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| How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire: Make Fast Cash with No Money, Credit, or Previous Experience | 
 enlarge | Author: Ron Legrand
Creator: Mark Victor Hansen
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 96901
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0793188865
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6324
EAN: 9780793188864
ASIN: 0793188865
Publication Date: July 1, 2004
Release Date: July 1, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Gives you only broad strokes of concepts... April 29, 2006
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
When I first read the title of the book, I thought it'll give you everything you need to get real estate, boy was I wrong...it contains fluff about motivation, positive thinking (which I could read from other experts like Norman Vincent Peale, or Dale Carnegie), and pages of testimonials from his students. I'd say only 60% of the book is about real estate and even those parts are in broad strokes giving you concepts. Legrand even admits that its foolhardy to jump into real estate armed with the knowledge from only that book on pages 61-62.....the only things he'll go into detail is finding sellers, screening prospects, and how to sell your house effectively.
If you want to spend your money efficiently and getting the most information for your hard-earned dollar, don't spend money on this book. But if you are someone who's clueless about real estate and want a general concept of no money down properties, then this book will help you and point you in the right direction, and this direction will point you to his website hawking is seminars and courses.
Here's a tip I learned in reading real estate books: Before you buy a real estate book, go to the author's website and check if his/her products he/she sells are only his/her books....if it is, then the book contains everything he/she knows about that topic (hopefully), but if his/her other products includes high priced seminars, CDs, or DVDs, or courses...like Ron Legrand's website, then that book isn't giving you everything you need to know..
 an initiation into the world of real estate August 5, 2005
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
Yes... Ron is right... 'don't expect miracles from a book.' Folks... this isn't a read a few chapters and suddenly be a genius type thing. He gives you examples of ways he has made tons of money in real estate and you shouldn't expect everything to work as planned or for there to be everything you need in this book. You still have to work your market... test stuff out... gain experience... learn the ropes... etc etc. For all the naysayers... I would say read it again and again... buy a few other books too... join some real estate forums... if you really want to succeed in real estate. And about his plugs for his bootcamps/courses... they are very good... but you don't need them... do with what you have and take ACTION.
I'm reminded of a saying I heard a while ago "We will either find a way or make one." Good Luck
 Love watching infomercials? Now you can own one! August 2, 2005
36 out of 38 found this review helpful
It's interesting that reviewers mostly either rated this book one star or five, and almost nothing in between. Seems like evidence that the book actually merits one star, and the five star reviews may have been written by those with added incentive. Even the language of the five-star reviews mimics the language of the book exactly, as though the book's author or someone from the organization wrote them.
I actually borrowed the book from the library before deciding whether to buy it, to see if the material was worth keeping around for future reference. Without even having spent anything on it, I still felt used, like I was suckered, because I invested my time in it. It's even structured in the same way as an infomercial, with a page of enticement alternating with a page of personal testimonials from seminar attendees. (And by the way, the MIS seminar frequently mentioned in these testimonials costs $7,000! I looked it up on Ron LeGrand's website, mentioned once every few pages in the book.)
To be fair, there is some actual information in the book, albeit prefaced by constant disclaimers that further investment in training is necessary to be able to apply these principles. But something in one of the testimonials led me to believe that there's probably not much to his exorbitant seminars either. Here is an actual quote from p. 54: "The prior residents were supposed to buy it for $152,000 - we figured we would increase the price to $159,900 - but on your CD (the timing of when we listened to that particular one couldn't have been better!) you said to make sure we "research" market values BEFORE we put a price on a home...we ended up asking $168,999..." Now, that is a no-brainer (duh!). If that's the kind of additional training we get from paying thousands for CDs and seminars, I'll stick with a book borrowed from the library, or maybe just my common sense...
Perfect Book for the Person Who Wants to Start Becoming a Real Estate Investor June 30, 2005
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought this book twice. I gave my first copy away to a beginning real estate investor. Then I bought another copy because I wanted a copy for my library but I'll probably end up giving that one away to a friend or family memeber when they ask me about investing in real estate.
The most successful real estate investors in my local real estate investors association follow Ron LeGrand. I like the many testimonials of real people who have actually done real deals in this book. This tells me that real people have followed through and have had success.
Ron LeGrand packs a bunch of very valuable information in a book that is only $22! I paid much more than that to attend two of his seminars. He has condensed his entire mode of operation into a single book. Every person who buys this book is getting the deal of their lifetime. You will not find another real estate investor who has demonstrable proof of their success laying out their whole way of doing business and charging you only $22 for it! Actually, I was a little ticked that he put in over two dozen ways to find real estate deals because that is what most people are trying to do. And I was surprised that in the Appendix he even added letters, flyers, and documents that he gave us in the seminars that I went to. I paid much more for them though.
Of course a glossary of real estate investing terms is in the back for you to use as a reference. And he will send you 5 CD's (for free) that further expound on topics in the book. Believe me, I paid a lot for the CD's I purchased. In fact, it would cost me more than 22 bucks to take a millionaire out to lunch so buying his business plan in a book for only $22 is a true no brainer.
One last thing. The book is an easy read so don't deceive yourself and think that it must be harder than this because it isn't. The secret is not in the information. The secret is in the action - actually following through and doing what he lays out.
I am not a millionaire yet, but I have been following (most of) what he says to do, and I have made over 50 times what I paid for those seminars. And that is a very good return on my investment.
More Hype Than Substance April 30, 2005
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I must echo the sentiments of earlier reviews that found this to be more of a promotional piece. This book started well but it was not long before the recurring references to his site and training courses.
As someone curious about real estate investing, I find that many of the authors on this topic use their books as introductions to their other products.
Legrand provides some interesting insights from his personal experience. However, much of the rest of the book followed predictable patterns of brief illustrations of successful investor situations and carefully selected letters to keep readers focused on the "pot of gold" that is available.
Authors trying to promote other products does not bother me. It would be helpful if these experts would share a few complete illustrations of their techniques (adding the disclaimer that these are examples and may vary greatly in real life). These start to finish illustrations would give a more complete picture of the process and really give beginners a better look at the process.
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