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Catching Knives: A Guide to Investing in Distressed Commercial Real Estate
Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even when the blood is your own.
—Baron Rothschild
Almost every decade, in every recession, you have the chance to change your life.
Big returns. Passive income. Financial freedom. Even investors with little experience in commercial real estate can learn how to seize the moment of a distressed market and create a life of freedom. In Catching Knives, twenty-year investment veteran Jake Harris helps you take the first steps to smart investing when distress makes commercial real estate a bargain buy. After becoming a millionaire before thirty, Jake found himself overextended, with massive debt, in the middle of a monumental recession. But he emerged stronger than before by building a new foundation for a different kind of portfolio—one that leveraged distressed market opportunities.
Packed with practical advice and personal anecdotes, this is your guidebook for embracing the next economic downturn and navigating the risk of distressed investing. With the right strategy, you can be one of the few who lean into hard times, make the most of them, and take advantage of once-in-a-generation opportunities.
—Baron Rothschild
Almost every decade, in every recession, you have the chance to change your life.
Big returns. Passive income. Financial freedom. Even investors with little experience in commercial real estate can learn how to seize the moment of a distressed market and create a life of freedom. In Catching Knives, twenty-year investment veteran Jake Harris helps you take the first steps to smart investing when distress makes commercial real estate a bargain buy. After becoming a millionaire before thirty, Jake found himself overextended, with massive debt, in the middle of a monumental recession. But he emerged stronger than before by building a new foundation for a different kind of portfolio—one that leveraged distressed market opportunities.
Packed with practical advice and personal anecdotes, this is your guidebook for embracing the next economic downturn and navigating the risk of distressed investing. With the right strategy, you can be one of the few who lean into hard times, make the most of them, and take advantage of once-in-a-generation opportunities.
210 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 6, 2021
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June 26, 2026
The Score: 5.5
The Skinny: A short, very basic rundown on buying distressed properties.
The Good: The book has a few good nuggets that will stick, and it's easy to understand and follow everything being discussed.
The Bad: The content is wafer thin depth wise, which was a huge bummer. None of the chapters go into depth on anything, it's just a series of quick bullet points. A true overview that I think doesn't make a lot of sense. There are plenty of other beginner real estate books but when you think to buy a book about big distress, you'd think it'd be more advanced but that is just not the case.
The Skinny: A short, very basic rundown on buying distressed properties.
The Good: The book has a few good nuggets that will stick, and it's easy to understand and follow everything being discussed.
The Bad: The content is wafer thin depth wise, which was a huge bummer. None of the chapters go into depth on anything, it's just a series of quick bullet points. A true overview that I think doesn't make a lot of sense. There are plenty of other beginner real estate books but when you think to buy a book about big distress, you'd think it'd be more advanced but that is just not the case.
April 6, 2021
Must Read !!
Highly recommended this book! It is an A-Z explanation of how to buy distressed Commerical assets in the marketplace! The overall experience of the author helps paint a clear picture of just how to do this.
Highly recommended this book! It is an A-Z explanation of how to buy distressed Commerical assets in the marketplace! The overall experience of the author helps paint a clear picture of just how to do this.
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