Start Small, Profit Big in Real Estate

Product Details

From the BusinessWeek bestselling author of Investing in Fixer-Uppers--a plan for building a real estate empire with little or no money down."

Fixer Jay" DeCima, the acknowledged king of fixer-uppers, delivers a much-anticipated guide to realizing financial independence through real estate investing. Written in DeCima's trademark folksy style, Start Small, Profit Big in Real Estate provides a complete two-year plan for making it big in real estate starting with little or no money of your own.

You'll learn how to:

• Scout out properties with the highest return.
• Calculate the payoff versus the effort involved in any real estate investment.
• Find motivated sellers who will finance your properties.
• Use leveraging and compounding to utmost advantage.
• Negotiate with sellers and win every time.
• Make big bucks with rental properties.

Biographical Note

Jay DeCima is the bestselling author of Investing in Fixer-Uppers and a veteran of more than 45 years of real estate investing. Over the past two decades, his home-study products and seminars have helped thousands of real estate investors launch their careers.

Table of Contents

• Introduction.
• Part 1. Planning to Make Money.
  • 1. Achieving Financial Independenc.
  • 2. Early Planning Pays.
  • 3. Building Success One Brick at a Time.
  • 4. Magic Ingredients for a Moneymaking Plan.
  • 5. 12 Benefits to Being a Housing Entrepreneur.
  • 6. You Can't Hit a Bird with a Buffalo Gun: Common Mistakes First-Timers Make.
  • 7. Planning Your Profits at the Kitchen Table.
• Part 2. Buying Your First Investment Houses.
  • 8. Properties with All the Right Things Wrong.
  • 9. Property Selection Determines Your Profits.
  • 10. The Soap Factory Houses: A Virtual Gold Mine.
  • 11. The Riley Street Houses: How to Earn $429,000 in Nine Years, Moonlighting.
  • 12. How to Negotiate with Great Results.
  • 13. Turning Motivated Sellers into Bankers.
• Part 3. Becoming Wealthy - Staying Wealthy.
  • 14. Silent Wealth-Builders: Compounding, Leverage, and Control.
  • 15. Oliver Street: Jay's Fast-Track Investment Model.
  • 16. When You Need a Helping Hand.
  • 17. Managing Your Property and Your Tenants.
  • 18. Selling Your Property: Your "Pajama Money" Retirement Plan.
• Appendix A: Rental and Contractor's Agreements.
• Appendix B: Oliver Street Property Documents.
• Appendix C: Resources for Real Estate Investors.
• Index.
• About the Author.