- Paperback: 274 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (9 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471728306
- ISBN-13: 978-0471728306
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19.1 x 1.8 cm
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What if you could consistently bring in $5,000 to $50,000 in real estate cash flow every month? Would you change the way you live your life? Every year, thousands of Americans do just that, using real estate to achieve the wealth and independence they′ve always dreamed of. In The Real Estate Fast Track, author David Finkel offers step–by–step guidance on building a real estate business that lets you earn more while you work less! You′ll master all five of the core skills of the world′s wealthiest investors and learn the advanced secrets that have helped Finkel′s students and clients buy and sell over $1 billion of real estate, much of it without cash or credit. You′ll build your real estate business until you can relax and watch the money flow in.
Plus, there′s more:
- Six forms of leverage you can tap into
- Five fun, easy systems to find deal after deal
- A simple, three–step system for safely evaluating any real estate deal
- Twenty–one advanced deal–structuring strategies to close even the toughest deal
- Fourteen advanced negotiating techniques to make up to an extra $25,000 per deal
- Ten contract pitfalls that trip up most investors
- Using true stories from real people to illustrate the basics of successful investing, this practical, step–by–step guide presents the kind of proven, reality–based advice you need to live the life of your dreams—with all the money and free time you want!
"Naysayers look out! The Real Estate Fast Track discloses step–by–step strategies that practically guarantee immediate cash flow, no matter what the real estate market does. This stuff works."
—Diane Kennedy, bestselling coauthor of The Insider′s Guide to Making Money in Real Estate and author of Loopholes of the Rich
"This book is just like David: clear, organized, and intelligent with an easygoing style. The valuable information within is actually a blueprint or how–to manual on producing your own passive cash flowing real estate investment business! WOW, what an achievement!"
—Bill Tan, President of the San Diego Creative Investors Association and BTi Investments, Inc.
David Finkel is one of the nation′s leading real estate experts. He is the coauthor of several books, including the Wiley titles Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit and How to Retire Fast Investing in Commercial Real Estate, as well as the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures Without Cash or Credit. Over the past decade, Finkel′s clients have bought and sold over $1 billion of real estate.
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What if you could consistently bring in $5,000 to $50,000 in real estate cash flow every month? Would you change the way you live your life? Every year, thousands of Americans do just that, using real estate to achieve the wealth and independence they′ve always dreamed of. In The Real Estate Fast Track, author David Finkel offers step–by–step guidance on building a real estate business that lets you earn more while you work less! You′ll master all five of the core skills of the world′s wealthiest investors and learn the advanced secrets that have helped Finkel′s students and clients buy and sell over $1 billion of real estate, much of it without cash or credit. You′ll build your real estate business until you can relax and watch the money flow in. Plus, there′s more:
- Six forms of leverage you can tap into
- Five fun, easy systems to find deal after deal
- A simple, three–step system for safely evaluating any real estate deal
- Twenty–one advanced deal–structuring strategies to close even the toughest deal
- Fourteen advanced negotiating techniques to make up to an extra $25,000 per deal
- Ten contract pitfalls that trip up most investors
Using true stories from real people to illustrate the basics of successful investing, this practical, step–by–step guide presents the kind of proven, reality–based advice you need to live the life of your dreams—with all the money and free time you want!
"Naysayers look out! The Real Estate Fast Track discloses step–by–step strategies that practically guarantee immediate cash flow, no matter what the real estate market does. This stuff works."
—Diane Kennedy, bestselling coauthor of The Insider′s Guide to Making Money in Real Estate and author of Loopholes of the Rich
"This book is just like David: clear, organized, and intelligent with an easygoing style. The valuable information within is actually a blueprint or how–to manual on producing your own passive cash flowing real estate investment business! WOW, what an achievement!"
—Bill Tan, President of the San Diego Creative Investors Association and BTi Investments, Inc.
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70 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Oh, My!
28 Jun 2006
Format:Paperback
This book functions primarily as a large advertisement for the author's seminars/classes. Most of what the book presents is naive, simplistic or just plain wrong. The financial side techniques presented include "tried and true" goodies that don't work now and didn't work when I first read them in a book my dad bought 40 years ago.
The negotiating tactics don't work. See Spin Selling for some of the best sales and negotiating material out there.
Of course, if you are able to deal only with people who are completely ignorant of the real estate values in their town and who distrust lawyers, i.e., don't have contracts reviewed in lieu of using a real estate broker, you may get some of these gems to work for you.
And what do I know? Not much -- but I have appeared in court as an expert appraisal witness, made a few million in real estate (& yes, I still read books. Who knows when I'll find a good idea?) and been a real estate broker for 30 years.
The author, if he ever made any money in real estate, is now, it would seem, making his money selling his seminars. Run, don't walk, away from the author and his materials.
The negotiating tactics don't work. See Spin Selling for some of the best sales and negotiating material out there.
Of course, if you are able to deal only with people who are completely ignorant of the real estate values in their town and who distrust lawyers, i.e., don't have contracts reviewed in lieu of using a real estate broker, you may get some of these gems to work for you.
And what do I know? Not much -- but I have appeared in court as an expert appraisal witness, made a few million in real estate (& yes, I still read books. Who knows when I'll find a good idea?) and been a real estate broker for 30 years.
The author, if he ever made any money in real estate, is now, it would seem, making his money selling his seminars. Run, don't walk, away from the author and his materials.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
The best I have read so far
20 April 2006
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really enjoyed and would recommend it to others wholeheartedly. There are of course the many plugs for David's mentoring programs and other products. I think grown-ups can figure out that you are reading a book that is part of a business system and get over being annoyed at the plugs. The other thing I didn't care for much were the ficticious personalities that are tracked as examples. I would have not had this reaction if it would have been clearly stated from the start that these folks were compilations of past students and not actual people.
With this whining out of the way, I can say this was the best R.E. investing book I have read so far, and I have read many. The systems that are laid out in David's earlier books are reviewed and compacted for easy check list style review. The new info on building systems of your own to streamline and idiot proof (no offense)your own investing is extremely valuable. I think that if more people who say they tried the R.E. thing and it didn't work for them (or even worse, tell of other's failures when they haven't tried themsleves) had developed systems like these, there would be many more success stories and fewer naysayers.
The other thing I enjoyed and appreciated was the forethought given to eventually having your investments run independently of your continual input and baby sitting. This is a big challenge and this kind of info is hard to find. There is enough valuable info in just this one area to make this book pay for itself many times over.
Real Estate is a complex and sometines confusing business that can be overwhelming to people trying to make it a fit for thier lives and careers. David not only gives the helpful encouragment that other writers are big on, but he also lays out enough well crafted systems to let even the most easily intimidated reader see themselves succeedng in the biz. This is not just another 'vision casting' speech, but actual step-by-step plans to succeed with quantfiable and sustainable results.
The added online teaching once again eclipses the norm and adds serious value to the book. I am very much enjoying my added education online and even found great local connections through links I accessed though the website given in the book. I found free forms, written specifically for my state, that will probably save me hundreds of dollars through new connections with a local investors club I found via David's site.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for investor wisdom. It is well written and even more well thought out and covers ground that I haven't seen anyone cover yet. Thanks David.
With this whining out of the way, I can say this was the best R.E. investing book I have read so far, and I have read many. The systems that are laid out in David's earlier books are reviewed and compacted for easy check list style review. The new info on building systems of your own to streamline and idiot proof (no offense)your own investing is extremely valuable. I think that if more people who say they tried the R.E. thing and it didn't work for them (or even worse, tell of other's failures when they haven't tried themsleves) had developed systems like these, there would be many more success stories and fewer naysayers.
The other thing I enjoyed and appreciated was the forethought given to eventually having your investments run independently of your continual input and baby sitting. This is a big challenge and this kind of info is hard to find. There is enough valuable info in just this one area to make this book pay for itself many times over.
Real Estate is a complex and sometines confusing business that can be overwhelming to people trying to make it a fit for thier lives and careers. David not only gives the helpful encouragment that other writers are big on, but he also lays out enough well crafted systems to let even the most easily intimidated reader see themselves succeedng in the biz. This is not just another 'vision casting' speech, but actual step-by-step plans to succeed with quantfiable and sustainable results.
The added online teaching once again eclipses the norm and adds serious value to the book. I am very much enjoying my added education online and even found great local connections through links I accessed though the website given in the book. I found free forms, written specifically for my state, that will probably save me hundreds of dollars through new connections with a local investors club I found via David's site.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for investor wisdom. It is well written and even more well thought out and covers ground that I haven't seen anyone cover yet. Thanks David.
33 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Many Powerful Concepts!
4 May 2006
Format:Paperback
Having built a real estate holding company with $25,000,000 in commercial real estate holdings in less than 5 years myself, (along with my partner), I can tell you firsthand that Dave hits on some quintessential, need to know-very powerful concepts.
pg.42 Discipline, "...if you are willing to work to foster this quality, the world of investing is yours.'
pg. 44 Leveraging your time, money and knowledge
pg. 45 Work smart, not necessarily hard
pg. 47 "Information becomes power only at the point of application"
Jack Welch says he would rather have a leader that can execute than a rocket scientist. Execution is key!
Pg. 49 Constanally ask yourself, "What is the best and highest use of my time?" - The key here being opportunity cost.
On page 167 this book came alive for me; because it is something our company is struggling with right now. Dave describes "getting out of the small time bubble" which describes such a simple concept that is incredibly hard to execute. The idea is to free yourself up to concentrate on what will produce the best return for your time. This concept is also a big one in Jim Clayton's, "First a Dream" which I also reviewed here an on my blog
He talks you through the delicate steps involved in growing a business to the point where you can gradually remove yourself from the day to day procedures. A major function is the implementing of systems.
Another great insight is that Dave reads about 100 books a year. As Charlie Munger says, "Read all the time", "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time-none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads-and at how much I read. My children laugh at me, they think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out"
In fear of rambling, one more great concept is converting equity to cash flow. This is something our company (as well as anyone who purchased real estate over the last 5-10 years) is wrestling with or should be at the moment.
By Kevin Kingston, author of: A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate
Blog: bloglines.com/blog/KevinKingston
pg.42 Discipline, "...if you are willing to work to foster this quality, the world of investing is yours.'
pg. 44 Leveraging your time, money and knowledge
pg. 45 Work smart, not necessarily hard
pg. 47 "Information becomes power only at the point of application"
Jack Welch says he would rather have a leader that can execute than a rocket scientist. Execution is key!
Pg. 49 Constanally ask yourself, "What is the best and highest use of my time?" - The key here being opportunity cost.
On page 167 this book came alive for me; because it is something our company is struggling with right now. Dave describes "getting out of the small time bubble" which describes such a simple concept that is incredibly hard to execute. The idea is to free yourself up to concentrate on what will produce the best return for your time. This concept is also a big one in Jim Clayton's, "First a Dream" which I also reviewed here an on my blog
He talks you through the delicate steps involved in growing a business to the point where you can gradually remove yourself from the day to day procedures. A major function is the implementing of systems.
Another great insight is that Dave reads about 100 books a year. As Charlie Munger says, "Read all the time", "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time-none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads-and at how much I read. My children laugh at me, they think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out"
In fear of rambling, one more great concept is converting equity to cash flow. This is something our company (as well as anyone who purchased real estate over the last 5-10 years) is wrestling with or should be at the moment.
By Kevin Kingston, author of: A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate
Blog: bloglines.com/blog/KevinKingston
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