Thinking about becoming a commercial real estate investor? Commercial Real Estate Investing For Dummies covers the entire process, offering practical advice on negotiation and closing win-win deals and maximizing profit. From office buildings to shopping centers to apartment buildings, it helps you pick the right properties at the right time for the right price. Yes, there is a fun and easy way to break into commercial real estate, and this is it. This comprehensive handbook has it all. You’ll learn how to find great properties, size up sellers, finance your investments, protect your assets, and increase your property’s value. You’ll discover the upsides and downsides of the various types of investments, learn the (more…)

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“The subtleties of real estate investing are explained in an easy to understand format…” — Jim Babinski, Managing Realtor; Best Western Real Estate Services”The subtleties of real estate investing are explained in an easy to understand format…” –Jim Babinski, Managing Realtor; Best Western Real Estate Services

The Real Estate Investor?s Handbook is a must-have for beginning investors, real estate veterans, commercial brokers, sellers, and buyers. Real estate investing has created more millionaires than any other investment vehicle in this country. This comprehensive step-by-step proven program shows beginners and seasoned veterans alike the ins and outs of real estate investing. This book is a road map to su (more…)

Review“This is the success story of an ex-dot-com employee who got tired of working long hours at a great job for 10 years and watching his fellow workers lose their jobs. He accidentally discovered real estate’s market-value appreciation, leverage, tax savings, cash flow, reliability and freedom from a 9-to-5 workday. In the process, he became a multimillionaire, and he shows readers how they can have the same result.” (Bruss, Robert J. San Francisco Chronicle. )

Quit your day job! Make a million in real estate! It’s easier than you think! A few years ago, Matthew Martinez was a lot like you – he worked hard to make as big a salary as he could. But it wasn’t enough. He worked by the clock, and yearned to b (more…)

The conservative, thoughtful, thrifty investor’s guide to building a real-estate empire.Profitable real-estate investing opportunities exist everywhere as long as you know what to look for and understand how to make prudent deals that transform property into profits. David Crook, of The Wall Street Journal, shows how to make safe and sane investments that ensure a good night’s sleep as your real-estate portfolio grows, your properties appreciate and your income increases. The Wall Street Journal Complete Real-Estate Investing Guidebook offers the most authoritative information on:• Why real-estate investing is a great wealth-building alternative to stocks and bonds and why it’s crucial that you avoid get-rich schemes?? (more…)

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“Filled with practical workable advice for anyone wanting to build wealth.” — ? Mike Summey co-author of the best selling The Weekend Millionaire?s Secrets to Investing in Real Estate”On my scale of one to 10, it rates a solid 10.” — Robert J. Bruss, Inman News Features

Forget the old paradigm of financial success?that a big house, a fancy car and a great job mean you?ve made it. True financial wealth has a different measure?it?s about having the unearned income to finance your life mission without having to work. Gary Keller, best-selling author and self-made millionaire, teaches you what school never did?how to leave the daily grind and acquire long-term financial freedom through investing real estate. (more…)

Real Estate Investing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is completely revised and updated to help you overcome the challenges and and take advantage of the opportunities in any real estate environment, including a down market. But Eric Tyson and Robert Griswold’s core message remains as relevant today as it did upon the initial publication of Real Estate Investing For Dummies — investing in real estate is time-tested vehicle to build wealth in the long term. Tyson and Griswold don’t tell you how to become a millionaire overnight. Instead, they offer proven, practical, and actionable advice so that if you chose to invest in income-producing properties, you can do so wisely and confidently. 

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THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO REAL ESTATE INVESTING Now in its fifth edition, Investing in Real Estate is the straightforward guide that helps you start growing your fortune by investing in houses and small apartment buildings. Successful real estate investor Gary Eldred shows you how you can outperform the stock market by investing in residential real estate–the surest and safest way to build assets. This updated edition covers all the new trends and tactics in real estate investing, including how to shop for properties outside your home market and how to use option arms to achieve positive cash flow. As always, you’ll find all the information you need to start investing now, as well as up-to-date tips on negotiating deals, (more…)