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"Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican town native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried...

If you are thinking about selling your home, this is the book for you. Whether you plan to work with a real estate agent or do all the work yourself, Sell Your Home in Canada will show you how to get the best deal possible. It's an easy-to-understand and well-rounded look at selling your home, written specifically for the Canadian real estate market.

Have you dreamed about owning the perfect weekend getaway? Are you thinking about buying a vacation home? A ski chalet? A hunting lodge? A waterfront cottage? Maybe now is the right time to turn that dream into reality. Buy & Sell Recreational Property in Canada is an easy-to-understand and well-rounded look at selling recreational property in Canada, written by an experienced real estate professional. Whether the readers are seasoned veterans buying...

Las ciudades son, sin duda, esenciales en el desarrollo de nuestra humanidad. En el Perú, casi un 80% de la población es urbana según datos del INEI. En este contexto de urbanización generalizada y de globalización, la relación entre los centros urbanos y los ciudadanos es compleja e interdependiente, con múltiples y variados problemas urbanos. En este escenario, el derecho tiene un rol fundamental en la regulación de la acción pública y...

Many homeowners have a love-hate relationship with their community association. Though the association provides useful services to the neighborhood, there is a downside in the form of rules and regulations that can feel arbitrary or pointless. Attorney Barry Ross aims to educate people about some of the major pitfalls in a community association based on the real cases he handled. Homeowners, community association managers, real estate agents, and...

The author, a foreclosure defense attorney and graduate of Harvard Law School, explains 11 ways in which a homeowner possibly can win his mortgaged property free and clear of the bank's asserted mortgage lien. This result is not possible or practicable in most situations, but it is important for homeowners and attorneys to understand when they are looking at a free and clear potential. To understand how free and clear is sometimes obtainable, the...

For Sydney Flynn, Starlight Cottage is her sanctuary. And now, her treasured family home at Firefly Beach is the perfect place for her fresh start. That is, until she spies Nate Henderson. As teenagers, Sydney and Nate promised each other forever. But Sydney has never forgotten how her childhood sweetheart ended their relationship with no explanation. She's spent the last decade piecing herself back together and trying to figure out exactly what went...

"In one way or another, Donald Trump has been a topic of conversation in America for almost forty years. No one in the world of business-not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Warren Buffett-has been as famous as Trump for as long. First associated with high-profile real estate development in 1970s Manhattan, his name has since become synonymous with success defined by wealth and luxury. What does one make of a grown man who, when he argues with women, stoops...

"Rian Sutter grew up with the finer things in life ... until her parents lost everything years ago. Now Rian and her sister are getting their life, and finances, back on track through real estate ... But when she catches the attention of a sexy stranger who snaps up every house from under her, all bets are off. Pierce Whitfield [is] a down-on-his-luck lawyer who needed a break from the city and agreed to help his brother work on a few homes in the...

This biography examines the life of Donald Trump using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking black-and-white images and rich color photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Trump's family background, childhood, education, his rise to fame in business, television, and politics, and his historic presidential campaign. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts...