Commercial Real Estate Investing Books and Reports
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Real estate is one of the last areas where anyone, regardless of their background or education, can start from nothing and build solid, long-term wealth. For increasing numbers of individual investors, commercial real estate has emerged as one of the hottest investment opportunities in recent years. Have you always wanted to get into commercial real estate investing but didn't have a clue where to start? These books will help open the door for you to commercial real estate investing. Text cover investing in shopping centers, office buildings, hotels, other business properties, residential complexes, single family rentals, vacation properties and time share investments.
More and more investors are becoming interested in pursuing real estate investing, and these books will show you how. Whether you need money for your children's college tuition, building a higher standard of living, or planning for a more comfortable retirement, investing in Real Estate is a proven method to grow your wealth. Stock markets rise, and stock markets fall, but real estate is almost always a sure thing, especially in today's increasingly unpredictable investment climate. In the long run, real estate is superior. You need to start building wealth now. Learn how-to begin with a little or no cash investment through creative financing and market know how. Learn to identify the perfect investment property for you and where to find it.
These books do not present a get-rich-quick scheme, but do show the reader how to build financial security and wealth.
Since time immemorial, real estate has been an excellent investment. The long-term returns have actually exceeded the stock market and most other investments. If you’re looking for a smart investment for financial security, real estate can provide you with welcome supplemental income, and build your net worth year after year.
Consider the following.
- Real estate is not subject to daily price fluctuations, as stocks are.
- You don’t need a lot of money to begin.
- Investors hold on for the long run rather than try to time the market.
- Returns are on average higher than most people get from stocks.
- Real estate is an excellent hedge against inflation.
- As real estate appreciates, you continue to build up equity for long-term profits.
- Offers certain tax advantages.
Educate yourself about the capital gains tax laws to minimize their impact on your profit.
If you're looking for a long-term investment that you can control, and is safe from bad stock purchases and market swings, consider real estate investments.
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Commercial Real Estate Investing Books and Reports
- How to Make Money in Commercial Real Estate: For the Small Investor
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- -Nicholas Masters / Hardcover 320 pages / Published June 2000
Experienced real estate broker and investor Nicholas Masters explains the entire process of buying real estate for you and shows you how to get started. Covers the various types of real estate, including family homes, residential complexes, shopping centers, office buildings, as well as types of land, and explores the relative advantages and disadvantages of each. Explains how to find properties, the benefits and pitfalls of auctions and foreclosures, how to evaluate the property and negotiate the best deal, how to get a mortgage and get to the all-important closing, and ultimately how to manage your property for a profit. If you’ve ever dreamed of having financial security, real estate is one good way to establish a steady, reliable source of income for years to come. The author illustrates explanations with examples from his own experiences in thirty years of real estate investing. And takes the reader step-by-step through the process of understanding the benefits of owning real estate, finding and evaluating properties, getting financing, closing the deal, and managing your property.
Written to help beginning small investors get started in creating a real estate portfolio. Its step-by-step approach simplifies the ins-and-outs of real estate in terms anyone can understand and follow. Also covers the pros and cons of individual ownership, partnerships, and corporations
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- Commercial Real Estate Investing: 12 Easy Steps to Getting Started
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- -Jack Cummings / Paperback 288 pages / Published October 2004
This comprehensive guide gives all real estate investors a shortcut to what does work and why. You'll find essential tips and the insider knowledge it takes to get started in commercial real estate. Simple and to the point, this book presents 12 easy-to-follow steps that anyone can learn to use to build a life of financial independence. Full of real-world examples, insider tips, and expert advice based on the author's 40 years of hands-on experience, this straight-forward resource covers all the major aspects of investing in commercial real estate. You'll learn everything you need to know about financing, valuation, due diligence, leverage, equity, using other people's money, and much more. Packed with fresh ideas, proven techniques, and effective strategies for profitable investing, Commercial Real Estate Investing gives you all the tools you need to start amassing your fortune today.
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- Negotiating Commercial Real Estate Leases
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- -Martin I. Zankel / Paperback 280 pages / Published February 2001
This is a well written instructional guide for the business owners, Real Estate brokers, property developers and landlords or property managers who need to sort through the maze of legalisms and small print in a lease to construct a transaction that meets the needs of all parties involved. Readers will learn the obvious and not-so-obvious differences between so-called "standard" landlord and tenant leases, the critical economic and legal issues implicated in lease clauses, which points are most easily negotiated under what situations and which points aren't worth the time spent negotiating. Covers alternative clauses and solutions that can be offered to create a leasing deal that works for both the business tenant and the building landlord.
Reading and understanding this book will save a prospect business tenant a great deal of time, money, aggravation, and future real estate leasing-related disappointments.
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- The Real Estate Recipe: Make Millions by Buying Small Apartment Properties in Your Spare Time
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- -Brian K. Friedman / Hardcover 210 pages / Published September 2004
This well written book teaches you all the fundamentals necessary to buy, finance, and manage residential real estate. Presents a step-by-step approach using simple language and practical examples in clear, easy-to-understand terms, how to get started in real estate investing.
The book is filled with real-life examples and hypothetical examples to illustrate how to find and buy good property. Covers finding value-added properties, determining market rent, obtaining a mortgage, refinancing, and tips on selling. Includes every step of the process, plus worksheets, checklists, and tables to help the reader locate, purchase, and manage apartment property. .
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- Investing in Real Estate With Other People's Money: Proven Strategies for Turning a Small Investment Into a Fortune
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- -Jack Cummings / Paperback 388 pages / Published October 2003
Investing in Real Estate with Other People's Money features proven up-to-date strategies and techniques, with detailed examples of how to use each strategy. Explains how to use "no-money-down" strategies that are sensible, logical, and actually make sense. Details literally dozens of up-to-date, common-sense techniques you can use to build impressive real estate wealth, while putting little of your own money on the line. Including how to use small property detailing for increasing a property's value without spending a fortune, and methods for always making a profit, even when you sell for less than you paid!
Look to Investing in Real Estate with Other People's Money for real-world, no-nonsense techniques you can use to create a lasting financial legacy, one property at a time.
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- Real Estate Finance and Investment Manual
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- -Jack Cummings / Paperback 512 pages / Published March 1997, 2nd Edition
This book is devoted to every aspect of real-estate investment. It is designed and written to give readers a single one-stop source for the best real-estate investing advice and information possible. This book, and its hundreds of financing and investment strategies and techniques, is specifically written for real-estate investors, developers, bankers, buyers, sellers, tenants, salespeople, mortgage brokers, land planners, lawyers, and other professional advisors.
Buyers, sellers, bankers, lawyers, developers, investors need to know how to put together a workable financing package. This book includes hundreds of strategies, tips, and hints to help anyone finance any deal in the market.
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- The Tax-Free Exchange Loophole: How Real Estate Investors Can Profit from the 1031 Exchange
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- -Jack Cummings / Hardcover 283 pages / Published March 2005
This is an unbeatable resource for real estate investors who want to maximize their returns. The "tax-free exchange", if done right, real estate investing allows investors to earn money without paying capital gains taxes-ever. The "tax-free exchange" lets investors take profits from a real estate investment and reinvest it in more real estate, without paying taxes on the profits. Full of real-world examples, inside tips, and trustworthy tips from a successful real estate investor, this book shows real estate investors how tax-free exchange works and how to use it to make a fortune.
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- How a Second Home Can Be Your Best Investment: New, Tax-Free Methods for Using a Vacation Home for Recreation, Retirement and Investment!
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- -Tom Kelly, John Tuccillo / Paperback 250 pages / Published March 2004
This book explains how to invest for profit in a vacation or future retirement home. This practical, straightforward guide offers commonsense guidance and case studies that show ordinary homeowners how to locate a second home, finance it, and use it to build long-term wealth or for a place to retire. Real estate experts Tom Kelly and John Tuccillo show you how to use the equity in your current home as a down payment on a second home and how to get other people to pay the mortgage. With a little patience, you'll own a second home that you can live in, sell tax-free, or use as a source of lifelong cash flow. Packed with useful resources, proven strategies, and simple, unbeatable real estate wisdom, you'll have all the tools you need to succeed.
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- Pure Profits: Pinpoint Winning Properties, Think Like an Investor, & Succeed in Commercial Real Estate
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- -Al Auger / Paperback 150 pages / Published January 2003
This comprehensive book is a complete course in commercial real estate investing. It is filled with tips and information garnered from the author's many years of experience as a real estate investor. Just as important, he describes various pitfalls that are easy to fall into if you don't know about them. Packed with powerful, proven, and time-tested techniques, providing you with the tools for changing your life and improving your financial situation. The author's real life examples and step-by-step game plan will put you on the fast track to success.
The text includes information on creating a relationship with a broker, obtaining relevant property information, locating the right property, making your investment plan, negotiating a deal, important contract clauses, and creating a proposal that appeals to sellers. The text is concise and to the point, and contains many illustrations and examples to help you learn the finer points of investing in commercial real estate.
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- Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures Without Cash or Credit
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- -Peter Conti, David Finkel / Paperback 256 pages / Published September 2003
This book is a comprehensive money-making guide and is recommended for the beginning investor for finding, buying and selling properties in foreclosure. Even experienced inverters may find some useful information about foreclosure law and proceedings. Covers and describes 12 ways to structure deals without cash or credit, 22 ways to find motivated sellers, 24 foreclosure pitfalls to avoid, the process of flipping deals for quick cash profits, and investment strategies for building long-term wealth.
If you're considering investing in foreclosures and need a crash course on commonly used strategies, this book is great start.
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- The Real Estate Investor's Answer Book
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- -Jack Cummings / Paperback 303 pages / Published January 1994
This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide answers the 224 most important questions in real estate investing, which were selected from thousands asked of acclaimed real estate investor Cummings.
This remarkable and complete, extraordinary easy-to-use question-and-answer guide gives you fast answers to the 224 most important questions commonly asked by real estate investors, home buyers, sellers, landlords, and renters.
Covers basic investment strategies, including the key factors that make real estate a good investment, and how to tell if property will go down in value. Covers the 5 things you can do to cause your property to go up in value. Buying and selling homes and apartments, with tips on selling in a slow market. Buying and selling land, with answers to all your questions about zoning, comparing the respective value of two vacant tracts, and enticing buyers. Minimizing capital gains tax, with tips on using the capital gains tax calculation form, calculating depreciation, and finding legal ways to reduce or eliminate gains taxes. Covers insider secrets to creative investing techniques, such as acquiring real estate with zero cash down, using sweat equity to acquire another property, using barter as an investment.
For new and experienced investors alike, home buyers and sellers, and landlords, this resource supplies important practical knowledge and data needed to make prudent, profitable investment decisions.
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- Investing in Commercial Real Estate
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- -Gary W. Eldred / Paperback 300 pages / Published May 2005
This book presents proven methods for building wealth through safe, high yield investments
Gary Eldred, real estate expert and best-selling co-author of Investing in Real Estate, has written the ultimate resource for commercial real estate investors.
Covers small office buildings, shopping centers, self-storage facilities and apartments. Explains how to read the market, anticipate cycles, and create the most profitable market strategy. Eldred also shows how to:
- Finance properties with little (or no) money
- Locate the most profitable tenants
- Calculate cash flows, values, and investment returns
- Sharpen negotiation skills to win the desired price and terms
- Assess potential sources of risk and return
- Own properties without hands-on landlording
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