Product Description

This book aims to give the reader, an in-depth knowledge of the different methods, techniques, and ways to participate in real estate investing. The following are some of the topics covered:

- Your home
- Subletting
- Rentals
- Residential and Commercial real estate
- Multi-family
- Real estate development
- Off-plan
- WRAPs
- Quick sale or flipping
- Foreclosures
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- Real estate mutual funds
- Real estate limited partnerships.
- High yield private mortgage notes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1479770 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Publisher
A thorough coverage of types of real estate investment. The author has an in-depth grasp of the various ways real estate can be profited from.

About the Author
An entrepreneur at heart, Samuel Blankson blends art, creativity, passion, business acumen, and financial expertise with careful planning and execution in the achievement of measurable results. He is an avid reader, writer, researcher, and securities trader.

He is an advocate of self-empowerment and an individual’s ability to control their destiny through the achievement of personal freedom from economic, financial, spiritual, social, mental, and interrelationship restrictions. Samuel is constantly working to push the boundaries of personal achievements to their limits, recognising that these limits are only self-imposed.

Samuel has authored over twenty books (How to Destroy Your Debts, Living the Ultimate Truth, Developing Personal Integrity, The Practical Guide to Total Financial Freedom volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and Attitude are some of these works). He has written over 100 songs, sixty of which are featured in Sixty Original Song Lyrics. He writes poetry! , creates artwork, and works daily to express his creativity in many ways.

Having successfully run several businesses, Samuel diversified into securities trading over a decade ago, with great success. After learning from the masters of the time, Samuel progressed to develop his own methods and systems for successful trading. Today, he trades many financial instruments and has developed ways of successfully generating profits from his many investments.

A firm believer in knowledge sharing, Samuel travels the globe, teaching and sharing his personal knowledge with groups of friends, associates, and anyone who seeks to improve their life. This is the spirit of Samuel Blankson, a God centred philanthropist, over comer, and high achiever.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Many people enter the investment world through the wide door of real estate investing. They may commit substantial amounts into a single real estate project, with no diversification, let alone asset allocation plan. Is this the best choice for an investor just starting out? There are often many ways to invest in an asset class. This is no different for real estate investing.

The door leading to real estate investing is very wide, but many people are only aware of the letterbox. If you asked the average person how many ways they could invest into real estate, the vast majority of answers would be "two ways; buying a home, or buying real estate to let." If you thought this as well, you would be quite mistaken. Those two popular and conventional methods are just a small part of a long list we will cover. The following is a list of what we will cover in this book:

• Subletting rental real estate - making money with an asset that you do not own.
• Renting real estate to do business from - an asset that is tax deductible.
• Buying commercial real estate to let - an asset that earns you a taxable income.
• Buying commercial real estate to do business from - an asset that earns you a taxable income.
• Buying a home to live in - an asset that appreciates.
• Buying residential real estate to let - an asset that earns you a taxable income.
• Investing in multi-family real estate - an asset with built in diversification.
• Developing real estate - maximising the returns from your real estate asset.
• Using off-plan - buying real estate before it has been constructed.
• Real estate deal using WRAPs - buying your real estate assets using instalments.
• Quick sale or flipping real estate - the quick turnaround of real estate deals.
• Buying and selling foreclosed real estate - getting your real estate asset at a bargain price.
• Investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - taking your real estate investing to the stock markets.
• Investing in real estate mutual funds - using mutual funds to own real estate and real estate companies.
• Investing in real estate limited partnerships.
• Investing in high yield private mortgage notes.
• Invest in education to become a real estate professional.

Before you set out to invest or trade in any of the real estate instruments and securities covered in this book, make sure you have a solid securities base protecting you from the possible negative downsides that could occur when a trade goes wrong. To this effect, I advise you consult Asset Allocation. This will help you correctly set up your asset allocation in order to protect you from financial losses. Without a proper asset allocation in place, I do not advise you even attempt to invest into real estate.