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The Savvy Landlord: A Common Sense Approach to Real Estate Investing
Steven VanCauwenbergh & Walter Jenkins · 2018
🎙 Narrated by Dean Wendt
74/100
👍 Worth It
VanCauwenbergh's homelessness-to-50-properties story gives this real emotional weight most landlord guides don't have, and the practical tenant-management content is grounded in decades of hands-on experience. Dean Wendt's narration runs a tidy five hours, and the story alone makes it worth the listen even before you get to the how-to.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Unabridged, ~5 hours, narrated by Dean Wendt via Teflon Publishing — no detailed critique found, but a dedicated professional narrator and clean runtime are good signs.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety80
Substance / usefulness70
Craft & writing72
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy58
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit80
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict74
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