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Named one of the top 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States by Time Magazine in August 2005, Jorge Pérez has won numerous awards for his professional and philanthropic achievement. He is also the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Related Group.

The #1 private developer in the U.S. Jorge Pérez shares his billionaire secrets to empower both small and seasoned investors.

Known as the King of Condominiums and the Steven Spielberg of Real Estate, Jorge Pérez reveals his principles for achieving success in the real estate market through a clear, step-by-step process. For the first time ever, this top developer shares his most coveted principles, teaching readers everything he knows now that he wished he knew then. Having started with $2 and today boasting earnings of more than $2 billion, Pérez details the financial opportunities in real estate, and instills the importance of total commitment, dedication, and hard work. Pérez specifies effective business tactics that will lead to evergreen profits, including:

• Key points to smart investing
• Cardinal rules for picking and building property
• Commandments on negotiating the best deal
• Valuable tips on securing equity
• Powerful steps for selling property

Finally Pérez explains how to manage and grow investments over the long term.

Emphasizing the importance of staying flexible in an ever-changing market, Pérez offers personal anecdotes, key business philosophies, and top insider methods to inspire and motivate any investor and entrepreneur to achieve the ultimate success in real estate.

Publishers Weekly

Lauded as the "Trump of the Tropics" and the "Steven Spielberg of Real Estate," Perez has written a book that-according to Donald Trump-"has taken all the lessons from the school of hard knocks and given you a leg up on the competition and a tremendous head start in becoming as successful as him. Or me!" Since not all readers are going to be billionaire builders, what can the average person glean from this volume written by "the country's number-one private developer"? Readers will find much to appreciate in Perez's clear presentation of his "five guiding principles" including passion, discipline and learning from loss. Perez's motivational language translates easily into concrete advice emphasizing the importance of research, focus and planning-for instance, Perez advocates starting small: "Pick an achievable goal, then be unwavering in your pursuit of it." Subsequent sections focus on the fundamentals of picking properties and "The Ten Commandments of Negotiation." By building on each chapter and drawing on case studies from his own career, Perez annotates his own decisions with advice and recommendations to provide the reader a solid guide to getting into the real estate market. (May)

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Introduction The Simple Secret to Making Your First $1 Billion 3

1 My Five Guiding Principles 15

2 Starting Out: The Four Keys to Successful Investing 39

3 The Four Cardinal Rules for Picking Property 75

4 The Ten Commandments of Negotiation 109

5 The Five Rules for Securing Financing 143

6 Selling It: From Buzz to Frenzy in Five Steps 171

7 Building It: The Eight Rules for Building for Profits Now and in the Future 199

8 The Four Keys for Managing and Growing 225

9 The Three Principles of Change 259

Related Group Properties 271