Great Big Book on Real Estate Investing: Everything You Need to Know to Create Wealth in Real Estate: Everything You Need to Know to Create Wealth in

There have been lots of fortunes made in real estate. There are lots of ways to make money in real estate. Some people swear by buying rental properties. Some want apartment houses or commerical property, warehouses, storage units or whatever. There are those who buy run down building and fix them up. And there are those who build houses. Some books talk about buying distressed properties at auctions or estate sales, neglecting that there are a lot of people looking for deals like this, especially the real estate agents in the area. This book covers all of these ways and many more. It's a generalized coverage of real estate investing in all of its aspects. The author, Stuart Leland Rider is a long time real estate developer and investor. He writes from personal experience. He covers nearly every area you could ask from why real estate at all to providing a CD with customizable forms and spreadsheets to give you a start on the analysis that you need to do. There's just one point I'd recommend that he doesn't mention. That point is: if you're seriously thinking about real estate, go get a job working in real estate. Probably the easiest job to get and the one that will give you the most general background is to be a salesman at a small real estate agency. But if this is not your bag, go to work for a contractor, a handyman, or whatever your particular interest might be. You'll learn a lot. This may be things that you can learn from this book, but if you actually see them in action you'll understand them better.