E-Books by Ilyce
Books by Ilyce
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100 Questions Every Home Seller Should Ask: With Answers from Top Brokers from Around the Country
An indispensable guide to selling your home, this excellent book gives you the information you need to sell your home quickly and profitably.
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10 Steps to Home Ownership
Gives you expert, step-by-step advice on how to find the right home to fit your lifestyle and budget.
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100 Questions You Should Ask About Your Personal Finances
Your guide to spending less, saving more, and getting your finances ready for a golden retirement.
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100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask
If you are a first-time buyer you will want to check out this book that will answer ALL of your home buying questions.
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50 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Personal Finances
How to spend less, save more, and make the most of what you have.
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50 Simple Steps You Can Take to Disaster-Proof Your Finances
The best time to plan for trouble—the death of a spouse, the collapse of a business, the loss of your home—is before you’re overwhelmed by it. This is especially important if you have a family or a small business or are beginning to save for your retirement. But what should you do...
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50 Simple Steps You Can Take to Sell Your Home Faster and for More Money in Anymarket
America’s bestselling real-estate expert offers a highly practical, reader-friendly guide to selling your home quickly and for the best price—in any market.
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Real U Guide to Bank Accounts and Credit Cards
This book covers everything you need to know to open your first checking account, apply for your first credit cards, and handle both so that there’s still some money left in your wallet at the end of the month.
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Recommended Books
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Your New House
The newly updated guide to the latest trends in real estate provides consumers with valuable advice on how to research the best deals, save on a mortgage, and use the internet as an effective tool.
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Secrets of a Millionaire Real Estate Investor
If you want to invest in real estate, don't be misled by "one size fits all" infomercials that promise instant riches. Learn from an expert. Investor Robert Shemin shares the real life strategies he's used to amass a real estate portfolio worth millions.
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The Bathroom Idea Book (Idea Book Series)
The bathroom is a quiet, comfortable, private place within the home, so it's no surprise that modern Americans, stressed out from demanding jobs and a hectic pace, spend more time in their bathrooms than ever. Which means that it's also no surprise that Americans are putting more thought into bathroom design and construction and spending more money on their bathrooms than ever. Like its companion, The Kitchen Idea Book (Taunton, 1999), The Bathroom Idea Book is filled with real ideas for real people and will appeal to a broad range of styles, tastes, and budgets. It offers practical and useful advice on all aspects of remodeling and design, including fixtures, lighting, flooring, ventilation, finishes, and counter materials.
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The Kidspace Idea Book (Idea Book)
Family lifestyles in the United States have changed, but home designs haven’t necessarily kept up. Wendy Jordan offers fresh, practical ideas for converting both private and family spaces — including kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, and decks — into places where kids (and adults) can enjoy their home environment to the fullest. Each section of the book covers a different area of the house, from bedroom to playroom, kitchen to tree house. Detailed photos zoom in on storage and design ideas that make a good room even better. Sidebars list tips on planning, materials, layouts, and lighting.
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The New Family Home
These days, home is often the only place to relax, escape anxiety, and enjoy time with one's family. It's no wonder people are now spending more money and time on their home and its comforts. Recognizing this trend, author Jim Tolpin asked some of the country's top residential architects for examples of homes designed specifically with families in mind. Whether for traditional, single-parent, blended, or extended families, or for accommodating visiting kids and grandkids, all the homes in this book are tailored to the people who live in them.
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Creating the Not So Big House
Sarah Susanka's The Not So Big House spoke to millions of disenchanted homeowners who want to downsize their dream home without diminishing the dream. By evaluating what makes them feel at home and letting their activities define their rooms, homeowners end up with cozy areas they like and use rather than oversize formal rooms they never enter. Creating the Not So Big House explains what homeowners and potential homeowners need to know to get the home that fits their dreams and their lifestyles. Featuring 20 new houses and five remodels of the best Not So Big House designs, Creating the Not So Big House gives readers insight into successful home design.
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The Millionaire Next Door
The incredible national bestseller that is changing people's lives -- and increasing their net worth!
CAN YOU SPOT THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR?
Who are the rich in this country?
What do they do?
Where do they shop?
What do they drive?
How do they invest?
Where did their ancestors come from?
How did they get rich?
Can I ever become one of them?
Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told story about wealth in America. You'll be surprised at what you find out....
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Get Clark Smart: The Ultimate Guide for the Savvy Consumer
Consumer advocate Clark Howard is a rising star on America's airwaves, with his popular The Clark Howard Show syndicated in more than seventy cities nationwide. Five days a week, Clark brings his common-sense approach to consumer issues to millions of listeners, and this new handbook is the perfect companion for his fans. Filled with practical tips about everything from used cars to wireless deals, from health club memberships to affordable travel options, Get Clark Smart will help readers avoid rip-offs and successfully navigate through the dozens of consumer decision we face every day.
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Investing 101
Millions of Americans who previously sat on the sidelines while others made fortunes now want to profit from the stock market. Investing 101 helps readers take their first steps into investing, even if they've been uncertain how to go about it before. This is the book that gives the novice investor the knowledge base and confidence to invest wisely. Kathy Kristof takes the guesswork out of investing by giving straightforward information on setting goals, getting organized, accumulating capital, and achieving financial security.
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The Right Way to Hire Financial Help
Hiring financial help is a task that many otherwise savvy people approach the wrong way, opting to go on recommendations from family and friends, chance encounters, or advertisements rather than on sound research. In witty, highly readable prose, nationally syndicated columnist Charles A. Jaffe takes the reader through the basics of how to locate appropriate candidates, understand their credentials, check references, conduct initial interviews, maintain control of the relationships and one's finances, and fire an adviser who is not working out.
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The Chicago Bungalow
This book is a companion piece to an exhibition created by the Chicago Architecture Foundation to explore the legacy of the Chicago Bungalow. Both the book and the exhibition interpret the architecture of the bungalow and its social history. It is part of the Chicago Architecture Foundation's ongoing work of celebrating and educating the public about the city's great architectural tradition.
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Renters' Rights (Quick & Legal Series)
Is it next to impossible to get the rent out of your roommate each month? Or is your landlord forgetting about the clogged drain he said he'd repair weeks ago? Then it's time to assert your renters' rights!
Aimed at everyone from the new renter on the block to more seasoned tenants who just want to know the basics, this new Legal Basics book is packed with the critical legal and practical information that every renter needs.
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Adventure Capitalist
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the world mile by mile.
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Clark Howard's Consumer Survival Kit III
Consumer advocate Clark Howard is back with this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his wildly popular Consumer Survival Kit. Using up-to-date cases, Howard helps readers nationwide handle an array of consumer issues.
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At Work At Home
More than 50 million Americans work at home and the work they do is as varied as the houses they live in. This fresh take on home work spaces looks at a wide range of designs that suit some unique employment needs -- from a day-care center to a dance studio. With practical information and an emphasis on rooms that serve a variety of purposes, this book offers readers real ways to create at-home environments that work. Featured are design ideas interspersed with practical information including 300 color photographs, and a wider variety of work spaces than any other book.
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The Rules for Growing Rich : Making Money in the New Information Economy
Today's new information economy has generated unprecedented opportunities for investors. But taking advantage of them requires discipline and a knowledge of econimic trends. There will be recessions and bear markets. There will be recovery periods from recessions. And there will be future bull markets. How does one make sense of these changing economic conditions and make the right investment decisions? Dr. David Lereah shows how the experts do it, and how you can, too.
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Neighbor Law
In plain English, Neighbor Law explains how to find the law in each circumstance and resolve disputes outside the court -- but if you must go to small claims court, this popular book gives you the information you need. The 4th editon provides a new chapter on neighborhood businesses as well as new Internet resources.
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The 106 Mortgage Secrets All Homebuyers Must Learn--But Lenders Don't Tell
Each year, more than ten million American homebuyers, homeowners, and realty investors enter the mortgage arena to finance or refinance their homes and rental properties. And each year, millions of borrowers pay more than they have to. But you won’t be one of them with Gary Eldred’s 106 Mortgage Secrets All Homebuyers Must Learn–But Lenders Don’t Tell.
Eldred explains all of your mortgage options and gives you the inside information you need to make the most intelligent money-saving choices. He simplifies the complicated math of mortgage financing and tells you how to make sure your loan rep is being honest with you. He covers every aspect of the mortgage process and highlights the key criteria you should always consider when making your decision.
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The Lemon Law Bible
Steve Lehto is an attorney in Michigan whose practice focuses solely on Lemon Law and Consumer Protection claims. He is the past chair of the Consumer Law Section of the Michigan State Bar, a frequent lecturer and speaker on the topic of lemon law and hosts a radio talk show on WFDF-Flint, MI.
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201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business
The first edition of 201 Great Ideas was hailed by the Merrill Lynch Business Center as "a book any small-business owner will want to have in easy reach." Now, answering the need presented by a much-changed commercial climate, entrepreneurial journalist Jane Applegate has thoroughly retooled the book that Tom Peters (co-author of The Search for Excellence) called "brilliantly researched, brilliantly written." Along with timeless advice from Applegate and many other small business experts, this edition includes ten new ideas for managing, organizing, promoting, and improving a small business in today's environment. Each strategy includes step-by-step directions for carrying it out, and an expanded index has been added. Any entrepreneur looking for an edge needs this book.
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The One Minute Millionaire
The One Minute Millionaire is a revolutionary approach to building wealth and a powerful program for self-discovery as well. Here are two books in one, fiction and nonfiction, designed to address two kinds of learning so that you can fully integrate these life-changing lessons. On the right-hand pages, you will find the fictional story of a woman who has to make a million dollars in ninety days or lose her two children forever. The left-hand pages give the practical, step-by-step nonfiction strategies and techniques that actually work in the real world. You’ll find more than one hundred nuts-and-bolts “Millionaire Minutes,” each one a concise and invaluable lesson with specific techniques for creating wealth.
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Get Clark Smart: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Rich
With practical tips and on-line resources, Howard helps readers to get rich by saving money in unexpected places and investing those savings creatively. Howard has a passion for saving money and a zealot's enthusiasm for sharing everything he's learned. His strategies for getting rich by saving wisely will turn readers into financial wizards.
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Terence Conran's New House Book
More than 1,000 photos showcase elegant ideas for restoring interiors. Learn what to do before decoration starts, including assessing a home, putting in adequate storage, and adding heating, wiring, and plumbing.
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My Vast Fortune
Tobias, “the funniest of financial writers” (Newsweek), writes a “refreshingly honest” chronicle (Kirkus Reviews) of his own financial exploits and escapades, in a book that is part financial memoir, part investment how-to, and part comedy of errors.
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The Kitchen Idea Book (Idea Book)
Design information and inspiration for the room at the heart of a home, this book is a treasure of visual ideas for making a new or remodeled kitchen a dream come true. Meant both for people who want to design their own kitchen and those who intend to hire someone to design it, The Kitchen Idea Book highlights clever, innovative designs and includes advice on selecting essential features and accessories. Hundreds of kitchen designs and 470 color photos are included.
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House As a Mirror of Self
Marcus's eye-opening study of peoples' emotional ties to their houses, apartments, cottages, trailers and other dwellings offers useful, often startling perspectives on what makes a house a home. Maintaining, as did Carl Jung, that one's home is a symbolic mirror of one's inner self, of unconscious wishes and emotions, she interviewed approximately 60 people in their domestic settings, some over a 10-year period.
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Smart Couples Finish Rich
Fighting about money is the #1 reason for divorce in America. From first-time newlyweds at the start of new careers to people marrying later in life or on their second or third marriage, couples face an overwhelming task when creating and managing a two-income household. Most couples find themselves frustrated when it comes to combining their complex financial histories, and, as a result, both their relationships and bank accounts can suffer.David Bach, nationally renowned financial advisor and author of the bestselling Smart Women Finish Rich, knows that it doesn't have to be this way. After years of first-hand experience working with couples young and old, David Bach reveals that through communication and partnership, planning your finances together can be both fun and easy when you have the right tools.
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Flipping Properties
Real estate investing has historically been one of the most consistent ways to achieve great wealth. Focusing on proven strategies for buying and selling properties quickly, (also called "flipping,") Flipping Properties offers would-be investors the details on how to generate cash from this popular real estate investment method. The authors outline a step-by-step process for generating cash flow, with or without a stellar credit record, large sums of cash, or a real estate license. Guidelines help tailor a practical investing game plan for both experienced investors as well as beginners. To make a solid start, the authors reveal the essential elements of real estate transactions as well as the basics of what makes "flipping" such an appealing way to invest in real estate.
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My House Is Killing Me! The Home Guide for Families With Allergies and Asthma
Asthma and allergy sufferers, this book is essential reading: it will answer all your questions about why you suffer in your own home and what you can do to prevent it. May, an air quality investigator and president of a home investigation company, takes you on a tour of your home, both interior and exterior, with a detailed description of the organic and inorganic substances that are making you ill. He covers every room, including the basement, attic, laundry room, garage, heating and air-conditioning system(s), and nooks and crannies that you probably forgot about. He explains how insects, molds, bacteria, yeast, dust, moisture, larvae, pet dander, fabric fibers, smoke, and many other agents can trigger an episode and how to eliminate them permanently.
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The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need
Personal-finance guru Andrew Tobias slams online trading and praises the Roth IRA in his newly revised The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need. This investment bible remains as stimulating and meaningful as it was when it was first published 20 years ago. It's packed with ideas about stocks, living beneath your means, tax planning, retirement, and just about everything else in the financial world. And all of it is presented with Tobias's trademark brevity and ingenuity.
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Invest in Yourself
Written by three veteran consumer experts who escaped the rat race, Invest in Yourself is a comprehensive guide for saving money and becoming a better person in the process. The book offers six secrets to the rich life--the first is to determine what you want in a career, write Marc Eisenson, Gerri Detweiler, and Nancy Castleman. "By carefully investing your time, energy, and maybe a little money, you can find out where you really want to go--and then do what you need to get there," they write. "It's one of your best investment opportunities, way better than anything you can get in the stock market." The other five keys: invest in intangibles like family and friends; pay off debts and get into a 401(k); keep learning new skills; manage your own money and get an "ace in the hole"--a tiny business of your own. Invest in Yourself offers a myriad of tips for squeezing the most out of a dollar. It tells you how to negotiate to get the best price on just about anything, including motel rooms and used cars, and gives the lowdown on turning your kids into savers and investors, controlling college bills, cutting home buying costs, and planning for retirement. The book is also a good clearinghouse for Web sites, helpful phone numbers, and information about newsletters like Loose Change and The Cheapskate Monthly.
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Straight from the Horse's Mouth
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The SmartMoney Guide to Real Estate Investing
As financial markets waver and mortgage rates continue to hover at historic lows, investing in real estate makes more sense than ever–primarily because real estate follows its own cycle, independent of stocks and bonds. But for those with little real estate investment experience, entering into this arena can be intimidating as well as costly. Filled with expert insight that only SmartMoney could provide, The SmartMoney Guide to Real Estate Investing has been written to help you gain a firm understanding of the potentials and pitfalls of real estate investing.
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J.K. Lasser's Homeowner's Tax Breaks
There are 65 million homeowners in the U.S. and there are almost as many tax savings opportunities offered to them. Unfortunately, beyond the most common tax breaks, homeowners are typically in the dark. Worse, some may know about a particular tax break, but not know how to take it. This is the perfect resource for all homeowners. J. K. Lasser's Homeowner's Tax Breaks is a lively, plain English guide to the dozens of income tax savings opportunities currently available to homeowners.
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide
Anyone who has ever been a landlord knows that the rental business is tightly regulated. As the authors of Every Landlord's Legal Guide point out, "a landlord either knows and follows the law or doesn't stay in business long." This book clearly outlines what the law requires of a landlord and, just as importantly, offers advice on how to be conscientious yet profitable.
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The Real Estate Investor's Tax Guide, 4th Ed.
The Real Estate Investor's Guide helps real estate professionals and property owners understand the complicated area of real estate investment tax law. Containing practical tax planning strategies, sample forms, and warnings about costly planning errors, this is a must-have reference for making sound investment stategies.
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