Books with author J. Scott Clark

How much does it really cost to flip a house? In this new second edition, get all the updated costs, upgrade details, and associated values when it comes to estimating your next renovation! Determine how to accurately estimate all the costs you are likely to face during renovation―and get all of your rehab questions answered in a single place! In The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs, expert real estate investor and fix-and-flipper J Scott reveals the tried-and-tested steps of his professional framework and his methodology for precisely evaluating renovation costs from hundreds of his own successful rehab projects. Learn every detailed tip, trick, and tactic you need to accurately budget any house flipping project or investment property renovation. You don't need to be a contractor to flip houses, but you do need to know the fundamentals of budgeting and pricing your renovation―including everything from cosmetic renovations to complex installations and upgrades. Whether you are preparing to walk through your very first rehab project or you’re an experienced home flipper, this handbook will be your guide to identifying renovation projects, creating a scope of work, and staying on budget to ensure a timely profit! Inside, you will learn how to: Inspect every aspect of a property to create your renovation scope Decide which upgrade options provide the biggest bang for your buck Identify the 150+ most common renovations you'll likely encounter Recognize big problems (like mold and termites!) and quickly fix them Assign accurate prices to every rehab task to build a detailed budget Determine which contractors are best for certain repairs or projects Break down the top 25 basic components of a renovation And so much more!

Entirely revised and updated, with more than 60,000 first edition copies sold! Learn how to find a great investment property, fix it up, and walk away with a profit. Are you inspired to leave your 9-to-5 job and start flipping houses? In The Book on Flipping Houses, expert real estate fix-and-flipper J Scott details a step-by-step plan to succeed in your first―or next―house flip. This revised edition of the bestselling book includes new explanations on the ins-and-outs of flipping real estate in any part of the economic cycle, more options on how to finance your flips, and a focus on larger renovation projects not previously discussed. This no-fluff book contains a detailed flipping blueprint perfect for both the complete newbie and seasoned real estate pro. If you’re looking to build a profitable, efficient house flipping business, let this easy-to-follow book act as your guide! In this book, you'll discover how to: Implement the 7 most common and creative financing strategies Evaluate the profitability of deals quickly and accurately Determine the types of properties you should invest in Perform due diligence to ensure your deal is a winner Identify the best locations to build your flipping business Create a scope of work, budget, and schedule that generates profit Find and hire the best contractors to manage your rehab to completion Sell the renovated property quickly and at the highest possible price ...And so much more!

Being a successful business leader isn’t about giving inspirational speeches, making the decisions, and saving the day. It’s also not about success, being wealthy, receiving recognition, or calling the shots.Leadership is about change for the purpose of innovation, and change is about people. Your relationship with your team is the most important element. To drive growth and sustainable change within an organization, you must create a culture of collaborators, challengers, and decision makers and actively empower them to drive results.It’s Never Just Business offers valuable insights and actionable techniques for:Transforming a group of employees into a committed, high-functioning teamBuilding an agile, change-ready culture that’s constantly evolvingUnderstanding how authority and leadership differ and that authority undermines innovationSuccessful leadership is born from purpose, empathy, vulnerability, connection, and failure. Start leading by truly connecting and collaborating. Because it’s never just business; it’s always about people.

Being a successful business leader isn’t about giving inspirational speeches, making the decisions, and saving the day. It’s also not about success, being wealthy, receiving recognition, or calling the shots.Leadership is about change for the purpose of innovation, and change is about people. Your relationship with your team is the most important element. To drive growth and sustainable change within an organization, you must create a culture of collaborators, challengers, and decision makers and actively empower them to drive results.It’s Never Just Business offers valuable insights and actionable techniques for:Transforming a group of employees into a committed, high-functioning teamBuilding an agile, change-ready culture that’s constantly evolvingUnderstanding how authority and leadership differ and that authority undermines innovationSuccessful leadership is born from purpose, empathy, vulnerability, connection, and failure. Start leading by truly connecting and collaborating. Because it’s never just business; it’s always about people.

This book is perfect for the young and aspiring Olympians. They will find a glimpse into the world of the different olympic sports, hopefully sparking interest in trying sports that they never tried before. The beautiful, yet simple depictions with bright colors of each sport will keep young early readers engaged until the end. As a bonus there is Olympic trivia after the main story.

Spectrarium IA story of a young man coming of age in a broken world. He is given a great power from a different world,to build a new life from the ashes. He discovers amazing friends and revives the hope that humanity once had. He learns to be the leader that he never wanted to be, all the while finding himself. With the help of EZ, an alien computer, that has almost become sentient, a guitar player, that can control your emotions. A healer, a botanist, a teen-age genius, a flying man, and a kid that talks to bears! Together they take on the world, or what's left of it. This is only the beginning!!!

Spectrarium I A story of a young man coming of age in a broken world. He is given a great power from a different world,to build a new life from the ashes. He discovers amazing friends and revives the hope that humanity once had. He learns to be the leader that he never wanted to be, all the while finding himself. With the help of EZ, an alien computer, that has almost become sentient, a guitar player, that can control your emotions. A healer, a botanist, a teen-age genius, a flying man, and a kid that talks to bears! Together they take on the world, or what's left of it. This is only the beginning!!!

Sitting around the campfire. Marshmellows roasting on a stick. And campfire tales.This collection hearkens back to the times spent with a flashlight under a sheet draped across chairs--everyone under the age of eight knows that’s a good tent--to earlier times when tales were told around campfires. Campfire stories are usually tales of blood and bad endings based mostly on urban legends--horror stories-- of course. Some of them are humorous too, but they are first and foremost stories of possibilities. For someone sitting on a sofa in the luxury of one’s own home with the lights on and bright, to be able to see a man running along the ridge of a distant mountain silhouetted as he moves against the twilight sky would be too absurd for words.But, for some reason--call it what you will--sitting around a campfire away from civilization up in the high country as the sun sets behind massive mountains framed black against the sky, to see a man running along a distant ridge becomes a very real possibility. And, sitting around that same fire, (or huddled under a sheet draped across some chairs with a flashlight) maybe, just maybe, monsters might order pizza and reminisce, mules might talk, frogs might take out loans and chickens just might look for a book review in the swamp.You never know.Stories:One very good pigA barnyard conspiracy“On one condition”The Shaggy DogEncounter on a Train The Gloop MakerThe library patronThe examination The haunted houseJust a Hike in the WoodsAn entrepreneurial frog A warning: These stories are not pc.From the author of I Am Legion, The Joining, Tales for a Dark Night, and the Saga of The Pearl.

A stone. That brings hidden things to light.And a portal that would take Jim to the past. A past where great deeds were done. Jim Brooks is a young man in his last year of high school. He’s a Mormon and a nobody at school or anywhere else, it seems, likes that. At least to him. He chafes at his life. His family is a zero; his father has a nothing job Jim feels is beneath anyone anywhere in the world. And he thinks his father’s making up for it with works at church. For Jim it is all pretense.Then he is given a stone. And his world is turned upside down.From the author of The Pearl, I am Legion, and Skyfallen.PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a book written for a Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) audience.

Hard comes in the night. It moves in thick, deep and deepening. The darkness seeps in, down in, to the very center, the very core. Things stir in the shadows, dark things, secret things, things that do not live in the light.They linger watching from the shadows and lick their lips waiting for the light to vanish. Then they will be free. Then they will come. Voices beckon from the darkness.A box carries Armageddon.A hangman at the end of his rope.A message from beyond the grave.The laughter of disembodied children.A sinister smile.These are tales from the dark. This is the fourth book in the From the Dark series.These stories originally appeared in the series Tales for a Dark Night.

Lights moving among the dead. The dead come to life. Whispering voices in the shadows and in the dark. The sun is setting; the night will be dark. Things hatched in the shadows come out to possess it. Fear treads heavily, fear of the unseen and what moves in the shadows. What will dash out from the corners? What is there in the recesses I cannot see, behind me, to the side, in front? Is it real or is it imagined? These are stories of the fear that stalks us in the night time. Lights in the graveyard. A clown through the window. The voice in room 636.A house that wasn’t there. These are tales from the dark. This is the first book in the From the Dark series.These stories originally appeared in the series Tales for a Dark Night.

Night is coming on and things gather past the edge of the light in the blackness beyond, unseen, unseeable.A groan, a sigh, a resignation to the pain, the anguish, the terror.A shadow moves. What is that? It is coming. From out of the blackness it is coming.A woman and her husband in the wild find a disturbing man with an interesting appendage. A man with tickets to a train that doesn't exist finds out differently. A student desperate for money gets more than he bargains in Mexico.A mummy takes on the ship that was unsinkable.These are tales from the dark. This is the third book in the From the Dark series.These stories originally appeared in the series Tales for a Dark Night.Book 4 is available.