How to Develop and Manage a Successful Condominium

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Not Much Here

1970's book.

Excellent advice and guidance

Trust me, the book is not worth more than $5 !!!!

Think small!

How to Develop and Manage a Successful Condominium
Adam Starchild
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All over the country, the demand for housing is rapidly outpacing the supply. Rental buildings are filling up and prices are skyrocketing.

One result of this situation is a relatively new real estate phenomenon: the condominium. The past few years have seen an unprecedented boom in this unique form of property ownership. The condominium dweller gains equity in his residence, enjoys substantial tax advantages, and has a degree of freedom and flexibility denied him in a rental apartment.

How can you get in on this boom? You can, of course, simply buy yourself a condominium unit with the expectation of reselling it later at a higher price. Or you can cash in on the phenomenon in an even bigger way: by becoming a condominium entrepreneur. You'll find all the information and advice you need to get started in How to Develop and Manage a Successful Condominium.

Why are condominiums so appealing to the entrepreneur and investor? Here's one reason: an apartment building returns a fixed percentage of the original capital over a period of 20 or more years. The condominium developer, on the other hand, gets his capital back literally as fast as he sells the units!

Contrary to what you might assume, a condominium doesn't have to be a multi-million dollar high-rise. An apartment building with just ten units can be a condominium. So can a group of detached one-family homes. Condominium use can be either residential or commercial --- or a combination of the two. Medical offices, shopping centers, vacation homes --- all these and more are amenable to the condominium concept.

Financing can be surprisingly easy. Because of the demand, and the short-term nature of the investment, lenders are more receptive to condominium development than to most other new business ventures.

Yet despite the tremendous opportunities in condominiums, there was for a long time no authoritative source of information on the subject. Sure, there are plenty of books on how to buy a condominium unit. But almost nothing for the entrepreneur who wants to break into this exciting and lucrative investment area.

To fill that gap, Adam Starchild has written How to Develop and Manage a Successful Condominium. Step by step, this pathbreaking manual guides you through the entire financial, legal and managerial process. It's by far the clearest, simplest, most accurate and up-to-date text on the subject ever written.

Here's a preview of what you find in How to Develop and Manage a Successful Condominium:

* Pre-development factors: demographics, location, price, neighborhood, zoning requirements, market testing.

* Federal and state legislation: laws and regulations you must know about.

* Financing: loans, mortgages, government insurance.

* New variations: adjoining condominiums, homeowner associations, low-income projects.

* Management and budget: (When the building is completed, you can either manage it yourself or turn management responsibility over to an outside firm.)

* The Condominium Entrepreneur's Bibliography: the most complete directory of condominium reference sources ever compiled.

Best of all, each chapter of How to Develop and Manage a Successful Condominium is filled with legal forms and documents you can use: master deed, enabling declaration, subscription and purchase agreement, by-laws, management agreement, operating budget.

Federal and state laws require you to follow very specific procedures in developing and marketing a condominium. If you're not aware of all the legal requirements, you may wind up in trouble. Yet the condominium concept is so new that many people are mystified about exactly what they must do.

That's why the forms in this book are so valuable. They'll leave no doubt in your mind as to the proper legal steps to follow.

A good real estate attorney charges $50 to $200 per hour for his time. This book won't take his place. But it will save your attorney many hours of work --- and thereby save you a ton of money.

All the forms meet FHA and other Federal specifications. And they will easily accommodate the requirements of your state and city.

These model forms alone --- all together in one handy place --- will prove to be worth many times the low price of the book!

How to Develop and Manage a Successful Condominium is fully indexed for ease of reference.

Are you ready to start cashing in on the condominium phenomenon? Even if you're just thinking about it, How to Develop and Manage a Successful Condominium is a must. It will help you avoid problems, minimize risks and maximize your profits.

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Not Much Here.......2006-10-17

Well, you pays your money and you takes your chance.

I knew there was some controversy here about the substance of this book, but, thinking, "What's $45 in the great scheme of things?", I ordered it.

This book is of value to someone who has no clue whatsoever what a condominium is and has never developed real estate of any sort. It is extremely elementary. For instance, in site selection he says, "For younger couples and families, access to schools, highways and employment is important." That's all on that topic. And, that is typical of all the "information" here.

There's not a lot of original text, anyway. What text there is he fleshed out by having several chapters that are given over to the text of various forms and one chapter that simply quotes the model statute on condo developments (a model statute is one that is recommended by some special interest group or legal group of some sort, but is not actually a law). This sort of stuff should be in appendicies, and there would have hopefully been chapters that actually tell us how to structure the financing, how to market them, etc. Nothing of the sort appears here, though. No proformas, no revenue models, no expense or cost analysis, nothing.

Of course, if you want to see for yourself, the price is just a smidgen in the course of a multi-million dollar condo development, but don't get your hopes up.

If you want to spend the money better, you might try any one of the books here that covers the topic of developing commercial or residential real estate. Some of those are excellent treatises and well worth their cover price.

1970's book........2003-03-17

I was very disappointed in this book because I didn't do enough research to see that it was published in 1979 as a hardcover book. Material is more of a history of condo development. Included forms are dated. I couldn't find a date when forms were published.

The book doen't show a person how the author built condos. No proformas, financing projections, no templates. No computer disk is include for the forms!

Excellent advice and guidance.......2003-01-27

When you want real advice on a real estate investment that can work for even a small investor, this is the book to turn to. Admittedly the get-rich-quick crowd are disappointed in the book, but for steady, conservative, low-risk investment, Adam Starchild presents the sort of guidance that most investors should have been following during the late 90s.

Trust me, the book is not worth more than $5 !!!!.......2002-06-11

This book has a deceiving title. One expects the content to be what it claims to be to an acceptable degree. It's only 175 pages with poor binding and presentation, when in reality it seems like a glorified type-written college term paper. I should have taken the advice of one of the reviewers who had a strong reservation and warning. I am very disappointed with the price I paid for the book. Do not make the same mistake.

Think small!.......2002-05-31

A condominium is a type of ownership, not a type of building. It doesn't have to be a high-rise beachfront property in Florida (although it can be). With the information in this book you can think small - a 4 or 6 unit apartment building in almost any small town in America can be turned into a condominium. Small units like this can turn your investment capital over much faster than rentals (although there is no reason not to do both - sell some of your apartments and rent the rest of the units).

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A melting pot .......2005-09-10

If I recall correctly, DC Comics released 7 "Greatest Stories" collections (Superman, Batman, Joker, Flash, Team-Ups, Forties, and Fifties), with all but the Forties making it into trade paperback format. Then, for some reason I'm not privy to, the line was dumped. Maybe DC felt they were giving readers too good of a deal, and I can believe it, each book costing about $15 for ~300 pages of great reading. It's unfortunate that they didn't continue the series, or at least keep it in print. And don't be fooled by the recently-released Superman and Batman "Greatest Stories Ever Told" collections. Those are completely different and don't nearly approach the worthiness of these collections.

THE GREATEST 1950s STORIES EVER TOLD highlights a decade of uncertainty for DC Comics, and the entire comic medium in general. The ageing of their former audience, the shifting of entertainment to television, and political and moral pressures forced the majority of the costumed heroes out of the spotlight, to be replaced by a crazy mix of adventure, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy, war, and romance comics. Towards the end of the decade, DC moved back on track, revamping their shelved Golden Age heroes with more of a modern, science-fiction angle. That successful gamble signaled the beginning of the Silver Age of comics.

All of the above-mentioned genres are represented in this collection, and I have to say that the selection is excellent. Included are Showcase # 6, 8-9, and 23; Adventure Comics # 159, 245, and 253; World's Finest Comics # 77 and 64; Star-Spangled Comics #113; Detective Comics #228; Sugar and Spike #3; Congo Bill #6; Strange Adventures #28; Western Comics #72; Wonder Woman #99; Blackhawk #109; The Fox and the Crow #14; Superboy #22; Brave and the Bold #3; Sensation Comics #107; Batman #81; Phantom Stranger #1; Action Comics #238; All-American Western Comics #121; Girls' Love Stories #27; Our Army at War #87; and Jimmy Olsen #32. In addition to the heroes indicated by the issue titles, the book also provides appearances from the Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Superman, Martian Manhunter, Nighthawk, King Faraday, Tomahawk, Captain Comet, Green Arrow & Speedy, the Shining Knight, Jon the Viking Prince, and Sgt. Rock.

This is a very worthwhile book that deserves reprinting. In fact, DC should pick up this line again, with both more heroes and more decades. The intro is very informative as to the creators involved with these comics, as well as the various pressures put upon the comic medium at the time. It shouldn't be too hard to find a copy, as it hasn't been out of print for very long.

Excellent mix of genres from DC's 1950s archives........1999-05-25

By the end of the 1940s, the comic book super-hero was on its way out with the exception of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and four backup feature characters. With the advent of the 1950s, DC's creative staff had to keep the readers interested and thus were given an opportunity to experiment with a wide variety of genres: romance stories, spy stories, science fiction, adventure and dectective tales, and westerns. By the end of the 1950s, DC had reintroduced some of their most popular charactors, notably Flash and Green Lantern, and thus ushered in the "Silver Age of Comics." This decade produced some of the most inventive and innovative attempts at comic book story-telling, and this wonderful book is a microcosm of what DC produced then. "The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told" features some of the best non-super hero stories DC ever produced, as well as some choice stories starring the Big Three: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. DC was trying to regain its footing in the comic book market and these efforts helped it accomplish that goal. The stories in this volume feature Congo Bill, Johnny Thunder, King Farraday, Tommy Tomorrow, Viking Prince, Nighthawk, Captain Comet Sgt Rock, Sugar & Spike, the Fox & the Crow, and Tomahawk. The super-hero stories , of course, feature the World's Finest Team of Batman, Superman and Robin; Wonder Woman; and three surviviors of the comic book purge: Aquaman, Green Arrow and the Martian Manhunter. This volume also includes the Silver Age Flash and Green Lantern, the Challengers of the Unknown, and Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane at the height of their books' popularity. The variety in these 30 stories alone would be enough to recommend this book, but the stories are truely some of the best the decade produced. Frank Frazetta's Shining Knight art is still crisp and beautiful, while Ramona Fradon's rendition of Aquaman gave that difficult character some charm and whimsy. Dick Sprang draws Batman and Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert collaborate on Sgt Rock: enough said on that. This book features some of the comics industry's best producing outstanding work turing an amazingly productive and creative period. There is not a bad choice in the book. Dont' miss it.

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Award-winning cartoonist Eric Decetis has been selling his offbeat greeting cards for more than a decade. He emphasizes that "the cards that feature butts are always the ones that sell the best!" The Crack Calendar features twelve of Eric's funniest cartoons. We defy anyone to look through them without cracking a smile!

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This book includes 2 keynote presentations, 18 papers and 1 demonstration presented at this year's Eurographics multimedia workshop. A wide range of subjects were covered, from media production to content processing and delivery, with a special focus on issues related to interactive video environments. These included standards and approaches for interactive television, hypervideo, collaborative video, augmented reality, mobile multimedia, the integration of TV and the web, content analysis, processing and presentation. The papers are organized in six sessions: 3D in multimedia, multimedia architectures and authoring, video and coding, content based retrieval and security, interactive media and interactive TV. The keynote presentation by V. M. Bove provided insights into new architectures for large scale pervasive computing and the one by G. Davenport discussed the relations between creativity and interactive movies as participatory art enabled by new media. The demonstration presented a multimedia system for aerobics and fitness training.

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The author interviewed ten hip-hop graffiti writers of various race, class, and gender by audiotape and reviewed them until patterns emerged as themes, mainly issues concerning public space and community. She continued her relationship with the participants over a five-year period to observe the diversity and transformation of individuals within graffiti culture. The study begins with a literature review from Web resources, books, and subculture magazines on graffiti in order to define "The Structure of Traditional Hip-Hop Graffiti Culture." This chapter lays the basic foundation familiar to all writers and points to the main issues in order to analyze how individual writers conform to or deviate from the standard subculture. The author addresses the complex issues which are layered behind a residue of illegally painted signatures, characters, and text. There is a need for the voices of young people to be heard, especially those who have found artistic integrity, and awareness of civic and political issues on their own terms. Youth are in an ongoing struggle to construct personal identities and communities that they want to live in. Hip-hop graffiti is only one example where they have created a space, within a peer-run environment, to respect and encourage their political powers, ideas, and skills. The book asks whether an understanding of how adolescents learn outside of school can generate alternative sites for curriculum theorizing.

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Classic Play: Book of Immortals
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For $22 I guess I'll make the best of it.

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The author of A Rumor of War recounts his harrowing tales of life as a foreign correspondent. (SEE QUOTE.)

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Another solid book from Mr. Caputo. RECOMMENDED.......2007-04-17

I'm going to post the Publisher Comments and also the Kirkus Reviews here because it will better tell you what this book is about and because there are no other reviews and I'm a lousy reviewer. I've read A Rumor of War (loved), Horn of Africa (loved), Delcorso's Gallery (didn't care for), The Voyage (Loved), Acts of Faith (loved) and of course Means of Escape (Loved)
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Scientists rely on food webs—complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy between species and through ecosystems—to understand the infrastructure of ecological communities.

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Shows how economic measures can capture the value of biodiversity and lead to policies for conservation and ecosystem management.

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thoughtfully discusses: what is "biodiversity"?

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thoughtfully discusses: what is "biodiversity"?.......1998-06-29

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This paper considers the connection between the diversity of catch in a multi-species fishery and the productivity of the fishery under different access regimes. A modified Gordon-Schaefer model is used to analyse the importance of the level of diversity in a fishery in open access and profit maximising regimes. The modified model, which includes both environmental and bioeconomic variables, is fitted to data from a gillnet fishery in Lake Malawi. Pressure on stocks is shown to be greater at all levels of biodiversity in open access than it is in profit maximising regimes. However, in a profit maximising regime both catch and the productivity of fishing effort is highest when there is a single marketed species. By contrast, in an open access regime catches are maximised at higher levels of bioeconomic diversity than in profit maximising regimes. Implications for policy are discussed.

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This paper examines the use and non-use values of coral reefs as applied to the Tubbataha Reefs UNESCO World Heritage Site. Results from various studies indicate that economic benefits/values from conservation far exceed the costs of conservation. Mechanisms on how such economic values have been and can be captured are discussed. It is noted that non-use values could provide huge capturable economic values.

Putting a value on nature's "free" services.: An article from: World Watch

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Date: January 1, 1998
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Species preservation and biodiversity value: a real options approach [An article from: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management]
I. Kassar , and P. Lasserre
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RQYNPK

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We evaluate biodiversity in a real options framework, when the resources in use are substitutable. We examine optimal conservation decisions given that a biodiversity loss is irreversible and that future use values are uncertain. While species substitutability has been shown to reduce the value of diversity, we show that the flexibility associated with substitutability is a source of value. Marginal species value is decreasing in the number of species, but rising and convex in the value of the marginal species. As we show in the two-species homogenous model, increased volatility raises biodiversity value, and a positive correlation between species values both reduces the value of the pool of species and the value of biodiversity. The role played by the correlation between the value of a species and the value of other species, is reminiscent of the Beta of a financial asset. Just like an asset with a negative Beta derives additional value by providing insurance against fluctuations in the market portfolio, a species whose value tends to move in the opposite direction as the species in use derives additional value from its higher probability to be available for substitution if the value of the species in use diminishes.

The social value of using biodiversity in new pharmaceutical product research (Discussion paper ; 96-33)

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The social value of using biodiversity in new pharmaceutical product research (Discussion paper ; 96-33)
Ralph David Simpson
Manufacturer: Resources for the Future
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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