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 enlarge | Author: Dean Graziosi
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 2324
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Edition: illustrated edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 296
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1593154461
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6324
EAN: 9781593154462
ASIN: 1593154461
Publication Date: September 25, 2007
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 I wish I had this sooner November 30, 2007
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am glad to see that most of the reviews are positive. This book deserves them. If I would of had this book before I bought my last two homes I would have done so much better. This book teaches you in the very first section how to understand the real estate market in your area with 10 different determining factors. That is worth its weight in gold to me. I may never be a real estate investor but I know for sure I will use this book for the rest when buying and selling my own home. This is a well written book that can save you a fortune on your own home. Congratulations Dean.
Excellent real estate book November 29, 2007
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
No I am not a profession "reviewer" as one very negative person on this site likes to portray himself. I am an average guy who got this book and it is changing my life. I am completely blown away that anyone in there right mind (who actually read this book) can say anything but positive things about it. I have read dozens of other real estate books, heck I have even taking expensive real estate coaching classes and I've been an active real estate investor for several year. To date, I have gotten the most from this book. It is a simple read that gives the tools to know the market you are in and use the right strategy to profit from it. My gut is that lazy people read this book and expect so miraculous hidden secret that they can work on for 5 minutes an make a million dollars. Those are unrealistic expectations. If that is what you expect when you read this book then forget it. But for me at least it made things so clear and gave me the inspiration and the action steps to get started. If you are afraid of actually working and putting strategies you learn in to play, then skip buying this book. But if you want to learn actual steps that can make you money and are ready to apply them. Then don't pass on this book.
 Awful! November 25, 2007
18 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book is awful. A complete waste of $. Here's the book. Buy Low Sell High. Now I've given you as much advice as this clown.
Another Motivational Book, Useless November 10, 2007
52 out of 60 found this review helpful
Ay, once again, the "real estate gurus" come to us with another motivational book with little subtsance. I don't need motivation to invest in real estate, I need knowledge and skills and this book is like so many out there. I don't want to feel good about investing in real estate after I read a book. I want to learn thigs I didn't know before and learn things others won't know. That is how you become a great investor.
That said, if you want to feel good about real estate investing, you might want to read this book. If you want to learn several ways to make money from the real estate bubble (including the stock market) and learn how bad the bubble really is, you should check out Cashing in on the Real Estate Bubble I have already made a huge killing in the stock market by reading it.
 Not a path I would follow November 9, 2007
140 out of 156 found this review helpful
As a couple other reviewers said, this is mostly a motivational book. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. But one is reminded of a famous real estate guru who led us down a similar path and got into quite a bit of legal trouble. Little of what he said was true. Yet he sold a multitude of books. So, buyer beware.
Here are a few things you'll see:
"Instead of looking for properties to buy, fix, and quickly sell (flip) for a profit, I look for foreclosures and distressed properties that I can buy for a major discount, rent to pay expenses, and sell when the market goes back up. For example, a few weeks before I wrote this, I purchased a two-family home in foreclosure for less than $60,000. I immediately refinanced the property for $192,000 and walked away with a check for well over $100,000 after all expenses were paid, and I still owned the property! Now I can rent this property to cover the mortgage and when the home market takes off again (and it will eventually), I'll be able to sell it for a profit or hold it through the next up cycle."
OK, so what's wrong with that? Well, on the surface, nothing. But I have a number of clients in this business who did just this. They're now in bankruptcy. And the current market "does" matter, no matter what the author would have us believe.
There's no harm in reading a book like this. But be very careful in taking advice from this author, or any author. You can lose everything you have in real estate --- especially in today's market.
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