[.uk] "Buy & Hold 7 Steps to a Real Estate Fortune"- New 2007 ... (ISBN 0970116233)

where to start...:
The authors advice is extremely outdated for one. Prices, financing and sophistication levels of sellers have reached light speed since the author started investing. He is not a very good author to boot. Disorganized and scattershot would classify his writing style. If you like listening to Grandpa talk about the 'good ol days' then maybe this book is for you.

region specific and not very insightful:
I like the concept, and his maxims in the opening pages are very good. The author does a bad job at delivery though, often talking about examples in buying beachfront California party. While he made great investments at a great time 50 years ago, I don't have $2M+ to go buy a condo on the beach in California. He sort of uses best case scenario examples that aren't applicable to most investors' markets. This is one of those books the has several good ideas padded with pages and pages of fluff. Would make a great 10-15 page special report, but as far as a book is concerned, nothing great.

How to evaluate the potencial grows of a property:
This book tells you should buy properties that really have potencial for earning value in the future. The author is an authority in valuing properties, and he is a self made millionary buying properties for rental. He speaks through his experience and knowledge. This precisely is the value of this book. Excelente book that give you guidelines to evaluate if you should buy a property in terms of its potencial. I recomend for anyone interested in investing in real state.

Definitive:
Schumacher is the Warren Buffet of real estate investing! Whether you are dreaming of getting started or already owning multiple properties, his homespun, low-key, common sense based approach is right-on. Not only is he a real estate pro in an academic sense, he has put it all into action himself. His Get-Rich-Slow approach is refreshingly absent of hype....it all seems so easy! It is! You just have to do it - and that's the problem - YOU now have to take action, and have a patient approach, and it will happen. I've bought this book for a couple of friends who are still on the starting blocks, but in my life buying hundreds of business books, I've never come across such a good resource.

A solidly practical, user-friendly guide:
Written by successful investor, real estate expert, and magazine columnist David Schumacher, Ph.D., Buy and Hold: 7 Steps to a Real Estate Fortune is a non-nonsense guide to real-estate investment, step-by-step. Buy and Hold is the antithesis to "flipping" guides; instead of buying property with the goal of reselling it, Buy and Hold is about buying property and using it to generate long-term profit. Chapters cover how to use the Internet to help one purchase real estate, how to analyze the growth potential of property, timing one's investment to gain a boost from the economy, the advantages of using a real estate broker, real estate axioms, and much more. "Avoid the loss of income by performing a periodic rental analysis. Keep up with what is happening in the market and adjust the rents accordingly." A solidly practical, user-friendly guide especially for serious-minded real estate investors in it for the long haul.