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Summary: Excellent Guide
Review: I highly recommend this book. It is a fun and easy primer to getting staarted in RE investing. With this book and the website Creative Real Estate Online, you can't go wrong! Happy investing!
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Summary: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Review: I LOVE THIS BOOK! I highly recommend this book if you are looking to invest in real estate. It is very informative, very helpful and soooo easy to read and understand. :-)
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Summary: The best book on RE investing I've seen so far
Review: I ordered 5 books on Real Estate Investment from Amazon, and this is my favorite. It gives you EVERYTHING the beginner needs to know to get started. Best of all, it's current (1999), vs. some of the other books that are getting a bit stale. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Great for anyone Starting to Invest in Real Estate
Review: I too was a little apprehensive about the title, but I bought about four books at the same time. Many of the real-estate books are get-rich-quick-squeme-type. This is a VERY practical guide on what to look for, how to appraise, how to rent, etc. I very highly recommend it. I call it the BIBLE of real estate investing. 5 stars.
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Summary: Great for anyone Starting to Invest in Real Estate
Review: I too was a little apprehensive about the title, but I bought about four books at the same time. Many of the real-estate books are get-rich-quick-squeme-type. This is a VERY practical guide on what to look for, how to appraise, how to rent, etc. I very highly recommend it. I call it the BIBLE of real estate investing. 5 stars.
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Summary: Best of the lot
Review: I was a little skeptical about a real estate book in a series whose cornerstone is "The Unofficial Guide to Disney World." But it turned out to be the best of the half a dozen or so carefully selected books on real estate investment that I bought. It is very down-to-earth and doesn't push get rich quick schemes. More like get financially secure in 20 years. Another reviewer mentionned McLean & Elred's "Investing in Real Estate" as being a much better book. Actually, that would be number 2 on my list--it's excellent. But I like the UG book a little better. Read both. One thing I really liked in the UG book were all the worked numeric and financial examples. I pulled out my Hewlett Packard financial calculator and went crazy. But unfortunately, some of the numbers seem to be incorrect, or at least "aggressively rounded." The example in the appendix is really screwed up. The bright side is that all the time spent convincing myself that the book was wrong and not me resulted in helping me to gain more confidence in crunching these numbers. (An email to the authors about the typos and mistakes went unresponded to. I note that a new edition is scheduled for August 2003, indicating either this book's popularity ... or the need for corrections.) There are other mistakes that can only be explained by last minute rogue search-and-replaces, such as a three digit number that replaces several letters of certain words.
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Summary: superb
Review: I was very pleased with this book as this book talks about almost everything there is to know about real estate investing in the beginning. I will come back to this book as a source of reference in the future.
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Summary: Great Beginner's Books - Advanced Investors should leave it!
Review: I'm a beginner and I just acquired my RE license in South Florida for my own personal investment goals. This book is great. It provided a solid foundation for R.E. It is not a get-rich quick guide, and it is not for the "advanced" or "seasoned" investor. This book is fabulous. I disagree with the reviewer saying that it's cookie-cutter from this company. The information is quite valuable and would even come in handy for first time home buyers. The knowledge is solid and it speaks very plain. If you want high-brow, go somewhere else. This is the everyday, everyguy/gal book! I purchased it at the store here, and I love it. I've underlined so much in it and it truly explains REAL ESTATE.
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Summary: one of the best overall RE books
Review: I've read a lot of RE books, but this is the first one I'd recommend w/o reservation as a one stop overview. Most RE books have some common inaccuracies, and often some poor advice. This one appears, in my humble opinion, to be complete, clear, and accurate. It's the only one I'm recommending to my novice friends as a good summary.
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Summary: Great Introductory Book
Review: If you are looking for a common sense introductry book on real estate investing, this is it. I started this book with very little knowledge of real estate and managing properties, but after reading this book, I feel confident in my knowledge and feel I have the foundation to start a profitable and enjoyable real estate business. This isn't going to make you an expert, but it will give a great baseline to start your education. I especially like the easy to follow writing style and the author's use of a contining example property.
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