Real Estate Finance

In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average, 50 lenders a month were going bust - and the people responsible for the crisis included not just unregulated loan brokers and con artists, but also investment bankers and home loan institutions traditionally perceived as completely trustworthy.

Quit running your investment property under the influence of "hopeium"; that delusional state under which you believe everything will work out fine without putting forth any effort or thought into creating value with it. That's the way most investors approach their investment property. Without a strategy for increasing value with your property's management plan is just taking the "lottery" approach. The fundamentals remain the same for the most part, when it comes to adding value and leasing.

Welcome to the world of small-scale property development. This Guide to Small-Scale Property Development gives you a complete overview of this highly attractive and increasingly popular strategy, detailing not only its upsides but also explaining the pitfalls that could befall the unwary developer. Its warts-and-all approach ensures that you get a balanced view of the risks as well as the rewards, making it the ideal starting point for anyone considering property development for the first time, as well as those looking to refine their development skills.

A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Michael Lewis paints the mood and market factors leading up to each event, weaves contemporary accounts to show what people thought was happening at the time, and then, with the luxury of hindsight, analyzes what actually happened and what we should have learned from experience.

A few years ago, Matthew Martinez was a lot like you - he worked hard to make as big a salary as he could. But it wasn't enough. He worked by the clock and yearned to be his own boss. With a small amount of savings, he acquired his first rental property. Two years later, he was making more from his rentals than he was working nine-to-five, so he quit his day job to oversee his real estate investments. Today, he enjoys a multimillion-dollar collection of income-producing properties - and he's ready to share his money-making strategies.

In this newly updated 2018 edition, authors Clayton and Natali Morris help you beat the system by paying down your home loan and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest payments along the way. This step-by-step system only works with understanding and a disciplined plan. Clayton and Natali give you that by breaking it all down for you in this book. They arm you with the knowledge, inspiration, and several game plan options to free yourself from the dead weight of your mortgage.

Imagine if you could list and sell more homes and still have time to read, exercise, sleep, and spend time with your family! The only productivity guide based on solid research and interviews with real estate moguls, billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs, Olympic athletes, and successful business executives.

The Definitive Guide to Underwriting Multifamily Acquisitions is the only step-by-step audiobook that provides you with all of the tools you need in order to become a numbers ninja, invest smarter, and structure more profitable partnerships.

In Passport to Exotic Real Estate, real estate expert and travel writer Steve Bergsman offers detailed advice on the benefits and challenges of buying overseas property, including whether or not foreigners can legally own property, tax implications, availability of beachfront land, market trends, investment security, local regulations, and much more. With this book as their guide, listeners will be fully prepared to overcome the obstacles of overseas property ownership and discover the benefits of living/vacationing abroad.

Principles of Real Estate Practice is a modern learning tool for the student preparing to enter the real estate business as a licensed professional. The textbook contains the essentials of real estate principles, law, and practices taught in real estate schools and colleges across the country, including all those fundamentals that real estate educators, practicing professionals, national testing services, and state licensing officials agree are necessary for basic competence.

Ken Rosen argues that successful real estate investors do not get rich in an up market. They get rich and stay rich by investing in real estate for the long-run. And, in fact, they view market downturns as opportunities.

You should read this if: You are tired of renting and not having anything to show for it other than a roof over your head. You are finding it hard to afford the rent you are paying, which is consistently going up, but think you are unable to qualify for or afford your own home. You are looking for another source of income but seem never to have enough hours in the day for another “side hustle”. You want to live in a better area of town but think you can’t afford to move.

Sean Cooper made news headlines around the world when he paid off his mortgage at 30 on a house he bought just three years prior. In Burn Your Mortgage, Cooper's extreme achievement is made accessible as the acclaimed personal finance expert shares the secret to his success: simple yet effective lifestyle changes that anyone - from new buyers to experienced homeowners - can make to pay down their mortgage sooner.

I can't find any deals. This market is too competitive. The prices are too high. Construction costs are too expensive. I have no time. Does this sound like someone you know? It is perspectives like these which have been holding investors back from hidden opportunities that could change the way they perceive that next property.

Daniel V. Rusteen - former Airbnb employee, superhost, super guest (1,100+ days on Airbnb), and Airbnb property manager - reveals his strategies to rank high in Airbnb search by creating an optimal online listing and offline guest experience.

Mark Ferguson has been a realtor for over 15 years. He runs a sales team of 10 who have sold over 1,000 homes. Mark has personally sold over 200 homes in one year. Mark has been featured in the Washington Post, Yahoo, Zillow, Realtor.com, Realtor Magazine, Time, Trulia, and many other major media outlets. In this book, Mark describes exactly how he has made it big in real estate and what to expect as a real estate agent. Mark breaks down how much money real estate agents can really make, as well as how much work an agent will have to do.

If you are searching for greater work-life balance, financial security, and the flexibility to work from home, travel, or define your own hours, then Million Dollar Agent is the book for you.

Science has identified certain responses and behaviors that are hard-wired into our brains and that can actually help you close the sale every single time. If you want to learn the real techniques to sell (the ones based on psychology that actually work) this book is for you. In this guide you won’t find magic wands. Instead, you’ll discover the principles of persuasion and consumer psychology, you’ll learn working selling strategies and negotiating techniques designed to help you sell more and delight your customers after the sale.

This is a simple, succinct, motivational publication designed to allow your immediate success with regard to signing listings. It easily, and quickly, educates proven seller interaction protocol that leads to sign listings. If you have a seller to sign today, or in the near future, this publication will efficiently both boost your confidence in a simple process, and illuminate the most vital seller tactics used by top listing agents.

When it comes to taxes, it’s not about how much money you make, but how much money you actually keep. Are you tired of working hard all year, just to lose the largest chunk of that money to the IRS? Believe it or not, the US tax system is filled with loopholes designed specifically to benefit real estate investors just like you. In this comprehensive follow-up to The Book on Tax Strategies, best-selling authors and CPAs Amanda Han and Matthew MacFarland bring you more strategies to slash your taxes and turn your real estate investments into a tax-saving machine.