: John Boll
: Wheelbarrow and a Shovel The Story Behind America's Most Unlikely Real Estate Empire
: Forefront Books
: 9781637630327
: 1
: CHF 12.60
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: Biographien, Autobiographien
: English
: 226
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB
A Wheelbarrow and a Shovel documents the rags-to-riches success story of John Boll who built a real estate empire by developing manufactured home communities around the world then selling his company to the State of Washington Pension Fund for $2.3 billion.A Wheelbarrow and a Shovel documents the truly remarkable story of one of America's most unlikely business success stories. Starting with only a wheelbarrow and a shovel, as well as the same American dream that led his parents to leave their native Holland for the United States, John Boll built a real estate empire in the most unlikely of waysby developing and improving manufactured home communities around the country. It's a rags-to-riches tale that could only happen in Americaand only with the hand of God leading the way. Before Boll sold his company to the State of Washington Pension Fund for $2.3 billion, he was the first person to take a collection of mobile home communities to Wall Street.