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: #252840 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)

Synopsis
This book is a guide to buying multiple properties in any market. To counter suggestions that great deals are the exception and not the rule, Dolf and Gene challenged themselves to buy one home every week for an entire year. Not only did they succeed, they did it in less than 10 months and did it profitably. What was the point? Simply that there are always good real estate investments out there. Even in today's overheated market. "52 Homes in 52 Weeks" proves it. Using a variety of acquisition and financing techniques documented in the book, every step of the way de Roos and Burns present a mix of strategies, every good investor should be ready to utilize. Experienced investors will discover new techniques, and novices will be armed with strategies to acquire almost any property in any market. Plus, first-hand accounts of real deals offer great example material. Combining unbeatable real estate insight with the unique format of a challenge to be met, "52 Homes in 52 Weeks" shows investors how they can use multiple strategies, in virtually any market to achieve the same goal making money on every deal.

Published and promoted in alliance with the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the largest Realtor association in the world, this handy guide promises to be a hit with realtors and investors at every level of experience. Dolf de Roos, PhD. (Phoenix, AZ) is the Chairman of Property Ventures Limited, a successful real estate investor, a popular speaker and seminar leader, and a bestselling author. His other books include "Real Estate Riches", "The Insider's Guide to Real Estate Investing Loopholes", and "The Insider's Guide to Making Money in Real Estate", all from Wiley. Gene Burns (Las Vegas, NV) spent 20 years in high-tech magazine publishing, but went into real estate after the dot.com crash. Within his first 6 months he had completed 12 deals, and has never looked back.

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.

Customer Reviews

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

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.