A Wheelbarrow and a Shovel documents the rags-to-riches success story of John Boll who built a real estate empire by developing manufactured home communities around the world then selling his company to the State of Washington Pension Fund for USD2.3 billion. A Wheelbarrow and a Shovel documents the truly remarkable story of one of America's most unlikely business success stories. Starting with only a wheelbarrow and a shovel, as well as the same American dream that led his parents to leave their native Holland for the United States, John Boll built a real estate empire in the most unlikely of ways -- by developing and improving manufactured home communities around the country. It's a rags-to-riches tale that could only happen in America -- and only with the hand of God leading the way. Before Boll sold his company to the State of Washington Pension Fund for USD2.3 billion, he was the first person to take a collection of mobile home communities to Wall Street.
