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We have found the following products
to be best in class for motivating us to choose real
estate as an investment vehicle, educating us on making
real estate investing work and making the job of the
investor easier and more efficient. We hope you find
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Like most books we've read, these are great for strategy
and guidance. Of course, no book can deliver specific
opportunities and present current market and property
data like the Rental Property Calculator Network. So review these
books and buy one or two. In conjunction with a RPC
Membership you will be well armed and educated to
invest in real estate. |
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One Up On Wall Street
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Peter Lynch is America's number-one money manager.
His mantra: Average investors can become experts in
their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively
as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little
research.
Now, in a new introduction written
specifically for this edition of One Up on Wall Street,
Lynch gives his take on the incredible rise of Internet
stocks, as well as a list of twenty winning companies
of high-tech '90s. That many of these winners are low-tech
supports his thesis that amateur investors can continue
to reap exceptional rewards from mundane, easy-to-understand
companies they encounter in their daily lives.
Investment opportunities abound for
the layperson, Lynch says. By simply observing business
developments and taking notice of your immediate world
-- from the mall to the workplace -- you can discover
potentially successful companies before professional
analysts do. This jump on the experts is what produces
"tenbaggers," the stocks that appreciate tenfold or
more and turn an average stock portfolio into a star
performer.
The former star manager of Fidelity's
multibillion-dollar Magellan Fund, Lynch reveals how
he achieved his spectacular record. Writing with John
Rothchild, Lynch offers easy-to-follow directions for
sorting out the long shots from the no shots by reviewing
a company's financial statements and by identifying
which numbers really count. He explains how to
stalk tenbaggers and lays out the guidelines for investing
in cyclical, turnaround, and fast-growing companies.
Lynch promises that if you ignore the
ups and downs of the market and the endless speculation
about interest rates, in the long term (anywhere from
five to fifteen years) your portfolio will reward you.
This advice has proved to be timeless and has made One
Up on Wall Street a number-one bestseller. And now
this classic is as valuable in the new millennium as
ever.
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Income for Life-From Real Estate: How the Tortoise Got Rich
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This book is about
INVESTING, not LANDLORDING or MANAGING. The difference
is that investing is essentially passive, while the
others are really a job which requires you to live near
your "investments" and to become expert at their many
nuances. True investing uses hired experts to do the
work, freeing you to pursue your normal life. Your wealth
builds without requiring you to work. If you move, or
retire, or become sick or disabled, or just take a long
trip, all of your investments continue unaffected. Twenty
years ago investing in income property was mostly landlording
and managing properties and tenants. The advent of true
professional management, with its own professional organizations,
certifications, and code of ethics has opened the door
for Al Lee's method of investing.
Also, this book includes the most comprehensive
evaluation criteria (including computerized tools to
help you) of properties available anywhere. The evaluation
is based on objective financial criteria (as it should
be for an investment), not some subjective feeling that
you are "getting a good deal". |
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Real Estate: The World's Greatest Wealth Builder
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Sheets'
publicist claims that How to Buy Your First Home
or Investment Property with No Down Payment, Sheets'
television "program" of 15 years, is the longest-running
infomercial in the history of American television--a
distinction that may be seen as dubious to some. This
book will be a lure for those who have yet to shell
out $149 to buy Sheets' home-study course or to attend
one of his pricey seminars, but there is little more
here than they would get from staying up late to catch
Sheets on cable television. Here is the self-congratulatory
autobiographical sketch, the giddy promotion, the countless
testimonials, the bold promise of "creat[ing] wealth
out of thin air," and the inevitable pitch for the "advanced"
course and the seminar. To be sure, Sheets tantalizes
would-be real estate tycoons with advice on buying property,
making offers, and property management. He explains
the concept of "positive cash flow," collecting rents
on property for which no down payment was made; but
alas, this is much easier said than done. Regardless,
expect demand. David Rouse |
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Rental Houses for the Successful Small Investor
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A guidebook for the
small investor who wants to invest in single family
rental houses. Chapters guide the reader through setting
meaningful and realistic goals, locating money for down
payments, selecting good properties to buy, getting
a loan without doing "creative financing" gyrations,
managing tenants with a minimum of time, writing leases
and getting good landlord insurance, and eventually
doing a tax deferred exchange. Written clearly with
the beginner in mind, but including the information
an experienced investor needs to learn. |
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Real Estate Riches: How to Become Rich Using Your Banker's Money
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A large percentage
of the rich in America today make their wealth (or keep
it) through real estate. In REAL ESTATE RICHES, self-made
real estate mogul Dolf De Roos reveals why investing
in property is so astoundingly simple and lucrative,
as well as insider secrets for getting into--and ahead
in--this high-profit business. |
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About
Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
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Personal-finance
author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique
economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate
influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable
father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout
father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary
problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly
paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient
to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint
communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the
middle class work for money," but "the rich have money
work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki
was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad, Poor Dad,
written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays
out his the philosophy behind his relationship with
money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long
time to make his points, his book nonetheless compellingly
advocates for the type of "financial literacy" that's
never taught in schools. Based on the principle that
income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line
results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains
how those assets might be acquired so that the jobs
can eventually be shed. --Howard Rothman |
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Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
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"What is the difference
between and employee and a business owner? Why do some
investors make money with little risk while most investors
just break even? Why do most employees go from job to
job while others quit their jobs and go on to build
business empires?
THE CASHFLOW QUADRANT answers these
questions and guides readers in finding their own path
to financial freedon in a world of ever increasing financial
change. It is a book written...
- for people who are ready to move
beyond job security and begin to find their own world
of financial freedom.
- For people who are ready to make deep professional
and financial changes in their lives
- For people who are ready to move from the Industrial
Age to the Information Age
Have you noticed that many of the brightest
graduates from our universities want to work for college
dropouts...dropouts such as Bill Gates of Microsoft,
Richard Branson of Virgin Industries, Michael Dell of
Dell Computers, Ted Turner of CNN? Dropouts who are
today the mega-rich oof society. Why does this happen?
As THE CASHFLOW QUADRANT reveals, it is simply a matter
of knowing which quadrant to work from and when."
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Buy It, Fix It, Sell It: Profit!
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"Buy It, Fix It,
Sell It: PROFIT!" offers readers with little or no background
in real estate an in-depth guide to developing a high-profit,
low-overhead, home-based home rehabilitation business,
either on a part-time of full-time basis. Anyone interested
in starting his or her own business, and especially
people already active in some other part of the real
estate industry, will find this guide to be indispensable
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Achieving Financial Liberty
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Achieving Financial Liberty is not
just a title of a book. It's one of the most inspiring
stories of this century, how actual people, taken from
the unemployment lines in St. Louis , Missouri changed
their lives. Robert Allen's colossal number one best
seller Nothing Down established him as one of the most
influential investment advisors of all time. In his
following best sellers, Creating Wealth, The Challenge
and Nothing Down for the 90's, Robert Allen expanded
on his highly profitable wealth-building techniques
and philosophy. As he proved in his own life, it doesn't
matter how much or how little you have to start with,
as long as you understand the right principles.
Achieving Financial
Liberty tells the story of real people and how each
overcame overwhelming obstacles to seek their own financial
success and how through Robert Allen's training, they
achieved financial liberty. His surprisingly simple
and effective strategies can help any investor amass
and maintain a fortune starting with little or no money,
even in today's volatile financial climate. "The first
step to becoming wealthy," Allen says, "is to stop thinking
poor." He shows how most of us have been programmed
to think that saving is good, debt and risk-taking bad,
and that in our efforts to gain security, we disqualify
ourselves from ever making a substantial amount of money.
By developing a wealthy mindset, you can launch yourself
into financial self-reliance.
Robert Allen's
practical and innovative investment advice, combined
with a realistic set of goals and a firm commitment
to getting ahead, can help you achieve a level of success
you never thought possible.
The book includes
the stories of Mary Bonenberger, mother of two and the
wife of a minister, struggling to make ends meet; Philip
Moore, a young man born in the ghettos of St. Louis;
Nora Jean Boles, a middle-aged single parent, behind
in her own mortgage payments and about to be foreclosed.
Their stories are real; they are living proof that achieving
financial liberty in America is possible for anyone
who has the knowledge, the ability to overcome their
fear of failure and is willing to learn and implement
the strategies of winning.
As one reads the
stories in this book, you will find images of yourself
in them; their dreams; and their goals. And as George
Elliott quoted, "It's never too late to be what you
might have been." |
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Investing in Real Estate (Third Edition)
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"This is the best of the how-to-invest-in-real-estate
books currently available."–Robert Bruss, from his review
of the Second Edition
The bestselling
guide to residential real estate investment–updated
and expanded for today’s market
Experienced and
successful real estate investors Andrew McLean and Gary
Eldred explain in an easy-to-read guide–packed with
examples–how you can make money investing in houses
and small apartment buildings. Even with today’s lower
rates of inflation, residential real estate remains
your surest and safest way to build wealth.
Now, to help you
achieve a profitable and secure future, this new Third
Edition of the ever-popular Investing in Real Estate
explains why your real estate investments can outperform
the stock market and demonstrates how to enhance cash
flow, negotiate deals, spot market trends, and explore
the Internet. It also covers the important tax law information
you need to know. Experts McLean and Eldred show you
how to:
- Buy with little or no money
coming out of your own pocket
- Build wealth without paying
taxes on capital gains
- Select neighborhoods and properties
that will beat the market with faster rates of appreciation
- Create $2 to $10 of value
for every $1 you invest in improvements
- Select from more than a dozen
techniques to finance your purchases
To plan for your
child’s college education, a higher quality of life,
or a prosperous retirement, read Investing in Real Estate.
It’s still the most insightful and authoritative guide
available. |
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How to Retire Rich: Time-Tested Strategies to Beat the Market and Retire in Style
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Some
investment books claim only one true path to stock-market
riches. Fund manager James O'Shaughnessy has five, and
he has the data to back them up. He was the first independent
researcher to be granted full access to a Standard &
Poor's database containing computerized information
on almost 10,000 stocks going back to 1951. From the
data, O'Shaughnessy derived five portfolio-building
strategies that, over the past 45 years, have consistently
beaten the market average. How to Retire Rich
also contains a wealth of useful information on mutual
funds, online trading, and using the Internet to research
stocks.
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