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A Million Bucks by 30: How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty
At twenty-two, Alan Corey left his mom’s basement in Atlanta and moved to New York City with one goal in mind: to become a millionaire by the time he was thirty. His parents and friends laughed, but six years later they were all celebrating his prosperous accomplishment–at a bar Corey owned in one of Brooklyn’s hippest neighborhoods.
No, Corey didn’t climb the corporate ladder to build his fortune. In fact, he worked the same entry-level 9-to-5 job for six years straight. But by pinching his pennies and making sound investments, he watched a pittance blossom into a seven-digit bank account. In A Million Bucks by 30, Corey recounts his rags-to-riches journey and shares his secrets to success.
WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO BECOME FILTHY RICH.
“What a steal . . . For any entrepreneur the advice in these pages is worth more than a million bucks.”
–Barbara Corcoran, founder, The Corcoran Group
“This is the best personal finance book I’ve ever read. Part self-help, part brass-tacks money guide; Corey’s confessional tales of making it to the million dollar mark are as hilarious as they are helpful.”
–John Reynolds, writer, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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#2 written by American Dream 1 year ago
Review by American Dream for A Million Bucks by 30: How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty
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I love true stories about the ways that people created their own opportunities for being succesful. The author has a witty and sarcastic writing style that makes you want to cheer for him. Throughout the book you can just tell from his determination that he is going to find a way to make it.Even though a large part of his success was luck and timing, you have to have the guts to be in the game to make any money. This book is a relief from all of the other fake real estate authors out there that are just trying to motivate you by selling the lifestyle and theory.
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#3 written by www.bookshipper.blogspot.com/ 1 year ago
Review by http://www.bookshipper.blogspot.com/ for A Million Bucks by 30: How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty
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I wanted to hate this book because it basically says ‘if you are okay with not having a life until you are 30 then you can be a millionnaire’.But when I started reading it, I kind of got into the whole concept. The author is actually funny (sometimes when he is not even trying to be) and some of his tips are dowright unethical (reuse the same popcorn bag for free refills – time after time after time), but I found his story kind of inspirational.
You can tell that the author firmly stands behind his recommendations and he has the guts to get out there and just do it (although a fair amount of luck was also involved).
I liked the writing (straightfoward and entertaining) and if you are ready to basically stop living for a set number of years, then this is the book for you.
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#4 written by Gauss 1 year ago
Review by Gauss for A Million Bucks by 30: How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty
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I thought this book was a good read, but most people are going to miss the point that the author’s outcome (ie, having a net worth of $1 million) was mostly due to luck. Just look at his breakdown of what his assets were at the end of the book. His multifamily house essentially doubled in value in the space of a couple of years, and accounted for a large chunk of the $1 mil.To borrow one of Taleb’s (Fooled by Randomness) phrases, you have to look at “alternate histories” here. Not what just happened to occur, but think of what COULD HAVE occured if the author used the exact same techniques, but in different environments that he would have no control over. The author happend to be the right age and live in the perfect time and place to benefit from an unprecendented real estate market. What if he instead was born five years later (or at any other time for that matter) and did the exact same things? If he did the exact same things NOW, he could easily have wound up with negative equity in his property, if he could finance it in the first place. His outcome discussed in this book would probably be in the top 1% of possibilities. He even addresses the fact that he benefitted from luck, but totally undervalues that impact of course.
Don’t get me wrong, his money saving techniques are all valid, but that is no where near the reason for his net worth getting to $1 mil that quickly. Eating ramen is more for show, to try and make a statement to your friends. In the end, doing those type of things will certainly help, but it’s still a drop in the bucket when compared to luck beyond one’s control.
In the book, Corey makes the point that you have to spread out your assets so that you can be in the position to get lucky with one of them. I agree with that completely. But you still have to GET lucky!
While I think most readers could learn something from the author, it would be wildly inaccurate for the author to claim this is an instruction manual on how to get to $1 million. You can’t just say “buy real estate in a perfect environment, and it’s value will increase by 50% per year.” Not to mention the fact that he got his last $100k or so from the advance on this BOOK DEAL! Haha. If the book was titled, “A Sure Fire Way to $100k by 30″ that would be much more reasonable and would factor out randomness.
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#5 written by Smith 1 year ago
Review by Smith for A Million Bucks by 30: How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty
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While not everyone will be interested in using all of Alan Corey’s techniques to become a millionaire (eating ramen noodles every day for three months, for example), I think most people will benefit to his no-nonsense approach to saving money and building wealth.His book is full of funny stories (like going with a group of friends on the Jerry Springer show with a made-up story, as a way of getting a free spring vacation) and some extreme cheapskate anecdotes, but mainly this is the story of a guy who set up a very ambitious goal: to become a millionaire by age thirty and, despite having a low salary in the most expensive city in the country, managed to accomplish his goal–ahead of time. As he said, he couldn’t control his income but made sure to control his outcome.
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Review by Mike for A Million Bucks by 30: How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty
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It’s written as sort of a tip-guide to making a million. He’s cheap and that’s great and he has some great methods for unconsciously living below your means. The hidden savings account is a great one. Eating for two dollars a day in NYC is also awesome. The fact is he got into Red Hook and Clinton Hill real estate just as (or before) they completely exploded. So, as long as you can buy a two bedroom in Clinton Hill for $100,000 you should be all set as well. It came across to me as a tale of a real estate flipper which was not what I was looking for.
Also I thought the book ended very abruptly.