- ISBN13: 9780071603270
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Formulas that make the difference between making profits and losing equity The only way to win the real estate investing game is by mastering the numbers. This revised and updated edition of the popular reference shows how to target the best investments in the present market. It answers all your real estate questions, and provides new discussions of capital accumulation and internal rate of return. This book’s basic formulas will help you measure cri… More >>
What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow… And 36 Other Key Financial Measures
Popularity: 1% [?]
This book has a catchy title but that's the only good thing about it. As i was extremly disapointed with the writing and the auther… EXTREMLY BORING AND NO REAL ADVANTAGE TO INVESTERS
Rating: 1 / 5
If you have no background in finance, then you may find this book useful. There are really only a handful of formulas that you can use here and they're built right into Excel. The examples are basic.
Rating: 2 / 5
I selected this book based on the awesome reviews. It sounded like everything I needed to know about real estate investing, in a simplistic format. Within a few chapters, I found the book to be very condescending (i.e.; Basically….if you're too stupid to understand this calculation, real estate investing is not for you).
Since I am a beginner and not a math major, I did not expect to whizz right through all of the calculations. But I also did not expect a negative tone with no support that made me not want to read it further. So, I bought REAL ESTATE INVESTING FOR DUMMIES. I found it significantly more helpful. It does point out warnings and says that if you're not comfortable with possible negative cash flow, then maybe real estate investing is not right for you at this time. It also weighed the stability of real estate investing in comparison to stocks. I found the Dummies book much better suited to the beginner while detailing pros and cons, instead of being a pain to read.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is a MUST READ book if you are serious about getting into Real Estate Investment. Easy to understand, very basic.
Rating: 5 / 5
"What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cashflow" is a mostly mathematical book dedicated to all of the different ways to analyze real estate investment deals. The book also includes a web site that provides access to web based and Excel based formulas to calculate all of the different formulas discussed.
While the information in this book is very important to the investor, I found this book very hard to read. The book seems like it was written by a mathematician, loaded with facts and examples and with little regard to writing style or holding the readers attention.
The first part of the book seemed to be completely useless, as the material was presented again in the second part of the book. The second part of the book was by far the most useful, but again the writing was very dense and didn't hold my attention at all.
Thus if you are very interested in real estate mathematics, pick this book up. Otherwise you would be better off picking up another book. 2 out of 5 stars.
Rating: 2 / 5