Robert Allen has a long history of writing best selling books, and, more
than that, communicating daunting ideas in simple to understand terms. He is
just great. We dare you to find someone who writes clearer than he
does.
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In this book, Robert Allen preaches the gospel of material success
through real estate investment. His system involves identifying properties
(primarily multi-unit dwellings) that can be had on excellent terms or below
market value because the sellers ("don't wanters") are anxious to get rid of
them, then devising creative ways to borrow money (from banks, partners, or even
the seller) for the down payment. He is the master of nothing down real estate ppurchasing. Allen's hucksterism may grate, but he delivers
the goods: dozens of fully realized "nothing down" techniques with financial
details. Since the savings and loan crisis will dump staggering amounts of
foreclosed real estate on the market, with Uncle Sam as the ultimate "don't
wanter," this may be big news for the future. This man created the no money down real estate program. Talk about creative!
Mulitiple Streams of
Income
The author of the rags-to-riches real estate bestseller Nothing Down for the '90s presents advice drawn from 20 years of writing and promoting get-rich
books through seminars, infomercials, and home-study courses. In Multiple
Streams of Income, Robert G. Allen shows you how to create income with little or
no investment of your own money. Says Allen: "Today, very few families can survive on less than
two streams of income. In the volatile future, you will need a portfolio of
income streams--not one or two--but many streams from completely different and
diversified sources." Beginning with advice on controlling spending and
increasing savings, Allen hits his stride in chapters on stock market and real
estate investing. He draws on the investment advice of others, including Peter
Lynch, and even suggests that you invest in Berkshire Hathaway and let Warren
Buffett manage your money. Allen also shares his real estate strategies for
finding motivated sellers, securing creative financing, and buying foreclosures
and tax liens. Additional chapters cover multilevel-network marketing,
information and product licensing, and marketing on the Internet. Throughout are
checklists, work sheets, and testimonials, as well as pointers to more articles
and materials on the author's Web site. It's useful to have so much information
so concisely and well explained, and many who read this book will find it hard
to resist implementing one, if not several, of Allen's recommended income
strategies.
The
Smash Hit Creating Wealth
Multiple Streams of Internet
Income
Allen (Nothing Down: How To Buy Real Estate with Little or No
Money Down; Multiple Streams of Income) has now moved on to espouse the web as
the path to more wealth and personal freedom. The first third of the volume is
simply hype. The middle third reviews marketing fundamentals as applied to the
net material that one might find in any marketing text. The remainder devotes
individual chapters to methods for making money on the Internet such as niche
marketing, auto responders, selling links, placing ads on your web page, net
auctions, and affiliations with companies who want access to your clients. Allen freely uses other individuals to explain concepts and, unlike many authors of this genre, gives them credit. The volume also has a reputable publisher, an author with a proven record of popularity, arguably less hyperbole than most, and a focus on marketing basics. Despite the ongoing shake-out in the high-tech arena, there is always an audience for get-rich-quick schemes, and Allen's latest title is a cut above the rest.
Last but Certainly not Least - The One Minute
Millionaire!
This
mega-selling twosome (Hansen's name is on every book in the Chicken Soup series
and Allen wrote the bestselling real estate guide No Money Down) offers a
long-winded pep talk on how just about anybody can make big money. According to
the authors, "At this very instant you are standing in the middle of millions."
They maintain that anyone can achieve "enlightened" wealth, a utopia where
everyone has money and tithes, creating a better world for all. Mark Hansen and
Robert Allen's approach is a mix of self-help and money talk, though a bit heavier on the former. The left-hand pages are a simplified explanation of how to amass
millions, with options such as write a book, buy and sell real estate and start
a company. The right-hand pages illustrate the same themes, via fictionalized
dramas, e.g., newly widowed Michelle's struggle to come up with $1 million in
cash to get her two children back from her in-laws. Hansen and Allen's feel-good
suggestions run along the lines of "find a mentor," "use a fulcrum" and "be part
of a team." Full of endless acronyms (e.g., "System: Save Your Self Time Energy
Money"), catchy phrases (e.g., "A Dream + A Team + A Theme = Millionaire
Streams") and animal imagery (butterflies, honeybees, owls and hares scamper
among the pages), this offering echoes much of the self-help cacophony already
out there. But its message is muddled: sometimes the millions are yours for the
asking, and sometimes it's the system that keeps you down.
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