"This is the best of the how-to-invest-in-real-estate books currently available."
–Robert Bruss, syndicated columnist and real estate author
THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO REAL ESTATE INVESTING
Now in its fourth edition, Investing in Real Estate is the straightforward guide that helps you start growing your fortune by investing in houses and small apartment buildings. Successful real estate investors Andrew McLean and Gary Eldred show you how you can outperform the stock market by investing in residential real estate–the surest and safest way to build assets.
This new edition offers an expanded discussion of the best methods and techniques for fixing and flipping properties and creating value. You’ ll also find all the information you need to start investing now, as well as up-to-date tips on maintaining cash flow, negotiating deals, spotting market trends, and using the Internet as a research tool to find and buy properties. Let McLean and Eldred show you how to:
- Buy with little or no money down
- Minimize taxes while building your wealth
- Choose neighborhoods and properties that will beat the market with faster rates of appreciation
- Grow value in your properties by investing in improvements
- Pick the best way to finance your purchases
Whether you need money for your child’s college tuition, a more
comfortable retirement, or just a higher standard of living, Investing
in Real Estate, Fourth Edition is the only guide you need to start
building wealth now.
Download Description
A new and improved Fifth Edition of the classic real estate investor's
bible Now back and better than ever, the new Fifth Edition of Investing
in Real Estate remains the investor's go-to source for unbeatable advice
on winning in the real estate game. Easy to read, full of examples, and
packed with tools and tips for every investor, the book covers such
topics as financing, valuation techniques, maximizing cash flow, fixing
and flipping properties, buying foreclosures, and lease options. All the
tried-and-true advice readers expect is here. Plus, new information for
the new century covers fresh topics like finding properties outside the
investor's home market; how to find the next hot real estate market;
using the new financing technique called option arms and using the
limited liability company as a form of company ownership.

