How to Buy Real Estate for at Least 20% Below Market Value

This book has now been split into two volumes and all Reed's books are only available through his website. This book is heads and tails above most other real estate books. This is probably the most comprehensive and yet concise book on various ways to buy real estate cheap. While a couple of the examples are dated all of the strategies in the book should work except maybe for doing tenancy in common conversions of apartments in rent-controlled areas. John T. Reed knows what he is talking about and he frankly discusses the risks and benefits of each strategy as well as the number of opportunities to use each strategy and the success rate of each strategy. Rather than mindlessly following conventional wisdom and believing that real estate only goes up, read this book to find ways to get real estate cheap. If you buy 20% or more below market value it is very easy to make a satisfactory profit.