“Six Strategies for Investing in Real Estate” Published
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The idea for this book started when my wife got her real estate license. It is hard getting new customers when you are unknown agent just starting your career. My idea was to write a book about real estate investing, with she and I on the cover, and use the book to give talks where we could meet people wanting to buy or sell houses. Not a bad idea, but what did I know about investing in real estate? I had no credentials. So I went to school. I took six classes from Champions School of Real Estate, and got certificates for passing each class. I was now qualified to take the TREC test. If I passed I could get my own license. I did not take the test, but I did write the book. My idea was to describe and analyze different investment strategies, interspersed with my own experiences buying and selling houses. I would also do detailed spreadsheet analysis of each type of investment, and numerically compare results, attempting to show which are the better investment strategies.
I actually first wrote this as a screenplay. The Bay of Pigs fiasco was a subject that had long interested me, and I thought it would make a good movie.