Property whether you are buying a house to live in or to let represents an enormous financial commitment. This book by bricks-&-mortar expert Michael Holmes will show you how to maximise the value of your investment & will reveal the kind of home improvements that make economic sense. Authoritative & detailed text covers all major aspects of home improvement including conservatories loft & basement conversions double-glazing central heating kitchens & bathrooms. With sound advice & clear comprehensive charts & tables it adds up to an indispensable handbook for any homeowner who is thinking of building on to extending altering or selling their property. No other book gives such sensible practical or authoritative advice on improvements to your home that will really make a difference to the house itself & to its market value. ...

Book & CD-ROM. Take a look through the Forbes annual issue of the richest Americans & you will find a majority of those personal fortunes have something to do with real estate. Real estate rental income rarely experiences wild swings in value instead providing predictable returns at many times the rate of money market accounts or CDs. In addition there can be substantial tax advantages as well. However being the landlord" can be difficult time consuming & potentially wrought with financial & legal obstacles. This new book will make the process of managing your rental properties easier. This new book & companion CD-ROM will teach you how to avoid headaches hassles & lawsuits by learning how to professionally manage your rental property. Maximise your profits & minimise your risks. Learn about advertising tenant screening managing tenants legal rights landlord rights discrimination vacancies essential lease clauses crime prevention drugs gangs security issues as well as premises liability security deposits handling problems evictions maintenance record keeping & taxes. The CD-ROM contains dozens of forms sample contracts letters notices rental applications agreements & checklists. It

Includes:: topics such as evicting irresponsible tenants collecting damages running multiple properties handling complaints emergency procedures expenses & utility management. We spent thousands of hours interviewing & e-mailing real estate property managers & investors. This book is a compilation of their secrets & proven successful ideas. If you are interested in learning hundreds of hints tricks & secrets on how to make money (or more money) on managing your rental properties then this book is for you. Instruction is great but advice from experts is even better & the experts chronicled in this book earn $1 000 to $300 000 per month managing rental properties. Inside the pages of this new exhaustively researched guide you will find a jam-packed assortment of innovative ideas that you can put to use today."

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Now fully updated ' Renting & Letting' is essential reading for both landlords & tenants. Whether you are a landlord looking to make a success of buy to let or you are keen to understand your rights as a tenant ' Renting & Letting' is the definitive handbook for you. Packed with expert guidance & jargon-free tips this practical guide covers the legal rights & obligations of both landlords & tenants advice on tenancy agreements & law how to manage a let & rental income Capital Gains Tax energy performance certificates & deposit protection schemes. This new edition of ' Renting & Letting'

Includes:: fully up-to-date figures & changes to regulations including the introduction of Universal Credit. Drawing on many years of experience in property investment & as a consultant to residential property companies Kate Faulkner gives clear advice on the possible pitfalls explaining vital financial & legal considerations in an accessible jargon-free manner.

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Everything potential landlords need to know about the UK rental market Renting Out Your Property For Dummies is the essential roadmap to successful property letting. This easy-to-read guide walks readers through every step of renting out their property
- showing how to avoid legal problems find & keep the best tenants maintain the property & maximise their rental income. As well as lots of helpful advice it contains a wealth of sample forms & standard letters that can be used when dealing with their own tenants. Crucially it is fully up to date on all the latest legislation including the Tenancy Deposit Scheme & Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs). Renting Out Your Property For Dummies covers: How to prepare a rental property for prospective tenants Tackling rent deposits & tenancy agreements Deciding whether to manage the property yourself or to hire an agent Essential information on financial management & record-keeping
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This book covers the principles & techniques that will help you develop the skills needed to carry out effective vehicle body repair & re-finishing. This edition has been updated to deal with changes in technology & best practice & meets the current Automotive Skills standards. It also covers the topics studied at NVQ levels 2 & 3 & contains handy revision notes making it an ideal text for students on the following courses: Automotive Skills Council Vehicle Body & Paint Operations requirements IMI Body Repair & Refinishing Technical Certificates (VRQs) National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) City & Guilds Vehicle Body Repair Competence courses NVQ & Progression Awards of both City & Guilds & the Institute of the Motor Industry at levels 2 & 3. Professionals & hobbyists will continue to find this an essential manual for the workshop when repairing the latest models or classic cars. Other books by Andrew Livesey: Basic Motorsport Engineering 9780750689090 Advanced Motorsport Engineering 9780750689083 ...

Dr Sparrow is back coping with more bizarre macabre & hilarious situations. Following his successful debut with Country Doctor: Hilarious True Stories from a Country Practice" Dr Sparrow once more guides us through the daily rounds of the weird & wonderful in his practice on the Devon/ Cornwall border. What would you do if faced with the unsuccessful resuscitation of the wrong patient being held at gunpoint as a suspected terrorist or confronting a blind man who refuses to stop driving? & what about the little old lady who presents you with a supermarket bag stuffed with GBP20 notes? Add to this jets crashing on the runway fleeting glimpses of the Royal Genitalia & the haunting tale of the suicidal stranger & an abducted child
- & you will start to have some idea of the unpredictable life of Dr Sparrow."
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Is constant reinvention the key to winning in todays fast-paced world? Not judging by the results of some of the worlds best performing companies. In Repeatability" the leaders of Bain & Companys influential strategy practice reveal a powerful truth: successful companies that endure maintain a form of simplicity at their core. More than anything else a "great repeatable business model" equips companies to deal successfully with complexity the silent killer of profitable growth. Chris Zook & Jimmy Allen co-authors of the bestselling " Profit from the Core" detail the value of repeatability in business showing how the "big idea" today is really made up of a series of successful smaller ideas driven by a simple & repeatable business model. Based on a multi-year study of hundreds of companies Zook & Allen show how well-known global firms
- including IKEA Vanguard Starbucks LEGO Da Vita Nike & Flora Holland
- combine a core differentiation model with speed adaptability & simplicity to land them at the top of the competitor chain for longer periods of time. CEOs senior executives managers & investors all need to read this blueprint for reaching the top
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It is an early spring evening in 1943 when the air-raid sirens wail out over the East End of London. From every corner of Bethnal Green people emerge from pubs cinemas & houses & set off for the shelter of the tube station. But at the entrance steps something goes badly wrong the crowd panics & 173 people are crushed to death. When an enquiry is called for it falls to the local magistrate Laurence Dunne to find out what happened during those few fatally confused minutes. But as Dunne gathers testimony from the guilt-stricken warden of the shelter the priest struggling to bring comfort to his congregation & the grieving mother who has lost her youngest daughter the picture grows ever murkier. The more questions Dunne asks the more difficult it becomes to disentangle truth from rumour
- & to decide just how much truth the damaged community can actually bear. It is only decades later when the case is reopened by one of the children who survived that the facts can finally be brought to light.. .
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Reporting America" is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cookes key dispatches on the key moments movements men & women of post-war America. Alistair Cooke was the greatest & most humane of all modern reporters & interpreters of America his adopted country to his native Britain & to the world. Starting with his first broadcast Letter from America on embarking in 1946 for America on a ship filled with tearful GI brides here are the stories of a nation: Korea the Mc Carthy witch hunts Civil Rights JFK the moon landings the moving eye-witness account of Robert Kennedys assassination Nixons resignation & Clintons scandals right up to the attacks of September 11th & the war in Iraq. Also containing Cooks observations on the great good & downright bad & on the views of the ordinary people he met as well as his daughter Susans memories of her father " Reporting America" is a tribute to an extraordinary man & the country he loved. " The voice of America... Here was a man who made intelligent honest sense of decades of assassinations scandals elections boom times & broken dreams.. .an indispensable record of twentieth-century American culture". (Peter Kimpton " Observer"). " Vintage Cooke". (David Dimbleby). "A rich picture of America so vivid.. .the fresh first pressing of history". (James Naughtie " Sunday Telegraph"). Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print radio & television. The Guardians Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years & the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television & of the BBC series America Cooke was however best known both at home & abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America which reported on fifty-eight years of US life was heard over five continents & totalled 2 869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004 far & away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history." ...

Romance & suspense combine in a tense teen thriller that will leave you gasping for more.. .34 kids missing. Vanished without a trace. Believing she is possessed Genie Magee's mother has imprisoned her all summer encouraged by the sinister Reverend Schneider. Beautiful Rian love of her life sets her free & their escape washes them up at Marshall's remote farmhouse downriver. But why are there newspaper clippings of the missing kids pinned to Marshall's bathroom wall? & should they believe his stories about the experiments at the Fortress an underground research station nearby? Genie meets Denis. Missing two years now but hasn't grown an inch. Rian is haunted by Ren?e who insists she's not actually dead. Soon they discover the terrible truth about Reverend Schneider & worse Genie is next.. .and Rian can't do a thing to prevent it. The Repossession is just the beginning. Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award & longlisted for the Amazing Book Awards in Sussex. ' Forget Bella & Edward. Genie & Rian are the new IT couple in the teen fiction world!' Kooky Toon Book Corner blog Check out Sam's website: http://www.samhawksmoor.com ...