Essential skills, tips, and strategies to build a successful rental property portfolio from the ground up!

Unlock the secrets to passive income with Building Wealth through Rental Properties. This indispensable handbook empowers absolute beginners to navigate the world of real estate investing with confidence. Packed with practical advice and actionable strategies, the author provides all the knowledge necessary to establish and expand your rental property empire.

Inside, you will find:

• Key steps from start to finish when purchasing a rental property.
• Strategies for making wealth through rental properties.
• How to identify lucrative rental properties.
• Optimal financing methods for investing in rental properties.
• Tips for effective property management.
• Proven methods for expanding a rental property portfolio.
• Real-life case studies to inform, inspire, and bolster confidence.
• A comprehensive and simplified glossary of essential terms in real estate.
• And so much more!

The real estate industry desperately needs new tools and ideas to stay relevant to the modern consumer. The modern consumer is more educated and has more choices than ever before. Counterintuitively, this has led to more confusion, doubt, and frustration in their real estate journey.

Therein the opportunity lies.

In Exactly What To Say for Real Estate Agents, Phil M. Jones, Chris Smith, and Jimmy Mackin provide 30 Magic Words to help with the most common, critical, and difficult conversations real estate agents have today. If you are open-minded to a better way of selling, this book is for you.

Imagine what it is going to feel like knowing exactly what to say when it matters the most...

Housing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.

This is the housing trap. It's time to escape. In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Charles (Chuck) Marohn and Daniel Herriges introduce a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. This is the key insight that's been missing from the Housing Crisis Conversation; and the insight that can help cities fight back against the crisis from the bottom-up.

This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.

Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market.

Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-read resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America--and that means everyone. Readers will find:

• Discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment
• Explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism
• A comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis

Rated Best of the Best in Real Estate Exam Prep Books by BestReviews

Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams is written by industry experts and trusted by thousands of aspiring real estate professionals. Updated with the latest in real estate finance, federal law, regulations, and appraisal licensing requirements, this guide has everything you need to prepare for both national and state-level exams.

Why Choose Barron's for Real Estate Prep?

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  Comprehensive and Up-to-Date Content: Covers every aspect of real estate, from contracts and deeds to leasing, appraisals, mortgages, and federal regulations like Fair Housing and Truth-in-Lending laws.
  
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  9 Full-Length Practice Exams: 7 tests for salesperson/broker exams, 1 for federal law and regulations, and 1 for appraisers--giving you complete preparation for any licensing exam.
  
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  1,600+ Realistic Practice Questions: These exam-style questions closely mimic the format and difficulty of actual real estate exams, ensuring you're fully prepared.
  
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  Expert Glossary and Practical Examples: Learn from industry professionals with clear definitions and real-world applications of key terms.
  

Let Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams be your guide to success!

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner * Golden Poppy Award Winner for Nonfiction * California Book Awards Gold Medal Winner * A Great Read from Great Places selected by the Library of Congress * A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year * American Book Award Winner * 2024 American Energy Society's Energy Writer of the Year * An Architect's Newspaper Best Book of 2023 * 2024 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Medal Winner

Now in paperback: a deeply researched and reported (San Francisco Chronicle) exploration of sea level rise in California that breathes exquisite detail and dialogue (Science Magazine) into the subject.

Viscerally urgent, thoroughly reported, and compellingly written--a must-read for our uncertain times. --Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

When do seawalls make sense? And when is it better to give in to the tides? [...] In California Against the Sea, Xia [...] writes about the difficult realities of trying to incorporate fairness into our tally of costs and benefits. --The New Yorker

Along California's 1,200-mile coastline, the overheated Pacific Ocean is rising and pressing in, imperiling both wildlife and the maritime towns and cities that 27 million people call home. In California Against the Sea, Los Angeles Times coastal reporter Rosanna Xia asks: As climate chaos threatens the places we love so fiercely, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?

Xia, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, investigates the impacts of engineered landscapes, the market pressures of development, and the ecological activism and political scrimmages that have carved our contemporary coastline--and foretell even greater changes to our shores. From the beaches of the Mexican border up to the sheer-cliffed North Coast, the voices of Indigenous leaders, community activists, small-town mayors, urban engineers, and tenacious environmental scientists commingle. Together, they chronicle the challenges and urgency of forging a climate-wise future. Xia's investigation takes us to Imperial Beach, Los Angeles, Pacifica, Marin City, San Francisco, and beyond, weighing the rivaling arguments, agreements, compromises, and visions governing the State of California's commitment to a coast for all. Through graceful reportage, she charts how the decisions we make today will determine where we go tomorrow: headlong into natural disaster, or toward an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship.

Maximize your tax deductions

Rental real estate provides more tax benefits than almost any other investment. If you own residential rental property, Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide is an indispensable resource, focusing exclusively on IRS rules and deductions for landlords.

This book covers the latest tax laws, including the rules for deducting a net operating loss (NOL) and claiming an NOL refund. Learn about landlord tax classifications, reporting rental income, hiring workers, and depreciation.

Find out how to:

• handle casualty and theft losses


• distinguish between repairs and improvements


• deduct home office, car, travel, and meals


• keep proper tax records--and much more.

Filled with practical advice and real-world examples, Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide will save you money by helping you owe less to the IRS at tax time.

This book is not just a bargain, it's a steal. It's filled with practical, workable advice for anyone wanting to build wealth.--Mike Summey, co-author of the bestselling The Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate

Anyone who seeks financial wealth must first learn the fundamental truths and models that drive it. The Millionaire Real Estate Investor represents the collected wisdom and experience of over 100 millionaire investors from all walks of life who pursued financial wealth and achieved the life-changing freedom it delivers. This book--in straightforward, no nonsense, easy-to-read style--reveals their proven strategies.

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is your handbook to the tried and true financial wealth building vehicle that rewards patience and perseverance and is available to all--real estate. You'll learn:

• Myths about money and investing that hold people back and how to develop the mindset of a millionaire investor
• How to develop sound criteria for identifying great real estate investment opportunities
• How to zero in on the key terms of any transaction and achieve the best possible deals
• How to develop the dream team that will help you build your millionaire investment business
• Proven models and strategies millionaire investors use to track their net worth, understand their finances, build their network, lead generate for properties and acquire them

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is about you and your money. It's about your financial potential. It's about discovering the millionaire investor in you.

Tracing the history of housing cycles in the United States, this examination shows how the banking system reacts to prosperity and recession and reveals the ways regulations enacted after each collapse tend to disappear when boom times return. With its invaluable insights and practical advice, the discussion is aimed at both novice and experienced investors who want to know why the real estate cycle moves as it does, how it can be forecasted in advance, and how best to profit from this knowledge.

Features of Georgia Real Estate License Exam Prep (GA-RELEP):

• National Principles & Law Key Point Review (60 pages)
• Real Estate Math Key Formula Review & Practice (20 pages)
• Georgia-Specific Laws and Practices (35 pages)
• National Practice Tests (500 questions)
• Georgia Practice Tests (125 questions)
• Georgia Sample Exam (100 questions)

We know the real estate licensing exam can be tough, and very nerve-wracking to prepare for. That's why we created the Georgia Real Estate License Exam Prep (GA-RELEP) the way we did. Since we have been managing real estate schools and developing curriculum for forty years, we know how all this works - or fails to work.

GA-RELEP is comprehensive in that it contains both key content review and testing practice. And the text review is Georgia-specific - not just simplistic national content, but terse, relevant and accurate Georgia laws and regulations presented as a well-organized set of state 'key point reviews' ideal for pre-test memorization. But let's not dismiss the importance of the national content either. GA-RELEP's national key point reviews are a succinct compression of tested national principles and practices that comprise the national portion of state license exams from coast to coast. Our content is drawn from our own national textbook, Principles of Real Estate Practice - one of the most widely used principles textbooks in the country. Finally, our national content, as well as our question selection, is further tailored to the state testing outline promulgated by PSI for Georgia. Thus the breadth and depth of the law reviews and test questions reflect the topic emphasis of your state's testing service and your Georgia license exam.

A word about the test questions... GA-RELEP's testing practice section consists of ten national practice tests, three state practice tests, and one state exam sample test. The practice tests are roughly 50 questions in length and the sample test is 100 questions. The test questions are designed to cover the content covered by the law reviews - which reinforces your learning of the total body of information tested by your state exam. The questions are direct, to the point, and designed to test your understanding. When you have completed a given test, you can check your answers against the answer key in the appendix. You may also note that each question's answer is accompanied by a brief explanation, or rationale to further reinforce your understanding.

In the end, as you know, it's all up to you. Unlike other publications, we are not going to tell you that using this book will guarantee that you pass your state exam. It still takes hard work and study to pass. But we have done our best here to get you ready. Following that, the most we can do is wish you the best of success in taking and passing your Georgia real estate exam. So good luck!!

For Georgia students looking for a Georgia principles textbook to complement Georgia Real Estate License Exam Prep, please check out Principles of Real Estate Practice in Georgia.

Great client relationships are worth a fortune in the real estate business. But when agents retire, most of those fortunes are simply lost-until now. The Golden Handoff solves this problem.

In this new and expanded second edition you will also learn about Partial Handoffs, the solution for agents who want to slow down but not totally retire...yet.

Do you want to grow your business?

The Golden Handoff has a simple and proven plan to exponentially grow your business by adopting hundreds of clients from agents when they retire. Now, with Partial Handoffs, you can work together before full retirement and keep even more clients happy in the process.

Do you want to retire but can't just walk away?

The Golden Handoff shows you how to pick the right agent to adopt your clients and ensure you have income for years to come. With the new Partial Handoff, you can work with the clients you want, when you want, without losing the rest of your clients when you slow down and phase out.

Grow your business by hundreds of clients with just one agreement

Grow your referral clients without buying leads

Use a Partial Handoff to work less but maintain income

Add income to your retirement with a Golden Handoff

First-Time Landlord, a consistent customer favorite, shows how to start a landlording business and maintain it in one's spare time.

Contains concise information on how to make money with a single-family home without getting into financial or legal hot water.

Readers will learn how to rent out a property lawfully and safely, assess profitability before buying or committing to renting a property, find good tenants (or deal with difficult ones), prepare and sign the lease, handle repairs and maintenance, comply with state laws, and when the time is right, sell at a profit.

With timely tips and true stories from successful landlords (including some who learned tough lessons along the way), First-Time Landlord is an indispensable book for property owners who want to rent out a single-family home.

Homeownership is still possible. And it doesn't have to be complicated.

In fact, real estate can be a fantastic investment--if you do it the right way. That's why personal finance and real estate expert Dave Ramsey put his decades of experience into one Quick Read so you can apply them to your own buying, selling and investing ventures.

In 70 pages, Dave will help you avoid the costly mistakes and pitfalls of what can be a ruthless industry.

From start to finish, you'll get a clear plan to help you buy, sell and invest in ways that will let you build outrageous wealth and leave a legacy for your kids, your grandkids and their grandkids.

In a world where too many financial advisors do not follow their own advice, here is a book written by experts who practice what they teach and who will teach you to thrive, not merely survive, during turbulent economic times. This is the real deal... The Real Book of Real Estate.

The only thing better than one real estate expert teaching you how to invest and win is 20 real estate experts with that same mission. For the first time ever, Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, has assembled in one book an unrivaled cast of real estate wizards and trusted advisors with one purpose in mind: to share their knowledge and teach you to win in real estate.

This is the ultimate real estate book you will come back to again and again. Read it cover to cover, or use it as a guide to help when you need it most. The Real Book of Real Estate will be your #1 source as you determine the real estate niche that is perfect for you and as you navigate the ups and downs of the real estate market and become the expert you know you can be.

Whether you're a seasoned investor or buying your first property, this is the one book you can and will read over and over. Robert's team of real experts shows you how to: value a property, lease a property and keep it leased, get financing, title and protect entities, find hidden investment opportunities, minimize taxes and establish your own team of advisors.

Real estate investment is nothing new, but attaining financial freedom through property without ever having to deal with the headaches of renters, renovations, or rodents isn't something you hear about every day. Yet with Mark Podolsky's tried-and-true technique of raw land investment, you can become Dirt Rich without ever having to battle with a tenant, toilet, or termite. In this step-by-step guide, Mark breaks down his ultimate subscription model for creating passive income through the niche of raw land investment. Featuring details on common pitfalls, tips on cultivating an investor's mind, and advice on working smart instead of hard, this handbook will show you how to obtain a life of fiscal independence, with the flexibility to work where you want, when you want, and with whom you want. Financial freedom is within your reach. It's time to make your dreams a reality by starting to think dirty.

The Real Estate Game is a comprehensive guide to successful real estate investment from one of the masters in the field. Drawing upon four decades of experience developing, owning, and managing properties and on almost thirty years of teaching at the Harvard Business School, William J. Poorvu offers an insider's perspective on how to make smart decisions about real estate.

The real estate game is played by people, and it's the stories of real people that make Poorvu's introduction to the industry colorful and interesting. You will meet players ranging from real estate moguls to small-scale developers to individual investors in exotic investment instruments. Their stories evolve throughout the book and illustrate how these people--with all their complicated needs, talents, and motives--fit into the larger process and context.

In clear and nontechnical language, Poorvu explains how variables--players, properties, capital markets, and the external environment--come together to influence the shape and outcome of a real estate deal. He explains the time frame for different kinds of real estate investments and walks the reader through the key periods of play in the real estate game: concept, commitment, development, operation, reward, and reinvestment.

The Real Estate Game introduces a simple but powerful back-of-the-envelope technique for analyzing the financial implications of a potential deal. Using this tool and others, Poorvu shows readers how to use direct investments, syndicates, and REITs to get into the real estate game across a broad range of property types: residential, office, hotel, industrial, and retail.

Offering unique insight into the ways that developers and investors can create value, The Real Estate Game is both a perfect introduction for the novice and an invaluable overview for the experienced professional.

From telephone presentations to showing apartments to closing the deal--insider secrets to filling every apartment, every time

Vacant apartments mean income lost--for property management companies, investment property owners, landlords, and anyone else who relies on rental income to pay the bills. In 7 Secrets to Successful Apartment Leasing, Eric Cumley provides seven proven industry secrets to building the relationships that achieve and maintain high occupancy levels. From Stop Qualifying Prospects and Start Interviewing Them, to Follow-Up is the Extra Mile, Cumley provides examples, tips, to-do lists, sample scripts, and more that will help you responsible for filling vacancies do so, quickly and effectively.

In this exciting new graphic novel, economist Bryan Caplan examines how changes to housing regulation can lead us to a vastly better world.

Why are housing prices in America so unbelievably high, especially in the country's most desirable locations? The superficial answer is supply and demand, but the deep answer―the reason supply is so low―is a regulatory system that treats developers like criminals.

In Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation, economist Bryan Caplan makes the economic and philosophical case for radical deregulation of this massive market―freeing property owners to build as tall and dense as they wish. Not only would the average price of housing be cut in half, but the building boom unleashed by deregulation would simultaneously reduce inequality, increase social mobility, promote economic growth, reduce homelessness, increase birth rates, help the environment, cut crime, and more.

Combining stunning homage to classic animation with careful interdisciplinary research, Build, Baby, Build takes readers on a grand tour of a bona fide panacea policy. We can start realizing these missed opportunities as soon as we abandon the widespread misconception that housing regulation solves more problems than it causes.

It's true. I didn't believe it myself when I first read about it, but I did my research and YES, it IS true. Anyone in the UK (and a lot of other countries too, including USA, Australia and most of Europe) can legally claim empty or abandoned land and property as their own, with full legal title It's the law, and the law is called Adverse Possession, and has got me around 25m of land and property for free You can do it too: this book shows you how.