Product Description

Thinking about becoming a commercial real estate investor? Commercial Real Estate Investing For Dummies covers the entire process, offering practical advice on negotiation and closing win-win deals and maximizing profit. From office buildings to shopping centers to apartment buildings, it helps you pick the right properties at the right time for the right price.

Yes, there is a fun and easy way to break into commercial real estate, and this is it. This comprehensive handbook has it all. You’ll learn how to find great properties, size up sellers, finance your investments, protect your assets, and increase your property’s value. You’ll discover the upsides and downsides of the various types of investments, learn the five biggest myths of commercial real estate investment, find out how to recession-proof your investment portfolio, and more. Discover how to:

• Get leads on commercial property investments
• Determine what a property is worth
• Find the right financing for you
• Handle inspections and fix problems
• Make big money in land development
• Manage your properties or hire a pro
• Exploit the tax advantages of commercial real estate
• Find out what offer a seller really-really wants
• Perform due diligence before you make a deal
• Raise capital by forming partnerships

Investing in commercial property can make you rich in any economy. Get Commercial Real Estate For Dummies, and find out how.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25581 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470174913
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Spot the best times to buy, hold, or sell

The fun and easy way to break into the business of commercial real estate

Thinking about becoming a commercial real estate investor? This friendly guide covers the entire process, offering practical advice on negotiating and closing win-win deals and maximizing profit. From office buildings to shopping centers to apartment buildings, you'll see how to find great properties, size up sellers, finance your investments, protect your assets, and increase your property's value.

Discover how to:

• Determine a property's worth

• Find the right financing for you

• Handle inspections and fix problems

• Make big money in land development

• Manage your properties or hire a pro

About the Author
Peter Conti and Peter Harris are known as the World’s #1 Greatest Commercial Real Estate Mentors. They partnered years ago by combining their existing Mentoring practices. They have both started from modest beginnings, Peter Conti was an auto mechanic, and Peter Harris was an introverted engineer. The portfolio of properties they have purchased nationwide with their Commercial Mentoring Program students continues to grow at an accelerated rate.
Peter Conti is the CEO of MentorFinancialGroup.com and lives on the Chesapeake Bay with his wife and kids in Annapolis, Maryland.
Peter Harris has purchased and put together commercial and residential real estate deals across the country for years. He has taught, mentored, and instructed many of the most successful investors across the nation. Harris and Donald Trump are coauthors of Three Master Secrets of Real Estate Success. He also sits on the board of advisors on several private and national real estate investment and development companies.
Many years ago, Peter Harris received the gift of a great mentor in his career and in his every day life, who guided and encouraged him to always get out of his comfort zone and play a bigger game. Mentoring one-on-one or to hundreds at a time around the nation is Peter’s way of giving back and imparting the message of hope and faith in the dynamic and rewarding world of real estate. Even though Peter’s first career was a physicist, holding several U.S. patents on outer space simulation, the school of hard knocks was where he got his real education in the business world.

Customer Reviews

A great reference for the beginner or seasoned investor
This book is structured to help you find, research, negotiate, finance and buy real estate of any type. In the market today, you don't want to risk not having the right information, which can be costly and drastically reduce your profit. This book is clearly laid out and includes tips from years of experience with commercial real estate and their mentorship students.

Face it, we're in this business to be profitable and reading this book will give you the insight and information to let you step ahead of other investors by providing you with a solid core education. The book begins with a good introduction and then explains how to find and contract properties that are profitable from the start with a clear exit strategy. From there, it's in depth due diligence to insure that property is still profitable and even explains how to discover hidden value during this process. The authors then take you through financing and raising capital to the day to day operations (which is where most properties fail). The final chapters discuss creating a self-sustaining investing business that not only allows you to have the wealth and protect it, but the time and freedom to enjoy it.

Overall, this book is a great reference and stepping stone to take action and start investing today or to fine tune your existing investing business and discover more wealth in your portfolio! No book is going to be a 100% bible because real-world experience is the key to learning, but this is the catalyst to get you going.

Another High-Priced Sales Pitch
I thought this book was well written. Certainly better than most of the real estate investing books out there.

However, . . . they mention their website a few times in the book and claim to have additional materials and information available on the website that wouldn't fit in the book. When you go the website, you must put in your contact information to access these additional materials. Fair enough.

Later, you will be contacted by a "mentor," offering you the chance to join their coaching program for the bargain basement price of $9800! That's right! $9800.

Plus, as a special promotion, they will only take 50% of the first $100,000 you make in your real estate investing career. (Not sure what they do if you don't make any money.)

I was really disppointed. I thought I had finally come across a well-written book that wasn't just a come-on to get you to join a ridiculously expensive "training progran." I was wrong.

Oh, one more thing. The authors let you know that they are good Christians who give thanks to the Lord. I guess they are extremely thankful that a sucker is born every minute.

Beware of "shill" reviews on this one
I noted that most of the positive reviews occured in a 5 or so day period around the 1st of March -- all are *too* well written to be considered from the 'common' reader. And, each of the reviews only says positive things, where most people would find positive aspects of what was written, and at least one negative aspect. Be aware.