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The Real Estate Investor
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Practical Real Estate Investor
by Nigel Fenwick:
A Comprehensive Guide To Investing, Remodeling And Selling Real Estate
To Create Wealth
eBook (pdf format).
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The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
by Garry Keller
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor offers straightforward
strategies and wisdom gleaned from research and interviews with over 120
real life millionaire real estate investors. Ordinary people who have
achieved extraordinary financial success. Like Wendy Patton who bought her
first investment property when she was living in a hotel, made just
$20,000 a year and owed as much in student loans—Wendy has since sold
over 600 homes. Like Carlos Herbon who immigrated to the US with only $120
in his pocket and who now owns over 250 rental units and his own property
management company…. The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is the
first investment book to take a serious look at how anyone can achieve
financial freedom.
Learn how to:
- Think Like a Million: Develop the mind-set and financial
strategies of a millionaire investor
- Buy a Million: Amass a portfolio with a market value of a
million dollars
- Own a Million: Turn investments into a business with
ever-increasing net worth
- Receive a Million: Build an investment empire that provides a
million dollars a year in passive income
A blend of insights, instruction and inspiration, The Millionaire
Real Estate Investor is a priceless tool for novice and veteran alike.
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The Complete Guide
to Investing in Rental Properties
by Steve Berges
Back cover:
- Select a house and negotiate the best price and terms
- Perform a comprehensive financial analysis to maximize value
- Secure financing and prepare for your closing
- Find qualified tenants and draft favorable lease agreements
- Reduce operating costs, increase rents, and improve profitability
- Avoid the little-known pitfalls of real estate investing
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What No One Ever
Tells You About Investing in Real Estate : Real-Life Advice from 101
Successful Investors
by Robert Shemin (Foreword), Robert J. Hill
Publisher profile: Investing in real estate can be complex and
fraught with perils. New investors and seasoned veterans alike make
mistakes. In a brand-new take on real estate investing, experienced
investor and attorney Robert J. Hill II shares words of wisdom gained
through experience from successful real-life real estate investors
nationwide. This is practical advice on the real-life traps that trip up
even the most experienced investors.
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Profit by Investing
in Real Estate Tax Liens : Earn Safe, Secured, and Fixed Returns Every
Time
by Larry B. Loftis
"introduces an investment alternative that is safe, secured by
real estate, administered by the government, involves no brokers, is
enforced by state law, and gives fixed returns."
Publisher profile: Selling tax liens or tax deeds (depending on
the state) are the two ways that counties across the country bring
delinquent property taxes up-to-date. This investment is one of the least
publicized and safest ways of investing in real estate, designed to give
the investor either a fixed return, as in the case of investing in tax
liens, or a property for 10 to 50 cents on the dollar, as in the case of a
tax deed sale. In most situations, the property is ultimately transferred
free of any liens, such as mortgages. Click
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The Weekend
Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate
by Mike Summey, Roger Dawson
Publisher profile: Millionaire real estate investor Mike Summey
and nationally recognized negotiation expert Roger Dawson team up to offer
a complete program for becoming a real estate magnate in your spare time.
Unlike all the get-rich-quick real estate investment guides on the
shelves, The Weekend Millionaire shows readers how to look beyond price to
the fundamentals of what makes a property valuable and to leverage that
value in order to build wealth, consistently, over years. It also teaches
them an original, win-win negotiating strategy in which the buyer
determines the terms of the purchase and lets the seller determine the
price. Click
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Rich Dad's
Advisors®: The ABC's of Real Estate Investing : The Secrets of Finding
Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss (Rich Dad's Advisors)
by Ken McElroy
Another in the Rich Dad Poor Dad series; this one focused on real
estate investing. A good read with some good ideas for would be property
investors. Click
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The Beginner's Guide
to Real Estate Investing
by Gary W. Eldred
Publisher profile: Guide presents the tools and knowledge new
real estate investors need to get started. Shows how to find below-market
deals, invest using little or none of your own cash, use low or no down
payment seller financing, find creative ways to finance your investments,
and more. Click
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Financing Secrets of
a Millionaire Real Estate Investor
by William Bronchick
Publisher profile: Develop an insider's knowledge of real estate
financing (traditional and creative) while remaining legal and ethical. A
brief but thorough overview of the mortgage loan market, from the concept
of inflation to the different categories of lenders and loans. This book
builds a solid framework for understanding how to make money in real
estate by choosing the right financing. Click
here for more info.
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Keys to Mortgage
Financing and Refinancing (Barron's Business Keys)
by Jack P. Friedman
Publisher profile: How to take full advantage of changing
interest rates, the details of getting a mortgage to purchase a home,
dealing with banks and other mortgage holders, and much more. Here's a
reliable guide for home buyers. Click
here for more info.
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Investing in Real
Estate
by Andrew James McLean, Gary W. Eldred
Publisher profile: A guide to investing in real estate,
including houses and small apartment buildings, to generate cash flow and
build current wealth. Shows how to buy with little or no money out of
pocket, how to create two dollars to ten dollars of value for every one
dollar invested in improvements, and how to invest wisely. Click
here for more info.
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Trump
by Donald J. Trump, Meredith Mciver
Publisher profile: It’s not good enough to want
it. You’ve got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling
author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the
billionaire mind-set–how to think about money, career skills, and life.
Here is crucial advice on investing in real estate from the expert,
everything from dealing with brokers to renovating to assessing the value
of property, buying and selling, and securing a mortgage. Trump will show
you how to cut costs, decide how much risk to assume in your investments,
and divide up your portfolio. He’ll also teach you how to impress
anyone, how to correct or criticize someone effectively, and how to know
if your friends are loyal–everything you need to know to get
ahead. Click
here for more info.

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The Real Estate Professional |
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The Millionaire Real
Estate Agent
by Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, Jay Papasan
This book teaches Realtors how to move from selling real estate into
running a real estate business, transforming the way you view your
relationship to your broker and your clients. The business models in this
book can equally be applied to any small business! Click
here for more info.
Take your real estate career to the highest level!
"Whether you are just getting started or a veteran in the
business, The Millionaire Real Estate Agent is the step-by-step
handbook for seeking excellence in your profession and in your
life."
Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator, #1 New York Times bestselling
series Chicken Soup for the Soul
"This book presents a new paradigm for real estate and should be
required reading for real estate professionals everywhere."
Robert T. Kiyosaki, New York Times bestselling author of Rich
Dad, Poor Dad
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21 Things I Wish My
Broker Had Told Me
by Frank Cook
Publisher profile: Offers a straightforward and completely human
look at how to start (or maintain) a successful career in real estate.
Offers expert advice, opinions, and guidance. Softcover.
Written with humor and insight, 21 Things I Wish My Broker Had Told Me
provides hands on advice that will help agents start, or maintain, a
successful career in real estate. This has real life stories from dozens
of successful, top producing, real estate professionals will help new
agents know what to expect and how to succeed. (186 pages, 2003
copyright) Click
here for more info.
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How to Become a
Power Agent in Real Estate
by Darryl Davis
Publisher profile: gives real estate agents both the powerful
sales techniques and the practical management tips they need to double
their income by closing more transactions. Based on the outstanding
success of Darryl Davis's seminar "The POWER Program," this
motivational guide utilizes POWER Principles to help the new agent as well
as the experienced top producer dramatically increase listings and sales.
The book is full of Davis's surefire methods for managing the sales
process, including time management for agents, prospecting for listings,
handling the seller's and buyer's concerns, maintaining a winning
attitude, and generating more sales in less time. He also reveals how
clever use of the Web can provide a competitive edge and how the top
producers work smarter, not harder. Offering field-proven tools and
techniques, Davis shows agents how to progress at their own pace to their
own personal Next Level and accelerate their entry into Top Agent status. Click
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Commercial Investing & Development
Professional Real Estate Development by Richard B. Peiser:
Publisher profile: Thoroughly updated, the second edition of
Professional Real Estate Development explains the nuts and bolts of the
real estate development industry. You will learn how to develop and manage
five types of real estate products: land, residential, office, industrial,
and retail uses. Focusing on small-scale projects, the authors show you
practical methods for developing each major type of real estate, including
feasibility analysis, design and construction, financing, marketing, and
management. Photos, site plans, diagrams, and case studies provide
examples of actual projects and how the process works. Information is
specific and detailed, with costs, rents, and financing information
included by product type. Click
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Land Development
Handbook (Handbook) by The Dewberry Companies:
Publisher profile: A comprehensive reference on the land
development design process, for professionals including engineers,
planners, surveyors, architects, attorneys, and developers. Sections on
local government planning and regulatory functions; securing project
approvals; site analysis; environmental considerations; soils; water
supply systems; real property law; and GPS and GIS contain b&w
diagrams, detailed drawings, reports at various design stages, and charts,
illustrating the design and approval process for residential, commercial,
and retail land development projects. Includes example problems, and an
extended case study of an actual development in Virginia. Annotation c. by
Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Click
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The Lending Professional |
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The Loan Officer's
Practical Guide to Residential Finance by Thomas Morgan
Publisher profile: Published since 1992, and updated annually,
this 148 page textbook was written as an answer to the
"sink-or-swim" training methods of many mortgage firms. The
format is designed to give the newly initiated loan officer/agent, lender,
processor, or other initiate the practical information they need to do the
loan officer's job. Click
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The Traveler's Gift
: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success by Andy Andrews:
Publisher profile: Much like the best-selling books by Og
Mandino, this unique narrative is a blend of entertaining fiction,
allegory, and inspiration. Storyteller Andy Andrews gives a
front-row seat for one man’s journey of a lifetime. David Ponder has
lost his job and the will to live. When he is supernaturally selected to
travel through time, he visits historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln,
King Solomon, and Anne Frank. Each visit yields a Decision for Success
that will one day impact the entire world. Click
here for more info
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The Power of Now: A
Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle:
Publisher profile: In The Power of Now Tolle shows
readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and
how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present.
Accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned, he says, by
freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind
and living "present, fully and intensely, in the Now." Click
here for more info
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The Present by Spencer Johnson:
A quaint story with a profound message. This is an easy
read and yet thought provoking. Parts of it lend an air of "Zen"
yet its practical enough for everyday use. By the bestselling author of
"Who Moved My Cheese?" this is a "Present" to the
reader and a great gift for anyone you care about. Click
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Rich Dad Poor Dad's Cashflow Quadrant by Robert
Kiyosaki:
Of all the Rich Dad series of books I liked this one the
most. Packed full of practical suggestions on how to free yourself from
the yolk of a "job" and develop alternative passive streams of
income. A great introduction to the benefits of Real Estate Investing
despite this not being the book's main topic. Click
here for more info |
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The Power of Full
Engagement by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz:
Just as athletes train, play and then recover, people need to recognize
their own energy levels. Case studies demonstrate how some modest changes
can have an immediate impact. The core concept of this book is that our
minds need recovery time just like our bodies. By creating strategies for
recovery, we can work at peak efficiency without feeling tired and drained
at the days end. This book might just change the way you live. (Also great
as an audio book). Click
here for more info
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself by BILL BRYSON:
After two decades in England, Bill Bryson's relocated to
Hanover, New Hampshire. With the telescopic perspective of one who's
stepped out of the American mainstream and come back after 20 years,
Bryson holds the mirror up to U.S. culture, capturing its
absurdities--such as hotlines for dental floss, the cult of the lawsuit,
and strange American injuries such as those sustained from pillows and
beds. "In the time it takes you to read this," he writes,
"four of my fellow citizens will somehow manage to be wounded by
their bedding."-- Melissa Rossi
Bryson's dry wit developed after years of living in the UK
continues to shine as he dissects almost every aspect of American life,
and reveals the often preposterous nature of things we take for granted.
An easy read to dip in and out of and good for de-stressing the mind with
light humor. Click
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A Walk in the Woods by BILL BRYSON:
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail puts Bryson
in the path of bears, snow storms, murder and .... a motel? Walk along
with Bryson as he sets out on his most challenging adventure through the
hills and mountains of the Appalachian Trail. As only Bill Bryson can
describe it the trek is far from easy, and his traveling companion only
lends to the hilarious trials and tribulations of the adventure. Click
here for more info

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