diego to New York to Hong Kong to take up the paper chase. Along the way they are pursued, trapped, stripped naked, kidnapped, and set afire, but they end up with a lot more than the $250,000.
It all starts when Paige rejects an heir-tracer’s proposal to split 50-50 the inheritance from her adventurous and mysterious sea captain uncle. While her twin sister insists they accept the heir-tracer’s offer without question, the Alpers launch their own trace, unaware that Uncle Jock Boylan was murdered - not for his money, but because he had collected evidence that would expose a conspiracy of Chinese government officials and a Hong Kong-based triad of pirates and white slavers.
The Alpers’ search for the inheritance uncovers a set of journals written by the uncle. They learn of the tragic loss of his daughter at the hands of the Shan Triad and of his bold efforts to avenge her death. The result: A simple treasure hunt turns into an international adventure of intrigue, courage, death, and revenge.
©2012 Books In Motion (P)2012 Books In Motion
The Poverty Industry
Summary
Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor's prisons. In The Poverty Industry, Daniel L. Hatcher shows us how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America's most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue. The poverty industry is stealing billions in federal aid and other funds from impoverished families, abused and neglected children, and the disabled and elderly poor. As policy experts across the political spectrum debate how to best structure government assistance programs, a massive siphoning of the safety net is occurring behind the scenes. In the face of these abuses of power, Hatcher offers a road map for reforms to realign the practices of human service agencies with their intended purpose, to prevent the misuse of public taxpayer dollars, and to ensure that government aid truly gets to those in need.
©2016 NYU Press (P)2017 NYU Press
Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Volume 2
Summary
The Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Volume 2 is the collection of the top techniques and strategies of the most successful real estate professionals that were interviewed on the world's longest running daily real estate podcast from episodes 101 to 199. By listening to the Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Volume 2, you'll discover: A step-by-step strategy to quitting your nine-to-five job How to become an expert at raising private money A simple 3-2-1 rule for networking and increasing your circle of influence Two keys to winning at a real estate auction Four differences between a good and a bad real estate deal How to accurately qualify a development deal Whether you have zero real estate experience, are an experienced investor, or fall somewhere in-between, anyone can implement the practical advice from the Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Volume 2 to further their investment journey towards financial freedom or take their current real estate business to the next level and beyond.
©2017 Joe Fairless (P)2017 Joe Fairless
Clean and White
Summary
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate", he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have been managed. Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. In the wake of the civil war, as the nation encountered emancipation, mass immigration, and the growth of an urbanized society, Americans began to conflate the ideas of race and waste. Certain immigrant groups took on waste management labor, such as Jews and scrap metal recycling, fostering connections between the socially marginalized and refuse. Ethnic "purity" was tied to pure cleanliness, and hygiene became a central aspect of white identity. Carl A. Zimring here draws on historical evidence from statesmen, scholars, sanitarians, novelists, activists, advertisements, and the United States Census of Population to reveal changing constructions of environmental racism. The material consequences of these attitudes endured and expanded through the 20th century, shaping waste management systems and environmental inequalities that endure into the 21st century. Today, the bigoted idea that non-whites are "dirty" remains deeply ingrained in the national psyche, continuing to shape social and environmental inequalities in the age of Obama.
©2016 NYU Press (P)2017 NYU Press
For the Birds
Summary
One in five people in the United States is a birdwatcher, yet the popular understanding of birders reduces them to comical stereotypes, obsessives who only have eyes for their favorite rare species. In real life, however, birders are paying equally close attention to the world around them, observing the devastating effects of climate change and mass extinction, while discovering small pockets of biodiversity in unexpected places. For the Birds offers listeners a glimpse behind the binoculars and reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement. With a wealth of data from in-depth interviews and over three years of observing birders in the field, environmental sociologist Elizabeth Cherry argues that birders learn to watch wildlife in ways that make an invaluable contribution to contemporary conservation efforts. She investigates how birders develop a “naturalist gaze” that enables them to understand the shared ecosystem that intertwines humans and wild animals, an appreciation that motivates them to participate in citizen science projects and wildlife conservation. The book is published by Rutgers University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. 2020 Award for Distinguished Book from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association "A major contribution." (Social Forces) "Extremely readable, lively and accessible." (Lisa Jean Moore, author of Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee)
©2019 Elizabeth Cherry (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks
Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman
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Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes as a child, she took a number of low-wage jobs while she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successful Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a stream of high-quality films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra treasured her particular magic. A four-time Academy Award nominee, winner of three Emmys and a Golden Globe, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy. Dan Callahan considers both Stanwyck's life and her art, exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great films as Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Woman, and The Bitter Tea of General Yen; her Pre-Code movies Night Nurse and Baby Face; and her classic roles in Stella Dallas, Remember the Night, The Lady Eve, and Double Indemnity. After making more than eighty films in Hollywood, she revived her career by turning to television, where her role in the 1960s series The Big Valley renewed her immense popularity. Callahan examines Stanwyck's career in relation to the directors she worked with and the genres she worked in, leading up to her late-career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk, All I Desire and There's Always Tomorrow, and two outrageous westerns, The Furies and Forty Guns. The book positions Stanwyck where she belongs-at the very top of her profession-and offers a close, sympathetic reading of her performances in all their range and complexity. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi.
©2012 Dan Callahan (P)2013 Redwood Audiobooks