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Comment on Real Estate License Exams For Dummies by Sam Avery

Sam Avery — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:56:07 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this book along with other books I got from

Amazon re real estate exam.It was totally helpful I didn’t go to any seminars I study learned and understood the real estate terms S.L.U With the help from this book. If you are taking your exam i highly suggest this book to be added to your study materiel.
Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investments by VG Ghyoot

VG Ghyoot — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:45:25 +0000

This is an astonishingly good book, which integrates the best real estate research over the past decade into a practical textbook. It is pitched at masters level and is not recommended for people starting out their study of real estate.
Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on Real Estate License Exams For Dummies by Joseph E. Terzi

Joseph E. Terzi — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:57:17 +0000

This book is awesome!! Not only did I pass my test, but I gained so much real estate knowledge from this book that I was able to impress the management at Mansion Realty Group, and work as an agent immediately for them. I am now a top grossing agent with one of the best real estate firms in the city thanks in large part to this book!!
Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investments by Elena

Elena — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:55:59 +0000

This book is ideal for the serious institutional level investor, or more sophisticated individual investor, lender, portfolio manager, or asset manager. Integrates the frontier financial economics into real estate and capital markets. This is not a simpleton “get rick quick” book that ignores risk and research time. Rather it is an objective and in-depth book with a great deal of content.
Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on Modern Real Estate Practice by D. Wagner

D. Wagner — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:45:46 +0000

Great Book loaded with excellent information.

Only draw back was that 2 pages were missing and one page installed upside down. Would love to get missing pages.
Rating: 4 / 5

Comment on Rich Dad's Advisors®: The ABC's of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss by M. Sharma

M. Sharma — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:17:34 +0000

The content of this book mainly deals with buying apartment buildings. Although this is a profitable way to invest in real estate, it is not a book for beginners. The author talks about how he and his company search many locals across the country in finding good deals. This does not apply to the new or relatively new investor who doesn’t have the time or resources to search the country. Most new investors start with single family homes in their own neighborhood, and this book competely glosses over this starting point.
Rating: 2 / 5

Comment on Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur: What It Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate by regno

regno — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:06:15 +0000

I have bought and sold a number of residential properties and a few commercial in the past few years. I have a pretty good understanding but always wanted a better understanding of financing commercial properties traditionally, the development and renting of commercial space. This book is perfect with the exception that it is too short. The author gives brief accounts of his actual deals, I wish he would write 50 pages on each deal, show contracts, HUD1′s, tell how he made and evaluated the various contacts in the industry. I saw other reviews complain that the book contains a lot of the basic information – but some of it is stuff you do not read in most REI courses. If you are going to take the risks of commercial – I want the confidence that I have a strong grasp of the basics(so I did not mind it). The information is very well organized so you can skip certain sections that you feel you already have a good grasp of.

Great book – a very fun read. I am online to buy the author’s prior book. I wish this book was 10X the length it is, I would read every page.

Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on Real Estate Finance & Investments by J. Wright

J. Wright — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:38:41 +0000

If you have to purchase this book for a class, I feel quite sorry for you. This book is absolutely horrid. The writing is completely superfluous and there is very little explanation as to how to calculate/solve problems. Being a book intended to instruct (or perhaps the problem is that this is not the authors’ intent), one would think more time would be spent providing calculation examples and problems. To make matters worse, there are few problems at the end of each chapter with which to practice and no solutions with which to check your progress. What is even worse is that the problems are even more verbose than the text — approximately 99% of your time spent on problems will be reading them and then writing out loads of non-critical information, followed by 1% of your time engaging in the actual practice of the subject matter.

I recommend that no instructor employ this book in their teaching, and that any student whose instructor assigns it to drop the class before it is too late.
Rating: 1 / 5

Comment on 2 Years to a Million in Real Estate by gregory dwyer

gregory dwyer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:38:40 +0000

I stumbled upon this book by reading the author's complementary review of Larry Loftis' book on duplexes, triplexes and quads. I thought it spoke well of the author to write a nice review of a "competitor" so I gave the book a shot.

I was pleasantly surprised. The book is EXTREMELY complete. (In fact, I preferred it to Loftis' excellent book) The first several chapters deal with the author's beginning as a dot com worker who started to dabble in multi-unit investment and chronicles how he quickly increased his net worth and eventually quit his job to devote himself fully to his real estate "empire".

The remainder of the book was very meaty as well. It basically gives all of the ins and outs of buying and managing properties, including a secion on dealing with Section 8 tenants which I'd not come across elsewhere in my reading. There is also a lot of information about landlording and the laws which deal with it. Martinez seems to be quite the careful sort, and I guess experience in real estate must teach you to always be on the lookout for potential troubles. Perhaps his guidance and advice will allow me to skip any "shortcuts" I might otherwise have tried.

In my view, a successful "how to" book must inform and motivate. Martinez does a good job of that, motivating the reader with the success stories included in the first few chapters while also being extremely informative in the remainder of the book. Don't be fooled by the sensationalist title, which kind of makes it seem like a get rich quick book (though I'm sure the title helped to sell a lot of books). What the book IS is a thorough manual of how to proceed in investing and managing your rental properties and growing your wealth along the way.

Five stars. Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on Real Estate Development: Principles and Process by H. Strasberg

H. Strasberg — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:30:42 +0000

This book is very helpful to the novice real estate developer or student. It’s very clearly written and the information is well ordered. Ideas, concepts and explanantions are well expressed. The glossary is also helpful. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5