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 enlarge | Authors: Rick Villani, Clay Davis
Creator: Gary Keller
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 28162
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 394
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0071486100
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.3383
EAN: 9780071486101
ASIN: 0071486100
Publication Date: December 19, 2006
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 Recommended reading October 29, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
A well written book on flipping properties. It offers detailed overviews and case studies based on experience of the authors on what/how to flip properties. While the real estate market is down right now, this book will be applicable in some areas that still has steady growth or when the market bounces back up.
Flipping homes October 10, 2007
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
Two books that I think really are helpful if you're learning about real estate investing are this book, FLIP: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit and Dean Graziosi's Be A Real Estate Millionaire: Secret Strategies for Lifetime Wealth Today
 Chock full of knowledge August 15, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this and another highly reviewed book on flipping and this book was vastly superior. It contains a wealth of information about every phase of flipping a property, including detailed information on how to calculate quiet costs, good rules of thumb for rehab costs, and detailed lists of what is involved in a rehab and the correct order to undertake them in. They have obviously flipped a lot of houses and have condensed their experience into extremely helpful lists and formulas that anyone can benefit from.
I could have done without the fictional storyline that accompanies each chapter, but since you can skip it without losing anything, I'm not docking their score.
This Book Is An Excellent Investment August 7, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've been interested in flipping houses since I first heard of the concept about 10 years ago. I just never knew where to start. This book walks you through the entire flipping process. It's written in an easy to follow, logical start to finish format. There are formulas for calculating all your costs and your profit before you even make an offer on a house. Outstanding book! I highly recommend it to anybody who wants to get started in house flipping.
Good reference, not very well written July 12, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
First, I must say that this is so far the best book I have read on this subject. The authors seem to be very experienced and knowledgeable in the field of rehabbing homes. I am very pleased with what I got for $15 (or whatever I spent). I feel that with this book, I could successfully FLIP homes. My first primary home was a fixer upper, and I did pretty much all of the work myself. I turned a nice profit when I sold it, but I think that I could have done better had I known then what I know now.
There was not a lot of information that was new to me, but the book did bring together a variety of related topics. Likewise, the authors presented a few smart systems for completing the project.
The reason I gave this book only 4 stars is that I don't like the writing style of the authors. This book could have easily been 150 pages or less. The font was a little big, and there was WAY too much worthless text, random anecdotes, and stupid analogies. One page in particular was about Punxsutawney Phil...it wasn't until the third or fourth paragraph that the author crafted some way of connecting that to flipping houses.
Overall an excellent book worth every penny (the authors need to stick to flipping houses though). I wish I could get my friend who has recently jumped headlong into rehabbing houses to read this book...
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