What No One Ever Tells You About Investing in Real Estate (a review)
I recently finished reading another book from the Seattle Public Library titled “What No One Ever Tells You About Investing in Real Estate” by Robert J Hill. As someone who would very much like to invest in real estate some day, I felt that this would be an interesting read. For the most part is was an interesting read. I would call it entertaining and informative.
This book, written by Robert J Hill, Esq, tells about many different real life situations that have happened to real life real estate investors. Some are horror stories that would make you never want to consider purchasing a home. Others give you a real life example of why you might want to purchase title insurance or any other product along those lines. Robert also threw enough real estate successes in there to convince you that maybe real estate investing could be the thing for you.
In this book , the author uses “real-life advice from 101 successful investors” to tell 112 different stories of things that they have had go right or wrong. Many of these stories came as submissions from his website realestatestories.com. Essentially, the author summarized the stories that the investors had given him, and then added his own personal comments and commentary. This made this book a very easy read. Because of the way the book is laid out with all the different stories, it makes it so that one can easily just pick it up and start reading right away without any need to refresh their memory.
Overall I really enjoyed this book. It was something that I could easily just pick up at any time and start reading. The author also put many major examples that clearly show that real estate investing can have some major pitfalls and is not all fun and games. I would highly recommend this book to someone who is thinking about getting into real estate investing, but doesn’t have the time to read a giant instruction manual. I feel my time was well spent reading this book.
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May 1st, 2008 at 1:16 am
I found your blog on MSN Search. Nice writing. I will check back to read more.
Eric Hundin
May 1st, 2008 at 7:55 am
This morning, a Google alert on “What No One…” led me to your blog. Thanks for the kind words. Unlike several of its Amazon.com reviewers, you seem to have gotten the point of my book. It’s not meant to be an end all-be all instruction manual. It’s meant to offer easy-to-read and often humorous insights on “the finer points” from experienced investors across the country. Best of luck with your investments and, once again, thank you!
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 am
Rob,
Thanks for stopping by. I checked out some of those Amazon.com “reviews,” and it seemed like people were overly harsh on the book. It seemed as if they were expecting something totally different. If they would have just read the editorial reviews, they would have known what to expect.
Overall this was a fine book that can teach a prospective investor about just about any potential problem with a rental property.