Cash in on the Coming Real Estate Crash: How to Protect Yourself from Losses Now, and Turn a Profit After the Bubble Bursts

by George Sheldon, David J. Decker, George G. Sheldon

Book Overview

After five years of skyrocketing real estate prices, fueled by low interest rates, aggressive lenders, and relative economic prosperity, something has to give. Thanks to nonstop recent press coverage of America's overheated housing market, you are probably wary of buying your next property at the top of the market. So what should you do? Whether you're an individual investor or a homeowner, Cash In on the Coming Real Estate Crash shows you how to gauge the risk of a housing bust in your own local market. More importantly, it shows you how to hedge against a crash and position yourself to profit if the bubble bursts. Critical advice covers: * Identifying signs of an impending collapse * Balancing your real estate portfolio so a crash doesn't wipe you out * Conservative financing strategies * Developing a vision for value in any market * Buying low after the bubble bursts * Knowing when to sell * And many more strategies for making money when the real estate market collapses Peppered with true stories of how homeowners, small investors, and bona? fide real estate tycoons handled and mishandled past crashes, Cash In on the Coming Real Estate Crash is the resource you need to prepare for the comingdownturn, weather the storm, and emerge on the other side stronger than ever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471791008
• ISBN13: 9780471791003
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This book rocks!

If you are a newbie to real estate investing then you need this book! This book is totally mistitled. it should be titled, everything you need to know to get started investing in real estate. This book covers it all from where and how to locate properties, how to perform due diligence, where to get your funding and how to tell if you are getting a good deal. After I read this book and started looking for properties, this book saved me from a bad deal with a seminar junkie. I started asking questions of the seller and the deal quickly fell apart as it was obvious the seller was hiding several facts about the property. If you plan to buy residential and/or small commercial buildings then read this book first. It is an easy read and laid out logically. The author walks you through ample situations and includes lots of real life examples. This book is worth every penny. Leave the seminar junkies where they sit and find out how to really invest in real estate and start building your emptre today.

Excellent book

Impressive book with lots of useful information even after reading a couple dozen real estate investment books. Additionally, I e-mailed the author several times with various questions and he promptly responded with pertinent information.

David Decker hits it right on the nose

This book I predict in about 6 months will be a best seller, now I am not a book critic or reviewer or whatever... I am a real estate investor, and I happened to agree with all of the outlooks that Decker explains... and another thing is that Decker walks his talk, he's done deals, and also this book is loaded with actual resources of research that Decker has looked up. So many books out there are just paragraph after paragraph of BS stating why this will happen or that, well since David Decker's book came out It's been awhile since I have seen an author back up his predictions with both research and opinions that really are relevent to what the economy is going through...... not just some recycled garbage that most authors steal from other one's in an attempt to seem like they know what they are talking about...... David Decker is right on in his predictions and his book will rise close to best seller in about 8 months max. .... Blake .... bldgassets247@yahoo.com

Great book

Decker makes a complicated subject simple and fun. I highly recommend this book. I feel well versed enough on this topic, simply by reading the book, to not only avoid losing on some of my current investments, but to make substantially more than I expected. I'm very active in the real estate market as an investor, and this book has definitely given me an advantage. Buy it, and read it now.

Best in Class

This book is clearly the best on the subject of Real Estate Bubble, I have read most of the recent ones. It allocates a significant portion (7 chapters in section III) to the "cash in" part of a crash. Many of the other books do not. Most readers would likely suspect a crash or they would not be reading about the subject in the first place. The book advocates tuning out the media and looking at facts: Housing Affordability Indexes, Household Growth projections, etc., to make decisions. Real Estate is not as good as the media has portrayed recently, and will likely not be as bad as the media is likely to portray it in the event of a crash. A main thesis is the crash will not be national in scope, but regionally confined. It provides solid advice as to when to buy post crash, advocating value investing. You wont be disappointed.