Good Books on Real Estate

**matcor9925** · 12-04-2009, 01:59 PM

Hello All,

I'm looking for some books on investing in foreclosures/pre-foreclosures, creative financing, renting property, and general real estate investing - from credible authors and was wondering if anyone could recommend some. There seem to be a lot of books out there, but most appear to be of little value (reviews from Amazon.com).

I recently read books "Creating Wealth" by Robert Allen and "The Real Book of Real Estate" by Robert Kiyosaki and as a newcomer thought they were great until doing some research on their credibility. Found out that Allen went bankrupt and may have done some unethical/illegal financing deals, both seem to make most of their money from seminars that get bad reviews- What do you think of these two books?

Thanks

**Albert L.** · 12-10-2009, 05:07 AM

Really very priceless information about real estate you have gotten by this(Creating Wealth) book.
My friend also have this book and he provide me time to time many tips about real estate and property investment.

**Grace Pollock** · 12-17-2009, 04:40 AM

You can check it out these web-sites for good books on real estate.

http://www.realestatedevelopmentcoach.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/2650

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/realest...bTadAv+Upc7Irg

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...&cds2Pid=17801

**REITrainingWhse** · 12-17-2009, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by matcor9925

I'm looking for some books on investing in foreclosures/pre-foreclosures, creative financing, renting property, and general real estate investing - from credible authors and was wondering if anyone could recommend some. There seem to be a lot of books out there, but most appear to be of little value (reviews from Amazon.com).

Well, what are you looking for?? I can't count the myriads of wannabe investors that hear the RE is a great investment and then they realize that RE investing is a bit harder than just collecting checks. It is a business, and like any other business - you need to work at it. Of course when they find that out - many quit - truly sad that many don't feel that a little hard work that could bring around life changing wealth, is worth it.

Now that I am done with my mini-preach, what are you wanting to invest in? Don't try to learn it all - you will just get frustrated as things change all the time and if you don't keep up - you'll never get anywhere, so focus on one aspect of RE investing and do it well.

Once I know where you are and where you want to go and through what means I could be of more help - right now I'd be shooting in the dark.

Originally Posted by matcor9925

I recently read books "Creating Wealth" by Robert Allen and "The Real Book of Real Estate" by Robert Kiyosaki and as a newcomer thought they were great until doing some research on their credibility.

I initially read "Multiple Streams of Income" by R. Allen (in 1999,) and "Rich Dad/Poor Dad" by R. Kiyosaki in 2000. Both are good books - they got me into RE investing, so I can say that for them.

**matcor9925** · 12-18-2009, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by REITrainingWhse

Well, what are you looking for?? I can't count the myriads of wannabe investors that hear the RE is a great investment and then they realize that RE investing is a bit harder than just collecting checks. It is a business, and like any other business - you need to work at it. Of course when they find that out - many quit - truly sad that many don't feel that a little hard work that could bring around life changing wealth, is worth it.

What am I looking for? I want to start with pre-foreclosures/short sales and fixer-uppers. As for your myriads of "wannabe" investors- its good to know that investing is more than just collecting checks, because as we know, anything worth doing will be challenging and require much effort.