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Decision Making for Personal Investment

Real Estate Financing, Foreclosures and Other Issues

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explores individual investor’s decision-making process when faced with investment choices
  • Features a decision making model that presents six dominant decision pathways
  • Examines real estate investment decisions globally
  • Includes examples that demonstrates how some investors have overcome bad investment decisions

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Six Dominant Pathways for Personal and Real Estate Decisions

    • Waymond Rodgers, Timothy G McFarlin
    Pages 1-9
  3. Understanding the Decision-Making Process for Personal Investments

    • Waymond Rodgers, Timothy G McFarlin
    Pages 11-15
  4. Six Decision Pathways for Personal Investment Decision Making

    • Waymond Rodgers, Timothy G McFarlin
    Pages 17-42
  5. How the Recent Economic Downturn Differs from Previous Downturns

    • Waymond Rodgers, Timothy G McFarlin
    Pages 53-58
  6. The Real Estate Market Investment

    • Waymond Rodgers, Timothy G McFarlin
    Pages 59-64
  7. Irrational and Rational Homeowner Considerations

    • Waymond Rodgers, Timothy G McFarlin
    Pages 65-78
  8. Foreclosure and Options for Avoiding Foreclosure

    • Waymond Rodgers, Timothy G McFarlin
    Pages 79-84
  9. Conclusion

    • Waymond Rodgers, Timothy G McFarlin
    Pages 85-88
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 89-89

About this book

This book presents a personal financial decision making model based on six dominant decision making pathways. It outlines each pathway in detail before focusing on real estate investments in the second part of the book. Based on the authors extensive research into investment decision making, decision modeling and experimental psychology, strategies presented in this book will facilitate more successful investment decision making.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas, El Paso/ University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

    Waymond Rodgers

  • McFarlin LLP, California , USA

    Timothy G. McFarlin

About the authors

Waymond Rodgers is a C.P.A. and Chair Professor in the School of Business at the University of Hull, UK. He is also the El Paso Community Chair Professor at the University of Texas, El Paso, and at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Previously he was a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and Irvine, USA and has worked as an auditor with Ernst & Young and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, as well as a commercial loan officer with Union Bank. He has consulted with Bank of America, Citibank, Santander Bank, and Union Bank in the areas of commercial lending, corporate social responsibility and intellectual capital. His primary research areas are auditing, commercial lending decisions, decision modeling, ethics, trust issues, intellectual capital, and knowledge management.

Timothy G. McFarlin is an Attorney at McFarlin LLP with expertise in a variety of practice areas including real estate law, debt reorganization, bankruptcy, businesslitigation, and consumer law and mortgage litigation. 

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eBook USD 44.99
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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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