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The Buy and Hold Real Estate Strategy: How to Secure Profits in Any Real Estate Market

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Many books on real estate usually tell you get rich quick schemes that never seem to work. This one however, show the important of buying and holding onto real estate much like stocks. The author stresses holding onto the estate, rather than trying to sell it quick to make a quick buck. Throughout the story, the author details his own experiences on his quest for his real estate fortune. After losing money gambling with the commodities, the author decided to try real estate. He started with virtually nothing, and eventually built his estate to be worth more than $15 million in four apartments, and 30 condominiums. This is a definite book to read for those who want to start investing in real estate

I know this book is currently out of print and with the date of 1992, I was hesitant at first to purchase this book. It is a true gem of a discovery, his information can be applied to real estate investing in the year 2001 and beyond.

He delivers the information very well written, and gives incredible ideas of ways to continually expand your ideas of how the appraisal business works, as well as many other timely topics.

This is the best real estate book for the serious long term investor. I have bought four properties from 1992 to 1997 in the depressed Boston area real estate market and would have never been able to without this book. The focus of this book is that you can creat long term wealth by buying and holding real estate in the right location. It is not a get rich quick scheme. This is the serious real estate investors "bible"

I have been a lawyer for 25 years, with the first 15 years specializing in transactional real estate. I also have a broker's license and I have owned and rented two single family homes so far. My goal is acquire several more over the next few years.

I have read many, many books on real estate investing, and most are quite superficial and unrealistic (many start with the presumption that you are consistently able to buy with no money down and for a large discount to current value). They also are commonly written by people who want, oddly enough, to sell you on taking one of their expensive, equally flawed, courses.

This book, however, is the best real estate investment book I have ever read.

It takes a long term prospective, is detailed, does not include a pitch for more product or courses, and does not assume away problems by assuming that you can buy under market with "no money down"; however, it is still is quite inspiring, to a large extent due to the author's own anecdotes re: his own investing experiences.

Although I just read a copy from the library, and do not often feel a need to buy a book I have already read, I will be buying it today, as I expect to return to it often in the coming years.

This is the first time I have been inspired enough by a book to write a review for Amazon. I am taking the time to do this today because I could not recommend any book any more highly than this one.