by David J. Decker, George G. Sheldon
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After five years of skyrocketing real estate prices, fueled by low interest rates, aggressive lenders, and relative economic prosperity, something has to give. Thanks to nonstop recent press coverage of America's overheated housing market, you are probably wary of buying your next property at the top of the market. So what should you do?
Whether you're an individual investor or a homeowner, Cash In on the Coming Real Estate Crash shows you how to gauge the risk of a housing bust in your own local market. More importantly, it shows you how to hedge against a crash and position yourself to profit if the bubble bursts. Critical advice covers:
* Identifying signs of an impending collapse
* Balancing your real estate portfolio so a crash doesn't wipe you out
* Conservative financing strategies
* Developing a vision for value in any market
* Buying low after the bubble bursts
* Knowing when to sell
* And many more strategies for making money when the real estate market collapses
Peppered with true stories of how homeowners, small investors, and bona? fide real estate tycoons handled and mishandled past crashes, Cash In on the Coming Real Estate Crash is the resource you need to prepare for the comingdownturn, weather the storm, and emerge on the other side stronger than ever.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Understanding how a market crashes, 2008-01-26
This book covers the fundamentals of real estate such as employment, housing affordability, inflation, interest rates and liquidity and how those fundamentals affect a market, as well as what happens when they are all on fire as we've seen over the past few years.
It's a fairly straight forward book, not too technical and not too basic either. I agree that several of the charts are filler and not really significant, but it does give an overview and shows that research is a key part of investing.
Overall, it's a good book for those wanting to better understand market factors and how those factors affect national and local markets.
The authors have some great real life experience investing and they are right on with most of their advice.
Of all the real estate books out there, I would say this one is worth reading from the beginner to the intermediate investor to gain more knowledge about market factors and what happens when they are weighted too far to one side.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 This book rocks!, 2007-02-20
If you are a newbie to real estate investing then you need this book! This book is totally mistitled. it should be titled, everything you need to know to get started investing in real estate. This book covers it all from where and how to locate properties, how to perform due diligence, where to get your funding and how to tell if you are getting a good deal.
After I read this book and started looking for properties, this book saved me from a bad deal with a seminar junkie. I started asking questions of the seller and the deal quickly fell apart as it was obvious the seller was hiding several facts about the property.
If you plan to buy residential and/or small commercial buildings then read this book first. It is an easy read and laid out logically. The author walks you through ample situations and includes lots of real life examples. This book is worth every penny.
Leave the seminar junkies where they sit and find out how to really invest in real estate and start building your emptre today.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent book, 2007-01-04
Impressive book with lots of useful information even after reading a couple dozen real estate investment books. Additionally, I e-mailed the author several times with various questions and he promptly responded with pertinent information.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 Weak on content., 2006-07-26
I recently purchased this book and managed to read it in a very short time. I found the material to be rather weak. It was mostly a collection of the author's casual opinion packed with tons of statistics. Unfortunately, it appears the stats were added to fill pages rather than used for any in-depth analysis. This was more reminiscent of a quickly written term paper rather than a detailed discussion on the future of the real estate market.
The author could have more simply summed up the book in the following statement: Buy Real Estate on fundamentals (i.e. below market/cash flowing) and hold for the long term to ensure success. Honestly, I didn't really gain any additional insight.
So, save your money, you would be better off regularly reading the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, or perhaps a more scientific real estate journal (there is one produced bi-yearly from the Wharton School at UPENN that is fantastic) for some concise, but worthy information on real estate. By the way, these periodicals are fairly easy reads and you wouldn't feel overwhelmed by the info provided.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A must have for anyone going into--or already in--real estate!!!, 2006-07-24
This book completely opened my eyes to the real estate market. It is such a well written, well thought-out, thorough book. It was the best $16.95 I've ever spent. DO NOT BUY A THING IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET UNTIL YOU'VE READ THIS BOOK! By reading this book you will basically be able to stand on the shoulders of guy who has many years--decades--of experience in the real estate market. The information in it is priceless.
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