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The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History

Harry S. Dent

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The first and last economic depression that you will experience in your lifetime is just ahead. The year 2009 will be the beginning of the next long-term winter season and the initial end of prosperity in almost every market, ushering in a downturn like most of us have not experienced before. Are you aware that we have seen long-term peaks in our stock market and economy very close to every 40 years due to generational spending trends: as in 1929, 1968, and next around 2009? Are you aware that oil and commodity prices have peaked nearly every 30 years, as in 1920, 1951, 1980 -- and next likely around late 2009 to mid-2010? The three massive bubbles that have been booming for the last few decades -- stocks, real estate, and commodities -- have all reached their peak and are deflating simultaneously.

Bestselling author and renowned economic forecaster Harry S. Dent, Jr., has observed these trends for decades. As he first demonstrated in his bestselling The Great Boom Ahead, he has developed analytical techniques that allow him to predict the impact they will have. The Great Depression Ahead explains "The Perfect Storm" as peak oil prices collide with peaking generational spending trends by 2010, leading to a more severe downtrend for the global economy and individual investors alike.

He predicts the following:

• The economy appears to recover from the subprime crisis and minor recession by mid-2009 -- "the calm before the real storm."

• Stock prices start to crash again between mid- and late 2009 into late 2010, and likely finally bottom around mid-2012 -- between Dow 3,800 and 7,200.

• The economy enters a deeper depression between mid-2010 and early 2011, likely extending off and on into late 2012 or mid-2013.

• Asian markets may bottom by late 2010, along with health care, and be the first great buy opportunities in stocks.

• Gold and precious metals will appear to be a hedge at first, but will ultimately collapse as well after mid- to late 2010.

• A first major stock rally, likely between mid-2012 and mid-2017, will be followed by a final setdback around late 2019/early 2020.

• The next broad-based global bull market will be from 2020-2023 into 2035-2036.

Conventional investment wisdom will no longer apply, and investors on every level -- from billion-dollar firms to the individual trader -- must drastically reevaluate their policies in order to survive. But despite the dire news and dark predictions, there are real opportunities to come from the greatest fire sale on financial assets since the early 1930s. Dent outlines the critical issues that will face our government and other major institutions, offering long- and short-term tactics for weathering the storm. He offers recommendations that will allow families, businesses, investors, and individuals to manage their assets correctly and come out on top. With the right knowledge and preparation, you can take advantage of new wealth opportunities rather than get caught in a downward spiral. Your life is about to change for reasons outside of your control. You can't change the direction of the winds, but you can reset your sails!

Home Buying For Dummies, 3rd edition

Eric Tyson, Ray Brown

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Though fun and exciting, buying a home can also be complicated and confusing—and most people learn the hard way that a wrong move can cost dearly. In order to find the perfect home at the best price, you must have skill, foresight, and a little guidance from experienced professionals.

Home Buying for Dummies, Third Edition provides just that! Packed with invaluable advice in an objective, down-to-earth style that will have you sitting in your dream home in no time, this friendly guide contains everything you need to know to play the home buying game. It has the tools you need to:

  • Improve your credit score and select a mortgage
  • Choose a time and place to buy
  • Determine the price you want to pay
  • Assemble an all-star real estate team
  • Make use of the wonderful world of the Internet
  • Negotiate your best deal
  • Inspect and protect your home
  • Handle and become responsible for the title
  • Cope with buyer’s remorse

Featured in this guide are tips and tricks on things you should do after you seal the deal, as well as things you ought to know about real estate investing. Also included is advice on how to sell your house, as well as a sample real estate purchase contract and a good inspection report. Don’t get chewed up by the real estate market—Home Buying for Dummies, Third Edition will lead you to the home you want!

What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow... And 36 Other Key Financial Measures

Frank Gallinelli

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A must read for any real estate investor!! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

"What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know about Cash Flow" is the definitive guide to understanding critical calculations that will help you to determine if a prospective acquisition target is a great deal to buy immediately or a horrible investment to avoid like the plague!

I've owned this book for years but often find myself referencing this wonderful and well-written manual.

Matthew A. Martinez
Author of "Investing in Apartment Buildings: Create a Reliable Stream of Income and Build Long-Term Wealth" and "2 Years to a Million in Real Estate"
www.matthewamartinez.com

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Formulas that make the difference between making profits and losing equity

The only way to win the real estate investing game is by mastering the numbers. This revised and updated edition of the popular reference shows how to target the best investments in the present market. It answers all your real estate questions, and provides new discussions of capital accumulation and internal rate of return. This book’s basic formulas will help you measure critical aspects of real estate investments, including

  • Discounted Cash Flow
  • Net Present Value
  • Capitalization Rate
  • Cash-on-Cash Return
  • Net Operating Income
  • Internal Rate of Return
  • Profitability Index
  • Return on Equity

Financial Shock: A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis

Mark Zandi

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"In Financial Shock, Mr. Zandi provides a concise and lucid account of the economic, political and regulatory forces behind this binge." --The Wall Street Journal "Aggressive builders, greedy lenders, optimistic home buyers: Zandi succinctly dissects the mortgage mess from start to (one hopes) finish." --U.S. News and World Report "If you wonder how it could be possible for a subprime mortgage loan to bring the global financial system and the U.S. economy to its knees, you should read this book. No one is better qualified to provide this insight and advice than Mark Zandi." -- Larry Kudlow, Host, CNBC's Kudlow & Company "Every once in a while a book comes along that's so important, it commands recognition. This is one of them. Zandi provides a rilliant blow-by-blow account of how greed, stupidity, and recklessness brought the first major economic crises of the 21st entury and the most serious since the Great Depression." --Bernard Baumohl,Managing Director, The Economic Outlook Group and best-selling author, The Secrets of Economic Indicators "Throughout the financial crisis Mark Zandi has played two important roles.He has insightfully analyzed its causes and thoughtfully recommended steps to alleviate it. This book continues those tasks and adds a third--providing a comprehensive and comprehensible explanation of the issues that is accessible to the general public and extremely useful to those who specialize in the area." --Barney Frank, Chairman, House Financial Services Committee The subprime crisis created a gigantic financial catastrophe. What happened? How did it happen? How can we prevent similar crises from happening again? Mark Zandi answers all these critical questions--systematically, carefully, and in plain English. Zandi begins with a fast-paced overview and then illuminates the deepest causes, from the psychology of homeownership to Alan Greenspan's missteps. You'll see the home "flippers" at work and the real estate agents who cheered them on. You'll learn how Internet technology and access to global capital transformed the mortgage industry, helping irresponsible lenders drive out good ones.Zandi demystifies the complex financial engineering that enabled lenders to hide deepening risks, shows how global investors eagerly bought in, and explains how flummoxed regulators failed to prevent disaster, despite crucial warning signs. Most important, Zandi offers indispensable advice for investors who must recognize emerging bubbles, policymakers who must improve oversight, and citizens who must survive whatever comes next. *Liar's loans, flippers, predatory lenders, delusional homebuilders How the housing market came unhinged, and the whirlwind came together*Alan Greenspan's trillion-dollar bet Betting on the boom, ignoring the bubble*The subprime market goes global Worldwide investors get a piece of the action--and reap the results*Wall Street's alchemists: conjuring up Frankenstein New financial instruments and their hidden contents*Back to the future: risk management for the 21st century Respecting the "animal spirits" that drive even the most sophisticated markets

Investing in Apartment Buildings: Create a Reliable Stream of Income and Build Long-Term Wealth

Matthew Martinez

Investing in Apartment Buildings: Create a Reliable Stream of Income and Build Long-Term Wealth Matthew Martinez Amazon Price: $16.47
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�Matthew's newest book, Investing in Apartment Buildings, couldn't have come at a more poignant time in our lives. He offers a modern day, step-by-step survival guide for the ever growing economic war on the middle-class. Win your own financial war by arming yourself with Matthew's systematic, hands-on experience and sound principals for investing in apartment buildings.�.
--Ryan Zahoruiko, principal, Forest Street Property LLC

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�Matt Martinez is able to take the complicated world of real estate investing and put it into terminology that the average person is able to understand. Understand the acquisition of apartment buildings is not an easy task but Matt makes it clear and concise in his book. He gives the reader the tools, knowledge, and desire; it is only up to the reader to follow what he reads to give him success.� .
--Seth Heller, VP of Acquisitions, GREC Conversions LTD

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�Matt Martinez makes a compelling case as to why real estate investing remains the best path to financial independence. Investing In Apartment Buildings provides step by step advice that gives newcomers to real estate investment the practical advice they need to learn the business from the ground up. The Chapter Summaries provide an excellent tool to focus the reader and the real life �war stories� provide great context for each lesson. If you want to get started in developing an independent income stream Investing In Apartment Buildings should find a place on your bookshelf.�.
--Jordan C. Paul, CEO Aquila Property Company, Inc.

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�I bought my first rental property around 1990. Since that time I've bought, operated and sold more than 3,000 apartment units which have generated more than $30MM in net profits. If I would have had Matt's book in 1990 I could have avoided dozens of pitfalls and accelerated my growth MUCH FASTER...".
--David F. Atkins, president, Alexander Forrest Properties

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�Matthew Martinez has done it again! His books are clear, compelling, and always offer tremendous knowledge and value for anyone wishing to get into the real estate market. Speaking from experience, Matthew, provides great insight into real estate investing and you'll even get to read personal email exchanges from Matthew's treasured mentor.�.
--Phoebe Chongchua, real estate columnist

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�Matt has really hit the target; a concise, complete and organized approach to investing in this asset class. Apartments, with their short lease terms, are true inflation hedges and this book can help your investment approach, whether new to the business or a seasoned veteran. He really gets it, and you will too.".
--Gary Kachadurian, chairman, Apartment Realty Advisors

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�A must read for anyone looking to invest in apartment communities. Matt's book is both informative and interesting!".
--Mark H. Stern, senior vice president of acquisitions, Waterton Residential

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�An outstanding summary of the key principles of real estate investment and wealth accumulation. Matt Martinez has the unique ability to transform sophisticated ideas and concepts into highly readable and entertaining prose. This is required reading for anyone serious about learning the basics of apartment building investment in these complex times.".
--Richard N. Bernstein, attorney and principle shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP

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�Because of Martinez' s vast understanding of the real estate industry's many nuances, he is able to provide real and sustainable advice for investment professionals and novices alike. Martinez will show you where the rubber meets the road when it comes to multi-unit success. Buy this book!".
--Charles Byron Andrews, founder of Blue Coast Asset Management

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�This is an outstanding guide for those who are interested in investing in apartment buildings. Matt Martinez has created a well-thought-out and informative book for the novice, intermediate and experienced multi-unit apartment investor. He discuses in great detail farm areas, sourcing properties, value-add deals, property management, value determinations, financial analysis and underwriting guidelines, negotiating strategies and how to succeed in this challenging but rewarding business. He also uses real-life examples to help the reader better understand the principles he teaches. This is an outstanding book that anyone who is seriously interested in apartment buildings must read!.
--Rob Sena, partner, Alterra Capital Group

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�When I started in real estate investing, Matt Martinez sat down with me and explained how to do things properly. His guidance gave me both the analytical framework and courage to succeed. In fact, I just bought my third apartment building. This book encapsulates much of his wisdom and is definitely a must read for anyone serious about real estate investing..
--Ben Goodman, founder, FastForwards Management LLC

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Investing in Apartment Buildings is not only another story of success, but one that lets you profit from Matthew Martinez's experience. The writing style makes you feel like you're talking with a friend. This book provides a great description of the current industry's situation, ideas to capture opportunities and tools to assess each investment. It represents a very compelling guide to help you ask the right questions and understand the answers when considering real estate deals..
--Javier Dborkin, director, Boston Andes Capital

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�Any seasoned multifamily investor will tell you that the fortunes you hear about are made and lost in the details. Many of the lessons I have learned through years of trial and error have been clearly laid out in a highly accessible format in Matt Martinez's Investing in Apartment Buildings.".
--Matt Wanderer, principal, Alterra Capital Group

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�Matt's approach to investing in Multi-Family Apartments is concise, strategic, and up-to-date. This book is well thought-out and informative for today's multi-family investors. Matt knows what he is talking about. His book is a must read.".
--Joel Webb, founder of TheCreativeInvestor.com

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Real Estate Investing for Dummies

Eric Tyson, Robert S. Griswold

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"This is simply the best book on the topic.”
—Randall Bell, Author, Home Owner's Manual

"Tyson and Griswold have truly opened the world of real estate investing to all by tackling often complex issues in this easy to understand and use book. I can't think of a better way to get smart about building wealth through rental properties than to read their excellent Real Estate Investing For Dummies!"
—Vern Hoven, CPA

Non-prime time TV is cluttered with infomercials about how you can buy non-prime real estate for next to nothing and get rich quick. Common sense should tell you that’s an exaggeration. (If common sense doesn’t tell you, bankers will.) Nevertheless, it is possible to get rich gradually by investing in real estate. Long term, you can expect to realize an annual return of 8 to 10% a year.

Real Estate Investing for Dummies gives you the keys to successful real estate investment, whether it’s in single family homes and condos, apartments, vacation homes, commercial properties (office, industrial, and retail), raw land, or REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts). With guidance from authors Eric Tyson, MBA, a financial counselor, and Robert S. Griswold, a veteran real estate investor, you’ll discover how to:

  • Find and buy the best properties at a fair price
  • Capitalize on opportunities such as foreclosures, no money down deals, auctions, tax sales, and more
  • Secure financing and good mortgage terms
  • Value, evaluate, and negotiate everything to do with real estate
  • Work with agents and other professionals
  • Project income potential and cash flow
  • Handle contracts, inspections, and closings

Whether you’re interested in a fixer supper for rental, premier office space you can lease, or a vacation home you can enjoy and rent, when you become a buyer, you also become a landlord. That means you can hear from tenants any time, night or day. It means you may not hear from them when the rent is due. Real Estate Investing for Dummies also helps you:

  • Find and keep good tenants
  • Negotiate lease agreements
  • Insure and maintain your property
  • Keep good records for tax and accounting purposes

Remember, with any deal, you have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them. So Real Estate Investing for Dummies gives you guidelines on when and how to sell and how to reinvest to build wealth. It also lists 10 real estate investments you shouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole. Especially if you’re tempted by those late-night infomercials, that warning could save you a fortune!

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

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The codfish. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious than gold. Indeed, the codfish has played a fascinating and crucial role in world history.

Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and of course the fishermen, whose lives have interwoven with this prolific fish. He chronicles the fifteenth-century politics of the Hanseatic League and the cod wars of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. He embellishes his story with gastronomic detail, blending in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present.
And he brings to life the cod itself: its personality, habits, extended family, and ultimately the tragedy of how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction.

From fishing ports in New England and Newfoundland to coastal skiffs, schooners, and factory ships across the Atlantic; from Iceland and Scandinavia to the coasts of England, Brazil, and West Africa, Mark Kurlansky tells a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus.

Rich Dad's Real Estate Advantages: Tax and Legal Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investors

Sharon L. Lechter, Garrett Sutton

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The First Book to Truly Teach Real Estate Method 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book does for real estate investing what Pimsleur does for language learning: it teaches you to speak the real estate language, to ask knowledgeable questions, and to make informed decisions.

I have been through dozens of books, tapes, and CD programs on investing in real estate. Some are strictly motivational with little useful information. Others are like reference works and cannot be read from beginning to end. Still others hope to be meaningful forever and so dare not give you anything too current, or disputable and likely to change. Lechter and Sutton, however, wrote a book to turn a dreamer into a real estate investor. If that's what you still want at the end - but you have all the info to make the decision. Other reviewers might say that there are no "secrets" in this book - true, I suppose - but if YOU don't have a tutor for the subject, then for YOU common knowledge is a secret!

The authors give separate advice for dealing with primary residence and for investment properties. Most other books blur these separate cases. Special cases where individual state law might differ from the general situations are pointed out. Case studies and repetition are used throughout - much like Pimsleur uses conversation in each language lesson. The reader brings everything learned earlier to each case, but is stretched just a bit to see why each case is unique. Each chapter builds on prior chapters. Included is the required amount of math, but this is clearly not a math book. On the contrary, it is an enjoyable read cover-to-cover. Some of the material is current as of 2006 and this is clearly noted. I hope this book gets updated every few years.

While technically part of the Rich Dad series, the book stands on its own. The reader is fully aware of the few tacked-on references to the Rich Dad philosophy.

This book is a must-read for anyone thinking about a career in real estate investing in all its forms. Consider it the second book you read - after something like "Home Buying for Dummies."

Editorial Review:

Real Estate Advantages is for first-time as well as seasonedreal estate investors.It reveals the tax and legal loopholes availableand most important, how they can be used together to not only maximize yourincome--but accelerate your income from real estate investing.SharonLechter and Rich Dad's Advisor Garrett Sutton team up for the first time todeliver practical, proven strategies and formulas--from the perspective ofsuccessful investors, CPAs and asset protection attorneys--for acheivingthe greatest leverage from real estate investing.Written ineasy-to-understand language, this book de-mystifies the legal and taxaspects of investing with easy-to-follow, real life examples. Real EstateAdvantages reveals how you can find good advisors, create steady monthlyincome, reduce your risk, pay less in taxes, make more money with yourbanker's money and, best of all, the government helps you!

Make Money with Affordable Apartment Buildings and Commercial Properties (Make Money in Real Estate)

Gary W. Eldred

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An Apartment Building Real Estate Book That Doesn't Try To Sell You a System! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I read a fair amount of real estate books. However, when I choose a book, I try to stay away from the ones that just try to sell you on a system. Those books that scream, "Buy me and I'll tell you how to make a million dollars in a month from real estate using none of your own money!" I have never found that useful.

Mr. Eldred's book is not like those books. He is not trying to sell the reader his system. In fact, he even states in the book that systems typically do not work. Sure, you could buy a book from an author living in Southern California that made a million flipping homes between 2004-2007 but is that really going to work in Cedar Rapids, IA? Probably not.

I bought this book after being impressed with Investing in Real Estate, Fourth Edition. (The link is to the Fourth Edition, which I read. Note, however, that there is a newly updated Fifth Edition available now.) In fact, I recommend reading "Investing in Real Estate" before reading this book.

This book is all about multi family residences. It does not discuss buying single family homes since the process for those are different.

What makes this book so valuable are all of the areas that Mr. Eldred touches on that should affect not only how you decide whether or not you want to buy a property but how you see a property's potential before purchase and then fulfill that potential after the purchase. And it is not just focused on the buying process. He discusses formulating a PVP (Preferred Value Proposition) and using that PVP to guide your purchases. He talks about performing market analysis to locate the right markets, finding the right properties within those markets, determining what improvements will help raise the property's value and rents, and more. Sure, he has a chapter about working the numbers, but this book is about much more than just running numbers. It is about learning to create the right strategy, find the right markets, ask the right questions and see opportunities that others have missed.

I will be reading this book again because there is just too much valuable insight to try and capture it with just one read. Even if you are someone who owns a couple properties and has been doing this for a little while I believe this book will have you thinking and doing things differently after you read it.

Before I sound too positive, I will point out two minor issues I had with the book:

First, the title is "Make Money with Affordable Apartment Buildings and Commercial Properties." Mr. Eldred mentions commercial properties a bit in the book but this really is a book about apartment buildings (yes, I realize that apartment buildings fall into the realm of commercial properties but if that's what he was going after, the title is redundant). If you are looking at buying commercial properties that are not apartment buildings, this is not a fantastic book for you.

Second, he talks a lot in the book about calling up owners of other properties, asking them about units that are for rent, visiting those units, and following up with those owners after a short period of time to see if the units have been rented. To me, if I were an owner of one of those properties I would consider it somewhat bad form for another investor to take up my time inspecting a unit I have for rent if the investor knows he is not going to rent it. Maybe that's just me and maybe this is an OK practice (as I said I am just getting started in this area of investing), but it doesn't seem to be the right way to go about it.

In summary, I highly recommend this book. Buy it, read it, and start working on your own system for making money in real estate!

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Make Money with Affordable Apartment Buildings and Commercial Properties, Second Edition, shows you how to build wealth with affordable multi-unit residential and commercial buildings. Low-priced income properties can yield higher returns than single-family homes?especially if you manage them yourself. This book shows you how to find, assess, buy, and manage apartment buildings, retail offices, self-storage, and other overlooked investment alternatives. In today?s tough housing market, these properties offer great returns.

Foreclosure Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Ralph R. Roberts, Joe Kraynak

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With the housing bubble of the past few years bursting and interest rates on the rise, there has been an upsurge in the number of foreclosures across the country, creating many opportunities for profit. But investing in real estate foreclosure[s?] can be a tough job, especially when a negative stigma is attached. How do you make money while preserving your morals and trust?

Foreclosure Investing For Dummies shows you how to invest in foreclosures ethically without being accused of stealing homes from “little old ladies.” This step-by-step guide helps you thoroughly research property, find the best opportunities, purchase foreclosures, and avoid misleading distressed homeowners. This book doesn’t promise quick profits through minimal work, but it will provide you with invaluable information to become a successful investor, including:

  • Identifying opportunities and understanding risks
  • Obtaining information, tools, support, and resources
  • Locating properties prior to foreclosure
  • Assisting homeowners through the foreclosure process
  • Acquiring properties below market value prior to the auction
  • Buying property at an auction, from lending institutions, and government agencies
  • Repairing, renovating, and selling or leasing property

This book provides tips and strategies for refinancing your property and maximizing your profits. It also gives you advice on how to assist homeowners, have them work with you, and common mistakes you should avoid. It’s time to go out and make the most of foreclosure investing, and with Foreclosure Investing For Dummies by your side, your hard work and devotion will bring tons of success!


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