This user-friendly guide to smart real estate investing thoroughly explains everything you need to know to get started along with the potential for profit and possible pitfalls. Financing your investment, tax considerations, important trends to watch for, special problems of real estate bookkeeping, analyzing the market in any given geographic area and locating bargains are among the topics discussed. Includes an abundance of examples, definitions, case histories, graphs, charts and landlord forms.
I have been writing professionally since 1978 and fulltime since 1984. Previously, I was an accountant.
From 1978 to 1984 I wrote part-time and also was a consultant in the financial services industry. Once I began writing fulltime, I began in the magazine journalism field as a freelancer. In 1985 and 1986 I wrote approximately 500 articles in business, trade and professional magazines. I then switched over to books exclusively and have written over 70 books. These include my own as well as ghost-written projects.
Today I like to work on multiple books at the same time, normally two or three projects. Being able to switch back and forth keeps the writing process fresh and interesting. I generally write from 7 a.m. until noon and spend afternoons on research.
