Purchase, Rehab, and Reposition Commercial Investment Property [Paperback]

Michael Zaransky (Author)

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About the Author

Michael H. Zaransky is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Northbrook, IL-based Prime Property Investors, Ltd., which was voted one of the best 50 companies in residential construction and development to work for by Professional Builder. Prime has won numerous awards for its rehab and repositioned projects. Zaransky has published numerous articles on real estate investment, been quoted in national publications including the New York Times, Denver Post, and Chicago Tribune, and is the author of Profit by Investing in Student Housing (Kaplan 2006).

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; Original edition (August 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419596799
• ISBN-13: 978-1419596797
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just two words .. Don't Buy!, November 23, 2007

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P A Beer "Pieter de Beer" (Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Purchase, Rehab, and Reposition Commercial Investment Property (Paperback)

I always buy my Real Estate Books for study purposes and not read only. Afterall - you want to APPLY knowledge not just gain knowledge. I could not find ANY flesh or bone in this book.

It's basically devided into 3 sections. The 1 section tell you about opportunities in Real Estate (page 1-74). The second section informs you about the authors success in Real Estate (page 74-130). The last section is just a lot of useless forms (page 130-230).

The first section contains a few ideas. NO info on NUMBERS which is much needed in any REal Estate book. You get the idea the sections on the authors success stories and all the useless forms where just added to get page numbers to the book.

You will find nothing to study in this book! You will gain NO knowledge and have nothing to apply after reading this book. It wont change your way of doing things.

My recommendation - Stay away - don't buy!

I wish I could rank this book with a zero star!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless, November 14, 2007

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Victor Christianson (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Purchase, Rehab, and Reposition Commercial Investment Property (Paperback)

Like my old air conditioner, it makes a lot of noise and does nothing. It purports to be about commercial properties but is mostly about residential properties. It's chock full of (about a third of the book) useless forms, and discloses such incredible secrets as "My first secret: For example, you can capture the increased value, or profit, by reselling the property to another buyer at a gain"...this is my first of many secrets you'll find in this book".

How does fluff like this get published.

If the author knows anything about real estate, he's keeping that secret.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good overview but not enough in depth, February 19, 2009

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Yu Yu "House" (Boston, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Purchase, Rehab, and Reposition Commercial Investment Property (Paperback)

The book really gives some good ideas or outline of the rehab. But there are no deep insights or enough concrete ideas/samples of rehab strategy. It's good as an introductory book. Not recommed for people who had already some ideas of what rehab is.