Frank McKinney continues his international bestseller tradition of delivering contrarian perspectives and strategies for generational success in real estate. Tired of all the doom and gloom? Frank McKinney helps you wash away the worry—the anxiety financial theorists and misguided media constantly dump into the real-estate marketplace. During his thirty-year career, this 'real estate rock czar' (The Wall Street Journal) and undisputed 'king of the ready-made dream homes' (USA Today) has not only survived but thrived through all economic conditions by taking the contrarian position and making his own markets. Burst This! Frank McKinney's Bubble-Proof Real Estate Strategies clearly shows you how to prepare for and time the upswings while insulating your real estate investments from the inherent, inevitable corrective cycle. The truth is that opportunities to profit abound during every phase. Lots of people prosper in boom times, of course, but many set themselves up to make even bigger money during a crisis/correction. Why not do both, now? Investors of all experience levels learn to turn the bubble mentality inside out, transforming it into a protective force field and a crystal ball, allowing you to accurately forecast your real estate future. You will see how you can aspire not just to survival, but also to what McKinney calls "thrival," developing your ability to capitalize on market conditions. McKinney takes you on a factual real estate retrospective, a "post mortem" of the housing markets, beginning with the mid-seventies to today. By studying six distinct real estate cycles over the last fifty years, he sifts out critical, recurring trends that highlight significant opportunities while signaling you where history might repeat itself. You will see exactly how McKinney has successfully handled these predictable cycles with timeless financial and investment strategies. • Hear a resounding counter-opinion to the doomsayers and the get-rich-quick schemers who crawl out of the cesspool whenever the market's pendulum swings too far in one direction—and guard against falling into their traps. • Discover why the positive and negative excitement (a.k.a. greed and fear) associated with boom and bust times are your worst enemies, brought out by nothing more than recurring market cycles. • Get the evidentiary truth, not the fear-mongering or the sugar-coating, on real-estate's ups and downs. • Pinpoint the real-estate investments, and a proven approach to marketing them, that have consistently shown immunity to the market's volatile fluctuations. "Dismiss what the so-called experts tell you to do and listen to Frank McKinney, who has taken more risk and has made it big regardless of market conditions for nearly twenty-five years. McKinney has the goods to help any real estate investor thrive anytime, anywhere. Read Burst This! now and stop the naysayers cold in their tracks." John Assaraf , bestselling author of The Answer and former RE/MAX of Indiana CEO "A true real estate artist, Frank McKinney continues to make markets where others don't dare to tread. Now this visionary contrarian shows you how to prosper in any real estate environment." Rich DeVos , co-founder of Amway, owner of the Orlando Magic, and author of Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People Tired of all the bubble-talk, all the doom and gloom? Here comes Frank McKinney to help you wash away the worry—the anxiety financial theorists and misguided media constantly dump into the real estate marketplace. From first-time home buyers to seasoned real estate deal-makers, investors of all experience levels can now turn the bubble mentality inside out. You'll transform it into a protective force field and even a crystal ball, allowing you to accurately forecast your real estate future. For nearly a quarter-century, bestselling author, philanthro-capitalist, and real estate visionary Frank McKinney has been blessed with the ability to create art in the form of the world's most magnificent multimillion-dollar oceanfront estate homes, each set on the sun-drenched canvas of Palm Beach on Florida's gold coast. The world's wealthiest clamor for McKinney's masterpieces, which are each inspired by exotic locales and infused with vivid imagination. Just a two-hour flight away from these palaces, in the least developed country in the Americas, McKinney builds entire self-sufficient villages through his Caring House Project Foundation. His gift and passion for extraordinary homes extends to his role as the founder and director of this nonprofit 501(c)(3) organzation, which he established in 1998. CHPF helps create a self-sustaining existence for families living in poverty in Haiti, South America, Africa, Indonesia, and the United States. The foundation develops entire communities, complete with homes, medical clinics, orphanages, schools, churches, clean water, and agricultural assets, including livestock and crops. If there was a modern-day