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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money

Published in Paperback by Alpha Books (22 December, 1998)

Authors: Robert Heady and Christy Heady

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money shows that any numbskull can master personal finance. In this second edition, a father-and-daughter writing team, Robert K. Heady and Christy Heady, give readers the best advice culled from their many years of experience in consumer rights and money management. The Headys believe that money must be managed for the long haul and that there are no quick ways to build wealth. The guide is easy to read, witty, and scornful of the hype dished out by banks and other peddlers of personal finance. It provides a plethora of personal-finance tips for consumers, including how to get the best deal on a mortgage, pay off debt, and bank online. The authors expose financial pitfalls such as bank-sold mutual funds, dealer financing for motor vehicles, extended warranties, and those dreaded bank fees. A full chapter is devoted to the evils of credit cards, which they feel is the biggest ripoff in the financial world. The writers contend that the toughest thing about saving is making the decision to do it. You should get going by putting aside a little amount of money each month through a mutual fund or dividend reinvestment plan. "The whole idea of managing money is to save a dollar here and there and then take that dollar and build it into two," they write. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to understand that. --Dan Ring

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If You Know Nothing About Financing; Start Here...

This has the basic knowledge need to manage your finacing ranging from simple budgeting, credit, stocks and mutual funds, Certificate of Deposit, how to read the market and the prime rate and what it all means. Also, it provides the mental mindset you need to manage and spend money properly, without resorting to short term spending splurges. There's tables for calcuating college funds, morgages, and retirements but most importantly how to avoid the many traps and scams many vendors use to make money off of you without providing any extra services. The one thing I found somewhat worrysome is the way the authors protrayed the banks and other institutions to the point of scaring the reader into being nearly paranoid of all financial instistutions. The fees these institutions charge are describe in the book with good details. A good "how to avoid pitfalls" book.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money, Second Ed

I love this book! Before reading this book, I wondered how anyone could ever save money in the world today. It has helped me to mangage my money easily. An easy to read book, which I use now as a reference whenever I have a question concerning my personal finances. I finally started a 401K, bought a house, a new car, and I am finally learning to save some money,instead of living paycheck to paycheck.

Very Helpful!

This book gave me invaluable advice regarding my finances. I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone! I have adopted many strategies in the book to save for a rainy day. Thank you, and when are you coming out with another edition?

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Millions on the Internet

Published in Paperback by Alpha Books (15 April, 2000)

Authors: Rod Underhill and Nat Gertler

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Bridge for Sale

Is this Rod Underhill related to Roy Underhill? I see they're credited together for writing quite a few books together. Even if I was married to this guy his book isn't very good. Maybe he should stick to woodworking.

hey, if you're interested in this book...

Did you know that gullible was printed twice in the 1996 Merriam Webster dictionary?

Outdated, but could be helpful to the complete idiots

You gotta remember that this book was written in 2000, right around the time the dotcom bubble burst. Of course you didn't have to be amazon or ebay to survive the bloodbath, as many small independent shopping sites have been doing quite well.

This book doesn't tell you how to come up with a good idea -- I doubt anyone can really tell you, since successful entrepreneurship is seeded totally on individual creativity. (Disclosure: I myself am still trying to come up with the mother of all "how come I didn't think of that" ideas.) It's more about how to set up an e-commerce site, but the information is already outdated now that four years have passed. Still, it could be an informative read if you are truly clueless about e-commerce.

The Complete Guide to Real Estate Finance for Investment Properties: How to Analyze Any Single-Family, Multifamily, or Commercial Property

Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (20 August, 2004)

Author: Steve Berges

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The Complete Guide to Offshore Money Havens, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition: How to Make Millions, Protect Your Privacy, and Legally Avoid Taxes

Published in Hardcover by Prima Lifestyles (27 October, 1999)

Author: Jerome Schneider

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Offshore money havens are not just for millionaires anymore: they're for people who want to become millionaires or even more by taking advantage of loopholes afforded by the banking policies and secrecy laws of nations such as Aruba, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Vanuatu. The book is filled with practical information and testimonials of formerly average Joes and Josephines who are now fabulously wealthy thanks to these money havens.

I'm not a tax lawyer, and my personal worth is not much greater than the resale value of the books on my shelves, so I'm not at all qualified to verify the utility or legality of this books advice. However, people worldwide doseem to be buying this book by the boxload. Schneider promises to tell you "how to escape nuisance lawsuits, exorbitant taxes, and increasing invasions of privacy by investing offshore." If I were more interested in becoming fabulously wealthy than reading books, I'd probably be lounging in my Portuguese castle with this book by my side at all times (and a beautiful heiress wife, a limo, a helicopter--and a lawyer on retainer).

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Tried it, book doesn't work.

I followed the book's instructions to the letter and tried to open a current account at three Singapore banks recommended in the book. Only one replied, saying I could only open an account denominated in US dollars or Singapore dollars, and not any other currency, contrary to what the book says. In addition, this bank wanted somebody already known to them to introduce me to them before they'd deal with me. This book is a waste of time and money. I'm now doing internet research to get the informmation I need to do what I want to do. It takes a lot more time, but I feel confident of success.

we have a winner for "Worst Investing Book"!

this book is the equivalent of the saturday morning "get rich quick" scheisters you see on TV (and incidentally, the author, naturally, pitches his wares at the end).

the advice in the book goes beyond being bad...its irresponsible, misleading, and negligent.

here's one of the author's brainfarts (paraphrased):
"open an off shore reinsurance company, and then with your domestic company, purchase insurance from your off shore company--that way the premiums are both tax-deductible and a source of profit at the same time!" ---and how exactly would this help you in event of a claim?

or better still (and i quote):
" (US) banks are in bad shape--worse shape, in fact (though none are provided---a common refrain in this book, claims w/o data!), than most foreign banks. Of course, your money is insured up to $100k by the FDIC, but what would happen in the event of a universal banking crisis? Federal agencies could never handle the massive run on banks that would ensue..." ---oh, so this is to imply that a small private off-shore bank is going to serve as the new financial risk-free rate determinant (setting all financial markets back 100+ yrs), and this small off-shore bank is going to be far safer than the US Govt (FDIC)?

this book is an insult to anyone w/ a critical mind. its beyond terrible. its a great way to lose money, whether you invest as he advocates, or simply throwing away your $30 to buy it.

A collection of bedtime stories

This book is poorly structured. The author reiterates the same concept of going offshore over and over again. He does not reveal any detail on how to do it. Instead, he gives you a great number of short stories that he had heard from someone else. This was one of the worst books I had ever read! Stay away!

The Complete Guide to Managing A Portfolio of Mutual Funds

Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill Trade (01 March, 1998)

Author: Ronald K. Rutherford

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Excellent Book For Beginners And Gurus

Managing a Portfolio of Mutual Funds is a well written, entertaining, book that will help anyone better understand money management using Mutual Funds. The book starts with an excellent section on goals and planning, in which Rutherford makes a compelling argument about why this is a critical step towards effective financial management and explains how to best complete and document the plan. He follows this with a discussion of Asset Class Portfolio Design, which is the foundation for the rest of the book. Once this introductory material is finished, Rutherford discusses various investment strategies and how to implement and monitor each of them, starting from the more basic ideas of Passive Investing and Index Funds and moving to the more complex areas of Active Investing and Manager Style Analysis. Although the amount of detail gets a bit thin once he begins the chapter on Passive Investing and the book never regains the tight, lucid arguments and explanations of the first sections, it's a first-rate book on investing with Mutual Funds and should be read by every serious investor AND portfolio manager.

The Complete Guide to Employee Stock Options: Everything the Executive and Employee Need to Know About Equity Compensation Plans

Published in Hardcover by Prima Lifestyles (05 April, 2001)

Author: Frederick D. Lipman

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Misleading Title

I believe the title of this book should be "The Complete Guide to Exit Event Stock Options". The author makes his preference for Exit Event stock options clear early on, and throughout the book focuses his attention in that direction. For those of you who don't know, exit event options are stock options that only vest when a company is sold or completes it's IPO. This is a reasonable approach for companies that are likely to seen an exit event in 2-3 years, but not for a company just starting out.

Comprehensive Intellectual Capital Management: Step-by-Step

Published in Digital by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ()

Author: Nermien Al-Ali

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Smart Landlord

Published in Paperback by Alpha Books (18 August, 2000)

Authors: Brian F. Edwards, Casey Edwards, and Susannah Craig

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NOT the best bang for your buck.

I bought this book as a novice in the rental business hoping to find information that would get me started out on the right foot. I WAS QUITE DISAPPOINTED. I will not go as far as to say that this book is worthless; there are some useful tidbits of information that i found helpful, but there are other books out there that are so much better. I strongly suggest LANDLORDING, by Leigh Robinson (Ninth Edition or newer). It's available on amazon, of course.

Good Information For The USA

On reading this book no matter how much I tried to focus I found myself wondering whether the content actually related to my own situation in the Uk.

I purchased the book looking for straightforward advice on being a landlord covering aspects such as legal implications, inventory advice etc. However from the information I read on site it was not clear that this was very much a book for those in the USA. Once I started reading it soon became apparent when it spoke of the different laws for different "states", forms with "zip codes" etc. Whilst the general information was useful I felt that I couldn't rely on any document or legal advice as this might not hold for the UK.

A good read but I felt that it should have been highlighted on the site that it was for the USA

I use this book in my Rental Property Management Class

As a landlord for over 30 years and teaching classes on the subject in two different schools, this is one book that I have found invaluable as a resource for wannabe and experienced landlords. Don't think you know it all no matter what you read, learn, experience... I'm still picking up tips and hints! Much of my curriculum was already covered in this book but still there was more to use and learning from each other is the way to go! Very happy to see this book on the market and in laymen's terms and with the prominent hints and smiles to make it easy reading.

Competing in the New Capital Markets: Investor Relations Strategies for the 1990s

Published in Hardcover by Harpercollins (01 April, 1991)

Authors: Bruce W. Marcus and Sherwood Lee Wallace

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Competing for Stock Market Profits

Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons Inc (13 March, 1974)

Author: Paul F. Jessup

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