For all real estate speculators, “Making Hard Cash in a Soft Real Estate Market” by Wendy Patton and Justin Ryan may be an informative read. The authors suggest real estate buyers should purchase in “emerging markets” rather than in their hometowns, as most realty investors do and explain how to find the next high-growth emerging markets for real estate. Their theory of market timing sounds good. But the implementation leaves much to be desired because they fail to give actual examples of how they applied their theories and earned big profits.