Real Estate Principles: A Value Approach demonstrates how value is central to virtually all real estate decision-making. Students using Ling and Archer should finish the course with a value-oriented framework and a set of valuation and decision-making tools that can be applied in a variety of real-world situations. The key to making sound investment decisions is to understand how property values are created, maintained, increased, or destroyed. Since the launch of Real Estate Principles: A Value Approach, significant and lasting changes have come upon the world of real estate. This is very true in real estate finance and capital sources where most of the traditional lenders have been transformed or displaced, giving way to a radically different set of players in mortgage finance. There has been change with profound and far-reaching implications in a world where it is understandable that property values can go down as well as up. This realization will color every aspect of real estate investment, finance and transactions for the foreseeable future.

In this light-hearted and cheerful story, three kids recount their funny experiences with the world's most hopeless dad. He is a dad who balances looking after his kids and working from home. He's clumsy and forgetful, and he makes mistakes, but he's always there for them and ready to scare away monsters under the bed. At the end of the day, his kids know he really is the world's best dad.

Children can come up with some pretty funny questions! Here in this warm and amusing story, Grandpa teases his granddaughters with some very unusual answers. The girls are spending time with Grandpa and his cats, and reject all his silly answers until one of them comes up with an idea that even Grandpa could not think of. This is a story that amuses and entertains grandparents and grandchildren alike.

Age 3+ Children can come up with some pretty funny questions, and here in this warm and amusing story Grandpa teases his granddaughters with some very unusual answers. The girls are spending time with Grandpa and his cats, and reject all his silly answers until one of them comes up with an idea that even Grandpa couldn't think of. This is a story that amuses and entertains grandparents and grandchildren alike. Reviewed by Jennifer Mors in Reading Time