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Investing in Real Estate With Lease Options and "Subject-To" Deals : Powerful Strategies for Getting More When You Sell, and Paying Less When You Buy

Wendy Patton

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

With lease options and subject-to deals, investors can control properties worth much more than what they could normally afford to purchase. The potential for profit is great and the costs of getting started are low.

This book shows novice investors how author Wendy Patton and thousands of other Americans--including well-known real estate developers and business moguls--use lease options and subject-to deals to control valuable property without necessarily owning it. The cost of purchasing an option or subject-to deal is a fraction of what it costs to buy a home. That's why these kinds of deals are typically found in every serious investor's portfolio. Sharing the secrets and strategies investors use to profit from low- and no-money-down deals, Patton gives investors all the information they need to succeed.

"Finally, a book that explains lease option and subject-to deals in depth and detail. This book is essential for anyone who wants to make money in real estate without using a lot of cash or taking on a lot of risk. A gold mine of great information."
--Robert Shemin, New York Times bestselling author of Secrets of Buying and Selling Real Estate?Without Using Your Own Money!

"Few can rival Wendy's knowledge and experience with lease option and subject-to deals. This is a must-read for beginning and advanced investors and the real estate agents who serve them."
--Gary Keller, New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

"The techniques Patton teaches here are invaluable--especially for working with Realtors and still getting properties for little- or no-money-down. The detail in this book will make you want to read every page."
--Albert Lowry, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of How You Can Become Financially Independent by Investing in Real Estate

The Fundamentals of Listing and Selling Commercial Real Estate

Loren K. Keim

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Makes the Complex Understandable 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Whether you're a real estate agent selling commercial and investment property or an investor purchasing and selling commercial real estate, the field of Commercial Real Estate Sales and Investment Property Sales is very complex, with a language all its own.

Challenges in commercial real estate sales include mathematical projections, return calculations, zoning issues, legal issues, contract issues, environmental inspections, tax consequences and the entire minefield lately of commercial mortgages and loans.

In the "Fundamentals of Listing and Selling Commercial Real Estate", Loren Keim, the author, has made the complex understandable with an easy-to-read book. An excellent job, I give it 5 stars!

Editorial Review:

The Fundamentals of Listing and Selling Commercial Real Estate provides a complete foundation for a career in the Commercial Real Estate Industry. The text contains a comprehensive study of property and investment analysis, mortgages and leases, as well as practice techniques such as prospecting, presentations, and negotiating.

Short-Sale Pre-Foreclosure Investing: How to Buy "No-Equity" Properties Directly from the Bank -- at Huge Discounts

Dwan Bent-Twyford, Sharon Restrepo

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Excellent information!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Thanks to Dwan and Sharon for this comprehensive look at negotiating a short sale. The introduction was motivating; the practical information was empowering. This book is worth much more than what it's offered at. Thanks again!!!

Good Investment Tool 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is a good tool for understanding and developing a working base in the "Short Sale" industry. I have taken several classes with Dwan and was impressed with her level of knowledge and expertise. Dwan's teaching style is very open and down to earth. Once you read this book, you'll want to immediately maximize your investing opportunities with foreclosures. I highly recommend any book or course from Dwan, you'll learn from the Best!

Editorial Review:

Learn all about short-sales, the hottest topic in today’s real estate investing market, with Short-Sale Pre-Foreclosure Investing: How to Buy "No-Equity" Properties Directly from the Bank -- at Huge Discounts. Understand how to buy properties at big discounts, creating windfall profits. Using this guide, you can access information about a topic that 90% of real estate agents and investors know nothing about. Discover how to make huge profits from the banks’ misfortune, how to help homeowners in foreclosure while helping yourself, and how to stay on the cutting edge of the down market.

Commercial Real Estate Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Peter Conti, Peter Harris

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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 five biggest myths of commercial real estate investment, find out how to recession-proof your investment portfolio, and more. Discover how to:

• Get leads on commercial property investments
• Determine what a property is worth
• Find the right financing for you
• Handle inspections and fix problems
• Make big money in land development
• Manage your properties or hire a pro
• Exploit the tax advantages of commercial real estate
• Find out what offer a seller really-really wants
• Perform due diligence before you make a deal
• Raise capital by forming partnerships

Investing in commercial property can make you rich in any economy. Get Commercial Real Estate For Dummies, and find out how.

The Real Estate Developer's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Real Estate Development With Companion CD-ROM

Tanya Davis

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Are you the Next Donald Trump? Successful real estate developers can become enormously wealthy. However, the flip side is many developers run out of cash before cashing in. Poor cash flow is the primary cause of business failure for real estate developers. This new book details how to become a successful real estate developer and demonstrates step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful real estate development enterprise. The author has explored every avenue in explaining this potentially rewarding yet risky business. The book covers the entire process of establishing a small real estate development firm and the ongoing management necessary in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid the many common mistakes that can doom a start-up. The book focuses on small developments that you can start by yourself featuring both residential and commercial applications. Once the basic skills are learned, the book points out areas of expansion by leveraging your first investment. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding your first location that will bring success, learning how to draw up a winning business plan, installing basic cost control systems, assembling your team of experts, generating high profile public relations and publicity, learning low cost marketing ideas and low- and no-cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, setting up accounting and bookkeeping procedures, and auditing. There are thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. You will learn the development process, governmental issues, environmental issues, demographics and trends, market research, site selection, feasibility analysis, due diligence, preliminary pro forma, property acquisition, project design/refined pro forma, entitlements, financing/final pro forma, construction, operation, feasibility studies, financing, market analysis, construction, and asset management. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms demonstrated in the book for easy use in a PDF format.

Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home (book with CD-Rom & Audio)

Ilona Bray, Alayna Schroeder, Marcia Stewart

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Insider tips and advice to help you get the right place at the right price!

If you're ready to say goodbye to landlords and laundromats, Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home will help you find the right place to invest in -- and have fun doing it.

Filled with interesting facts and real-life stories, this book provides everything you need to select the right house, the right mortgage, the right agent, the right inspections -- and much more. Get the inside scoop on:

deciding between a house, condo, co-op or townhouse

exploring the market for the best value

lining up financing

getting inspections and insurance

negotiating with sellers or new home builders

successfully closing the deal

Read the real-life stories of over 20 first-time homebuyers, as well as the insights from a team of 13 real estate professionals, including:

brokers

attorneys who specialize in real estate

a home inspector

a neighborhood researcher

a mortgage specialist

and more PLUS: You'll get the The Homebuyer's Toolkit, a CD-ROM that includes dozens of forms and MP3s which will help you find the right place, crunch the numbers, interview real estate professionals, borrow down payment money from your parents -- and more.

The Rental Property Manager's Toolbox: A Complete Guide Including Pre-Written Forms, Agreements, Letters, And Legal Notices: With Companion CD-ROM

Jamaine Burrell

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Take a look through the Forbes annual issue of the richest Americans, and you will find a majority of those personal fortunes have something to do with real estate. Real estate rental income rarely experiences wild swings in value, instead providing predictable returns at many times the rate of money market accounts or CDs. In addition, there can be substantial tax advantages as well. However, being the “landlord” can be difficult, time consuming, and potentially wrought with financial and legal obstacles. This new book will make the process of managing your rental properties easier. This new book and companion CD-ROM will teach you how to avoid headaches, hassles, and lawsuits by learning how to professionally manage your rental property. Maximize your profits and minimize your risks. Learn about advertising, tenant screening, managing tenants, legal rights, landlord rights, discrimination, vacancies, essential lease clauses, crime prevention, drugs, gangs, security issues, as well as premises liability, security deposits, handling problems, evictions, maintenance, recordkeeping, and taxes. The CD-ROM contains dozens of forms, sample contracts, letters, notices, rental applications, agreements and checklists. It includes topics such as evicting irresponsible tenants, collecting damages, running multiple properties, handling complaints, emergency procedures, expenses, and utility management. We spent thousands of hours interviewing and e-mailing real estate property managers and investors. This book is a compilation of their secrets and proven successful ideas. If you are interested in learning hundreds of hints, tricks, and secrets on how to make money (or more money) on managing your rental properties, then this book is for you. Instruction is great, but advice from experts is even better, and the experts chronicled in this book earn $1,000 to $300,000 per month managing rental properties. Inside the pages of this new exhaustively researched guide you will find a jam-packed assortment of innovative ideas that you can put to use today.

Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House

Larry Haun

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A Complete Novice's Perspective 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I am a complete novice and therefore I have looked at many books. Three things stood out about this book that I did not see anywhere else:
1. It has a cookbook approach. After looking at other books I was not completely clear when in time to do what task. This book arranges all the tasks in the chronological order. That facilitated for grasping the whole process mentally before beginning to build.
2. This book is exceptionally lucid, it is written in an unhurried language. The author has a gift for explanation.
3. Finally, this book is inspirational. It is more than a house building it aims to teach - it teaches building a home as a small step toward betterment of the world.

Editorial Review:

Available for the first time, Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House is a complete, step-by-step guide to building a house from the world's leading authority on community home building. Presented documentary-style, each process is illustrated with full-color photos shot exclusively for this book and accompanied by clear, authoritative and friendly text. An ideal book for beginners as well as more experienced builders, Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House covers everything you need to know about building an efficient, affordable, quality house.
-- Habitat for Humanity has built more than 100,000 houses, through 1500 affiliates worldwide
-- Includes information on building codes, building inspections, energy efficiency, professional building techniques and tools and materials

The 16% Solution: How To Get High Interest Rates in a Low Interest World with Tax Lien Certificates

Joel S. Moskowitz

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Great Inro into Real Estate 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book discribes how investors can make money in the tax lien market. Tax liens are those liens attached to your deed when you do not pay your property taxes. Since your municpality needs these taxes to pay for service (fire, police, etc.) and they do not need the real estate, they either sell the liens or the actual real estate (not really covered in this book) at an auction. The investor needs to wait a period of time (Each State is Differnt) and then the investor forcloses on the defaltee either requiring the tax payer to pay cash or take possesion of the real estate to do what he wishes with it.

The four sectons of the book explain the basics of these liens, what they are, how to get them, who to contact, what to look for, where they are held and the basics of how to redeam them. There is also a reference on the individual state laws on how each state handles the leins and what the investor must do.

Mr. Moskowitz gives plenty of exapmples of which states has tax liens (Certificates) and which ones have tax deeds (Real Estate). He explains the pros and cons of each and he explains how to take advantage of each situation.

For the small investor though, this can cause some problems as your cash is tied up for a period time and you may have to foreclose on the tax payer when then do not pay. If you need the money and there are no current markets to to sell off your certificate if the need arrises. If you have enough money to part with, investing in these vehicles are safe and secure and you can get some hefty profits from them if you are willing to deal with som small problems.

He reminds you that these profits are guarrenteed by the government and are perfectly legal.

This book helps you understand the concept of these investments, but you need to do more research before you start. Are you willing to evict someone when there term is up. Many states allow tax payers to pay thier taxes after the have sold it you with out owing you interest (generally with in a certain time frame). These and other questions needs to be ask as you read the book.

Mr. Moskowitz does a great job at explaining everything except how to get tax Deed (real estate). This is recommened as a starting point for anyone who want to get involved in this type of investment. Further reading and inquiry of others who actually use these investments are still needed.

Editorial Review:

A comprehensive guide to personal finance and investment explains how to achieve the maximum financial yield in a time of low interest rates and a weak stock market, discussing such options as tax lien certificates and their benefits. 50,000 first printing.

Trump University Real Estate 101: Building Wealth with Real Estate Investments

Gary W. Eldred

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Trump University books are practical, straightforward primers on the basics of doing business the Trump way-successfully. Each book is written by a leading expert in the field and includes an inspiring Foreword by Trump himself. Key ideas throughout are illustrated by real-life examples from Trump and other senior executives in the Trump organization. Perfect for anyone who wants to get ahead in business without the MBA, these streetwise books provide real-world business advice based on the one thing readers can't get in any business school-experience.

In Trump University Real Estate 101, you'll learn how to:
* Develop the entrepreneurial skills to succeed in real estate investing
* Make money in any market at any time
* Convert properties for new uses and make more money
* Create instant equity in any property
* Determine how financing will affect the cash flow and value of your property
* Use options and assignments to buy and sell properties you don't own
* Assess the value of similar properties by comparing and analyzing multiple features
* And much more!