Real Estate Investing Books and Reports

Real Estate Investing Books and Reports

• The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Real Estate Investment Course
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-Jack Cummings / Paperback 358 pages / Published January 1993
This is a comprehensive "crash course" in real estate investing that shows you to know how to invest wisely. Using the successful, step-by-step, ready-to-apply format that has made McGraw-Hill's 36-Hour Series so popular with business managers, professionals, and entrepreneurs, this "hands-on" real estate course boasts the same practical how-to-do-it guidance, nitty-gritty investing advice, and study and review materials that are usually only available to those who take time-consuming and expensive school and college courses.
Each information-packed chapter contains learning objectives, key terms and concepts, common questions with straight forward answers, and a variety of problem solving examples and goal-achieving methods that aptly illustrate how real estate investors succeed in the real world. You'll learn how to set clear, realistic goals and develop a workable, flexible plan to accomplish them, find the right property to buy, one that suits your goals, financial situation, and risk tolerance. Learn how to distinguish the subtle but critical differences between a good location and a truly important one.
Includes a basic real estate terminology chapter and an comprehensive "open book" final examination, which may earn you a Certificate of Achievement if you answer 70% or more of the questions correctly.
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• Investing in Real Estate
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-Andrew McLean, Gary W. Eldred / Paperback 320 pages, 4th Edition / Published March 2003
This comprehensive book is the straightforward guide that will help you start growing your fortune by investing in houses and small apartment buildings. The authors, successful real estate investors, will show you how you can outperform the stock market by investing in residential real estate, the surest and safest way to build assets.
Discusses some of the best methods and techniques for selecting, fixing, selling properties and creating value. Covers all the information you need to start investing now, as well as up-to-date tips on maintaining cash flow, negotiating deals, spotting market trends, and using the Internet as a research tool to find and buy properties.

• Buy with little or no money down
• Minimize taxes while building your wealth
• Choose neighborhoods and properties that will beat the market with faster rates of appreciation
• Grow value in your properties by investing in improvements
• Pick the best way to finance your purchases
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• Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing
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-Spencer Strauss, Martin Stone / Paperback 504 pages, 2nd Edition / Published August 2003
We've all heard stories of the millionaire real-estate tycoons who started out by scraping together enough money for a down payment on a modest first property, or so the urban legends go. And we've all seen the books that promise to show you how to make a million dollars buying houses with no money down. But successful beginning investors do not need get-rich-quick schemes or hocus-pocus. This book provides the inside scoop on how real estate investing work. Covers everything from the most basic concepts of real estate investing to complicated tax and financing formulations. Fully updated to take account of new tax law changes and now including listings of current apartment owners' associations in all 50 states. This new edition is friendlier and more comprehensive than ever.
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• How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing
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-Robert Irwin / Paperback 256 page / Published May 2002
The author, a trusted and respected real estate advisor and investor, shares his personal experience as well as solid advice and detailed, step-by-step instructions. Whether you're a novice or you already own property, Irwin can put you on the road to long-term wealth and financial security.
This book was written for investors with little or no experience in real estate. author Bob Covers all of the ins and outs of real estate investing. In a easily followed, no-hype style, the author explains everything you need to know to start building a winning real estate investment strategy of your own. Covers every step of the way from financing your first single family home investment to owning apartment buildings and commercial property. Covers how much money they'll need to get started, to how to find and evaluate properties, and the basics of financing and taxes. The author covers the seven major techniques used by successful real estate investors and provides guidelines for choosing and adapting the right one for individual readers' goals, personalities, and budgets.
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• Making Big Money Investing in Real Estate: Without Tenants, Banks, or Rehab Projects
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-Peter Conti, David Finkel, Foreword by Cheryl Hastings / Paperback 288 pages / Published June 2002
This book by successful real estate investors Peter Conti and David Finkel share the money-making secrets of purchase option investing. While the standard methods of investing, long term investing, property flipping, repairing fixers, and landlording can be effective, alternative strategies can create a much quicker positive cash flow.
Discusses numerous ways to invest using creative financing deals with little or no cash down. Covers field-tested tactics that have worked for people from seasoned entrepreneurs to beginners. The authors cover nearly 30 success stories of investors and case studies. Offers readers step-by-step guidelines through their methods for finding and structuring purchase option deals, the authors offer strategies and techniques, explaining what to do and how to do it. They share detailed checklists, marketing pieces, scripts, and forms, everything that investors will need to be successful. Covers how-to negotiate the best price-including the actual wording that makes sellers say “yes,” overcome seller objections and close a deal, build an escape hatch and otherwise lower risks. Learn how-to buy property without ever talking to a banker, and sell for top dollar through rent-to-own deals.
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• Real Estate Loopholes: Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investing
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-Diane Kennedy, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Garrett Sutton / Paperback 240 pages / Published April 2003
This well-written, and an easy read book, a part of the Rich Dad's Advisors Series, covers the two types of loopholes, which are taxation and legal protection. This information is not’t a get rich quick scheme, but a tried and proven method for building wealth. This involves doing your homework, have a sound plan, and spend the required time doing the proper research.
This book is for both beginners and seasoned investors.
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• Real Estate Riches: How To Become Rich Using Your Banker's Money
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-Dolf de Roos, Foreword by Robert T. Kiyosaki / Paperback 192 pages / Published September 2001


This book clearly explains why buying property is one of the most common wealth building tool used by the rich and famous. A large percentage of the rich in America today make their wealth, and keep it, through owning real estate. The author reveals why investing in property is so astoundingly simple and lucrative, as well as insider secrets for succeeding in this high-profit business. Covers how to greatly increase the value of a property without spending much money. Explains how-to arrange taxes to best profit from your real estate. Learn why it is important to handle your real estate business like a business.
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• Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
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-Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter / Paperback 384 pages / Published June 2000
Wealthy people have a different mindset about money and don't just invest passively in the stock market. And they don't work for other people. They control their money more intensely by starting businesses and buying real estate, and then managing their assets with tried-and-true business principles.
Learn the secrets of how the wealthiest Americans become even wealthier, and how anyone can learn how to benefit from some simple investing secrets, merely by knowing where and how to invest their money. The author explains how even the smallest beginning investor can start benefiting from the investing patterns of the richest folks. Covers the nuts-and-bolts approach to understanding the real earning power of money, and how you can start cashing today. The author discusses the money decisions all individuals make, consciously or not. Throughout the book the author provides enough supporting details to make the issues discussed crystal clear and informative.
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• Successful Real Estate Investing: How to Avoid the 75 Most Costly Mistakes Every Investor Makes
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-Robert Shemin / Paperback 224 pages / Published December 2003
Successful Real Estate Investing is written specifically for novice investors who want to get started with confidence. It highlights 75 of the most common mistakes investors make and offers specific, real-life strategies for avoiding them. Each chapter covers one mistake and offers pearls of wisdom based both on the author's long experience as an investor and on case studies of investors he has met or assisted along the way. For investors worried about making a particular mistake in any step of the investment process. Offers quick, expert guidance on avoiding everything that could go wrong. More than just a list of troubles to avoid, it also teaches the most important keys to real estate success, keep it simple and believe that you can do it. Study, research and inform yourself so you know what you're doing, and stick with it! With common sense and the uncommon guidance you'll find here, there's nothing standing in your way!
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• Secrets of Buying and Selling Real Estate... Without Using Your Own Money!
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-Robert Shemin / Paperback 294 pages / Published September 2003
This book is the definitive insider's guide to traditional and legal and ethical creative real estate financing. In understandable language, it walks you step-by-step through explanations and examples of conventional real estate financing so you understand clearly how most financing works. It examines all the available creative or unusual financing strategies that seasoned investors and homebuyers use every day to buy and finance properties. Spotlights the advantages and disadvantages of various types of mortgages, terms, and financing strategies so you know all your best options. Includes informative material on how credit scoring works and understanding credit ratings and credit problems that could scuttle your loan. Offers proven techniques, expert tips, and creative alternatives with in-depth discussion of topics.
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• How I Turned $50 into $5 Million in Country Property--Part Time and How You Can Do the Same
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-B. K. Haynes / Hardcover 532 pages / Published June 2004
This comprehensive book shows the reader how-to buy and sell country property for a profit. B.K. Haynes is a real estate broker, developer, publisher, educator, and author with more than forty years experience in the field of country properties. During this time, the author has bought, developed, sold, and brokered many rural properties and this book is based upon this experience. This book is designed to help anyone with a basic education make a profit by investing in rural real estate. When used as instructed, this book can literally make the reader a lot of money. This book does not present a get rich quick method, but does show how by careful planning, and over time, one can indeed succeed.
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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 2004
This comprehensive book features proven up-to-date strategies and no-nonsense 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. Learn strategies for recognizing low risk investment opportunities. 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.
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• Flipping Properties: Generate Instant Cash Profits in Real Estate
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-William Bronchick, Robert Dahlstrom
Paperback 214 pages / Published July 2001
Real estate investing has historically been one of the most consistent ways to achieve great wealth. This book focuses upon proven strategies for buying and selling properties quickly, (also called “flipping,”) Flipping Properties offers would-be investors the details on how to generate cash from this popular real estate investment method. The authors outline a step-by-step process for generating cash flow, with or without a great credit record, large sums of cash, or a real estate license. Explains what makes “flipping” such an appealing way to invest in real estate. Covering pre-purchase through closing and beyond, This book is a complete reference that also includes legal forms, sample contracts, checklists and sample advertising and marketing materials designed to get properties to sell.
Guidelines help tailor a practical investing game plan for both experienced investors as well as beginners.
Includes several sample legal contracts.
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• Buy It, Fix It, Sell It...Profit: A Comprehensive Guide to No-Sweat Money-Making Home Rehab
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- Kevin C. Myers / Paperback 298 pages, 2nd Edition / Published August 2003
This second edition of a guide for beginning and veteran real estate investors presents new insights alongside proven methods for renovating and reselling single-family homes. The author presents all-new insights alongside proven methods for rehabilitating and then selling single-family homes as a highly lucrative entrepreneurial venture. Using these techniques, beginning and veteran real estate investors gain in-depth strategies for developing a high-profit, low-overhead business. Works either full time or part time. The author addresses many of the thorniest challenges that rehabbers face, like identifying deal killers to making the right renovations. Explains where to find the funds to get started, how to create the team that will support the projects, and why not to pick up a hammer, even for those who are handy. All new success stories inspire investors and would-be entrepreneurs to take action. Includes new material on inspecting and dealing with different types of contamination, tax issues, flipping properties, and funding projects using IRA and 401(k) accounts.
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• Investing in Fixer-Uppers: A Complete Guide to Buying Low, Fixing Smart, Adding Value, and Selling (or Renting) High
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-Jay P. DeCima / Paperback 320 pages / Published March 2003
This book shows how to get rich fast by making ugly, decrepit, rundown houses beautiful. Nobody wants to buy an ugly, decrepit, rundown house, which is exactly why they provide real estate investors with some of the best bargains. Further, this book is filled with practical examples of how to profit from buying and rehabilitating rundown fixer-upper properties. The author reveals how investors can add thousands of dollars to the value of a fixer-upper house. Discusses how to substitute personal skills for traditional down payments, strategies to profit without waiting for appreciation, and dozens of other value-adding tips.
Covers finding the right properties and a motivated seller, work with the right real estate agents who multiply your profits.
Invest in fixer-uppers, and put yourself on the road to financial independence.
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• Rental Houses for the Successful Small Investor
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-Suzanne P. Thomas / Paperback 256 pages / Published November 1998
This book does an excellent job discussing in plain English the pluses and minuses of owning your own property. For those novice and experienced investors that are mainly interested in buying & renting single family homes, this is the book for you. The author shares her successful system, developed over the years, for achieving financial independence through real estate. Covers the rate of return on rental real estate, down payments, selecting properties, loans, mortgages, tenants, the lease, and 1031 tax deferred exchanges.
It is definitely worth the time to read and understand this book, especially if you are a first time landlord.
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• Property Management for Dummies: A Lively Guide to Turning Rental Properties into Profit Powerhouses!
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-Robert Griswold / Paperback 384 pages / Published April 2001
True to style, this excellent book is written in a language even the novice property manager will understand. Whether you inherited a home you now need to rent or you're working to become a real estate tycoon, this guide is your road map to success. Covers every aspect of property management, showing you how to avoid legal problems, deal with tenants and maintenance, and increase your income.
Every rental property owner needs this book for his or her financial self-defense and peace of mind. Read this book and preclude the problem before it happens.
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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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• How to Make Money With Real Estate Options : Low-Cost, Low-Risk, High-Profit Strategies for Controlling Undervalued Property....Without the Burdens of Ownership!
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-Thomas Lucier / Paperback 264 pages / Published January 2005
In this excellent book real estate expert Thomas Lucier introduces the reader to the low-risk, high-yield investment vehicle that can earn big bucks even for small investors. Learn how-to earn substantial profits on properties without incurring the debt, risk, and maintenance costs of ownership. Packed with no-nonsense advice on how to identify the most profitable properties and manage every step of the option process.
Lucier explains what real estate options are, how they work, and why they are the tools of choice for thousands of successful investors. Step by step, he shows you how to:
• Locate potential option properties using the Internet, want ads, and "bird-dogs".
• Contact and negotiate with property owners.
• Perform due diligence and avoid options pitfalls.
• Prepare an option agreement that protects your interests.
• Insure real estate options with title insurance.
• Package and sell optioned properties for optimum profits.
How to Make Money with Real Estate Options is a practical guide to one of the secret weapons of savvy investors.
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