Harvard Can't Teach What You Learn from the Streets: The Street Success Guide to Building Wealth through Multi-Family Real Estate

by Sam Liebman

There are many paths to becoming successful in real estate. But flipping houses, holding a license or owning a home is only the beginning of what could be a long and transformative journey to building lasting wealth through real estate.

Your new instructor is about to arrive, but he won't be sitting you down in a classroom—instead, the opposite. Real estate investment icon Sam Liebman will whisk you straight from your seats down to the streets.

Harvard Can't Teach What You Learn from the Streets is no ordinary real estate investment guide. It's Sam Liebman's "no holds barred" deep dive into the fine art of becoming a real estate mogul yourself.

Liebman experienced a rise to notoriety as a real estate investor after taking 4 vacant stores in Manhattan and building a new 21-story luxury condominium project with a sellout in excess of 100M. He has a penchant for taking property from rubble to ritz, and breaks down exactly how even a beginner investor can replicate the process.

A classroom environment can only teach you so much. But raw experience can take even the greenest investor and forge them into a seasoned pro. Through transparent access to Liebman's expertise, you'll be on the fast track to commercial real estate success.

Sam Liebman will teach you…

To master the core fundamentals of real estate systematically, one step at a time.The financial categories and components of a properties revenue and operating expenses.The tricks of the trade, the knowledge the pro’s use, and what goes on in the back room.How to uncover the “Inside Story” of a property allowing you to find opportunities overlooked by othersAnd much, much more!!!Harvard Can't Teach What you Learn from the Streets paves the way for new investors to transform their lives through the power of commercial real estate.

And by standing on the shoulders of giants such as Sam Liebman, you'll be able to reach far beyond where you've ever thought possible.

Kindle Edition

Published January 11, 2022

Reviews

[Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Real estate expert Sam Liebman’s new book is titled Harvard Can’t Teach You What You Learn From the Streets, subtitled The Street Success Guide to Building Wealth Through Multi-Family Real Estate. As its descriptive christenings would suggest, Liebman is advocating for an educated, yet raw and on-the-ground approach to mastering the real estate market and rising through the ranks of that world to your dream position. Part of what makes Liebman’s Harvard Can’t Teach You an unusually effective title in its genre of choice is the fact he intellectually and literarily approaches his arguments from an educated, fact-based background. However this is simultaneous to retaining a decidedly scrappier, unapologetically blue-collar tenacity. He’s not interested in being verbose or dressing the concepts in flowery language. In all honesty, as far as Liebman is concerned, success in his chosen field is contingent on building a keen sense of observational knowledge, a sense of being able to follow one’s gut rationally and calculatedly. “Street knowledge is the kind the successful pros use. The so-called tricks of the trade. Street knowledge is more than common sense, and it can only be learned from personal experience. Develop your street smarts by learning to think outside the box. Be a sponge and absorb knowledge from as many sources as you can,” Liebman writes in this vein.

He continues, “…When you are working for someone else, you are learning at their expense, not yours. The employer is paying for your downtime, your continuing education, and most importantly, any mistakes you make. You may get fired, but the employer stands to lose a lot more. They could lose a large account or business contact, have to give concessions to the client for your errors, or have to defend against a lawsuit. When you’re in your own business, you are learning at your own expense, or if you have investors, at their expense as well. If anything goes wrong, it’s you and the investors who have to foot the bill.” It’s through this balance of the educated with the hustle that Liebman makes navigating a potentially treacherous terrain feel doable for just about anyone. He doesn’t insult the reader’s intelligence, the book never comes across as Real Estate for Dummies. But its plainspoken manner and irreverence, through which it conveys beneficial information for its targeted audience, results in Liebman seeming genuine, informed, and authentic. You feel like he’s throwing his arm around his shoulder, guiding you through the steps and showing you frankly - with a bit of education, and a good amount of day-to-day gained expertise - you can achieve your dreams and ambitions in a field that is as sprawling as it is individualistically amorphous. “The lessons of the street are a specialized curriculum of their own. Only a few insiders with many years of exposure and experience learn under this school’s tutelage. The graduate’s education has been learned through many painful and expensive real-life experiences. In order to become successful, you have to be beaten up and spend time in the trenches. This is how you learn what really goes on,” he writes.

[Anne Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

A delightful, unflinching dip into the truth's of real life. Funny, hard-assed and charming. Not a real estate investor (tho If I had the millions of Benjamin’s to sign on with Sir Sam I certainly would). But Liebman is offering up lessons for surviving and thriving in this iteration of our make-the-most-of-it, take-what-you-can culture. Many thanks.