Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit

by David M. Finkel and Peter Conti

Book Overview

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Buy Real Estate Without Cash or Credit!

Imagine having two multi-millionaires take you by the hand and personally mentor you to get started making big money investing in real estate. That's exactly the step-by-step coaching you'll get in Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit, as Peter Conti and David Finkel, two of the nation's leading real estate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471728314
• ISBN13: 9780471728313
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

MUST HAVE

After reading this book, and working through the Investor Fast Track, I know that my net worth is more limited by my mindset or "WOS" (wealth operating system), than it is on finding good deals. Jim Rohn says all millionaires have libraries in their homes. Any real estate investor who wants to become a millionaire needs to have this book! I started investing 2 years ago after attending a local real estate seminar. With a limited amount of knowledge and a whole lot of inspiration, I started buying houses. Until this book, I have been learning through experience. I wish that I would have read this book before I began. It has a step by step easy to understand approach. It's not only good for a beginner but for someone who is stuck and not sure that they want to proceed. It gives you the knowledge and confidence to keep going. The free Investor Fast Track is worth a hundred times more than the full price cost of this book. It enables you to recognize, evaluate and improve your ideas about wealth in order to find out what is holding you back from doing million dollar deals. All I can say is thank you David Finkel for sharing your expertise with me. From now on the sky is the limit - that is if there has to be any limit at all.

Not every book is perfect, but this one isfairly close...

Peter Conti and David Finkel are a great team. I believe they are out there to help others succeed in their Real Estate Business. This book gives a clear overall picture of what to do, how to do it, what to say, and how to say it. The book has great notes, and is full of great information. I practicly have highlighted most of the pages. They even tell you what to say to the homeower when negotiating. They provide you with scripts, action steps and more. Grant it, they want you to join their mentorship program, but what book doesn't. I think the free bonuses alone are worth buying it. It's great for real estate begineers.

If this doesn't get you started, nothing will!

If you have been thinking about investing in real estate, or are "trying to get started" investing in real estate by reading about it online and procrastinating on taking action (like I did for about a year before buying my first rental property), then this book is for you! Peter and David's proven system (it's what helped me do over $1Million in real estate transactions, and I'm only 25...) is laid out here with all the basics and no confusion or hyperbole. They have been refining and teaching this system for over ten years and this book, complete with diagrams, case studies, action steps, charts and even software to help you, leaves no stone unturned. One of the most important things that they emphasize is the EMOTIONAL aspect to investing, not "just" the techniques (though they cover those in depth). If you want to invest in real estate you have to recognize that 1) It's going to be scary when you get going and 2) It's OK to be scared, as long as you invest enough in your education so that you know what you're doing. IT WORKS! This month I put a portfolio of 6 properties under contract using Peter and David's techniques... It was a "terms" deal requiring no cash out of pocket. You can do it too, it's not very hard once you practice overcoming your fears. You don't have to be a slick salesman and you don't have to have real estate experience. You just have to have the grit and determination to put their techniques into practice and keep at your real estate investing "...until..." success comes. Emily

Not just another "fluff" book about investing in real estate...

I remember a few months ago when I started thinking seriously about investing in real estate. I remember seeing one of the real estate moguls in my small city out driving around in his new Mercedes smoking, no doubt, a fine cigar. And there I was driving my used Ford Contour (a "fancy" Escort) going off to a job I hated. At that very moment I thought, "Hmm, I bet I could do that." And then I started doing what most people do in a similar situation-- I started reading all about how to invest in real estate. It seemed like there was a never ending list of "experts" looking to "unlock" the secrets of investment real estate for me. After reading each book I felt motivated and pumped up! I was ready to make money in real estate! And then it would hit me. Yeah, I knew the big picture but I didn't know the small one. I didn't have the "dirty details" I needed to go forward. And I don't know about you but I am the type that needs everything down in writing before I do anything. I guess I don't handle risk or the unknown very well. But I knew this was a serious buisness and yes I could make money-- good money but I could end up losing money too if I wasn't careful, and I didn't have much money to lose. But the fact remained that I needed more detailed instructions than what most real estate investment books gave. This book by Peter Conti and David Finkel isn't like the other real estate investment books that I've read. This book is all about "the dirty details". It's about the small things you need to do in order to experience success as a real estate investor. I always read books like this with a yellow highlighter in hand. And when I'm finished I can flip through the pages quickly and really get a good idea of how "useful" the book was to me. I can tell you this book was a sea of yellow after I was done. Almost every page has something highlighted on it. And while I think the book is great for beginners the authors do jump into areas that I think would benefit an experienced investor too. Subtle things that an experinced investor may not have ever thought of. Face it, investing in real estate can be complicated and it's easy to overlook many of the things pointed out in the book. This book deserves a place in any investor's library but thinking on it given the level of information it holds it would even be more useful in a briefcase because I think it's going to be referenced an awful lot.

Wow, this is their best book yet!

David and Peter have done it again. Just when you thought you couldn't learn any more from them (their last books were FULL of information), they prove you wrong. This book not only gives you new and deeper insights into the world of real estate investing, it does it in a whole new way. I finished the book in 48 hours it was so good and so easy to read! (my husband is now at it....) Through the eyes of 4 begining real estate investors - each have their own unique issues, challenges, fears, knowledge, experience - you will learn how they individually over come obstacles and take advantage of some great opportunities that they didn't even know existed. I could actually relate to one of the investors in that they had soem of the same fears that I do and I am learning through their examples how I can over come that fear. I used one technique and it worked! (...)