Ashes on My Lollipop 2: Las Vegas Exposed

IF YOU PUT THIS BOOK DOWN IT WOULD BE A BIG MISTAKE So you have been coming here for a few years and you think you know all there is to know about Las Vegas. The Hotel and Casino management are awfully glad that you feel that way. Take it from me, that confidence you have is music to their ears that keeps them building more and more hotels. Why would you listen to me? Well if you haven't read Ashes On My Lollipop 1, you'd better. I came visiting Las Vegas for the first time in 1958. I continued to visit at least twice a year till 1988. I was the Controller of a Travel Wholesaler in New York that sent thousands of people to Las Vegas. In 1988, I moved here and had occasion to be in the Real Estate business in the height of the boom. I then spent about 5 years teaching in several colleges. I taught some senior citizens how to sell their own homes and became the nemesis of many realtors, who weren't allowed to sell a home in 10 days and get a 6% commission. People were selling their homes in California, which they had bought years ago for $90,000-. They were getting over $500,000- for them and moving to Las Vegas to find another $90,000- home, which rose astronomically until the inevitable slump that hit Las Vegas about 2008. If they had sold in 2005, they would have turned an enormous profit for the second time in their lives. But, WHO KNEW? I also taught Travel and Accounting in college. Then in 1998, I began driving a taxi. I did this for 12 years. Do you have any idea how much you can learn about a city with this job? This book is full of the inside scoop of this city. Tell me who else do you know that has been in my positions in Las Vegas since 1958? Just for the non-accounting minds out there, that's 54 years. You have a choice. Listen to the hype for this city and weep. I'd rather have you read this book and be aware. Because, through it all I still believe that Las Vegas is the greatest city in the world!