The Challenge
In previous books (Nothing Down, Creating Wealth, Allen challenged readers to follow his own example: with little money of his own he became wealthy in real estate. Here he makes a bet with himself that he can train three persons, literally "from the unemployment line," to acquire a residential property within 90 days and put $5000 cash in the bank. The result is an instruction course with suspenseful human interest as a young black unskilled worker, a minister's wife and a single parent in her 40s with no job prospects respond to the challenge. Allen advises them how to conquer fear and face risk, locate properties that have "motivated sellers," negotiate terms through leveraged financing, close a contract and with money in hand enter into an achievement-minded way of life. Fortune Book Club main selection; BOMC alternate.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.