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Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Successfully Securing Financing, Closing Your First Deal, and Building Wealth Through Real Estate
THE ULTIMATE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO REAL ESTATE INVESTING IN THE POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMY INCLUDES 8 HOURS OF FREE ONLINE REAL ESTATE COURSES FROM THE AUTHOR + MULTIPLE FREE REAL ESTATE INVESTING TOOLS #1 AMAZON BEST SELLER
Do you want to know to create passive income, build real long-term wealth, and achieve financial freedom all through real estate investing?
Have you attended real estate ‘seminars’ with so-called ‘gurus’ only to leave with a hole in your pocket and still unsure of how to get started in real estate investing?
If so, look no further than Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide , the most comprehensive, practical, beginner friendly Real Estate Investing book ever written.
Real estate investing, often considered the number one creator of lasting wealth in today’s economy can be started with significantly less money, less time, and less expertise than most people imagine . In Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide , author, best-selling course instructor, licensed real estate broker, and consultant Symon He lays out the simplest, most practical and most straightforward path for new investors eager to ink their first deals and start their journey to building a real estate empire.
With over 300,000 students in nearly 180 countries , Symon knows exactly what new investors need to get right, what they should avoid, and how they can protect themselves from risk while breaking into the real estate market on their own terms.
Symon’s clear and casual writing style make the sometimes complicated world of real estate investing infinitely more approachable and understandable.
Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide will show you that anyone can get started once they are armed with the knowledge contained in this book.
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Symon He, MBA is also the author of the bestselling book Rental Property Investing QuickStart Guide
QuickStart Guides are books for beginners, written by experts.
*LIFETIME ACCESS TO FREE REAL ESTATE INVESTING DIGITAL ASSETS*
Do you want to know to create passive income, build real long-term wealth, and achieve financial freedom all through real estate investing?
Have you attended real estate ‘seminars’ with so-called ‘gurus’ only to leave with a hole in your pocket and still unsure of how to get started in real estate investing?
If so, look no further than Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide , the most comprehensive, practical, beginner friendly Real Estate Investing book ever written.
Real estate investing, often considered the number one creator of lasting wealth in today’s economy can be started with significantly less money, less time, and less expertise than most people imagine . In Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide , author, best-selling course instructor, licensed real estate broker, and consultant Symon He lays out the simplest, most practical and most straightforward path for new investors eager to ink their first deals and start their journey to building a real estate empire.
With over 300,000 students in nearly 180 countries , Symon knows exactly what new investors need to get right, what they should avoid, and how they can protect themselves from risk while breaking into the real estate market on their own terms.
Symon’s clear and casual writing style make the sometimes complicated world of real estate investing infinitely more approachable and understandable.
Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide will show you that anyone can get started once they are armed with the knowledge contained in this book.
Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide Is Perfect For:
Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide Covers:
Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide Will Teach You:
Symon He, MBA is also the author of the bestselling book Rental Property Investing QuickStart Guide
QuickStart Guides are books for beginners, written by experts.
*LIFETIME ACCESS TO FREE REAL ESTATE INVESTING DIGITAL ASSETS*
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Published August 4, 2020
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About the author
Symon He
14 books7 followersSymon He is the co-author of Airbnb for Dummies from Wiley Publishing and the author of Real Estate Investing QuickStart Guide from ClydeBank Media.
Symon is a co-founder of LearnBNB.com, a leading online educational destination for all things Airbnb hosting and short-term rentals. His works have been cited or featured on the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Forbes, CNBC, Entrepreneur, and SKIFT. Through his training and coaching programs, he has worked directly with thousands of aspiring Airbnb hosts to jumpstart their short term rental journeys. His training programs have been featured by prominent third-party partners, including a previous joint venture with RichDad.com.
Symon is also a best-selling instructor of real estate and business courses, with over 300,000 students worldwide as of July 2020. You can find his popular courses on the top educational platforms including Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, CyberU, StackSkills, LearnFormula, Knowable, and Highbrow.
Previously, Symon worked in several corporate real estate and finance roles at large private and Fortune 80 companies, including at a private equity investment firm covering a wide range of commercial real estate acquisitions in the western USA. He has a California real estate broker’s license and writes regularly on his personal blog at symonhe.com.
He graduated with honors in both Computer Engineering and Economics from UC Irvine and received his MBA from Stanford University. He lives with his wife Hillary in Los Angeles, CA.
Symon is a co-founder of LearnBNB.com, a leading online educational destination for all things Airbnb hosting and short-term rentals. His works have been cited or featured on the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Forbes, CNBC, Entrepreneur, and SKIFT. Through his training and coaching programs, he has worked directly with thousands of aspiring Airbnb hosts to jumpstart their short term rental journeys. His training programs have been featured by prominent third-party partners, including a previous joint venture with RichDad.com.
Symon is also a best-selling instructor of real estate and business courses, with over 300,000 students worldwide as of July 2020. You can find his popular courses on the top educational platforms including Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, CyberU, StackSkills, LearnFormula, Knowable, and Highbrow.
Previously, Symon worked in several corporate real estate and finance roles at large private and Fortune 80 companies, including at a private equity investment firm covering a wide range of commercial real estate acquisitions in the western USA. He has a California real estate broker’s license and writes regularly on his personal blog at symonhe.com.
He graduated with honors in both Computer Engineering and Economics from UC Irvine and received his MBA from Stanford University. He lives with his wife Hillary in Los Angeles, CA.
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May 18, 2021
Good introduction to (the cult of) real estate. (Seriously though, it's still pretty amazing to me how investing in real estate can be profitable, but once you 'know' how to to set it up the numbers do seem to work out if you go about it the right way.) Author breaks things down for people interested in investing at all different levels.
I would have appreciated if the author had done a better job of presenting a few of the more technical points like the various metrics introduced. I think he was trying to explain everything with words but for some concepts, a clear formula with a quick example can work better.
Also, I read the kindle version and it might be better to get the physical version in order to take advantage of all of the tables and examples.
I would have appreciated if the author had done a better job of presenting a few of the more technical points like the various metrics introduced. I think he was trying to explain everything with words but for some concepts, a clear formula with a quick example can work better.
Also, I read the kindle version and it might be better to get the physical version in order to take advantage of all of the tables and examples.
August 27, 2021
Very simple and easy to follow. Perfect for anyone that wants to dabble in real estate but doesn't know where to start.
September 18, 2022
Really great overview of every real estate concept. The book isn't thorough in most topics but touches base on everything - great for beginners.
August 5, 2020
A must read book
This is exactly what I needed as I have zero real estate background.
Is very easy to read and understand!
This is exactly what I needed as I have zero real estate background.
Is very easy to read and understand!
January 28, 2022
Excellent. Very thorough. Great followup to Brandon re book.
April 11, 2022
This book was even more generic and less helpful than the last one I read on the subject. Don't waste your time.
May 9, 2023
It's fine, much better than the Bigger Pockets ones I previously reviewed. He should take into account inflation in his examples. Some quotes:
"In the United States alone, median housing prices have grown around 3.5 percent every year while equities have performed significantly better.
He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land. – Hebrew Proverb
Goals are dreams with deadlines. – Diana Scharf-Hunt
Real estate investors have three advantages at their disposal: accessible leverage, rental income, and control over the investment.
Large enclosed shopping centers, also known as shopping malls, make their retail properties more attractive by, among other things, “anchoring” them with a well-known department store, such as Nordstrom or Target.
In 2014, eighty-two cents of every dollar of profit earned by McDonald’s came from rent paid by the franchisees
The average investor looking at flipping a home will see an average of seventy-five to one hundred houses before making a decision to purchase.
In 2018, the state vacancy rate for Alabama was 13.1 percent, a very high number. In California in that same year, the vacancy rate was just 4.5 percent.
In the United States, the data shows that May, June, July, and August typically have the highest volume of home sales.
The rule of thumb is that for every one hundred tenants, you need two employees: one to handle all the leasing and management of the property and another to handle the maintenance and repairs on-site.
Always have something to look forward to. – David Beckham
Pizza Hut reports that just 10 percent of their sales come from dine-in customers."
"In the United States alone, median housing prices have grown around 3.5 percent every year while equities have performed significantly better.
He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land. – Hebrew Proverb
Goals are dreams with deadlines. – Diana Scharf-Hunt
Real estate investors have three advantages at their disposal: accessible leverage, rental income, and control over the investment.
Large enclosed shopping centers, also known as shopping malls, make their retail properties more attractive by, among other things, “anchoring” them with a well-known department store, such as Nordstrom or Target.
In 2014, eighty-two cents of every dollar of profit earned by McDonald’s came from rent paid by the franchisees
The average investor looking at flipping a home will see an average of seventy-five to one hundred houses before making a decision to purchase.
In 2018, the state vacancy rate for Alabama was 13.1 percent, a very high number. In California in that same year, the vacancy rate was just 4.5 percent.
In the United States, the data shows that May, June, July, and August typically have the highest volume of home sales.
The rule of thumb is that for every one hundred tenants, you need two employees: one to handle all the leasing and management of the property and another to handle the maintenance and repairs on-site.
Always have something to look forward to. – David Beckham
Pizza Hut reports that just 10 percent of their sales come from dine-in customers."
December 22, 2024
Great Introduction
This was a great introduction to the world of real estate investing. The methods provided were easy to comprehend. Overall great book for beginners!
This was a great introduction to the world of real estate investing. The methods provided were easy to comprehend. Overall great book for beginners!
April 16, 2022
This is one of the QuickStart guides about real estate investing. It covers the whole plethora of what you need to do from the time you think about investing to managing. It talks about the different types of real estate investments, how to do market analyses, where to find properties, how to build a team, finance investments ongoing management, land lording issues, 1031 exchanges and selling property, as well as commercial and larger residential real estate including crowdfunding opportunities.
This was a great book and, in my opinion, better than the Rental Property Investing QuickStart Guide. It covered a lot of stuff in a short book but did a much better job of explaining things in depth in specific areas. It gives a great overview and lots of information to someone still starting out and to those who have been investing. Many things I wish I had known a long time earlier. He explains yield, IRR and other analytic methods which he didn’t in the other book. The author has, also, given some spreadsheets and online tools one can use and great list of resources at the end of the book. Like his other book, this book lacked in telling you how to do some of the stuff. For example, he talks about building a team – how do you do that? How do you manage properties in different markets and build teams where you are not even present? Some of this stuff is easier said than done. His examples were also very helpful and there is a lot of information for real estate investors, much of which I wish I had known 20 years ago. Overall, this is a fabulous book, and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in newly investing in real estate or in expanding their portfolio.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This was a great book and, in my opinion, better than the Rental Property Investing QuickStart Guide. It covered a lot of stuff in a short book but did a much better job of explaining things in depth in specific areas. It gives a great overview and lots of information to someone still starting out and to those who have been investing. Many things I wish I had known a long time earlier. He explains yield, IRR and other analytic methods which he didn’t in the other book. The author has, also, given some spreadsheets and online tools one can use and great list of resources at the end of the book. Like his other book, this book lacked in telling you how to do some of the stuff. For example, he talks about building a team – how do you do that? How do you manage properties in different markets and build teams where you are not even present? Some of this stuff is easier said than done. His examples were also very helpful and there is a lot of information for real estate investors, much of which I wish I had known 20 years ago. Overall, this is a fabulous book, and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in newly investing in real estate or in expanding their portfolio.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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