Insider Secrets to Financing Your Real Estate Investments: What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know about Finding and Financing Your Next Deal

I decided to read this book after reading What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know about Cash Flow by the same author. His books are fabulous. Not enough real estate investors read them. In addition, industry professionals such as brokers, appraisers, and lenders would benefit by reading it. I think the information in this book is extremely important because financing arrangements can make or break the returns for the property. Not many investors may realize this, but debt service is the biggest expense item. If you get this one right, you have a chance to reap some benefits of owning properties. If you are a real estate investor and do not understand what loan-to-value and debt coverage ratio are, then this book is for you. - Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market

This is much better than his cash flow book. Really provides insight about the borrowing process and what lenders expect. Great for understanding the terms. Covers Loan to value, Debt Coverage ratio, Different types of lenders and uses. He compares zero down deals, all cash deals, and the mix of both and points out the real deal of all the scenarios. Also gives good instruction on how to be prepared when going to a lender. This book is not motivational type at all. Just facts and info about what I mentioned above. It made a lot of things very clear to me. A must read if you are not familiar with the loan process and terms.

Buy this book and the "What every real estate investor needs to know about CASH FLOOW" by the same author, you are well armed in the field of commercial real estate. Both books are easy to read and you will learn a wealth of practical information that can be put to use immidiately. I don't normally write comment for books I purchased, but these two books are special. It is my way to say thanks to the author.

No fluff or filler, this book tells you what you really need to know in concise and certain terms. It's a refreshing break from all the "No Money Down" motivational seminars in book form. This is the real stuff... highly recommended. After reading the first few pages, I got back online and bought his Cash Flow book.

I read this book as a follow up to Frank's other book, "What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow". Overall, I found the book to be an excellent summary of analytical ways to evaluate your alternative investments in real estate. The book contains numerous tables, reference charts and tools that one can use in analyzing investments. Frank has a unique [i.e., simple) way of taking the reader through an analysis or example of what otherwise would be a complicated discussion. Again, all in all, a great book. I refer to it frequently. Highly recommend it.