Answers to your real estate questions to help you think, act, and invest like a millionaire In their national bestseller Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate, Mike Summey and Roger Dawson introduced a powerful formula for making a killing in real estate in your spare time. The Weekend Millionaire Real Estate FAQ provides in-depth answers to the most frequently asked questions submitted by Mike and Roger's students. You also get advice on how to use their extremely popular Web site weekendmillionaire.com, as well as more of the proven strategies, tools, and techniques you need to:
-Research great investment properties
-Structure offers, and get them accepted
-Manage, maintain, and increase property value
-Convert home equity into retirement income The Weekend Millionaires have the answers to your real estate questions, including:
How long should I wait before I quit my job and invest in real estate full time?
Do you recommend 15-year or 30-year mortgages?
Should the utilities be in my name, the management company's, or the tenant's?
Do abandoned properties make good purchases for investors?
What is a direct principal reduction loan?
Is it really possible to buy properties when I have no money to put down?
What services should I expect from a CPA?
After the real estate crash of 2007, most people-both the so-called "experts" and amateur investors alike-thought the opportunity to make money in real estate had passed for good. However, as it turns out, just when all of those people were leaving the market, the true real estate investors were buying up as many properties as they could, realizing that they were buying "on sale." They didn't fall for the myth that "Real Estate is No Longer a Good Investment." In this enlightening audio program, The Ten Myths About Real Estate, and The Truths That Will Make You Wealthy, global real estate investor, Dolf De Roos will debunk this myth, and nine other persistent myths about the real estate market that keep most people from making big money in real estate-regardless of what the economist or the media elites have to say. Dolf is not a media expert, an economist or a "trend analyst." He is an actual real estate investor-one who has made money investing not only in the U.S., but in nearly every major country around the world. So, while others are listening to the hype, make sure you listen and learn from someone who has made, and continues to make, big money in the real estate business.
In this program, you'll learn:
-The three most important rules in real estate.
-The role that baby boomers and millennials are playing in the real estate market.
-Why "fixing and flipping" real estate, is NOT investing in real estate.
-The role of "crowd funding" in real estate investing.
-The myth that real estate investing is too complex for the average person
-And much more!
How real estate professionals can build trust and dominate their competition by creating truly useful marketing. Youtility, as defined by bestselling author Jay Baer, is marketing that people cherish instead of marketing they simply tolerate. Due to enormous shifts in technology and consumer behavior, customers want a new approach that cuts through the clutter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful. Smart real estate professionals are applying the concepts of Youtility, giving away information and resources for free, to differentiate and dominate by providing real value to clients and prospective clients. The difference between helping and selling is just two letters, but embracing the former makes the latter much, much easier. Meticulously researched and filled with examples of residential and multifamily real estate professionals who have accelerated their businesses enormously by embracing the principles of Youtility marketing, this special audiobook provides a groundbreaking plan for using information and helpfulness to transform the relationship between real estate pros and their customers. Based on the New York Times bestseller Youtility, this pithy audiobook is a must for marketers in the real estate industry.
We have selected the most important four aspects of the real estate investing and dedicated a chapter to each in which we have explained all you need to know to make the right decisions when embarking on this journey. Before furthering your knowledge in the domain of real estate investing and taking new risks with your investments we strongly recommend that you master the concepts and the information explained and provided in this book first.
THE ORIGINAL AUDIOBOOK EDITION WAS PUBLISHED AS ZILLOW TALK: THE NEW RULES OF REAL ESTATE. THE NEW TITLE OF THIS BOOK IN OTHER EDITIONS IS ZILLOW TALK: REWRITING THE RULES OF REAL ESTATE.
The New York Times bestseller--now updated with a new chapter!
How do you spot an area poised for gentrification? Is spring or winter the best time to put your house on the market? Will a house on Swamp Road sell for less than one on Gingerbread Lane? The fact is that the rules of real estate have changed drastically over the past five years. To understand real estate in our fast-paced, technology-driven world, we need to toss out all of the outdated truisms and embrace today's brand new information. But how?
Enter Zillow, the nation's #1 real estate website and mobile app. Thanks to its treasure trove of proprietary data and army of statisticians and data scientists, led by chief economist Stan Humphries, Zillow has been able to spot the trends and truths of today's housing market while acknowledging that a home is more than an economic asset. In ZILLOW TALK, Humphries and CEO Spencer Rascoff explain the science behind where and how we live now and reveal practical, data-driven insights about buying, selling, renting and financing real estate. Read this book to find out why:
-It's better to remodel your bathroom than your kitchen
-Putting the word "cute" in your listing could cost you thousands of dollars
-You shouldn't buy the worst house in the best neighborhood
-You should never list your house for $444,000
-You shouldn't list your house for sale before March Madness or after the Masters
Densely packed with entertaining anecdotes and invaluable how-to advice, ZILLOW TALK is poised to be the real estate almanac for the next generation.
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The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on Earth as we have ever had. Water cannot be destroyed, and it can always be made clean enough for drinking again. In fact, water can be made so clean that it actually becomes toxic.
As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this delightful narrative excursion, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, which is both the promise and the peril of our unexplored connections to it. Taking listeners from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, and from a rice farm in the Australian outback to a glimpse into giant vats of soup at Campbell's largest factory, he reveals that our relationship to water is conflicted and irrational, neglected and mismanaged. Whether we will face a water scarcity crisis has little to do with water and everything to do with how we think about water—how we use it, connect with it, and understand it.
Portraying and explaining both the dangers—in 2008, Atlanta came just ninety days from running completely out of drinking water—and the opportunities, such as advances in rainwater harvesting and businesses that are making huge breakthroughs in water productivity, The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, our crucial relationship to it, and the creativity we can bring to ensuring we always have plenty of it.
Loopholes of Real Estate is for the first time as well as seasoned investors. It reveals the legal and tax strategies used by the rich for generations to acquire and benefit from real estate investments. The audiobook clearly identifies how these loopholes can be used together to maximize your income and protect your investments.
Written in easy to understand language, this audiobook demystifies the legal and tax aspect of investing with easy-to-follow, real-life examples.
Buying and Selling a Business reveals key strategies to sell and acquire business investments. Garrett Sutton, Esq. is a best selling author of numerous law for the layman books, and he guides the listener clearly through all of the obstacles to be faced before completing a winning transaction.
Buying and Selling a Business uses real life stories to illustrreate how to prepare your business for sale, analyze acquisition candidates and assemble the right team of experts. The audiobook also clearly identifies how to understand the tax issues of a business sale how to use confidentiality agreements to your benefit and how to negotiate your way to a positive result.
Robert Kiyosaki, the best selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad has this to say about Buying and Selling a Business, "Garrett Sutton's information is priceless for anyone who wants to increase his or her knowledge of the often secret world of the rich, what the rich invest in, and some of the reasons why the rich get richer."
The New York Times reporter who first broke the story of the sale of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village takes listeners inside the most spectacular failure in real estate history, using this single deal as a lens to see how and why the real estate crisis happened.
In just over three years, real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of investors' dollars on a single deal. In Other People's Money, Charles V. Bagli, the New York Times reporter who first broke the story of the sale of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village takes listeners inside the most spectacular failure in real estate history, using this single deal as a lens to see how and why the real estate crisis happened.
How did the smartest people in real estate lose billions in one single deal? How did the Church of England, the California public employees' pension fund, and the Singapore government lose more than one billion dollars combined investing in a middle-class housing complex in New York City? How did MetLife make three billion dollars on the deal without any repercussions from a historically racist policy of housing segregation? And how did nine residents of a sleepy enclave in New York City win one of the most unlikely lawsuits in the history of real estate law?
Not only does Other People's Money answer those questions, it also explains the current recession in stark, clear detail while providing riveting first-person accounts of the titanic failure of the real estate industry to see that a recession was coming. It's the definitive book on real estate during the bubble years-and what happened when that enormous bubble exploded.
The ABCs of Real Estate Investing teaches how to:
-Achieve wealth and cash flow through real estate
-Find property with real potential
-Show you how to unlock the myths that are holding you back
-Negotiating the deal based on the numbers
-Evaluate property and purchase price
-Increase your income through proven property management tools
To make money in this troubled economy you need to understand where the markets are headed, not where they've been. Clinging to outdated strategies and played out market trends are sure ways to miss out on new investments. In The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing, acclaimed investment expert John Mauldin teaches you how to read the direction of the markets to make decisions that capitalize on today's investment opportunities.
A practical road map to what's in store for the markets to help you stay ahead of the curve, the book debunks many of the myths that have come to govern investment logic, particularly the buy-and-hold, relative return vehicles that Wall Street peddles to unsuspecting investors. Giving you a clear view of the trends shaping the markets right now, which are likely to provide investment options for the decade ahead, The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing teaches the value of careful research before you put your money to work.
Whether the market is on its way up or down, there are always excellent opportunities to invest profitably. You just need to know where they are. Looking at how the markets have behaved in the past to make an educated prediction about where they're going, The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing explains how to make investment decisions that make sense today, whether you're trading stocks, bonds, gold, real estate, or anything else.
Making the most of the markets is like hitting a moving target-difficult, but not impossible-and with The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing in hand, you have everything you need to improve your eye for investing and make stable and secure trading decisions that can turn a profit in even the most turbulent of times.
Closing the Deal is a handy tip book for anyone looking to buy, rent or sell their place. With tips that others won't share with you, Al gives you advice and ideas to educate you on how to get things done effectively. For instance, baking cinnamon buns before you have an open house gives your property a very pleasant and homey feel. Home staging for cheap can get you more money for your property, and having bad credit, doesn't mean you can't get a mortgage! Al will take you through the DOs and DON'Ts of buying, renting or selling property, including what to be aware of when looking for the best real estate agent.
