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Summary: How to Make BIG MONEY in Real Estate
Review: 'How to Make BIG MONEY in Real Estate' packed with ready-to-use strategies, step-by-step techniques, checklists, tables, and charts, as well as case studies. But the book is also too much infomercial.Real estate is a borrowing money business. In the book Mr. Hicks is teaching how to borrow BIG MONEY and keep alive. And he promises - you'll become a millionaire just in two or three years. The book is addressed to a usual reader of the Tyler Hicks works - to the BWB, so called 'beginning wealth builder'. As I imagine, the BWB is absolutely naive, unsophisticated and overoptimistic. The book is not so nudnik as some other books by Mr. Hicks. With a keen eye on current regulations and trends (in the US, it is clear), Ty Hicks 'reveals his surefire secrets for building real estate riches in the 21st century'. Do you wanna proof it?
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Summary: one page worth of material spread out over a whole book
Review: Honestly I couldn't make it through this book. There were about four pieces of advice in this book spread throughout everything which was filler that was repeated over and over and over again. here's everything:
-You can make big money in real estate and give up your 9-5 job
-You can invest in real estate with no money down Think of every possible way you could make these two statements, including just repeating verbatim several times, and you could write this book yourself..
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: I found it refreshing that Mr. Hicks gave suggestions for how to enter the real estate business WITHOUT obtaining a real estate license. Sure I agree with the other reviewers the book wasn't a highly technical book but that is also why I enjoyed it. I didn't buy the book I checked it out from the library and I'm glad I did. I recommend anyone interested in entering the real estate business read all you can before you leap. Sure the claims of making millions may be a bit far fetched for the average novice in real estate but it is a great book for firing up your creative juices.
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Summary: The worst I've seen
Review: I hate to say it, and it doesnt happen very often, but I bought this book and I can honestly say Tyler Hicks books are nothing but promotions for his other paid services. I have read many books on this topic as I plan to enter this market soon, and they are all based on a viewpoint that seemingly says "we have alot of material to cover, so lets get going." Tylers book spends so much time getting the reader hyped up beyond common sense so they open their wallets up for his other offerings, and the useful information is so few and far between, and defintely something that every other book has been saying. There is positively no enlightening information in this book whatsoever. And not to mention the fact that this type of hype is dangerous to those who have no idea about the real estate market, read this one useless book filled with vague ideas and general concepts, get excited and jump in only to find that they were no where near as informed as they should have been. It is very sad that we have writers like Mr. Hicks that care nothing for the readers, but it is good that we have people in this world who will stand up and call out a fake. Readers: Buy books that give facts, analysis measures, and personal experiences,...if it sounds like they are trying to "sell" you on something, they probably are! Sorry Tyler!
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Summary: In Fairness to Mr. Hicks!!
Review: I read the other reviews for this book. I am right now browsing through this book and I can't understand how the other reviewers can't find anything valuable in this book that they can use, when I find so many useful information almost every page I look. As for advertising his other books, I only see it mentioned at the end of the book which is quite standard for most authors to do. Perhaps, his mentioning the term "BWB" is what they mean by advertisement, which is a shortcut for "beginning wealth builder". Perhaps this book is not for the more advanced investors, but if you do not own property right now and would like to, then you are a beginning wealth builder. Maybe most of his ideas seem like "pie in the sky" like buying real estate for "zero" cash, but I think most everything that happens in our lives is a matter of "belief." If you believe, as I'm sure Mr. Hicks do and did when implementing his RE strategies, then there is no doubt that you will achieve it.
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Summary: In Fairness to Mr. Hicks!!
Review: I read the other reviews for this book. I am right now browsing through this book and I can't understand how the other reviewers can't find anything valuable in this book that they can use, when I find so many useful information almost every page I look. As for advertising his other books, I only see it mentioned at the end of the book which is quite standard for most authors to do. Perhaps, his mentioning the term "BWB" is what they mean by advertisement, which is a shortcut for "beginning wealth builder". Perhaps this book is not for the more advanced investors, but if you do not own property right now and would like to, then you are a beginning wealth builder. Maybe most of his ideas seem like "pie in the sky" like buying real estate for "zero" cash, but I think most everything that happens in our lives is a matter of "belief." If you believe, as I'm sure Mr. Hicks do and did when implementing his RE strategies, then there is no doubt that you will achieve it.
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Summary: Ideas to get you motivated to do something
Review: I would say that this book has some ideas at the end of the book that are definitely some thoughts on. He has a suggested timetable for you to get started, and he also provides some interesting charts that can get the novice investor going in the right direction.
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Summary: Some Good Pointers But May Not Apply to Other Countries
Review: The book presents some good pointers for those who intend to invest in real estate. The most important being the income property must generate a positive cash flow and not just capital appreciation.
Zero cash deals do not work in countries like Singapore where the authorities impose a max loan amount, as a percentage of sales/valuation , financial institutions can loan buyer. Organized in a readable manner with key points summarized at the end of each chapter, which serves as a good revision reminder.
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Summary: The worst I've seen
Review: This book is horrid, I am an investor in real estate and I thought this book was an ...infomercial. BAD,BAD and more bad, need I say more. I will, it's my right to say more since I had to pay to read this... All this guy wants to do is sell you his memberships for him to scam you, this is the topic of the entire book. All of you newbies out there looking to invest in real state...DO IT! Real estate is great, but this book is THE WORST.
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: This was the second Tyler Hicks book that I have read. In this book as well as the other I found that he spends a little too much time marketing his other services and merchandise. I would say that this book is good for motivating newbie real estate investors, but it lacks vital details on controlling income producing real estate.
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