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From time to time a real estate housing is running amok. Home prices kept going 3-5-10 times sharply up, then spiraled down. Intoxicated buyers are keeping snapping houses and condos, regardless of price, as if only a sky is a limit. Then suddenly, without any warnings all buyers simultaneously stopped their buying sprees. The result is: real es
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What Is Amok? Or, Housing Amok. - Alla P. Gakuba
Book Title
BOOKS BY ALLA P. GAKUBA, BSCE, MAS, PhD
Trilogy: motivational nonfiction short stories
to teach logic, creativity, new skills, and
self-esteem that would change readers lives:
What Is Life? What Is Happiness?
(Book 1)
A Person Is a Product of Time, Place,
and Circumstances
(Book 2)
How to Design Innovations and Solve
Business and Personal Problems
(Book 3)
FleuronsBooks are available on Amazon, in bookstores, and worldwide wherever books sold. Visit author’s website for free stories, extras and much more at www.allaPgakuba.com
FleuronsAt the end of this Short Story please see
A LIST OF ALL INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORIES FROM NONFICTION SERIES #1 - #60
BY ALLA P. GAKUBA, BSCE, MAS, PhD
Book TitleCopyright © 2017 by Alla P. Gakuba, BSCE, MAS, PhD
All rights reserved.
SHORT STORY #39: What Is Amok? Or, Housing Amok
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