Rating: 
Summary: Save your money - same stuff FREE at this web site
Review: Let me save you some money right now. You can access the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance for Free at http://12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html
This listing is a lot more up-to-date, and the full version is nearly 2000 pages long. Gee, I guess the government has enough "free money" to publish its own book.
Rating: 
Summary: An Expensive Phonebook!!!
Review: Most of the stuff Mr. Lesko talks about is available. You can get grants for your home, you can get loans for business, you can get different loans for school. The problem with this book is Mr. Lesko makes it sound like it's top secret stuff and the money is just sent to you in the mail. His marketing gimmicks are highly questionable. The book does have real goverment programs listed. You can find any of this information by checking out the Small Business Admin. web site. All he has done is taken little & well known programs (like HUD,SBA,etc..) and compiled them into one book. If your curious about the money he's talking about, check the book out from the library and look the stuff up online or call your neighborhood small business association or the goverments Housing and Urban Developement program. Save yourself 30+ dollars, Dont buy it.
Rating: 
Summary: Free Money to Change Your Life by Lesko
Review: This is an excellent reference work for obtaining government
grant money pertaining to housing , education, entrepreneurship,
health care and a myriad of other practical-everyday needs.
There is a senior housing initiative, RESTORE loans for home
repair and Mitchell -Lama Housing funds through the NYS Real Estate programs at 518-473-2517. There are Food for the Elderly
Programs at 703-305-2680. There is a federal clearinghouse for
the disabled at 202-205-8241. Public Housing Block Grants are
made thrugh 202-619-8201. NYS Child Care Initiatives are at
518-474-2445 and 9454. Persons temporarily disabled may contact
518-474-9475 in NYS. Teacher Education Programs are funded at
800-276-0460. The NY MICROLOAN Program is another education
funding program. Special jobs programs are at USJOBNET and
NYTRAID. The NYS Housing Programs are at 212-688-4000. This book
has a wealth of career and job-related grants and loan programs.
Additionally, there are many programs geared to aid the elderly,
disabled, entrepreneurs, women and children. The volume is worth
the price of admission for the shear volume of qualitative
information presented.
Rating:
Summary: Read this as "No Stars", please
Review: I think I speak for all public librarians when I say, "I HATE THIS BOOK."I hate the fact that I have to keep it behind the desk so it won't get stolen. I hate that people constantly ask for it because they are either A. Naive enough to believe you can get something for nothing or B. Lazy enough to expect to get something for nothing or C. Pathetic because they are depressed and think that this Lesko con artist can save their lives. I hate that nothing in it is true, or is true but has been warped by his presentation to the point that the less sophisticated John Q. Publics think that they can get a million dollars just by filling out some obscure form (which we don't carry) and mailing it to some obscure address (which we do not have a listing for). I don't believe in banning books, or starting book bonfires, but I really, really, really wish this book would go out of print. Permanently.
Rating:
Summary: Waste of time!
Review: Reader from Oklahoma, we know you are Matthew Lesko! You make so many references to yourself. Shame on you for writing your own review! If you are upset about your book getting bad reviews then trying writing a book with substance!
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