Introduction 1 Book 1: Getting Started with Real Estate Investing 5 Chapter 1: Evaluating Real Estate as an Investment 7 Chapter 2: Covering Common Real Estate Investments 25 Chapter 3: Building Your Team 45 Chapter 4: Financing Your Property Purchases 63 Chapter 5: Grasping the Legal Fundamentals of Managing Residential Rentals 83 Book 2: Welcome Home: Buying a House 99 Chapter 1: Knowing Where and What to Buy 101 Chapter 2: Determining a House's Worth 139 Chapter 3: Negotiating Your Best Deal 159 Book 3: Investing in a Foreclosure Property 185 Chapter 1: Getting Up to Speed on the Foreclosure Process 187 Chapter 2: Picking Your Point of Entry in the Foreclosure Process 199 Chapter 3: Performing Your Due Diligence 215 Chapter 4: Cashing Out on Your Foreclosure Property 237 Book 4: Flipping a House 259 Chapter 1: Devising an Effective Flipping Strategy 261 Chapter 2: Inspecting the Property and Estimating Rehab Costs 273 Chapter 3: Calculating Your Profit and Best Offer 291 Chapter 4: Prioritizing and Planning Your Renovations 303 Chapter 5: Negotiating the Sale to Maximize Your Profit 319 Book 5: Using Your House as an Airbnb 331 Chapter 1: Hosting on Airbnb: What It Really Means 333 Chapter 2: Determining Your Profit Potential 345 Chapter 3: Preparing Your Property 363 Chapter 4: Setting Your Listing Pricing 387 Book 6: It's All Over: Selling Your House 405 Chapter 1: Deciding to Sell 407 Chapter 2: Timing Is Everything 423 Chapter 3: Price It Right and Buyers Will Come 435 Chapter 4: Marketing Your House 453 Book 7: Gone Global: Investing in International Real Estate 467 Chapter 1: Introducing International Investment Strategies 469 Chapter 2: Investing at Home or Abroad: Which Is Right for You? 485 Book 8: The Next Level: Investing in Commercial Real Estate 501 Chapter 1: A Crash Course in Commercial Real Estate Investing 503 Chapter 2: Evaluating Commercial Real Estate 519 Chapter 3: Property Management: Who's Minding Your Ship? 549 Index 571.