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This bestseller is the only book on tax deductions specifically for residential landlords!

Named a "Top 10 Real Estate Book" by Robert Bruss, syndicated real estate columnist

If you own rental property, you should be taking advantage of the many tax write-offs available. Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide gives residential landlords the plain-English guide they need to save money on taxes -- without the services of a high-priced accounting firm.

This book explains how to maximize your deductions. Find out how to:

fill out IRS Schedule E

take real estate tax credits

figure out if an expense is a repair (deductible) or an improvement (depreciable)

maximize your depreciation deductions

deduct losses arising from real estate ownership

keep proper tax records

deduct home office, travel, casualty losses and much more


Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide is comprehensive yet easy to read, jam packed with interesting and relevant examples. The 4th edition is completely updated for 2008 and reflects the latest tax information and numbers..
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"I don't want to be alone tonight "

Caroline Lake can hardly believe she would ever say these words to someone she'd never met before. When a tall, dark stranger arrives wanting to rent a room in her beautiful empty shell of a mansion, she hesitates. Though she is in dire financial straits, the man looks dangerous—dangerously sexy. She's overwhelmed by the desire he sparks in her—hotter than anything she's ever felt before, making her ache to experience his sensuous touch. But who is this armed and mysterious man with danger following in his wake? He's not who she thinks he is . . .

Jack Prescott has wanted Caroline forever. He has spent the past twelve years dreaming of her, desiring her, while fighting in some of the worst hellholes on earth. Now he's back, with twenty million dollars in blood diamonds and a relentless enemy stalking him. But this time Jack's determined that nothing will stop him from finally making Caroline his.

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Since 1975, this book has been the bible of scrupulous landlords and landladies It's a comprehensive and readable reference on how to attract and keep good tenants and make good landlording decisions..
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The most comprehensive -- and easiest to use -- guide to California residential property management available.

Every California landlord and residential property manager needs The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities. The definitive guide for over 20 years, it clearly and comprehensively covers everything you need to know about:

security deposits

leases and rental agreements

inspections

liability

lead paint

discrimination

rent control

satellite dishes

and more

The book provides you with all the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including rental applications; leases and rental agreements 3-, 30-, 60- and 90-day notices -- and much more.

The 12th edition includes up-to-date landlord-tenant laws and forms, including new rules for terminating a tenancy. It also has updated rent control charts for 15 cities. All forms included as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

Also available: California Landlord's Law Book: Evictions.
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Discover how Mike Butler managed 75 rental properties while working full-time as a police detective—before he hired any part-time help

For many investors, landlording is a pain, but not for those who use Mike Butler's Landlording on Autopilot system. It's a simple, proven method for managing rental properties in your spare time—without the headaches. Mike Butler developed this system while he worked full time as a police officer. Before long, he was buying and managing dozens of properties—and consistently bringing in more than 1000f his rents.

Includes free customizable, downloadable forms!

Butler shares all the vital techniques of autopilot landlording:

• Screening and finding great tenants you can trust
• Training tenants to do your landlording work for you
• Increasing your cash flow with a simple push-button management system
• Using little-known tax breaks available to full-time or part-time landlords
• Easily complying with landlording regulations and legal stuff you might not think of
• Identifying the most profitable types of properties
• Marketing and advertising your properties at little or no cost
• Utilizing powerful, ready-to-use landlording forms
• Getting rid of bad tenants quickly, safely, and cheaply when buying properties
• Using creative tactics to consistently bring in more than 1000f the rent

Once you've learned Mike Butler's system, you'll make more money in less time with less effort. Today, Mike Butler is retired from the police force and enjoys more than $1 million a year from his rental properties. Using the techniques and strategies of Landlording on Autopilot will help you achieve your dreams..
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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. This useful book is filled with helpful information on finding good tenants, agreements and leases, liability issues, and even terminations and evictions. The advice is extremely thorough. For example, the chapter on the landlord's maintenance duties contains information on who is responsible for minor repairs, ways to avoid problems by instituting a preventive-maintenance program, and even possible tenant responses to landlord negligence. The book is rounded out with a chapter on finding a lawyer and an appendix of state laws that may affect your business. Dozens of sample forms are included both as blank hard copies in the book and as templates on the enclosed disk. This book is extremely user-friendly: Stilted legalese is translated into simple English, handy icons highlight particular points in the text, and sidebars provide in-depth analysis on a variety of issues. The authors maintain that success is based on "choosing tenants carefully, keeping good tenants happy, teaching mediocre tenants how to improve and getting rid of bad tenants by applying policies that are strict, fair and legal." This book will help you do just that. --C.B. Delaney.
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Must-have success strategies in a buyer's market for today's 14 million real estate agents

Many real estate agents have had their most productive years in a buyer's market-and the past year has seen one of the strongest in recent memory. The secret is in using the right strategies to make target properties stand out. Based on the aggressive training program that Keller Williams has used to train agents to thrive in “down” markets, The Shift delivers 12 tactics that will bring you profitable sales.

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Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.

Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.

Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park.
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In The Landlord’s Survival Guide, Jeff Taylor shares fresh ideas and fresh perspectives that will help make any landlord more productive

- Leigh Robinson, author of ,Landlording: A Handy Manual for Scrupulous Landlords and Landladies.

""Mr. Landlord's ideas have increased the profits from my apartments every time I've applied them! If you want bigger cash flows and smaller hassles, read this book!""

- Peter Conti, co- author of Investing in Real Estate Without Cash or Credit.

""Not only is The Landlord’s Survival Guide great for new and part-time real estate investors, it is extremely helpful for new property managers who are starting out managing other people's property or for the long time property managers wanting new tips and a great reference guide."" - Melissa Prandi, author of the Unofficial Guide to Managing Rental Property and past president of the National Association of Residential Property Managers

The Landlord’s Survival Guide by best-selling author Jeffrey Taylor, is for real estate investors just like you, who want full-time profits from their rental properties but only want to deal with them part time.

Taylor, also known as Mr. Landlord, shows you a new way of managing properties in this competitive and ever-changing marketplace. Today's renters want things ""their way"" and this guide shows you how to give residents what they want while giving you what you want - maximum profits.

Mr. Landlord’s step-by-step advice removes all the guesswork and gets you on the road to building wealth with rental property. This book shows how to: • Fill vacancies quickly with ideal residents even in a tough rental market

• Identify and avoid “problem” residents and situations Collect on-time payments

• Keep residents beyond the standard one-year lease period

• Double your monthly cashflow and maximize your profits

• Let residents to ""work with you"" to reach your real estate goals faster

Complete with all the action steps to help you implement Mr. Landlord’s money-making management system, The Landlord’s Survival Guide is a must-read for landlording newbies and veterans who want bigger profits..
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