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How to Make One Million Dollars in Real Estate in Three Years Starting With No Cash

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Of the few dozen books I have read on the subject of real estate investing, this is perhaps the least desirable. This book rates high on incredible hype and low on any real substance. The author skips from one incredible deal to the next, showing how yes, you, your neighbor, or even the village idiot can make millions of dollars with virtually no risk, no expertise, and of course, no instruction on his part. As another reviewer stated, I always finish a book to search for those "pearls of wisdom" as well as to give an acurate review of the book as a whole. I found no pearls here.

If you want a good book on real estate, try Robert Allen or Wade Cook. If you want something to wrap fish in, buy this book.

This is basically a marketing ad for Mr. Hicks own publications. Very Impractical. His guide is summed up at the end of the book in about 3 pages. DON'T waste your money or time...

Don't even waste your time on this one. You can almost hear the infomercial. All this book does is promote the author's own business of newsletters, magazines, and other books on making money in real estate. It does not really give any concise plans or insider tips to truly making money in real estate investing. One would probably win a million dollars in the lottery quicker. The novice in real investing would be lost!

After reading numerous chapters of "you can do it" and repeated citings of big $$ acquisitions without mention of cash flow risk, I found myself skimming over the fluff in search of pearls of wisdom. There are a few but Ty spends too much time motivating, and not enough time or detail on how.

Waste of time and money. Very general. No substance

I would rate this a negative if I could. This book is a scam with very little practical info, mainly just a sales job for his other junk. You will sink yourself very fast using his methods.

The fact is, this book isn't perfect, but what real estate book is? Yes, some of the examples here are a bit oversimplified, but that that, to me, is a fairly minor flaw. I've found that you can learn a little something from just about every real estate book out there. In the end you have to take a little from all these different "gurus", and develop your own personal style depending on your personality and your comfort level with different real estate techniques.

This is a good book to keep in your real estate library. I recommend it.

All in all, not a bad effort by Ty. I agree with the previous reviewer in that he does a lot of "cheering", but there is good information here as well.

Mr. Hicks plays on the inexperience and the desperate. He focuses only on the successes and does not mention the possible pitfalls in real estate. I found the book somewhat informative, but was quite annoyed with his pitch to subscribe to his publication.

This book was first published in 1978!

I seriously doubt Mr. Hicks rewrote one word of this book for the 90's.

Gimme a break! Click on Mr. Hicks' name under the title. This will give you a list of other books written by him. Scroll down to his "Kits" Most of them about mail-order, real estate, etc. were published in 1987! Wow.