How to Make a Fortune Today
starting from scratch
William Nickerson, self-made millionaire and author of the best-seller
HOW I TURNED $1000 INTO A MILLION IN REAL ESTATE -IN MY SPARE TIME
tells you about his new book
William Nicker ion
Before my first book was
published, four years
ago telling how I had
made a fortune in real
estate, mostly in my spare
time five publishers turned
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day because the same opportunities no
longer exist!
When those publishers said "it can't be
done any more," I had only half a million
dollars, and no intentions of increasing my
estate. But I got fighting mad, and decided
to prove the skeptics wrong. I went out on
the current real estate market, shopped ex
clusively from ads that realtors put in
metropolitan papers. And in two years 1
doubled my net estate to over a million
dollars.
So before my first book went to press I
was able to add new material, to scrap the
original title "The Realty Road to Riches,"
and retitle it How I Turned $1000 Into
a Million.
Perhaps you are one of the almost half
a million people who read that book. May
be you are one of the hundreds of fortunate
men and women who have put my prin
ciples into practice, and are now well along
the road to financial independence. Or per
haps, like the five publishers I mentioned,
you doubt that you can do the same thing
today that did then. If that's the case,
then it is for you that I have written my
new book, just published. It is called How
To Make A Fortune Today-starting
FROM SCRATCH!
You Con Still Make a Fortune
In Real Estate Today!
In the past two years, thousands of people
have asked for my advice. "How can I save
a nest egg to start investing, when all I
have now is a goose egg?"
"Can an ordinary person like myself
achieve success?"
"With only $2,500 saved, how can I
pyramid to a million dollars?"
And the big question on everybody's
mind : "Is it still possible to succeed today?"
Believe me when I answer with an un
qualified "YES!" You can still find and
capitalize on many opportunities all around
you. And I want to show you how! In my
new book I tell you, in detail, exactly what
you need to know to succeed in real estate
now . . . and I answer specifically the count
less questions that have been fired at me
from all over the world, the same questions
that you too probably wouldtlike to ask.
Since the publication of my first book,
the door of opportunity has swung open to
many thousands of people. Every day
letters pour in that prove how my book
betters the lives of ordinary folk like you
and me. They come from every major
country in the free world, and from every
section of the United States, Maine to
Hawaii, Alaska to Florida.
Turn a Small Sum Into Fortunes
Just as These People Did
Many of these letters thank me for re
vealing my secrets of success. Frequently
they give examples of how my proven for
mula has helped men and women from
every walk of life regardless of age, ex
perience, location, education, capital or lack
of it to start on the realty road to riches
in leisure time. Hundreds of case histories
are brought to my attention continually,
like that of Roy Dygert, retired carpenter
from Portland, Oregon, who bought a tri
plex for $8,000, paying only $800 down. In
seven months he spent $600 for materials
and used his own labor to make improve
ments. After a total cash outlay of $1,400,
Roy sold the property for $14,500, and
made a profit of $5,900.
"Can Reading a Book Make You Rich?"
an article in the April, 1961 Cosmopoli
tan, told the story of Gerard Pinault of
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, who didn't grad
uate from grammar school, never earned
more than a five thousand dollars a year.
Then he read my first real-estate book.
Yet, less than two years later, Pinault had
seven buildings, a total of fifty units, and
about eighteen thousand dollars a year in
come from rentals-a accomplished in his
spare time and on credit.
Victor J. Zaro started his first realty in
vestment in Philadelphia after my book
came out, and in three years pyramided
from scratch to a net worth of a third of a
million dollars in apartment equities. He
writes: "And some brokers told me your
program wouldn't work in Philadelphia!
For the first time in my life I feel I have
achieved complete economic security. I
know I wouldn't even have started invest
ing except for the inspiration and know
how of your book, and for this I shall be
forever grateful."
These current examples of success prove
over and over how real-estate investment
can turn small nest eggs into large fortunes
using my methods.
Specific Advice, Facts, Know-How,
Start You on Road to Fortune NOW
In How To Make A Fortune Today I
bring you up-to-date on opportunities in
real estate, and reveal valuable facts and
advice on:
How You Can Succeed with Average
Ability in a Dwindling City
How to Get Started
Where to Find Good Buys
When You Need a Lawyer
Whether It Pays to Deal with a Realtor
How You Can Tell a Good Risk
How You Can Judge Risky Deals
Where You Can Make Advantageous
Trades
How You Can Dispose of Homes and
Other Equities
What Property Improvements You
Should Make for Maximum Profits
How You Can Improve Operations
and Management
How to Get 100 Financing
How to Determine Your Net Worth
and Establish Credit
The Best Place to Borrow Money
How to Save Taxes on Operating
Income
How to Save Taxes on Pyramiding
Profits
. . . and much, much more
I answer specifically questions like:
Where is the best place to invest?
How can you profit by inflation?
Will the real-estate boom hold up?
How can you make money and have a
legitimate tax loss?
How will proposed tax laws affect
pyramiding to a million dollars?
How can you recognize a good deal?
Does it pay to put in new furniture?
Where can I buy at a discount?
Is do-it-yourself necessary?
What contractors and contractors' gim
micks should I guard against?
What steps should I take before sign
ing a contract?
What should I watch after the job is
finished?
When should general rent increases be
made?
How do you borrow huge amounts?
Where do I get 75 financing?
. . . and hundreds more
Case Histories Show You How
My book tells you what has been done by
dozens of people who, possibly like
yourself, knew nothing about real estate
before, yet now are cashing in big in this
lucrative field.
For example, a Savannah, Georgia read
er had no previous experience when he
read my book. He then mushroomed $ 1 ,000
into $30,000 in six months, buying eighteen
apartments in three different buildings.
A San Francisco area professional man
also had no previous real-estate experi
ence. He read my book and he is now suc
cessfully launched on an eighteen-apart-ment
investment.
Philip Gamble, of Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, is now successfully launched in a
twelve-apartment investment with a valu
ation in the $100,000 range. Prior to read
ing my book he had no experience.
Bee Hill Mueller, of Sacramento, Cali
fornia, who had no experience in apart
ment investment, followed my book and
pyramided to more than $300,000.
What these people have done, you can
do too. How to Make a Fortune Today
teaches you everything you need to know
in hours. Average intelligence is all you
need. No special skill or experience is re
quired. Yet this exciting way of making
money can completely change your life,
just as it has done for so many people
everywhere.
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could change your whole viewpoint on how
to make money. You will be astonished to
discover how easily so many average peo
ple make more dollars in a single trans
action than you now make in years of
hard work.
These are strong statements, but I am
convinced that every word is true. Still,
you may have many questions, many
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