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Summary: re-titled book
Review: although the book is OK. Its just a re-titled book Wade wrote in 1985 called Real Wealth.
Why bother with an old book you might already have.
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Summary: Went from the rat race to RE Investor in 90 days!
Review: First of all, I recommend that you read Real Estate Money Machine with or before this one. It will make a lot more sense to you.In Real Estate For Real People, Wade Cook goes a lot deeper into his money machine concepts; talks about how to run real estate like a business, negotiating tips and much more. This is the same information that Wade used to teach at his "Tune Ups" seminars in the late 1980's for hundreds of dollars. By the way, most of us had no problem with paying hundreds of dollars for this information...you won't find it anywhere else. This information took me from the rat race feeling like a rat to a full time Real Estate Investor inside of 90 days. It works.
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Summary: Be Aware of this guy named Wade Cook!
Review: I first learned about Wade Cook back in 1997. I bought two of his then hot selling books Wall Street Money Machine and Stock Market Miracles. Using Wade's techniques on options and stock splits, I was able to turn $5,000 into over $30,000 in about three months. I was sold on Wade Cook.
Then I noticed that Wade recommended moving money out of the stock market and diversyfing into other investments like businesses and real estate. The real estate market always intriqued me but I wasn't sold on being a landlord and dealing with tenants, toilets and turnovers. I also did not want to wait for appreciation to build my wealth. I had talked with many people who lost money in real estate.
Being sold on Wade Cook from my rapid stock market successes, I decided to buy this book along with Real Estate Money Machine. I was pleased to see that Wade's real estate strategies are like his stock market strategies, they are focused on rapid cash flow, buying right, getting in to a deal and out very quickly. Now this appealed to me. Get in, get out and best of all there would be no three T's of tenants, toilets and turnover. I didn't want to get into something that would have me getting calls 3am in the morning to unplug a stuffed up toilet or on inspection find tenants who trashed my property or be constantly running ads and interviewing potential tenants to rent my properties.
This was like a breath of fresh air.
Everybodyelse was teaching "don't wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and then wait", "buy and hold and hold and hold and hold." That wasn't for me.
So I began using Wade's Money Machine concepts in real estate as advised in this book and in Real Estate Money Machine and was able to get in deals with no money down (also recommend Wades 101 Ways to Buy Real Estate Without Cash) and with minimal sweat equity (in most cases) flip the property and make nice profits.
I became sold, sold, sold on Wade's Real Estate techniques. Real Estate for Real People also goes beyond other real estate books on the business side of real estate. I also recommend Brilliant Deductions also by Wade.
My advice to you is to be aware of Wade and beware of 1 star bashers with an agenda which does not include helping you. Ask yourself this question; why are they (or is that he--one 1 star reviewer repeatedly reposting negative posts) here? What is their motive? If you can't figure it out, just go and check out the books that he self publishes and recommends and therein lies the answer.
Wade has been around for nearly three decades empowering people. Real Estate Money Machine and Real Estate for Real People have been best sellers since the 1980's and have been revised over a dozen times. And Wade cut his teeth in real estate. He is NOT a paper tiger writing about something that he himself has not done like those other writers.
Just like I found that WADE'S stock market techniques worked, I also found that his real estate strategies worked as well. Besides, for the cost of an average meal, you can have some of the most profitable cash flowing strategies available.
Be aware of Wade Cook and Beware of self serving, self publishing and/or paid shills for Wade's "competitors." One more thing, do not call the toll free number on this book instead go to Wade's website www.wadecook.org.
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Summary: OK book for newbies to real estate.
Review: I learned a little bit more than I knew before about the topic of real estate strategies. Good book that will complement your Russ Whitney Book, Building Wealth.
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Summary: useless book
Review: I looked through it and looked through the reviews on on amazon. Don't waste your time with this book. Cook claims you can earn 300 percent annual returns. Think about that for second... Start with $10k in 15 years, you'll over take Bill Gates. Just look up Wade Cook on fool.com if you want to learn the truth.
And about the other reviews on this website... it's painfully obvious that most of them are fake.
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Summary: Overly simplistic - there are better books
Review: I would avoid this book. There are much better real estate books and Mr. Cook's advice is suspect.
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Summary: Even more real estate secrets from Wade
Review: If you want to learn something, you go to someone who is successful right? When it comes to real estate, Wade knows what he is talking about. Just look at all the people who have imitated him.Read ths book after Real Estate Money Machine. It works.
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Summary: Read this along with Real Estate Money Machine
Review: In real estate money machine, Wade Cook discloses his system for cash flowing the real estate business. In this book, WADE COOK goes even deeper into the business of running your real estate business. Must reading and a great read for all serious real estate investors or those who want to be.
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Summary: Another winner from Wade
Review: Like Robert Allen, Wade Cook started in the real estate business back in the 1980's. Unlike Allen (who is also excellent by the way), Wade teaches a method to turn real estate into cash flow right now. By the way, I heard about Wade Cook on the recommendation of Robert Allen..no peer pressure here. I would recommend that you read Real Estate Money Machine first, then add this one. Real Estate Money Machine will give you the basics of turning real estate into a perpetual money machine. Real Estate Money Machine goes deeper into the business side of running a real estate business...profitably. If you want to make some real money in real estate, buy these books. Read them and use them. Great stuff!
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Summary: Disregard negative reviews - good book
Review: Real Estate for Real People is an excellent followup to Mr. Cooks blockbuster "Real Estate Money Machine", a book that has created a lot on imitators. While "Real Estate Money Machine" shows you how to create consistent cash flow in real estate, "Real Estate for Real People" goes even deeper how to profitably run your real estate business. Mr. Cook used to offer this as a seminar and then a tape program called "Tune-ups" and I know people who payed thousands of dollars for the programs. "Real Estate for Real People" is an outstanding book for real people, written by a real-real estate investor and will teach you many things you didn't know before. Good book highly recommended....for serious real estate investors that is.
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