If you're considering expanding your real estate business and looking ...
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If you're considering expanding your real estate business and looking into farming as an option, this book is for you. The book explains step-by-step what you need to do to brand yourself as an expert in a neighborhood/area to grow your business and market share.
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If you want to read the essence of how to start up a real estate photography business, this is just your ticket.  I had a friend (real estate agent) ask me to do a shoot for a new listing he had.  He mentioned that it was taking about two weeks to get his regular photographer to do the job and that was slowing down his closings.  I have been a nature photographer for many years, but had never considered real estate before.

I started searching for information about this subject and discovered Tim Denbos little book about starting a business shooting real estate.  It is not a long book (read it in one afternoon) and thats one thing I really like about it.  It was right to the point and filled with just the sort of info I wanted to help me decide if this was a venture I should attempt.  I came away with a positive view of the business and learned much about what I needed to do to get started, especially about virtual tours, a huge part of whats going on at the sales end of real estate marketing these days.  I liked the book.  Some might find it a little lean, but whats in it is the important stuff without the fluff.
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Robert's book is my first reading in real estate investment, and this being the subject of land investment.  I have to say, it is well presented, concise, and filled with some practical suggestions and tips.  I look forward to executing  some of the ideas presented.  I fully recognize the leveraging power of options  and to me, this is the way to go.  He gives some compelling reasons why land investment are much more lucrative than the typical improved real property.  A bit of useful financial information is also presented
Besides the book, you're also getting access to the author who can be reached by email  and responses typically come back within half a day.  You can't beat that!!  Now that's leveraging!!
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This is a great paper and it has found it's little niche in the San Diego & North County community.  It's so helpful for anyone in the Real Estate, Law or Construction field.  It's also wonderful for your smaller businesses.  It offers business data for companies wanting to generate and gain new leads and keep with the current trends within their industry.

If you are looking for news outside of Southern California then grab your local paper for those stories.  If you live in any part of San Diego and are looking to generate more business then grab this paper you will not regret it.  I am in the Real Estate Industry and I have been successful at using this paper for what it supposed to be used for...building my cliental.  Thank you!
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  It is packed with information regarding growing a real estate business.
The strategies are realistic and very do-able for anyone who applies them.
The end stories about investors who started out small and became millionaires was also a good read. I could
relate to many of them with my own personal experiences buying real estate.

Perhaps the largest take away I got from this book was that an investor has to have a large business model
from the beginning in order to have large success. For example, if a take home wage is 50k and you want to
build a net worth of 5k in one year, you can have 10% taken out of your check and invested via a 401k.
However, if a take home wage is 50k and you want to build a 50k net worth in the same time frame, you need
a much larger business model.

Real estate millionares have large business models.

I have been in the trenches here in Michigan (land of the jobless great recession/depression) and I must
say that there are some unbelievable real estate deals to be had.  I intend on using the strategies from
this book to continue building my real estate business.

5 stars !!
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This book is a good survey of the different types of real estate investment options out there.  Unlike other books, it also does a good job of discussing the pitfalls and downsides of investing.  This book is good for both beginner and intermediate investors.  I consider myself an intermediate investor - I currently own 4 single family rental homes, which I purchased before buying the book.  This book helped expand my horizons - I now know more about other types of investments, including creative options that do not require large up-front investments.  I will certainly use knowledge from this book to take my investing to the next level.
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Making it in Real Estate is a must read for anyone starting out in the business.  I'd especially recommend the book for those with an entrepreneurial drive and passion; those who aren't afraid of hard work and are not looking for the next get rich quick scheme.  My favorite part of the book is John's ability to toggle between intellectual real estate sage and good old fashioned California dude seamlessly - not many books begin one chapter with a Tolstoy analogy only to turn around and talk about Bromance in the next...epic.  Overall, it's a fun, quick, incredibly insightful book that is well worth a read and will undoubtedly help you on your journey.  Invest in yourself, heed the words of a wise man, and read the book - you won't regret it.
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The other reviewers have already told you what the book says... I would like to tell you what the book can do. Knowing how your business is organized... from who your customers are, to what process you use to deliver your value proposition, to how that creates your revenue streams... all good stuff, and useful. But, you either grow your business or go out of business. There is no standing still. That S.O.B. down the street wants your customers. You need to find new ways to keep them. This book gives you a pattern to not only identify your current business model, but by using the same tools, to also figure out ways to build tomorrow's version of your business.

In fact I would venture to say that there is more information in the book on planning the future than there is on defining your current business model. (If you are just getting started figuring out your business model - this book will help you too; but I suspect that most readers will already be in business - I doubt most rookies would use the phrase 'business model generation' and therefore will come across this book further down their entrepreneurial path.)

And my highest compliment of all is that this is the first business book that I have encountered that is friendly to visual thinkers. Although its an illustrated business book, it feels more like an annotated illustration to me. As most of my staff are designers and artists by education, this method of presenting the information was particularly useful to us.
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McNellis has a good sense of humor, a good deal of common sense, and surely a good sense of the basic principles to make it in real estate and why not - in business. I'd dare say this book is more of a check-list of "must-haves" for aspiring real estate developers, personally and in the cut-throat world of development, than a "how-to" guide. It would probably also be fair to say that if someone is picking up this book without a hint of the real estate world, he/she may be easily lost or discouraged. A lot of the concepts, examples, slang, as well as the author's take on many facets of the business are best seen through a lens that has been exposed to real estate, in my case, through land services and both commercial and residential sales. I will probably read this book once, twice, maybe three times before I jump into my first real estate development, which in my case is maybe two years away. It is a quick, rather fun read and I'm sure repetition will help engrain those very basic, yet very important concepts onto my head. Last but not least, the cover photo could be changed to something more aligned with the book contents. Still love the skyscrapers though!!
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YOU ARE ONLY GOOD AS THE TOOLS YOU HAVE!. If I had this TOOL, "How to succeed in Commercial Real Estate", when I first stated, I would not have faced all the bumps and brambles in this business. Stay the course, as noted in the book, and you will definitly succeed in this Business. A True Five Star!
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I think that considering the elements of an investment or property that will give you joy, and being motivated by the desire do something good for your community or the people around you is as important as anything when analyzing a real estate investment and I really appreciated affirmation of that. I already have investment properties; I was looking for a way to live on that passive income and spend less time making money at my job. I'm a realtor with property management as part of my office, LOL, and I thought her advice was all really good. I also think I'm closer to being to able to retire on passive income than I realized. The startup advice was very practical and useful I thought too. I couldn't agree more with her assessment of more traditional retirement plans.
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Interesting take, comparing real estate dealings to military strategy in some detail.  Experienced investor gives you a framework for judging your own goals, personal style and risk tolerance (agile jet fighter? stealthy sub?) and then has checklists and battle plan ideas for your investment warrior type. Good read now if you're looking for a fresh planning approach for getting income from real estate, and good reference for later when you want to double-check a purchase decision.
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I am a commercial real estate broker who just entered his 4th year in the business in Philadelphia. They teach you how to sell real estate at the firm, but what they don't teach you is how to sell potential tenants, buyers and investors. This book gave me an arsenal of questions, phrases and nuggets to use during my cold calls, meetings, and above all else, getting past the gate keeper. Would you go to a gun fight with just a knife? Read this book, be prepared to ask the right questions at the right time. You can thank me for the recommendation and the author for writing this great sales tool.
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A great read for starting your real estate business (or any business) and provides the tools and techniques to grow it to a million dollar business. It is a little lacking on how to start with very little or no capital. But that can be done with a little ingenuity.
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For the Amazon seller who is looking to diversify their offerings and/or needs new sources of inventory, this resource will be extremely helpful.  While some people live in places with plenty of stores to source, others do not.  Some people just don't like shopping in stores.  Either way, this guide can help you grow your business.  I have so many stores that I don't use it much, but the information and examples in it are easy to understand and thorough.
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Real estate is a networking business and the success depends on how well you master communications within your networks. This book gives a lot of very practical advice that when coupled together into a succinct plan, you can't help but raise the level of your game and improve your business. However, success requires work and YOU have to do the work, no one will do it for you.
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This book is amazing!.  If you are a realtor and want to take your business to the next level.  GET IT NOW!  All the secrets from the big names in real estate in one source.  Thanks for sharing this information.  It's long overdue. It's an easy read too.....short and sweet.
Janice Young