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Book SynopsisDiscover the path to financial freedom with this step-by-step guide to house hacking—the simple real estate investment strategy that lets you live for free and earn income.For most people, rent or a mortgage takes up the largest chunk of their income. But with house hacking, that piece can come down to virtually zero—and it’s easier than you’d think! In its simplest form, house hacking is the real estate investment strategy where you buy a multifamily house and rent it out to cover your costs and live for free. But this can come in all shapes and sizes, whether it be inviting in roommates, owning multiple properties, live-in flips, vacation rentals, or even participating in Airbnb. In The Everything Guide to House Hacking, you will learn: -The pros and cons of house hacking -The minimum you need to get started -What a smart investment looks like -Whether renovating is worth it -How to be a responsible landlord -How to find responsible tenants -And more! Discover everything you want to know about homeownership and how you can build wealth from your investment properties. The path to financial freedom starts here.

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Book SynopsisLearn all the ins and outs of buying a home and give yourself an advantage in the real estate game with this essential house-buying guidebook.Buying a first home can be both exciting and nerve-wracking. Will you qualify for a mortgage? Is your dream home achievable? How do you make sure your offer will beat others? Don’t worry—now you can arm yourself with the information you need to know before you begin the hunt! In Home Buying 101, you will learn all the skills you need to find the right house at the right price, with financing that fits your budget. Full of nuts-and-bolts advice and organized in an easy-to-read format, this book will teach you all the basics of: -Deciding the right time to buy -Getting your finances in order -Choosing a realtor—or going solo -Assessing neighborhood/comps -Deciphering the MLS/reading the listings for clues -Buyers’ vs. sellers’ markets -Types of mortgage loans -Property insurance -Making a smart offer With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to find the house of your dreams at a price you can afford!

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Book SynopsisThis book has been written to educate real estate owners and sellers how the marketing of their property by the real estate sales community has changed to their detriment and to show them that is a solution to the current problem and this solution is the Internet and how to effectively utilize it to sell their real estate all the while saving big money in doing so. The book is combined with and refers to a new system for selling real estate online that enables sellers for the first time to not just market their property but to actually track and complete the entire transaction electronically.

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Book SynopsisThe Real Estate Market Sucks, Now What? is so crucial to the current economic Real Estate crisis that the consumer must understand that help does exist. If you want to know how to save your home from foreclosure, how to invest in today's market, how to get lenders to modify your loan and alternative ways to buy/sell your home, then read The Real Estate Market Sucks, Now What?.

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Book SynopsisIf you’re a home seller wishing to skip the conventional process of listing your home and waiting for a qualified buyer, and you’ve always wanted to be “rich enough” to help your favorite charity in a big way, your time has come. I Sold My House in a Raffle explains the entire process for homeowners, realtors, and also for the nonprofit director who is open to an innovative fundraising alternative that can provide a sizeable chunk of cash to support the charity. Diane Giraudo McDermott, an advocate of animal rights, couldn’t match the incentives building developers were offering home buyers, and buyers interested in her property couldn’t qualify for a loan; so she used her marketing background and partnered with a “no-kill” animal shelter and successfully sold her house in a raffle. “I Sold My House in a Raffle is an excellent example of Creative Marketing. The best marketers think "out of the box" and Diane shows that you can really sell your house in a raffle!” –Ali Pervez, International Best Selling Author, Get Your Black Belt In Marketing, www.blackbeltinmarketing.com “What a great marketing tool! This is a hot new method to get a property sold. My clients love this idea—I already have my first raffle house lined up. I’ll use Diane’s process to get and sell more listings.” Jack C. Rosemary – California Real Estate Broker, 26 years experience Inside, you’ll learn how to utilize the best marketing techniques, create a winning raffle formula, complete the required paperwork, connect with the right charity, and reduce your risk. Take charge of your real estate future--save thousands of dollars, save time waiting for that qualified buyer, and get your full asking price! This is a method whose time has come, and it can work for you too. · Find out if you have a good raffle house · Utilize the best marketing techniques · Complete the required paperwork · Connect with the right charity · Reduce your risk Take charge of your real estate future, save thousands of dollars, and take the risk out of waiting for that qualified buyer. This is a method whose time has come, and it can work for you too. If you’re a home seller wishing to skip the conventional process of listing your home and waiting for a qualified buyer, and you’ve always wanted to be “rich enough” to help your favorite charity in a big way, your time has come. I Sold My House in a Raffle explains the entire process for the home seller and the nonprofit director who is open to an innovative fundraising alternative that can provide a sizeable chunk of cash to support the charity’s cause. Trade Review“I Sold My House in a Raffle is an excellent example of Creative Marketing. The best marketers think "out of the box" and Diane shows that you can really sell your house in a raffle!” –Ali Pervez, International Best Selling Author, Get Your Black Belt In Marketing, www.blackbeltinmarketing.com “What a great marketing tool! This is a hot new method to get a property sold. My clients love this idea—I already have my first raffle house lined up. I’ll use Diane’s process to get and sell more listings.” Jack C. Rosemary – California Real Estate Broker, 26 years experience

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Book SynopsisJust as championship sports teams and successful global companies seek to gain and maximize any slight advantage they have over their competition (while competing ethically and with established rules and law, so too can homeowners maximize their profits when they transition to being home sellers. In Full Value: Proven Methods to Price and Sell Your Home for Maximum Profits author Jack Richards helps homeowners get more for their property. The insights he shares can help readers sell houses more quickly or at a higher price than otherwise would be possible using otherwise easy, everyday methods

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Book SynopsisReal estate agents and other investors who need money to close their purchases often use private lending as their main source for funding. Unfortunately, many private lenders take advantage of this. They use unethical and illegal tactics to persuade investors to pay fees to obtain loans. For this reason, investors need guidance from an expert who knows the language and the processes these imposters use. Truth in Private Lending gives detailed accounts of how private lending scammers typically operate, and advice on how to keep them from getting your money.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Why We Need Funding Chapter 2 The Categories of Risk Chapter 3 How to See Through the Deception Chapter 4 Fraud Chapter 5 Money Laundering and Employment Scams Chapter 6 Fee Scams Chapter 7 Johannesburg Chapter 8 Other Scams Chapter 9 The Truth about Private Lenders and What They Want to Fund Chapter 10 The Importance of Establishing Good Relationships Chapter 11 Acquisitions Chapter 12 Off-Market Real Estate Chapter 13 Fighting Back For More Information About the Author

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Book SynopsisBuying and Financing Your New Home helps homebuyers understand the buying process and their options for financing a home. Written by a licensed California Real Estate Broker, Casey Fleming’s guide Buying and Financing Your New Home offers a detailed look at how home ownership impacts a family’s finances and the benefits of owning a home. Fleming explains how homebuyers can navigate the home-buying process in a way that yields the best possible results and how to finance their purchase with the lowest possible lifetime cost.The goal of Buying and Financing Your New Home is to empower the reader during the most expensive transaction of their lifetime. Casey Fleming outlines how to search for and buy a home that is right for a homebuyer’s circumstances, goals, and concerns. He describes their options regarding choosing a lender and mortgage structure that meets their needs, rather than the lender’s. When it comes to financing the reader’s new home, Buying and Financing Your New Home makes the complex simple, breaking down the process in an easy-to-understand way.

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Book SynopsisThe one book you need when considering a move. "Our homeowners are always asking us: Should I stay or should I go? This book helps you answer that question and move on from there, step by step. Everything starts at home, as we like to say. Home is where you start every day of every chapter in your life. With Wise Moves, you can make it good, safe, secure, and yours forever." --Drew and Jonathan Scott, HGTV's Property Brothers, editorial directors of Reveal magazine Considering a move? This easy-to-use guide helps you make the best choice for you, whatever stage you are in. Should you stay put? Would a few inexpensive renovations make your home the home of a lifetime? If you need a little help at home, where can you find it? Or should you move? And if so, where? And how to pay for it all? Topics covered include: Fitting your home to your needs Downsizing to rental apartments, condos, and coops Choosing independent living and active adult communities Finding quality assisted living and memory care Getting the best nursing care Buying second homes Deciding whether timeshares are worth it Moving abroad The authors, experts in the field who also have a broad range of personal experience, provide checklists in each chapter to help you discern your next steps and walk you gently through the process. "Everyone I know seems to be talking about downsizing or where to move next, yet there are so many considerations when weighing the rest of your life. This comprehensive book organizes everything you need to know, from aging in place, independent living, and assisted living facilities to paying for it all, with practical information and checklists to help your decision making. This is the book I've been waiting for someone to write." --Lee Woodruff, journalist, bestselling author, and cofounder of the Bob Woodruff Foundation for injured veterans "Cut the medical jargon, cut the legalese, cut the stereotypes and give us a map--clear and comprehensive--and a compass. That’s what this Wise Moves accomplishes, thanks to the vast experience and acumen of its two authors. Hurme and Frolik know their stuff and know how to equip you with smart tools for choosing or creating the right environment for your loved one’s or your own later years." --Charlie Sabatino, Director, ABA Commission on Law and Aging “A practical book filled with useful information. An invaluable resource for older Americans thinking about a move to a different home or locale.” --David English, Former Chair, ABA Commission on Law and Aging "So many people wait to plan a move to a senior living community until they're 'ready.' Unfortunately, by then, it's often too late. They make decisions in the midst of a crisis and miss the opportunity to live in an environment that will support their well-being. This book provides tools for proactively assessing what’s important in deciding your future." --Jill Vitale-Aussem, CEO of The Eden Alternative and author of AARP's Disrupting the Status Quo of Aging: A Mindshift

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Book SynopsisThis is a revised edition of the 2017 Amazon Best Seller Real Estate … on your terms, with bonus chapters added. A NEW APPROACH TO REAL ESTATE … ON your terms! Your career is in real estate, or maybe you’re looking to invest. That means you know the general consensus: The real estate market is unpredictable; therefore, your income has to be. You’re at the mercy of the economy and the bank. What if that’s not the truth? What if you had the tools, know-how, and been there-done-that experience from an industry veteran on how to hedge your cash from the market? What if real estate was on YOUR TERMS? Good news—all of this is achievable by creating a “money machine” rather than a per-deal operating system. And in Real Estate on your terms, Chris Prefontaine shares the following with you:* Hope from stories—“If he did, I can!”* How to buy two-plus homes monthly without using your own cash or credit* Strategies for structured continuous cash flow and wealth building.

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Book SynopsisThe Funding Solution: A Guide to Hard Money Loans And Building Wealth Through Creative Capital Discover the joy of financial freedom through The Funding Solution: A Guide to Hard-Money Loans and Building Wealth through Creative Lending.Before flipping his first property, Roger Becker knew almost nothing about real estate investing. He could see past the dilapidation of a house and, in great detail, conceptualize its full potential. But he didn't have a bunch of money lying round, so how could he actually buy it? From making sense of hard-money loans to finding the perfect partnership and learning when to pivot, The Funding Solution leads you through the same steps that the author found daunting so you can change your life as he has.

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Book SynopsisIf you are looking to create wealth through real estate investing, then this is the book you’ve been searching for. By following the strategies in FU Property, you’ll have the power to tell the world FU and not settle for anything less than what you really want to achieve!Zah Azmi, Founder and CEO of Luxland has been there, and done it. He gives you the roadmap to achieving financial wealth and the freedom to walk away from that job you hate, or from having to account for your time – to anyone ever again!You’ll learn to understand the path of money, how to leverage your assets and analyze your risk. You’ll learn the importance of cash flow, and how to make it work for you. You’ll learn how to leverage your current income, and with it build a property portfolio that will replace your income and free up your most valuable asset – time.Zah gives step-by-step information on how to take your investment strategy to the next level. This book is an invaluable guide to wealth building that shows you all the aspects of successfully investing in real estate. It will change your life.If you want to build your financial wealth by investing in real assets, Zah’s book will give you the roadmap you have been looking for to make that happen. His data-driven case studies and real-world examples from his own investment strategies will give you the tools to master the financial and strategic concepts of real estate investing.Good quality real estate will outperform any other investment over the long-term, so what are you waiting for? Take action now. Zah will show you the way!

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Book SynopsisReal estate developer Afa Pitts is often asked about house flipping because today’s home shows and magazines feature dramatic transformations — making it look like anyone with a little know-how and vision can do it. But in truth, there is much more to house flipping than it looks like on the surface. Now, she has assembled her best advice and information in a single practical guide. Taking her readers from A to Z, she covers the most important terms, concepts, ideas, “Flip Tips,” insider know-how, and practical advice from her career. Both a solid introduction and a guide readers can return to time and time again to enhance their knowledge, this is the book for anyone who is curious about the secrets of a successful house flipper.

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Book SynopsisFind Success in the Real Estate Market“Tracy has nailed all the critical check-offs for successful buying or selling. It's a game changer for our industry." —Mauricio Umansky, founder/CEO of The Agency#1 Bestseller in Moving & RelocationTop residential real estate agent Tracy McLaughlin reveals how buyers and sellers can get the best price possible—by understanding how the real estate market really works.Buying and selling houses. Because most people only enter the real estate market once a decade or less, few really know how it works. The housing market elicits a lot of emotions, from excitement to anxiety. Oftentimes, this blinds us to the realities of how the market actually works. Tracy McLaughlin is here to help. From those buying their first home to sellers with some experience, this book is packed with essential advice.A roadmap for buyers and sellers. In nearly all real estate sales, buyers and sellers leave behind thousands―or even hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars―on the table. As frightening as this reality is, it continually happens because one simple decision, among the countless made during the entire process, can greatly impact the outcome of the transaction.Bridging the gap between information and expertise. Buyers and sellers have greater access to information and even the ability to direct the sales process, but most people still lack a key aspect: expertise. By presenting an inside view on sales, McLaughlin provides a guide for optimizing the sale and purchase of homes.Inside find: Detailed guidelines for how to save money and make money Advice for finding the right real estate agent The real estate for dummies book every home buyer or seller needs If you’ve looked for guidance in books such as Dream Home, Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home, or Home Buying Kit For Dummies, then you’ll find more of what you’re looking for in Real Estate Rescue by Tracy McLaughlin.

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Book SynopsisSuccessful Real Estate Investing teaches valuable lessons for investors of all experience levels, helping them avoid mistakes and ultimately make more money. Real estate investing is always a topic of conversation, whether you’re at a cocktail party, a networking event, or even a family gathering. But every year, thousands of investors make devastating mistakes that cost them thousands or even millions of dollars. Through thirty-eight tales, property management and commercial brokerage expert Cliff Hockley tells the stories of dozens of real estate investors, their mistakes, and how they corrected them—if they were able. Their stories feature a myriad of investment types, from single-family homes to industrial parks, as well as a diverse profile of investors. In an engaging, storytelling style, Cliff shares what investors need to know to be successful with their real estate investments.

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Book SynopsisRiches in Real Estate fills in the missing pieces that leads to real estate agents finally realizing all the dreams they had for their careers when they set out. Many real estate agents begin their careers with excitement and passion. Then the struggle sets in: long hours, low pay, and programs that promise leads but don’t pay off. Jarett Shaffer, Hampton Road’s #1 life coach and business strategist, and Susan Shaffer, a real estate leader with thirty years of experience, bring real estate agents seven steps to lasting wealth, personal happiness, and freedom from fear and worry. In Riches in Real Estate, real estate agents find a systematic plan to get off the real estate hamster wheel, turn around an underperforming real estate business, and finally make real estate the gateway to the life of their dreams.

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Book SynopsisHomebuyer Rollercoaster gives readers the upper hand in gaining equity versus throwing their money away. Buying a home can be an emotional rollercoaster, especially when so many families are led to believe they cannot own a home. Homebuyer Rollercoaster helps readers navigate the ups and downs of buying a home while also helping them to save money and keep their sanity. Monica Benitez uses her real estate expertise to help homebuyers achieve their goal of owning a home, even if they have been told it’s not possible. Within Homebuyer Rollercoaster, readers learn how to: Select the right home for themselves and their family by learning to dominate the homebuying process Create their Homebuyer Blueprint, which will help them reach their desired outcome Budget with down payments and closing costs Monica Benitez offers a wonderful guide for readers to follow when trying to navigate the world of buying a home.

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Book SynopsisMARCIA BERGEN, a renowned industry expert, reveals her powerful career guidance strategy for female real estate agents. In this comprehensive resource, Marcia combines proven selling strategies, personal brand marketing techniques, and effective approaches to overcome challenging situations.With an established reputation as a leading authority in the field, Marcia?s unique training style has garnered recognition from realty offices across the country. Her expertise has attracted numerous real estate agencies who entrust their new female agents to her exceptional training programs.Dive into this empowering guide and discover Marcia?s winning strategies that will propel your business to new heights. Gain the confidence, knowledge, and tools to establish your personal brand, outshine the competition, and triumph in the competitive world of real estate.Unleash your potential, embrace your passion, and embark on a remarkable journey to become a successful real estate agent. The future of your thriving career starts here.

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