Without Risk There's No Reward: Tales, Trials and Truisms from the Amazing Life of a Pioneering Southern California Developer

By Robert Mayer and Peter Weisz

Bob Mayer has built a stunning edifice, shaped by his own experiences as a builder, a banker, a businessman, a hotel and casino operator, and a world-class real estate entrepreneur. From his modest beginnings as a day laborer amid the post-war Southern California housing boom, to his years as the region’s largest developer of multi-family residential housing, WITHOUT RISK recounts a true American Dream come true. In colorful vignettes, Bob shares many of the amazing and outrageous anecdotes he has collected over his fifty years as a successful real estate developer.
Acclaimed for building some of the most luxurious properties along the Pacific Coast, Bob, in these pages, builds “story” upon unforgettable “story” to construct a personal history high-rise that will delight and astound you.
Today, Bob Mayer enjoys the widespread re-spect and admiration of his industry and his peers. After reading “WITHOUT RISK THERE'S NO REWARD,” you will undoubtedly feel the same way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9780359895670

Robert Mayer

Robert Mayer has written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, GQ, and more. His first novel, Superfolks, changed superhero fiction forever. Best-selling author John Grisham called his The Dreams of Ada "a fascinating book, a wonderful reminder of how good true-crime writing can be." Mayer lives in New Mexico with his tapestry-weaving wife, La Donna, and their people-loving pit bull.