Real Estate Investing Books

40 Days to Success in Real Estate Investing

Many people want to get into real estate but just don't know where to begin. In fact, real estate investor Robert Shemin hears the same question over and over in his seminars—"But where do I start?" Now, Shemin's 40 Days to Success in Real Estate Investing finally answers that question once and for all. It offers a proven, day-by-day plan that covers the basics of real estate investing, helps you set achievable goals, and tells you what actions to take each day to reach those goals.

The ABC's of Real Estate Investing

Outlines how to achieve financial independence and successful self-employment through property investment, discussing such topics as screening partner candidates, utilizing various research tools, and setting up systems for maintenance, accounting, and rent collection.

Investing in Real Estate

Investing in real estate isn't as hard you think, McLean argues in his popular do-it-yourself manual. Focusing on the residential market, Investing in Real Estate draws on the personal experiences of its authors, both veteran brokers, to reveal the few basic needs and strategies that anyone considering investing can apply with great success.

Making Hard Cash in a Soft Real Estate Market

Investors can still make great money in real estate even if the market is in a downturn. When the market is soft, they just need new rules and strategies for profiting. There are values hiding in every market, and this guide makes finding those values easy. Readers will learn how to find the next high-growth emerging markets, buy new construction at big discounts, find private financing when bank lending is tight, and find hidden gems with enormous profit potential.

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

Forget the old paradigm of financial success that a big house, a fancy car and a great job mean you’ve made it. True financial wealth has a different measure it’s about having the unearned income to finance your life mission without having to work. Gary Keller, best-selling author and self-made millionaire, teaches you what school never did how to leave the daily grind and acquire long-term financial freedom through investing real estate.

Real Estate Loop-Holes

Investing in real estate can come down to three crucial keys: selection, taxation, and protection. Real Estate Loop-Holes walks would-be investors through these three elements, illustrating how each contributes to a lucrative property.

Real Estate Riches

Very Practical - Dolf Deroos writes from his own experiences. This book is not just a bunch of theories - it actually gives practical how-to information that you can put to work immediately. It is also very encouraging if you are thinking about being a real estate investor but not very sure of yourself or your abilities.

Selling Real Estate Without Paying Taxes

Not many people know that the astronomical taxes real estate investors pay can be minimized. This book provides strategies that can cut them way down, or even eliminate them entirely, by means of charitable remainder trusts, philanthropic foundations, private annuity trusts, self-directed IRAs, and more. And it's all legal!

Trump University Real Estate 101

Unlike other real estate guides, Trump University’s Real Estate 101 doesn’t just concentrate on a particular niche–like fixing and flipping or foreclosure investing–nor does it offer a simplistic overview of investing basics. Instead, this guide offers a complete range of wealth-building ideas, helps investors adapt their tactics to different areas or market conditions, and prepares them to earn a lifetime of extra income based on real estate.

Trump Strategies for Real Estate

For more than twenty-five years, author George Ross has been one of Donald Trump’s chief advisors and intimately involved with many of Trump’s biggest real estate deals. Now, Ross teams up with bestselling real estate author Andrew McLean to present Trump’s real estate investment strategies so that even small investors can invest like Trump. You’ll learn how Trump identifies potential properties and how he finances, negotiates, and markets his big deals. Not everyone has Trump’s money or name, but everyone, even you, can use his tactics and strategies to win big in real estate.

FLIP: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit

It is without question the new "bible" on flipping houses! What makes this book stand out is the logical way in which the authors divide all aspects of real estate investing. They have experience, they have the data, and they present it well. It will make you think about your real estate business in a smarter way, and ultimately profit more.

Making Big Money Investing In Foreclosures Without Cash or Credit, 2nd Ed.

Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures without Cash or Credit, 2nd Edition provides the Astonishing Truth about Foreclosures. This book Shows You How to Get Rich in the Hottest Real Estate market on earth. Each page provides You the hidden Foreclosure Investing Secrets and Strategies of the Rich.

Complete Guide to Real Estate Tax Liens and Foreclosure Deeds

There are thousands of properties and tax liens being sold every month throughout the United States. Most of which are being sold for pennies on the dollar of their market value! Investing Without Losing gives investors like you everything from the basic concepts of bidding in real estate tax auctions to investment plans and strategies. Plus, you'll be able to access updated materials and resources on Investing Without Losing's web site.

Flipping Confidential: The Secrets of Renovating Property for Profit In Any Market

Real Estate books usually fall into one of two categories: The ones that inform, and the ones that entertain. This one does both. In Flipping Confidential, Kirsten walks you through each step of the buy-renovate-sell process, using real numbers and concrete examples that make the information easy to understand.

The For Sale By Owner Handbook

From pricing your home right and increasing its curb appeal to negotiating the contract and hassle-free closing, this book is a complete guide on how to sell your house without paying a real estate agent a dime! The FSBO Handbook features experts from Trading Spaces, The Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, House Beautiful, DIY Network, This Old House, NYU, UC-Berkeley, Yale and scores of others!

Investing in Real Estate With Lease Options and "Subject-To" Deals

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.

Landlording on Auto-Pilot

This straightforward landlord’s resource explains author Mike Butler’s proven, almost "hands-off" and effective system for maximizing a landlord’s cash flow, avoiding tenant headaches, and slashing expenses. One powerful, simple technique, according to Butler’s system, is for landlords to behave like employers and treat their good tenants like great employees. This means giving tenants certain responsibilities and obligations, taking the pressure off the landlord so he can live his life while his investments work for him.

The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor's Kit

The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investors Kit offers step-by-step instruction and no-nonsense advice on how to find great deals, estimate fair market value, negotiate with sellers, sell your property on your own, and win big in real estate. Youll learn how to get the best deals on foreclosure properties before they go to auction and utilize simple ready-made worksheets, checklists, forms, and agreements that make getting started easy. Even people of modest means can get into pre-foreclosure investing—all it takes is a little hard work, persistence, and the tools youll find in this handy guide.

Property Management for Dummies

You'll need to wear many hats in the business of property management: advertiser/promoter (in seeking tenants), host (in showing your property), handyman (in keeping up with and arranging repairs), bookkeeper (in maintaining records), and even counselor (in dealing with tenants and their problems). But Property Management For Dummies will help you maintain your sense of humor – and your sanity – as you deal with these challenges and more.

Chantal Howell Carey & Bill Carey

The New Path to Real Estate Wealth: Earning Without Owning

This book reveals the ultimate real estate investment secret: you don't have to actually buy or own real estate in order to profit from it. Those who control the paperwork of real estate—the contracts, mortgages, and deeds—make money without having to own anything. This book reveals the simple ways anyone can flip properties or contracts without ever taking title to the property.

Ron LeGrand

How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire

Nationally renowned real estate expert Ron LeGrand has developed a method of buying real estate to generate cash that he calls "quick turning". He helps readers understand which type of transaction is appropriate for their specific cash flow goals, and he reveals how-to secrets that real estate investors, and wannabe investors, can use.

David Finkel

The Real Estate Fast Track

Author David Finkel offers step-by-step guidance on building a real estate business that lets you earn more while you work less! You'll master all five of the core skills of the world's wealthiest investors and learn the advanced secrets that have helped Finkel's students and clients buy and sell over $1 billion of real estate, much of it without cash or credit. You'll build your real estate business until you can relax and watch the money flow in.

Perter Conti & Peter Harris

Commercial Real Estate Investing for Dummies

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.

James Randel

Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur

This book's theme is 'add value' to real estate, whether you invest in raw land, houses, run-down factory buildings with rezoning potential, or fixer-upper apartments and offices. The self-deprecating author shares his mistakes and his successes, along with his advice to invest with as little of your own cash as possible so profits can be maximized.

Rich Dad Poor Dad

This financial planning guide teaches readers how to empower themselves financially and break free from a cycle of low-paid employment and irresponsible spending. The book instead encourages readers to transform their lifelong views of money and adopt sound investment strategies.

The Art of the Deal

Donald Trump is blunt, brash, surprisingly old-fashioned in spots—and always, always an original. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur and an unprecedented education in the art of the deal. It’s the most streetwise business book there is—and a sizzling read for anyone interested in money and success.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

This bestseller in the self-help and management fields offers a new paradigm for personal and professional success. Covey advises building from the inside out and offers strategies for moving from dependence to independence and then to interdependence.

The Automatic Millionaire

In The Automatic Millionaire, popular financial writer David Bach champions automated transactions and a slow, gradual approach to wealth accumulation. Bach suggests making use of automated payroll deductions for pre-tax retirement funds--hence the book's title--and accelerated mortgage payments as ways to ensure a wealthy retirement, even for those without extraordinary incomes.

Awaken the Giant Within

The creator of acclaimed personal achievement programs and the author of the bestselling Unlimited Power reveals the proven steps to self-mastery. Robbins shares the secrets of his exclusive "Date with Destiny" seminars, describing how unconscious beliefs control our behavior and how we can make immediate changes to accomplish our goals.

Creating Wealth

Creating Wealth presents a different viewpoint on real estate. Allen shows you the traps to avoid in buying properties with Nothing Down that most other authors ignore. He also offers scripts to use when calling home owners. A 'must read' for anyone aspiring to create and keep wealth.

The Millionaire Next Door

Thomas J. Stanley destroys the myth that the majority of wealthy Americans have gained their fortunes through inheritance or lottery winnings. Instead, Stanley shows how hard work, savings, and smart investing have brought true financial success to average Americans.

Multiple Streams of Income

Bestselling financial author and mentor Robert Allen has researched hundreds of income-producing opportunities and narrowed them down to 10 surefire moneymakers for the new millennium. Now, with his no-nonsense money book Multiple Streams of Income, Allen reports the overwhelming evidence of his findings.

The New Buffettology

The New Buffettology is the first guide to Warren Buffett's selective contrarian investment strategy for exploiting down stocks -- a strategy that has made him the nation's second-richest person. Designed to teach investors how to decipher and use financial information the way Buffett himself does, this book guides investors through opportunity-rich bear markets, walking them step-by-step through the equations and formulas Buffett uses to determine what to buy, what to sell -- and when.

The Richest Man in Babylon

An inspirational guide to personal money problems presents eleven ancient Babylonian tales and fables that reveal the path to lifetime financial success as they explain the secrets of acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money.

Unlimited Power

Anthony Robbins, whose seminars of transforming power have made him an international celebrity on network television and in magazines and newspapers, shows readers how to achieve super success in all areas of their personal and professional lives. "A must for anyone committed to personal excellence".--Ken Blanchard

Why We Want YOU to be Rich

Like partners in doubles tennis, Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki team up to provide investment advice for the rest of us. Sharing chapters, Trump and Kiyosaki provide their individual takes on large economic issues, such as the trade deficit, while evaluating a range of investment options: mutual funds? (no), silver and gold? (yes), start your own business? (sure!). They share the mistakes they made on the way up that they don’t want others to make, and provide their insights into the personal qualities that lead to success.