Bøger af Brian Burke

If you've ever wondered what it's like to live in the beach towns near Merida, particularly Progreso, this latest book by Author Brian Burke will take you there. And to Merida. And finally, to Playa Del Carmen. Along the way, you will meet expats, see them function socially, how they party, use Facebook, (for deeds good and bad), and get a boots-(more likely flip-flops)-on-the-ground view of life in Mexico, through the eyes of Rob and Riley, who tell this story. It's a travel book, it's a comedy, it's a love story written over a background of all the Mexico you might want, from the Yucatan to Quintana Roo, Jalisco (if only for the Tequila Train!), Isla Mujeres, Cozumel, Tulum, and much, much more. The first three chapters cover Progreso, and you will get a true-life feel for living there. The fourth chapter finds grace and humility in the Yucatan, and then takes you to the magic that is Merida. The fifth and sixth chapters uncover a side of Playa Del Carmen that tourists rarely see, and explodes the myth Playa is just 'a tourist town'. The forthcoming chapters will further explore expat life in Playa, a tour of one of Mexico's finest Art Spaces, Le Lotus Rouge, a German expat's contribution to art in practice, the Playa beach bars and restaurants, and life off Fifth Ave. After that, Cozumel! Come join Rob and Riley on their journey, and meet Mexico up close with us. It's the next best thing to being there!

This book is a dual offering of Livin' In Mexico: The Real Story, and Livin' In Mexico: What It Really Costs, at a reduced price. Both books have performed well, and reviews have been for the most part very positive 26 reviews, 4 out of 5 stars, 12 reviews, 3 stars. Many readers have said they have bought both; it seems like a good idea to offer them together, especially with a lower price! Here's a compiled description of them: Livin' In Mexico: The Real StoryWhat's it like living in Mexico? It seems like a simple enough question; often asked, rarely well answered. Because Mexico is much more than just a warm sunny climate where you can beach every day if you want. For many, Mexico is hope. It's hope for a less complicated, simpler life, hope that every day has the potential to be the best day you've ever had. Mexico can be that one summer day in your past that you've never forgotten, times 365. It's as much about what it represents; the freedoms, the leisures, endless summer, romance, walking the dogs off leash on the seashore at sunset. Mexico is as much a feeling as it is a place. That's what Mexico really is. Mexico is where tired hopes and dreams get a shot at coming true. Author Brian Burke tackles the feel of Mexico in this book that takes you down deep into expatriate culture; one folded into a tiny crease of what is Mexico. He examines Mexico from the outside, looking for the real of it.How does it feel to live in Mexico is the question the author answers in this tale of expats, desperados, pirates, romance, Facebook (and the perils thereof), Mexico as Heaven and dead bankers bringing you beers, and the colorful characters who make a life where the sun shines hot and bright. Livin' In Mexico: What It Really CostsThis is the latest release in The Livin' In Mexico series by author Brian Burke. This book creates, describes, outlines, and outright lives five real-world budgets, from $500. to $2500 USD a month. It is intended to guide you, inform you, and price the cost of living across a number of different ways of life in Mexico, depending on budget. It starts monthly expenses beginning at $500 USD, and tops out at $2500 USD, creating detailed plans every $500 up. In this, the third book of the series, he explores a new theme. What does it really cost to live in Mexico? Why is there so much contradictory information online about costs? What do I need to know before making the move? And when I have made the move, how do I get the maximum benefit from the dollars available? Find a house, not get ripped off, where to shop, what to avoid?These are just some of the questions this book answers.These lifestyles are all possible, and at even the lowest levels you will eat sleep and drink just fine. Plus you'll be living in Mexico! Which in and of itself is priceless! How do you value a beautiful sunset over the ocean? Or sunrise? Endless sunny, warm days? Tacos? You can't put a dollar figure on that (OK, maybe the tacos), but if you could, consider it at roughly the cost of a week vacation in Mexico, $150 a day at a bare minimum. Most come in closer to $200 a day. But really, you can't. Living here is indeed priceless.The book covers food, transportation, housing, entertainment, healthcare, banking, internet, utilities. If you're going to need it, we're going to talk about it. Some parts of this book will benefit from select passages from the authors' first book about Mexico, entitled 'Livin' In Mexico: The Real Story'. It's a best seller; and should be read by anyone considering a move across the border. While this book is about what it really costs to live in Mexico, that book describes what it's like to actually live there. Read both, and you're so well prepared you may as well have lived in Mexico for a couple of years already.

The latest release in The Livin' In Mexico series by author Brian Burke. This book creates, describes, outlines and lives five real-world budgets, from $500. to $2500. USD a month. It is intended to guide you, inform you, price your cost of living across a number of different ways of life. It prices monthly expenses beginning at $500 USD, and tops out at $2500 USD, creating detailed plans every $500 up. Best-selling author Brian Burke explores a new theme in this, his latest book about life in Mexico. What does it really cost to live in Mexico? Why is there so much contradictory information online about costs? What do I need to know before making the move? And when I have made the move, how do I get the maximum benefit from the dollars available? Find a house, not get ripped off, where to shop, what to avoid?These are just some of the questions this book answers.These lifestyles are all possible, and at even the lowest levels you will eat sleep and drink just fine. Plus you'll be living in Mexico! Which in and of itself is priceless! How do you value a beautiful sunset over the ocean? Or sunrise? Endless sunny, warm days? Tacos? You can't put a dollar figure on that (OK, maybe the tacos), but if you could, consider it at roughly the cost of a week vacation in Mexico, $150 a day at a bare minimum. Most come in closer to $200 a day. But really, you can't. Living here is indeed priceless.The book covers food, transportation, housing, entertainment, healthcare, banking, internet, utilities. If you're going to need it, we're going to talk about it. Some parts of this book will benefit from select passages from the authors' first book about Mexico, entitled 'Livin' In Mexico: The Real Story'. It's a best seller; and should be read by anyone considering a move across the border. While this book is about what it really costs to live in Mexico. that book describes what it's like to actually live in Mexico. Read both, and you're so well prepared you may as well have lived in Mexico for a couple of years already.From the author: I decided to write this book for a number of reasons. One, I live on a budget. I'm not retired, and have no fixed income. This has allowed me to live all five of the budgets outlined in this book. They're all possible, I've lived them. This affords insight on what's affordable at different levels of income. Two, I haven't seen any book to date that describes cost of living in Mexico across multiple income levels. So we're going to do that. Who knows? Maybe you'll come into some money, your income will rise, and you'll say to yourself, 'Damn, if only I had a book that helps me figure out my new budget.' Well, you'll already have one! But mostly it's because people have different income levels, so why not try and address as many potential situations as possible?Three, and probably most importantly, I've been wanting to offer a definitive, reference, no bullshit guide for a while now. You buy the book, you get the straight dope. That's the deal, you get the real story. Because: The quality of information online is more often than not inaccurate. Sometimes, if not oftentimes, it's offered as a public service, but biased to favour a financial position, like selling you a condo. Everyone is selling something, I'm just selling this book.If you've read either of my other books on Mexico, you will know what to expect from this one. It will be the plain, unvarnished, nothin-but-de-truth truth. We won't gloss over anything to avoid ruffling feathers (which of course we will), we're just going to be real. Because Mexico is real, and if you get that, if you live that, you can't help but be real yourself.

Originally, House Sitting in Mexico was to be a chapter In 'Livin' In Mexico: What It Really Costs.' After all, it provides a cost benefit, it's a viable source for free housing, in return for something most of us have done all our lives. Seemed like a good fit. Although it didn't. Fit that is. House Sitting in Mexico is a fast-growing business. For some owners, the idea of leaving a property unattended long-term in some parts of Mexico could go something like this: Pedro: You know Hermano, those gringos in that very nice house over there, we haven't seen them in a long time, eh? Jose: Si Pedro, chances are they have taken the airplane back to their mansion and many servants back in their home country, where gold lies on the street for just anyone to pick up. Pedro: I'm sure you're right, and right now they are busy throwing dollars off bridges for the fish to have some spending money. But, think, for just one second, what if they are sick, in this house here, and no one has come to help them? And that's why we haven't seen them? Eh? What if that's why? Jose: This, amigo, this is why you are so well-regarded by all; you are always thinking of others. Pedro: Gracias amigo, It's just the way I am, I can't help myself. Do you have the crowbar we used to check on those other gringos last week? A nod to a truly great writer, John Steinbeck, for creating this line of reasoning among his characters in a truly wonderful book; Tortilla Flat. Forget buying this one, go read that one, if you haven't already! Those characters actually do, in a way, house sit. If only because they never paid a cent of rent. Yet another driving force behind home owners considering sitters is their market for renters is limited to seasoned expats who know how to find rentals at local rates, and as a general rule are often limited financially. The $400 or $500 monthly income, if they can get that, may be more trouble than it's worth. Occasionally, home owners will adopt local dogs or cats, but for whatever reason may not be able to take them back home. While a renter will say, 'um, no, ' a sitter will take as good care of Fluffy as the owners ever did. And Goodbye 'Potentially Homeless Animal' problem when you use a sitter. So Home owners are motivated. Sitters are motivated. It's one of those transactions that equally benefits both parties, and that's why, particularly in Mexico, house sitting is growing more in demand. This book is focused on house sitting in Mexico, but looks at offerings from both local and global sites to get a bigger picture of the house sitting world. If you live in Mexico, and especially if you're working a tight budget, house sitting should be something you become familiar with. And so this book, the fourth in the 'Livin' In Mexico' series, by Brian Burke.

Suzan and I. It's a true life love story writ large, bold, it's magical. It can make you believe in fairies and love dust, cupids aiming arrows, princesses swept off their feet to live in castles happily ever after. Until the princess dies. My Suzan passed away March 20/2019. This book was written in 2017, and published under a nom de plume, or pen name, to protect our identities. It's intensely personal, and of course private. Now, with Suzan gone, it is repurposed; to stand as a memoir of our love that will live on in our words, a testimony to her, a monument made out of a powerful love. A way to keep her memory alive.As a musician, I've written songs with the same intent. Suzan was my life love, and as her partner, keeping her memory alive is my intent. Because no one really dies until they're forgotten. And so this book, published under my real name. It's going to make you cry, as it does me. But it lives, and through this book, and the music, Suzan will too.This book is going to take you close to the very beginning, via our email exchanges, her in Canada, me in Mexico. When all we had was email exchanges.Then her in Mexico, us together. It's a love story. It's romance, hot humid days by the sea, steamy sex, and adventure. It was a book writing itself, a story that had to be documented and recorded. At least it felt that way to us. Like all lovers, we believed this was a love never experienced before in all the histories and herstories. If we were apart, nature itself would protest, throwing around hurricanes and frothy seas. It was that kind of love. It was Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, it was Moby Dick. Suzan was my match.So far so good right? Who wouldn't want a love like that? We had our challenges however. First, we lived in separate countries. That's a bit of a problem. And so we spent as much time together as we had apart. That kind of torture should be regulated by international conventions concerning human rights and abuses. There should be a fund lovers can draw on to avoid being apart. But there isn't, and Suzan and I had spent too much time apart. And it's like you're where you are, but your heart is somewhere else. Something critical is just gone. Of course it is, when you're in love, you give it freely to your lover, and you're grateful your lover accepts it. Love hurts, love heals, love is its own special place. When you're in love, you live on a higher plane. When you're in love, your first and last thought is of your lover. You feel synced to the natural order of things. It just feels right. You know it, you don't question it, it aligns you, it enhances you, it sensitizes you. You breath deeper, sleep better, wake beside your heart beating on the pillow next to you. And when you lose your lover, when nothing will ever bring her back, a piece of you dies with her. That part of you that was hers, your heart, your ability to love another person that way, it just dies, because she took it with her. That place inside you is still hers, and she's gone, leaving you just memories. And memories don't love you back. And you miss that. You're disconnected, you're incomplete. And you can't imagine a time when you won't feel that way. You're alive, but also dead, because love is life. And maybe you feel you will never be able to love again. Maybe you're afraid to try. But mostly you just hurt in a place that previously held only bliss. There's love, there's drama, there's the lowest of lows, the highest of highs, break ups, hissy fits, humor, demands, and finally, reconciliation. Sort of. There's royalty; Suzan has a pedigree dating back to 18th century Vienna, There's plans made, plans abandoned, flights missed, hearts broken, hearts healed, hearts on the line in a struggle to be together in the face of seemingly-too-huge-to overcome obstacles. Until one final, unassailable obstacle.

This book is a quadruple offering of Livin' In Mexico: The Real Story, Livin' In Mexico: What It Really Costs, Livin' In Mexico: Housesitting, and Livin' in Mexico: The Yucatan And Riviera Maya, at a reduced price. The books have performed well, and reviews have been for the most part quite positive (45 reviews, 4 out of 5 stars average).Here's a compiled description of them: Livin' In Mexico: The Real StoryWhat's it like living in Mexico? It seems like a simple enough question; often asked, rarely well answered. Because Mexico is much more than just a warm sunny climate where you can beach every day if you want. For many, Mexico is hope. It's hope for a less complicated, simpler life, hope that every day has the potential to be the best day you've ever had. It's as much about what it represents; the freedoms, the leisures, endless summer, romance, walking the dogs off leash on the seashore at sunset. Mexico is as much a feeling as it is a place. That's what Mexico really is. Mexico is where tired hopes and dreams get a shot at coming true. How does it feel to live in Mexico is the question the author answers in this tale of expats, desperados, pirates, romance, Facebook (and the perils thereof), Mexico as Heaven and dead bankers bringing you beers, and the colorful characters who make a life where the sun shines hot and bright. Livin' In Mexico: What It Really CostsThis is the latest release in The Livin' In Mexico series by author Brian Burke. This book creates, describes, outlines, and outright lives five real-world budgets, from $500. to $2500 USD a month. It is intended to guide you, inform you, and price the cost of living across a number of different ways of life in Mexico, depending on budget. It starts monthly expenses beginning at $500 USD, and tops out at $2500 USD, creating detailed plans every $500 up. Some parts of this book will benefit from select passages from the authors' first book about Mexico, entitled 'Livin' In Mexico: The Real Story'. It's a best seller; and should be read by anyone considering a move across the border. While this book is about what it really costs to live in Mexico, that book describes what it's like to actually live there. Read both, and you're so well prepared you may as well have lived in Mexico for a couple of years already.Originally, House Sitting in Mexico was to be a chapter In 'Livin' In Mexico: What It Really Costs.' After all, it provides a cost benefit, it's a viable source for free housing, in return for something most of us have done all our lives. Seemed like a good fit. Although it didn't. Fit that is. It's one of those transactions that equally benefits both parties, and that's why, particularly in Mexico, house sitting is growing more popular.Livin' in Mexico: The Yucatan And Riviera MayaIf you've ever wondered what it's like to live in the beach towns near Merida, particularly Progreso, this latest book by Author Brian Burke will take you there. And to Merida. And finally, to Playa Del Carmen. Along the way, you will meet expats, see them function socially, how they party, use Facebook, (for deeds good and bad), and get a boots-(more likely flip-flops)-on-the-ground view of life in Mexico, through the eyes of Rob and Riley.

Want to invest in real estate but don't have the time? Outsource your investments with passive syndications! Even if you don't have time to be in the trenches, you can still add real estate to your investment portfolio. Syndication deals provide an avenue to invest in real estate without tenants, toilets, or trash--and this comprehensive guide will teach you to invest in private offerings the right way. Syndications are to real estate like mutual funds are to stocks: A typical deal involves multiple investors passively financing a fund, while a manager is responsible for picking the real estate and managing the portfolio. Author Brian Burke, a syndications insider with decades of experience with forming and managing syndication funds, will show you how to evaluate sponsors, opportunities, and offerings so you can pick the right sponsors and achieve the highest odds of a favorable outcome. Inside, you'll learn: How to find real estate syndication investment sponsors--and how to evaluate them to find the best possible opportunities The practical skills you need to understand income, cash flow projections, and investor waterfalls Red flags to look for and tricks that syndication sponsors can play How various debt options affect risk and return The biggest and most common underwriting mistakes that sponsors make The important difference between identified asset syndications and blind pool funds Typical sponsor fees and profit splits The tax implications of syndication investments and how to implement a proper reporting strategy How to measure alignment of interest, judge performance projections, and more!

It has been said that golf looks so easy, so why is it so hard? For years, I was just like so many golfer, struggling to develop my "e;feel"e; around the green. With a growing family and a military career, it left me with less and less time to practice. After designing the ZoneGolf123 system, I realized that I had "e;cracked the code"e; on the short game. I designed a system that was now as easy to execute as the game looked. I knew I changed the way the short game should be evaluated and executed. This change in paradigm replaces the "e;old"e; with the "e;new"e;. From trying to manipulate the club to hit a spot on the green to knowing that you can hit close to that spot over and over again under any kind of pressure. By using a few Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), I was not only able to execute shots around the green consistently, I was able to document how it happened. By discovering how far shots went in practice, I was able to trust it on the course. By following this easy to use formula you too can excel at the short game.

Set with traditional guidelines for the superhero genre but with a gay twist, this story introduces interesting homosexual and heterosexual characters with various agendas and different points of view making personal interaction and plot development intriguing for the reader. "This is a colorfully captivating tale of a hero whose personality is electric as his superhero abilities. Ryan Hunter AKA Edge Walker despite being anti-social is psychologically and physiologically ingrained to terminate the vicious acts of the good-for-nothing sociopaths. Edge experiences inky matters in his not so anti-social acts. I can only hope Edge sheds some darkness and look forward to his brighter future." John Friend