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| The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Berges
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $32.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (34 reviews)
Sales Rank: 25001
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 328
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471684058
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.338
EAN: 9780471684053
ASIN: 0471684058
Publication Date: December 20, 2004
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Product Description
Whether youre a first-time real estate investor or a seasoned professional, The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings helps you map out your future, find apartment buildings at a fair price, finance purchases, and manage your properties. Now revised and expanded, this Second Edition includes tax planning advice, case studies of real acquisitions, and appendixes that add detail to the big picture. Plus, it includes a handy glossary of all the terms investors need to know, helpful sample forms that make paperwork quick and easy, and updated real estate forecasts. With this comprehensive guide at hand youll find profits easy to come by.
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 Qualified reference without the fluff March 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book presents a well written and comprehensive guide to buying and selling apartment buildings. As one who has brokered, managed, and owned a large number of multifamily units, I feel I am fully qualified to endorse this as a competent source of information on the subject.
This book avoids the hype often found in many real estate books and completely disassociates itself with the "get rich quick" mannerisms often seen in guru style books. As a result, this book offers much value as it focuses on principals and sound information giving you an honest and genuine taste for what is involved in this industry.
Buying and selling apartment buildings and becoming successful within the industry is certainly not easy. The best start is building a solid foundation of understanding, and this book accomplishes that task. I would certainly not suggest one should cease their study after a single book, or even a solitary resource for the matter; however, this is a very qualified initiation and one I recommend keeping as a resource.
 excellent resource February 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
provides a good overall basic understanding of buying smaller multifamily properties (2 to 25 unit properties) that will undoubtedly help prevent real estate newbies from losing their shirts.
anything larger, and you definitely want to make sure that you have a good team around you.
Great intro book to uncover the basics. December 29, 2007
This is the first book I have read that focused solely on buying multi-family real estate. It uncovered some basic information for me, and I consider it a great primer for future learning before I actually get involved with attempting to purchase anything in commercial real estate. It does seem, as others have mentioned, that the author really wants to up sell you on his other products, but if he's selling something that is worth buying then I am not going to fault him for that. If you are brand new to commercial real estate investing that focuses on apartments and other multi family properties then give this book a day in court. Like the "basic" title says, it's a book on how to buy and sell apartment buildings, and I found it to be a great starting point.
Best book - Always recommended November 15, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book (and the software sold by the author) provide an excellent strategy to look at and purchase income producing property. I recommend it often to my clients who come to me for real estate advice as part of financial planning. Most importantly, it shows you which properties not to buy. Of my 20 or so books used as reference material on real estate this is my most used and recommended book.
A Must Read For Anyone Thinking About Jumping In To Multi-Unit Investing November 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Steve Berges has put together a well thought out and informative book for the beginning to intermediate level multi-unit apartment investor. He lays it all out: recognizing value, financial analysis, negotiating strategies, and financing alternatives. He also uses real world case studies to help the reader to better understand the principles he teaches. I've personally given this book to new agents in my company as a primer for them to get familiar with apartment investing.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should say that I am an attorney, real estate broker, investor, trainer, and author of another unique and highly readable book on real estate investing that can also be found here on Amazon -- The WealthLoop Series Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Buying Houses: The Foolproof Roadmap to Real Estate Riches Without the Risks and Hassles of Landlording. You might want to check out the companion CD too -- The WealthLoop Series Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Buying Houses (Combo Audio/Data CD): Author's Audio Commentary Plus Downloadable 32-page Marketing Manual, Checklists, Spreadsheets, and Forms.
A related program that's well worth checking out is:
The WealthLoop Series Beginner's Guide to Personal Wealth Creation (Combo Audio/Data CD): Audio Seminar With Downloadable 40-Page Action Manual and Active Link Library.
I believe that Berges has written an informative book that's worthy of your time. Buy it if you are serious about making a success of multi-unit real estate investing.
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