Pros: Motivational book to prove that you too can buy lots of properties in any real estate market.
Cons: I did not find any information that I would consider useful to a real estate investor.
Rating: * (1 star)
I couldn’t resist picking up a book titled “The Insider’s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks” (ISBN 0-471-75705-5) [...]

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Although the debate over whether a house was considered an asset or not ended with readers on both sides of the fence, I happened to be reading a book that talked about this exact same debate!
The book is called “Protect Your Nest Egg” written by Eric Kirzner and Richard Croft. I am almost done [...]

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There is quite the debate (Canadian Capitalist and InvestingIntelligently) going on about whether or not your primary residence is an asset or a liability.
If someone wants to open up a dictionary and look up the definition of ‘asset’, I am sure that you will find a home there. I am also sure that in [...]

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Pros: Read real life stories about real estate investing.
Cons: I did not find any of the stories helpful or insightful.
Rating: * (1 star)
Continuing on my real estate kick, I just finished reading “What No One Ever Tells you About Investing in Real Estate” (ISBN 0-7931-9516-0) by Robert J. Hill II, Esq. The author is [...]

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Coming from an engineering background, the title of this book caught my attention: “What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow …and 36 Other Key Financial Measures” (ISBN 0-07-142257-9) by Frank Gallinelli. Could it be that I had actually found a book that would show me how to crunch the numbers [...]

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