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How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Getting Started

by Joshua Dorkin · 2018

It's time to stop just thinking, talking, or dreaming about the future real estate investing can give you. It's time to start doing… And this book will show you exactly where to start. Everyone knows real estate… more

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As you build your real estate empire, don’t get lost in greed and ambition. Whether through your money, your time, your knowledge, or something else: give back.
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Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? While many investors have ‘sprinted’ toward their investment goals, success is most often found by consistent action, not big action.
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Today I get 100 times more done with 100 times less effort. What’s my secret? I learned to stop being a cadet and start being a general.
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Real estate investing can make you wealthy, and it can make you wealthy faster than any other investment out there, if you are willing to work toward it. And that’s the key: work.
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Real estate is attractive because it leads people closer to financial independence—the ability to live life on one’s own terms, rather than simply earning enough to pay bills and survive.
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Financial responsibility is a mindset before it is an action. Therefore, if you can change a mindset, the actions follow almost naturally.
Before throwing money at someone else to make you successful, understand that success comes from within first.

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It's time to stop just thinking, talking, or dreaming about the future real estate investing can give you. It's time to start doing… And this book will show you exactly where to start.

Everyone knows real estate investing can be a powerful way to build wealth and achieve true financial freedom. But, because each person’s journey is different, knowing the first steps to take can be challenging.

That’s why two of the biggest names in the real estate world teamed up to write the most comprehensive manual ever written on getting started in the lucrative business of real estate investing. Josh Dorkin and Brandon Turner—longtime hosts of the world’s #1 real estate podcast, The BiggerPockets Podcast—give you an insider’s look at the many different niches and strategies that exist. Find which one works best for you, your resources, and your goals.

Unlike most traditional real estate bo

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First published
2018
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4.23 (2k ratings)

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