Product Description

A real estate guide unlike any other, The Insider′s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks is the true story of a seemingly impossible investing challenge and the two investors who pulled it off––all to prove that you can do it too.

Successful real estate investors Dolf de Roos and Gene Burns wanted to show skeptical investors that there are always great deals to be found. So they set out to buy fifty–two homes in just one year. Not only did they succeed, they did it in less than ten months and earned a lot of money in the process! Tracing this ten–month real estate adventure in depth and detail, The Insider′s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks explains the authors′ strategies and techniques for acquiring almost any property in any market. Inside, you′ll find step–by–step guidance on:
∗ Finding the perfect market to invest in
∗ Designing your strategy and getting started
∗ Making your first deal
∗ Finding the help you need to succeed
∗ Changing strategies midstream
∗ Networking to find new leads and opportunities
∗ And much more


Combining unbeatable investing guidance with firsthand accounts of real deals, The Insider′s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks arms investors with a diverse mix of strategies and tactics that will turn every real estate deal into a moneymaker.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127116 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
To prove there are good real estate investments out there in any market, the authors challenged themselves to buy one home every week for an entire year. They used a variety of acquisition and financing techniques and present a mix of strategies all good investors should be ready to use. (Realtor Magazine, July 2006)

From the Back Cover

A real estate guide unlike any other, The Insider′s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks is the true story of a seemingly impossible investing challenge and the two investors who pulled it off—all to prove that you can do it too.

Successful real estate investors Dolf de Roos and Gene Burns wanted to show skeptical investors that there are always great deals to be found. So they set out to buy fifty–two homes in just one year. Not only did they succeed, they did it in less than ten months and earned a lot of money in the process! Tracing this ten–month real estate adventure in depth and detail, The Insider′s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks explains the authors′ strategies and techniques for acquiring almost any property in any market. Inside, you′ll find step–by–step guidance on:

• Finding the perfect market to invest in
• Designing your strategy and getting started
• Making your first deal
• Finding the help you need to succeed
• Changing strategies midstream
• Networking to find new leads and opportunities
• And much more

Combining unbeatable investing guidance with firsthand accounts of real deals, The Insider′s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks arms investors with a diverse mix of strategies and tactics that will turn every real estate deal into a moneymaker.

About the Author
DOLF de ROOS is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and successful real estate investor. de Roos holds public seminars across the nation and throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Europe. He also trains real estate agents and has created software to both analyze and manage investment property. He is often asked to address investors′ conferences, appear on radio shows, and take part in television debates because of his expertise.
In the late 1990s, de Roos launched a public company "Property Ventures Limited" of which he is the chairman. Property Ventures is now gaining momentum as an innovative property investment company with holdings ranging from high–rise apartment buildings to high–end vineyards.
He is the author of Real Estate Riches (Warner and Wiley) which has sold over 530,000 copies.

GENE BURNS is a full–time real estate investor who specializes in buying distressed homes in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has pioneered several techniques for helping distressed sellers.

Customer Reviews

Neither one thing or the other
It doesn't matter if you coming to this book to learn about Real Estate or just coming for a good read you are likely to leave disappointed.

If you come looking for tips on purchasing real estate to hold (and to a lesser extent to flip) these tips do exist, although they could be covered equally well in 5-10 pages. If you are coming to this to be entertained (as I did) you will get a couple of smiles out of it. If you are coming to be motivated as I know both Gene's and Dolf's work can do, I'm not sure you will be - I wasn't.

From the entertainment side it does pull out some stories of fun - rushing through traffic to force a tenant to sign and save $200K. The education side covers forms to use, ways to put a deal togeather while keeping your own costs down (most important is a motivated seller) and so on. The motivation is handled by keeping the pace of the story going, which each story to the point.

Its worth borrowing from a friend or your local library. I'm putting mine on ebay because I don't think its worth keeping.

Borders on interesting. Interesting Soundbites.
Some useful information in between the backslapping. More applicable to the USA than the UK.