The SuccessDNA Guide to Real Estate Investment & Management: Essential Advice for Serious Investors [Paperback]

Garrett Sutton (Author), Dolf de Roos (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2003

The SuccessDNA Guide to Real Estate Investment & Management offers practical information on the essential elements of real estate acquisition and ownership, written in a clear and understandable style by two real estate investors and best-selling authors. This guide is the one you will keep and refer to many times over to your benefit and advantage.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A great overview for serious real estate investors interested in residential and commercial property." -- Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul and co-author of The One Minute Millionaire

"The SuccessDNA Guide to Real Estate Investment and Management is a valuable resource for every real-estate investor." -- Robert W. Clement, CRB, CRS, Keller Williams Realty

About the Author

Dolf de Roos, veteran real estate investor, speaker and New York Times best-selling author of Real Estate Riches, believes that the deal of the decade comes along once a week.

Garrett Sutton, best-selling author of Own Your Own Corporation and co-author of Real Estate Loopholes, believes in the overall benefits of investing in real estate and proves that real estate can be mastered by everyone.

Product Details

• Paperback: 157 pages
• Publisher: SuccessDNA, Inc. (June 2003)
• ISBN-10: 0971354936
• ISBN-13: 978-0971354937
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,766,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing, August 28, 2003

By 

Bevan N Colless (Tokyo, Kanto Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The SuccessDNA Guide to Real Estate Investment & Management: Essential Advice for Serious Investors (Paperback)

I loved Real Estate Riches as it got my juices flowing ready to expand my Real Estate investments. I couldn't wait for the next Dolf De Roos book, and bought this one as soon as it was available and read it soon after receiving it. What a let-down it was! For starters the writing and editing are extremely poor, including countless typos and double words - I wonder if the book was proof read at all? They have tried to use a conversational style of writing but it comes throug as sloppy. Aside from the writing, 40% of the book describes how to manage properties yourself "a locked letter-box will help tennants drop the rent off without bothering you"....(this is 2003!), before mentioning briefly at the end of the book that you "may want to hire a property manager". So for the 90% of property investors who use property managers (who has got the time or motivation to manage property themselves?) that large chunk of the book is useless.

Garret Sutton's legal sections are virtually useless for people outside the US, and there is little or now effort to cater for readers not based in America. However, he does do a good job reccommending his own Bookeeping company to take care of your accounts - with full disclosure, but 4 times throughout the book!!

For US residents who have never invested in property before and are about to give up their job to become full time property investors and managers (if such a person exists), you may find this useful, for the rest - you'd be better off re-reading Real Estate Riches.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The only thing good about this book is the cover., March 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The SuccessDNA Guide to Real Estate Investment & Management: Essential Advice for Serious Investors (Paperback)

This is a hideously written book. If you've read Real Estate Riches and/or any of De Roos' books, you'll be reading the same material in this book. This book has no substance. It is all fluff! With all the money De Roos and Sutton make, (in seminars, software, and audio) hopefully they will invest in a more seasoned or professional editor for their books.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing, August 28, 2003

By 

Bevan N Colless (Tokyo, Kanto Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The SuccessDNA Guide to Real Estate Investment & Management: Essential Advice for Serious Investors (Paperback)

I loved Real Estate Riches as it got my juices flowing ready to invest in Real Estate. I couldn't wait for the next Dolf De Roos book, and bought this one as soon as it was available and read it soon after receiving it. What a let-down it was! For starters the writing and editing was extremely poor, including countless typos and double words - I wonder if the book was proof read at all? They have tried to use a conversational style of writing but it just comes off as sloppy writing. Aside from the writing, 40% of the book describes how to manage properties yourself, before mentioning briefly at the end of the book that you "may want to hire a property manager". So for the 90% of property investors who use property managers (who has got the time or motivation to manage property themselves?) that large chunk of the book is useless.

Garret Sutton's legal sections are virtually useless for people outside the US, and there is little or now effort to cater for readers not based in America. However, he does do a good job reccommending his own Bookeeping company to take care of your accounts - with full disclosure, but 4 times throughout the book!!

For US residents who have never invested in property before and are about to give up their job to become full time property investors and managers, you may find this useful, for the rest - you'd be better off re-reading Real Estate Riches!