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21 Things I Wish My Broker Had Told Me : Practical Advice for New Real Estate Professionals. (Paperback)
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.
The Complete Guide to Flipping Properties (Paperback)
The Complete Guide to Flipping Properties offers proven, straightforward guidance for anyone interested in flipping properties for quick profits. This comprehensive guide to flipping will help any real estate investor design a detailed plan for achieving their financial goals as quickly as possible. Steve Berges, creator of the value play strategy, shows you step by step how to flip properties and lock in profits. With in-depth explanations of every aspect of the art of flipping––from finding properties and closing the deal, to repairing houses and reselling at the best price––this book is the ultimate resource for novice investors and real estate pros alike.
Trump Strategies for Real Estate: Billionaire Lessons for the Small Investor (Hardcover)
Trump Strategies for Real Estate offers unbeatable insider advice for every serious real estate investor—beginners and old pros alike. For more than twenty-five years, author George Ross has been one of Donald Trump’s chief advisors and intimately involved with many of Trump’s biggest real estate deals. Now, Ross teams up with bestselling real estate author Andrew McLean to present Trump’s real estate investment strategies so that even small investors can invest like Trump. You’ll learn how Trump identifies potential properties and how he finances, negotiates, and markets his big deals. Not everyone has Trump’s money or name, but everyone, even you, can use his tactics and strategies to win big in real estate.
Make Money in Real Estate Tax Liens : How To Guarantee Your Return Up To 50% (Hardcover)
How does a guaranteed short-term profit of fifteen, twenty-five, or even fifty percent sound? What if you could acquire a property valued at $100,000 with just a $10,000 investment? In the tax lien game, those kinds of profits aren't just possible, they actually happen! In Make Money in Real Estate Tax Liens, Chantal and Bill Carey show you how to profit from this safe and reliable wealth-builder. Inside, you'll find answers to all your important real estate tax lien questions:
  • What are real estate tax liens?
  • What are the risks versus the returns of tax lien investing?
  • Why should I buy tax liens?
  • How, when, and where can I buy tax liens?
  • Will I have to foreclose on properties?
  • Does my state offer tax liens?
  • How do investors redeem tax lien certificates?
  • Will I end up owning property?
Buy It, Fix It, Sell It...Profit
In Buy It, Fix It, Sell It...Profit!, real estate investor and rehabbing expert Kevin Myers presents all-new insights on how to create a quick turnaround in your investments by renovating properties for profit.
How to Buy and Sell Apartment Buildings (Paperback)
Through his popular seminar program, Eugene Vollucci has shown thousands of experienced real estate investors and novices alike how to take advantage of one of the most rewarding investments you can find–apartment buildings. In this bestselling guide, the Volluccis’ simple, step-by-step program shows you how to become a real estate millionaire just like they did. With material on new IRS rulings, tips on avoiding common pitfalls, and new advice on assuming loans with delinquent clauses, How to Buy and Sell Apartment Buildings is more comprehensive and complete than ever.
Real Estate Investment and Acquisition Workbook (Hardcover)
This is a book for seasoned investors, brokers, and syndicates. It contains several hundred forms and checklists that will make sure you never forget an important element of the buying and selling process.
Real Estate Market Analysis: A Case Study Approach (Hardcover)
A good market study can make or break a development project. This new book will equip you with the tools you need to evaluate trends and understand the key factors affecting real estate markets. Using a step-by-step approach, the author shows you how to get started, where to get information, and how to apply it to multifamily, hotel, office, industrial, entertainment, mixed-use, and master-planned communities. Thirteen case studies written by top market analysts demonstrate how they implemented these methods and provide you with models to follow. Ideal for anyone new to real estate development
Practical Real Estate Law (The West Legal Studies Series) (Hardcover)
Practical Real Estate Law is a vital tool in instructing students about the intricacies of real estate transactions. Students and instructors will find just the right mix of theory and practice for both residential and commercial concerns. The text features detailed instructions in carrying out such important transactions as closings, sales and mortgage loans secured by real estate. The text is designed not only to serve as a study guide but also as a reference tool for paralegals in practice with the inclusion of checklists, tips, advice and residential- and commercial-specific real estate forms.
Commercial Real Estate Investing 12 Easy Steps to Getting Started (Paperback)
Simple and to the point, Commercial Real Estate Investing presents 12 easy-to-follow steps that anyone can use to build a life of financial independence. Full of real-world examples, insider tips, and tried-and-true advice from one of the most published real estate authors in America, this comprehensive resource covers everything you need to know about profiting in commercial real estate—including financing, valuation, due diligence, leverage, equity, using other people’s money, and much more. Packed with fresh ideas, proven techniques, and effective strategies for solving problems during negotiations and making a profit even if you sell for less than you paid, Commercial Real Estate Investing gives you all the tools you need to start amassing your fortune today.
How To Become a Power Agent in Real Estate : A Top Industry Trainer Explains How to Double Your Income in 12 Months (Hardcover)
How to Become a Power Agent in Real Estate 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.
Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide
It simplifies the complicated, makes boring tax laws interesting, and offers landlords the major financial incentive of saving tax dollars.--Bob Bruss, nationally syndicated columnist
Real Estate Loopholes: Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investing (Paperback)
Finding wealth through real estate investing depends upon knowledge, a good plan, and building a team of advisors and mentors who can provide the expert guidance needed. By examining the three keys of successful real estate investing-selection, taxation, and protection. Real Estate Loopholes shows what it takes to make a real estate investment work.
What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow...And 36 Other Key Financial Measures: Guidelines, Formulas, and Rules of Thumb for Making Money in Real Estate (Paperback)
Every real estate investor needs to know how to calculate cash flow, long-term gain, net operating income, and a few other basic financial formulas. What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow . . . is a guide to the 36 most essential calculations that answer such crucial questions as "What is this building really worth today?" "What kind of cash flow can I expect?" "Is this property a good investment?" and "How do I calculate my return?" For beginning investors, real estate veterans, commercial brokers, and sellers as well as buyers, this handy reference is a must-have for anyone who wants to make sound decisions based on accurate calculations of:
  • Discounted cash flow
  • Cash-on-cash return
  • Net operating income
  • Capitalization rate
  • Gross rent multiplier
  • Net present value
  • Payback period
  • Mortgage amortization
  • And many more
Streetwise Landlording & Property Management: Insider's Advice on How to Own Real Estate and Manage It Profitably (Adams Streetwise Series) (Paperback)
Helpful Advice for Protecting Your Tenants and Your Investment!
As appealing and lucrative as property ownership can be, it isn’t an occupation to be learned through trial and error. It’s essential property owners understand all the ins and outs—legally and financially—for their own welfare as well as their tenants. Streetwise® Landlording and Property Management addresses all aspects of the business, from the practical to the strategic.
How to Rent Vacation Properties By Owner
"The title is a mouthful; the book is concise and to the point."--Realty Times, Broderick Perkins, Aug, 2004
Mortgage Encyclopedia: An Authoritative Guide to Mortgage Programs, Practices, Prices and Pitfalls (Paperback)
With the creation of so many new, complex mortgage programs, it's difficult for investors-- not to mention real estate agents, attorneys, closing agents, and mortgage brokers--to keep track of them all. Written by nationally syndicated real estate columnist Jack Guttentag, The Mortgage Encyclopedia helps readers understand the various mortgage terms, features, and options by offering clear, precise explanations. The alphabetical organization of terms makes it easy to quickly find information on any topic, from FHA, Investor, and No-PMI Loans to Origination Fee and Rate Float. Each entry includes not just a description of the term, but also relevant advice for consumers, such as answers to the questions "Is this loan right for me?" and "Can I negotiate this fee?"
  • Guides readers through the bewildering array of new mortgage programs
  • Features definitions and explanations of common mortgage, escrow, and closing fees and arcane mortgage terminology
Become A Home Inspector! (Paperback)
This is a concise guide to starting up and operating a successful Home Inspection business without spending a lot of money. Many Home Inspectors are now earning $500 to $800 per day, and a pro shows how you can, too. This book focuses on a no-nonsense approach to the home inspection business without spending a lot of money on unnecessary equipment, training, or a lifetime of franchise fees.
Principles of Home Inspection: Systems & Standards (Principles of Home Inspection) (Paperback) 
This introductory overview of the major home systems gives students a solid foundation for beginning a career in home inspection. This comprehensive text gets students out into the field quickly while serving as a springboard for the 13 advanced electives in the Principles line. Systems & Standards focuses on system and component problems, their practical implications, and inspections strategies for finding them. No other single volume offers both the breadth and depth of this introduction.


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