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Burn Zones

Burn Zones

by Jorge P. Newbery

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About This Book

Life was good for Jorge Newbery. A high school dropout and serial entrepreneur, he built a real estate empire of over 4,000 apartments across the USA. Taking risks and working tirelessly were the ingredients to his rise. But, he took one risk too many.An ice storm on Christmas Eve 2004 triggered his collapse. He was maligned, publicly shamed, and financially gutted—even arrested. He lost everything and ended up $26 million in debt.As he struggled to regain his footing, he spent what he could to get others to help lift him up. But no one did. He discovered that there was only one person who could lift him back up. Then, he chose a new life’s purpose: to help others crushed by unaffordable debts rebuild themselves.Burn Zones is a story of playing life’s bad hands and overcoming adversity against the worst possible odds. It’s an inspirational story of a man who was pushed to his mental and physical limits, and came out the other side even stronger.And, most of all, it’s a lesson that you can do the same.

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Jorge P. Newbery

Jorge P. Newbery

Jorge P. Newbery is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of American Homeowner Preservation, a socially responsible enterprise that purchases nonperforming mortgages from banks at a discount and shares those discounts with families to help them settle their mortgages and stay in their homes.

Between 1992 and 2005, he built a portfolio of roughly 4,000 apartments across the United States, turning around some of the country’s most troubled housing complexes. A natural disaster then triggered a financial collapse that left him more than $26 million in debt. Rather than file for bankruptcy, he developed strategies to gain leverage over creditors and settle his debts for a fraction of what was owed.

He is the author of Burn Zones, Debt Cleanse, and Stories of the Indebted, in which he shares the tools and techniques he used to overcome overwhelming debt and to help others do the same.

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