Purchasing Books

Andi really puts it all together with this book. I especially like the references for suppliers. Great Job!

One of our chefs just bought this book. Wow! Not only are the recipes superb, but the Purveyor Guide for hundreds of tested sellers of specialty foods is incredible and HUGE. Many of the recommended food purveyers used in the recipes are found on Amazon's gourmet food store, but there are many others for really hard-to-find products. This is far more than just a great cookbook; it is an a food industry reference work for chefs, restaurant owners, as well as home cooks. You have to prepare the grilled steak, the quail, any of the seafood or pasta dishes, and the Cornish Game Hens! Awesome! And, if you are a cookbook collector, GET THIS ONE!

This is the best book I have ever seen on diamonds, gemstones and jewelry. I contains excellent information on what to look for in each category of gemstones. It also contains great photo examples of properly cut stones and common problem areas. It explains the independent lab grading process and shows how to read the grading reports.

One of the best books ever written if you are interested in collecting or investing in diamonds and colored gemstones. Discusses basic gemology, an analysis of the most commonly traded gemstones, colored gemstone and diamond grading with laboratory grading reports, gemstone treatments, pricing cycles, gemstone investing, gemstone markups and appraisals. Although this book is a little out of date, it is an excellent resource for beginners.

Studying for my MBA at the University of Michigan, case studies were frequently used to learn effective business practices. This book clearly shows how today's technology can help solve one of business' thorniest problems - efficient and cost effective purchasing.

This book is very good. It brings out some interesting points about saving time and money. I highly recommend this book to any company who needs to update their purchasing departments. I am particular glad the authors used case studies to explain how the purchasing function is adjusting to modern technology. I hope the authors update this book frequently as the technology changes.

Anything Joe Breckner sells is worth buying, so if he writes a book I would advise anyone and everyone to go out and buy it without delay.

Buying a home can be the most rewarding, yet the most stressful experiences of your life. It is like living between two worlds. You are leaving the safety of one nest and suddenly flying to the next, which you then have to spend time getting all in order.

Joe Breckner is a top producing real estate agent and understands how potential home owners feel. By dividing the details into manageable parts, he helps you understand the searching and financing aspects of buying a home. Marc Robinson has written finance books and has consulted with top Wall Street firms for over 15 years. This is a book written by experts in the field of financing and purchasing. This book will help to encourage a sense of self-confidence in the buying process.

Since most people own at least four homes in their lifetimes, buying a home is going to be an investment of money and time. This booklet will help you answer the following questions:

1. How much home can you afford? 2. How much will closing costs, mortgage insurance, home insurance and monthly upkeep and utilities cost in a new home? 3. Why is buying better than just renting? 4. How do you get a prequalification letter? 5. How do you select the best agent? 6. What do you desire in a new home? 7. Is a targeted search best? 8. What should you know when making a deal? 9. Where do you get loans? What is a title? Why do you need a home inspection?

Now, one thing that might happen when you buy a house. You could put a very nice offer on your dream house, only to find someone else got there first. That just happened to us, so don't worry too much about it. If it happens, remember..."There is always something better!" The house you will find next will be the one you really wanted anyway.

So, before you even think about closing a house deal, open this book and you will be amazed at how much goes into buying a house. After the process it through, you will have a beautiful home you can truly be proud of owning.

~The Rebecca Review

Finding Home is the first book I read that walks you through how to think about the living space you need -- whether a house, apartment or other -- when considering a new home. The book is replete with concrete examples -- heartwarming, human, touching -- that help the reader think through his or her family's own lifestyle and the ways in which a move to a new home will affect them. In addition to incorporating the emotional side of "finding home," the book also provides plenty of practical advice for making sure a move is a sound financial investment -- so that you have a chance to remain "clear headed" even as you lose your heart to "dream home." With all the examples and anecdotes, the book is an excellent read. I'm giving a copy to every friend in the househunting market -- and saving a copy to re-read myself the next time I get ready to move.

During my 49-plus years in real estate, I've read - or tried to wade through - a number of self-help books about the daunting, confusing, frightening, hazardous experience of moving a self and that self's family from a known here to a mystery-shrouded there. This book is, by a country (or city) mile, the best guide ever offered for people on the move. Martha Webb, although not a Realtor, earned an "E" for expertise by moving sixteen times before authoring these 192 pages, so she knows whereof she writes - and writes whereof she knows exceptionally well. Crammed with an awesome number of details and seasoned with a wealth of personal anecdotes, it meets the reader before any ad is clipped or call made to agent or seller; and the reader is not bidden farewell until long after the moving van has rolled away, the last box opened and the last tears of nostalgia shed. In short, the reader is spoon-fed and hand-led from the first thought of moving until well in and settled. What makes Webb's book outstanding is that it covers every conceivable (and easily overlooked) aspect of the moving experience, providing answers to every conceivable question one might ask before, during or after the relocation adventure. Perhaps more importantly, it includes questions - literally hundreds of them - that buyers should ask themselves and others, but too often fail to while hacking their way through the unfamiliar jungle of people, places and processes that pummel the mind into a state of helpless confusion. There is, too, a treasury of check lists, at least one for every critical point in the proceedings, again throwing light on obscure matters which, if not dealt with in the now will cost dearly in a not-so-sweet bye and bye. Adding to the user-friendliness of this volume is a mercifully detailed index for t hose wishing to cherry-pick particular events, possibilities and/or pitfalls. Unique features include the "Game of Nines," which involves the entire household in a pre-hunt planning session. This segues smoothly to preparation of "Home Print Worksheets" that profile the "dream home" toward which the search is to be directed. General househunting hints abound throughout, as well as financing formulas, contract cautions and negotiating strategies - all peppered with those prodding questions and engaging, believable personal experiences drawn from the author's peripatetic past. Webb offers sage counsel to those who choose to "go it alone" without professional help, while not precluding the possibility that it can be done. (e.g., on the subject of buying directly from the owner to get a bargain: "It is unlikely that the owner is selling for the fun of it and discounting the price.") Her advice on choosing agents is similarly direct and pointed, listing specific guidelines, questions to ask and discussion points. Among other nuggets of knowledge not seen in other guidebooks is an explanation of the emotional connection which is likely to kick in when "that house" is encountered. This phenomenon, while not always a reliable identifier of the ultimate purchase, is not, she says, to be ignored. (And she's right!) Equally valuable is her advice on dealing with "buyer's remorse," that scary attack of post-decision doubts that accompany every major decision, including the wisest ones as well as those more regrettable. Such forewarnings are of the essence of Finding Home, a book so comprehensive that no one is likely (or would even be able) to follow through on every single suggestion; but even those who only pick and choose their way through this manual will be infinitely better off than the intrepid souls who choose to fly by the seat of their disorganized plans. The road to happily ever after is strewn with their bleached bones, making the purchase of this book an investment sure to return dividends hundreds of times greater than its modest cost. Finding Home, which follows Webb's critically-acclaimed Dress Your House For Success, is chatty and personal, as opposed to the clinical and aloof style of other books on the same subject. Besides being a valuable guide, it's a pleasant read, loaded with smiles and soothing reassurances that househunting is both a survivable and potentially rewarding process. To paraphrase a currently popular TV commercial, "Don't find home without it!" ###

The latest great book from Renee Newman: this is another wonderful book written to help acquire the right knowledge when making the important decision to purchase a special piece of jewelry! Bravo!

Profusely illustrated in full color, Renee Newman's Gem & Jewelry Pocket Guide: A Traveler's Guide To Buying Diamonds, Colored Gems, Pearls, Gold And Platinum Jewelry is the most concise, definitive, informative, authoritative, portable, and "user friendly" guide for travelers seeking to buy gems and jewelry while on their travels. This little pocket-sized compendium offers invaluable tips for the non-specialist general reader on quality evaluation, fake and lab-grown gems, custom-made jewelry, customs regulations, gem treatment, and geographic gem sources. Whether acquiring gems and jewelry for personal use, commercial resale, or as a collectible, first read through Renee Newman's Gem & Jewelry Pocket Guide.

I bought this Mustang book along with others and I thought this one was the best. It gives a good break out of the years of the mustang starting from 1979 to present. It also gives some great details on what parts go good with certain years of the mustangs. Wish they had more books like this one

This has taught me more that I care to know about Mustangs. Very informative piece. Great photos of models I had forgotten. A good buy. Thankx for putting this together to share.

I searched a dozen books looking for my future business. I found this book gave me more than I expected from anyone. Help with evaluating myself, the many businesses, and how well they fit my skills and preferences was provided. The only need I found missing, I learned, was illegal for franchisers to say -what range of income is produced with these businesses. That information has to come from somewhere else.

I found this book incredibly helpful in getting me off on the right foot in my home-based business. The book clearly outlines the three major "pre-packaged" types businesses available (franchises, business opportunities and multi-level marketing). Then comes the good part. The authors provide a series of tests and checklists that can be applied to any business that you might consider buying. Tests to determine a business' chances for success, the honesty of the seller, the forthrightness of opportunity - and even a test you take yourself to find out if the business is a good match for your personality and skill level - follow each section. These tests, and the information they reveal, take much of the guesswork out making a decision as important as what kind of (and which kind of) business to buy. I highly recommend it. The Edwards', with Walter Zooi, have done it again!

This is a fantastic book from a fantastic author. He not only tells one how to get started flipping Real Estate, he tells you how to find the funding. Very helpful for a guy like me, starting with nothing. Also you can actually get a hold of him if you have any questions. (very unusual) Before today, I have never writen a review, but I had to say it. This book is TERRIFIC!!! Thanks Rod.

This book gives step by step instruction on how to buy and flip real estate and covers a lot of ground. It's very straight forward and easy to understand and I found it very helpful as I was starting my business. I would definitely recomend this book as a good starting point for real estate investors.

As a professional real estate investor in the Central Florida area - just like the author - this book is a must-read! Whether you are just getting started in the business or have been doing it for some time, this is one of the best reference guides you will ever find.

In 1990, I bought a real esatate course by Jack Dicks called "How To Make Money in Real Estate in the 90's" when Mr. Dicks was then associated with Charles Givens. Using his techniques, advice and strategies, I was able to buy several properties in the Central Florida area with no money down and without the usual problems of the three T's (tenants, toilets and turnover)

His newest book written with John Dicks is a compendium of the best strategies in real estate investing from the top guru's of the last two to three decades and updated for 2006 and going forward. This is must reading for all serious real estate investors. Or perhaps I s hould say, all of those who want to be successful real estate investors.

Also recommend Real Estate Money Machine.