The Busy Professional’s Guide to Passive Apartment Investing

Are you investing in apartment deals but quietly wondering… “Is this actually a good deal – or am I missing something?”

If sponsor presentations feel polished but hard to trust, and you do not have hours to dissect every opportunity, you are not alone. Most passive investors do not fail because they lack access to deals. They fail because they lack a clear framework to evaluate them.

The Busy Professional’s Guide to Passive Apartment Investing gives you that framework.

Written by Vessi Kapoulian, a former commercial lender who managed a $1B+ credit portfolio and underwritten thousands of deals, this book brings an institutional, risk-first approach to passive real estate investing. In addition to her investing work, she advises family offices and family enterprises at the board level, helping them protect capital, evaluate risk, and make sound investment decisions across generations.

You will learn how to cut through the noise and evaluate opportunities with clarity, discipline, and confidence – without getting buried in spreadsheets.

Inside, you will discover:

A step-by-step framework to evaluate multifamily deals efficiently
How to assess sponsors beyond the polished pitch
The key drivers of risk most investors overlook
How deal structure impacts your downside protection
Market analysis fundamentals to avoid costly timing mistakes
Red flags that may signal misalignment (or worse)
A practical system designed specifically for time-constrained professionals

You do not need more time. You need a better lens.

If you want to build passive income through real estate, without relying on guesswork, this book will help you invest with clarity, discipline, and confidence.

Stop relying on guesswork.

Start investing with a framework.

Your capital deserves it.

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The Prisoner of Paradise

A trip of a lifetime.A 433-year-old murder.An ancient order that will kill to silence the truth.FINALIST – AMERICAN WRITING AWARDSFINALIST – AMERICAN BOOK FESTSILVER MEDAL – HFC BOOK OF THE YEARNick and Julia O’Connor’s trip to Venice takes a dark turn when a voice calls out from Tintoretto’s Paradise, a colossal painting that hides a sinister purpose.Plunged into a labyrinth of intrigue and peril, Nick discovers an ancient religious order that wields the power to imprison souls within the artwork. For centuries, this order has doomed countless people to eternal purgatory.Bound by an inexplicable connection to a woman from the past, Nick becomes consumed with a quest for justice. His mission: defeat the order, obliterate the priceless masterpiece, and liberate the wrongly imprisoned.But the order controls more than the painting, with an ironclad grip on the city and secrets that could change the world—secrets they’ll do anything to protect.The lines between past and present blur, love clashes with duty, and the fate of souls hangs in precarious balance in this riveting dual-timeline thriller perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Daniel Silva, Diana Gabaldon, or James Rollins.”Vivid narrative, world-building and edgy suspense.”- Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times best-selling author”Gripping and transportive.”- EJ Mellow, bestselling author of Song of the Forever Rains and Dance of a Burning Sea”A spectacular thriller.”- Avanti Centrae, international bestselling author of the VanOps series

Losing Lenore

Tommy Cuda’s goal is simple: drive Route 66 to the Pacific Ocean in his grandfather’s muscle car. Along the way, search for a way of life that isn’t boring while avoiding the mind-numbing pull of text messages and social networks. Pushing west out of Chicago with fuel in the tank and money in his pocket feels like sunshine after a month of dark Midwestern skies. Then he draws the Magician card from the tarot deck of a fortune teller named Lenore.
And she runs.
There are only two reasons to run. Towards something one desires. Or away from something one fears.
Or some-ONE.
Lenore’s someone drives a blue Cadillac.
In scheming her escape, Tommy learns that Lenore has big plans for the future. A dream that requires the precise moves of a Rubik’s Cube combined with the commitment of a moonshot.
But that blue Cadillac blocks the way.
Dodging it uncovers a secret that even the fortune teller couldn’t predict. A secret that places Tommy between the rock of knowledge and the hard place of revealing a disturbing truth to his new friend. A truth that draws him face-to-face with powerful men who have taken an unhealthy interest in his actions.
But the Rubik’s Cube must turn. So Tommy does what any good private eye would do when the stakes are high and he’s running out of time.
Protect the client.
Follow the money.
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Renegade

AUREALIS AWARD FINALIST; Best SF Novel of 2015’It just keeps getting better and better. Buy these books’ Winchell D. Chung, Founder, Atomic Rockets WebsiteOne thousand years after Earth was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, humanity has emerged victorious from a series of terrible wars to assure its place in the galaxy.But during celebrations on humanity’s new Homeworld, the legendary Captain Pantillo of the battle carrier UFS Phoenix is court-martialed then killed, and his deputy, Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande, the heir to humanity’s most powerful industrial family, is framed with his murder.Assisted by Phoenix’s marine commander Trace Thakur, Erik and Phoenix are forced to go on the run, as they seek to unravel the conspiracy behind their Captain’s demise, pursued to the death by their own Fleet. What they discover, about the truth behind the wars and the nature of humanity’s ancient alien allies, will shake the sentient galaxy to its core.ARTWORKScroll down to see the latest original Spiral Wars artwork by Hollywood concept & storyboard artist Aaron Sowd, and comics industry colour artist Dean White.There will eventually be a new, original artwork on each Amazon book page of the Spiral Wars series, so look through them all, and keep checking back!REVIEWSI thought this was going to be yet another cookie-cutter space opera, boy was I wrong! This was fantastic….it hits the sweet spot between hard-science and imaginary scifi science. The hard science is very hard, from the perils of centrifugal spin-gravity in combat spacecraft to the destructive potential of ultra-fast kinetic energy weapons. The scifi science is made-up, but it has the key properties which all-too-often are missing: Internal Self-Consistency and Attention To Unintended Consequences. This makes the scifi science semi-hard as well……The characters are memorable and engaging……I have read this series out to book #6. It just keeps getting better and better. Buy these books.Winchell D ChungFounder, Atomic Rockets Websitehttp://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/Amazon Review, September 25, 2019.”Joel Shepherd is one of the most dynamic science fiction writers working in the field today. Each of his books blends pulse-pounding action with mind-blowng concepts and a deep understanding of the complications of the human heart. He is one of our very best.” Lou Anders, author of Frostborn and Hugo-award winning editor.

Kelan

She’s trapped with a monster… until a more dangerous one claims her.

Michelle hides bruises behind a perfect smile, praying her abusive boyfriend won’t go too far—until one brutal night changes everything. When her powerful boss, Kelan, steps in, he doesn’t just save her… he reveals a terrifying secret.

Kelan isn’t human.

He’s a dragon warrior from another world, sent to Earth on a mission that could decide the fate of two planets. Protecting
Michelle wasn’t part of the plan—but now she’s his.

And he’ll burn the world before he lets anyone hurt her again.

Each book in this series is a standalone romance, but for the best experience, it’s recommended to read them in order.
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