How I Turned $50 into $5 Million in Country Property--Part Time and How You Can Do the Same [Hardcover]

B. K. Haynes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2004

Comprehensive volume on buying and selling country property for profit. This book is designed to help anyone with a basic education make profit in rural real estate. Written by Accredited land broker, B.K. Haynes, this indexed, easy-to-read volume traces the country property field back 40 years. If used as instructed, this book can literally make you rich!

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About the Author

B.K. Haynes is a real estate broker, developer, publisher, educator, and author with more than forty years experience in the field of country properties. Haynes has sold, developed, and brokered an estimated 300 square miles of land over a four-state region -- a land area the size of the Shenandoah National Park. He lives on an historic 250 acre cattle farm with airstrip in Virginia's fabled Shenandoah Valley. He is also the author of the best selling book, HOW YOU CAN GROW RICH THROUGH RURAL LAND - Starting from Scratch.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 532 pages
• Publisher: Sheridan Books, Inc. (June 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932586031
• ISBN-13: 978-0932586032
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,566,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brad Haynes is a true renaissance man and has been called the "Donald Trump of the Shenandoah Valley". He started from scratch and then made millions in country property before turning his attention to writing. He is the author of seven books, and host of the popular radio show, Valley of the Stars in Front Royal, Virginia. Having been principal partner in the Branson, Missouri theatrical production, # 1 Hits of the 60's, he is now turning his attention to the film industry.

While others who made their fortunes in the real estate field are running scared and heading for the hills, Haynes is forging ahead with his own production company and working on his first feature film.

"Whatever he touches, turns to gold," says Jeanne Russell , producer of the
Valley of the Stars radio show.

Haynes' next book, Real Estate ADventures Volumes I and II are due to be published this year.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

66 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Is it a history lesson or a how to book?, September 9, 2005

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Karakoram "karakoram" (Reno, NV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How I Turned $50 into $5 Million in Country Property--Part Time and How You Can Do the Same (Hardcover)

I bought this book based on the prior 7 reviews. The prior reviewers need higher standards. The author spent about 1/2 of this book recapping world history, from the 60's to the new century, and the recap has nothing to do with real estate. For example, he talkes about what was happening in Vietnam, and then he tells about what he was doing at the same time back in the states (buying/selling land). Its not a very good How To book, because he never really discusses his reasons for the wordings of his ads, his strategies, etc.

Also, the title is misleading. It took this guy 45 years to have $5 million in real estate. I will be returing my copy to Amazon.

Also, this is a very, thick, wordy book, and only 1/2 to 1/4 of it is actually spent talking about real estate.


I heard that this other books are better from someone that knows real estate: Finding and Buying your Place in the Country by Les Scher and How to Make a Fortune Investing in Real Estate: The Land Game by Albert Winnikoff. Robert J. Abalos-Investing in Land

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Overrated and Outdated, November 3, 2008

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T. Gallion (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How I Turned $50 into $5 Million in Country Property--Part Time and How You Can Do the Same (Hardcover)

The book is very overrated. Most of the ideas are outdated. The book is purely autobiographical. Haynes talks in great depth about how he became rich every step of the way from the sixties through the nineties. Those bargains that existed long time ago, just don't exist anymore. He talks about buying land in the wilderness, swamp land and on mountain tops. This isn't going to have useful purposes for most people who want land that they can live on. The book may have been useful and interesting reading at one time. In today's day, the book is irrelevent. It would be a waste of money to buy,

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Personal experience, December 9, 2006

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Wallace L. Haynes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How I Turned $50 into $5 Million in Country Property--Part Time and How You Can Do the Same (Hardcover)

I especially enjoyed this book because I was a small part of the country property business when I lived in the Washington D.C. area 40 years ago during the 60's. As a salesman, I sold many of the properties developed by B.K. Haynes to enthusiastic and highly satisfied buyers. My work was made much easier when excited customers asked to meet the person who wrote "those wonderful ads." Haynes has the remarkable ability to form pictures in the minds of those ad readers looking for country property. They became doubly excited when the properties they looked at were exactly as he described them and precisely what they were hoping to find. His inclusion of world historical events in this book is a valuable tool that hopeful property developers might use to gauge the state of mind in prospective buyers. The How To features in this book are so clearly defined that readers should have little difficulty adapting them to their own property development efforts. With an entertaining narrative writing style, B.K. Haynes delivered what was promised in the book's title. He explained exactly "How I Turned $50 into $5 Million in Country Property - Part Time.