What are your favorite real estate books you've read?

[Kira Voden]

Just checked out Landlording on Autopilot from my local library and really enjoying and getting a lot out of it. Wondering what your favorite real estate investing books are?!

[Charles Carillo]

@Kira Voden

Here are my favorite books:

Multifamily Millions by Dave Lindahl

The ABCs of Real Estate Investing by Ken McElroy

The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings by Steve Berges

Commercial Real Estate Investing by Dolf De Roos

Trump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received by Donald Trump

Tax Free Wealth by Tom Wheelwright

Commercial Real Estate 101: How Small Investors Can Get Started and Make It Big by David Lindahl

Raising Private Capital: Building Your Real Estate Empire Using Other People’s Money by Matt Faircloth

The Definitive Guide to Apartment Marketing by Josh Grillo

Investing in Apartment Building by Matthew Martinez

Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate by Brian H Murray

The 7 Secrets to Successful Apartment Leasing by Eric Cumley

2 Years to a Million in Real Estate by Matthew Martinez

Burn Zones: Playing Life’s Bad Hands by Jorge Newbery

Commercial Mortgages 101: Everything You Need to Know to Create a Winning Loan Request by Michael Reinhard

It’s a Whole New Business!: The how-to book of syndicated investment real estate by Gene Trowbridge

[Jared Hottle]

This is a great list. Not much to add other than I have found real estate books a lot less applicable since they are written for a broad basis. I would suggest reading some mindset or human behavior type books. My favorites would be Influence and How to win friends and influence people. Great for thinking about how to find deals and negotiate with sellers/tenants/banks anybody really.

[Andrew Bosco]

Stellar list above! I would just add "Never split the difference". It's a great communication/negotiation book, which is essential for RE. 

[Tammie Jones]

Great list.. 

Cant hurt me - David Goggins

One - Gary Keller

Rich Dad Poor Dad - Richard Kiyoasaki

[Kuriakos Mellos]

Hey there! A fellow Milwaukee area investor myself:

The above a great list. I have found myself going back and referencing this book a lot:

The 12 Week YearBook by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

It is more a mindset motivator for me, but it helps tie my long term visions that I want to get out of realestate and keeps me constantly pushing forward and smarter.

[Nick Harrington]

Hey Kira - 

Here's my go to list for anyone, and I'm sure some of these have been repeated before. Also this list is not being paid for by Bigger Pockets - but their content is GREAT. 

This is the order I'd read them in as well. 

Rich Dad Poor Dad - Great place to start, helps understand the mindset of what it means to take control of your life, get out of the rat race, and take control of your finances

Set for Life - A more modern day approach to Rich Dad Poor Dad that has tactical strategies you can walk away with on how to help grow your income, manage your finances, and build passive income

How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginners Guide - A great real estate investing guide, going over how to find deals, different options for rentals, property management details, and essentially all you need to feel prepared to buy your first deal

Buy Rent Rehab Refinance and Repeat - One of the best books I've read that truly opened my mind to the power of how to scale a real estate business and how to do so creatively. Gets into the details of ways to finance properties, minutia of how to find a deal, work with contractors, and reinforces the idea that the deal is made when you purchase based on the purchase price. 

Hope this helps and is a good starting place for you!

[Michael Mannino II]

Hey Kira! This is a list of my favorites (not all just real estate, but business in general too) - 

Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kyosaki

4 Hour work week - Tim Ferris

The success principles - Jack Canfied

100M offers - Alex Hormozi

What It Takes - Stephen Schwarsman

Traction - Gino Wickman

Maintenance man to millionaire - Glenn Gonzales

Profit First - Mike Michalowicz

Why We Want You To Be Rich - Donald Trump and Robert Kyoskai

The Go-Giver - Bob Burg

Awaken the Giant within - Tony Robbins

Extreme Ownership - Jako Wilkins

Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins

[Kira Voden]

Quote from @Charles Carillo:

@Kira Voden

Here are my favorite books:

Multifamily Millions by Dave Lindahl

The ABCs of Real Estate Investing by Ken McElroy

The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings by Steve Berges

Commercial Real Estate Investing by Dolf De Roos

Trump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received by Donald Trump

Tax Free Wealth by Tom Wheelwright

Commercial Real Estate 101: How Small Investors Can Get Started and Make It Big by David Lindahl

Raising Private Capital: Building Your Real Estate Empire Using Other People’s Money by Matt Faircloth

The Definitive Guide to Apartment Marketing by Josh Grillo

Investing in Apartment Building by Matthew Martinez

Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate by Brian H Murray

The 7 Secrets to Successful Apartment Leasing by Eric Cumley

2 Years to a Million in Real Estate by Matthew Martinez

Burn Zones: Playing Life’s Bad Hands by Jorge Newbery

Commercial Mortgages 101: Everything You Need to Know to Create a Winning Loan Request by Michael Reinhard

It’s a Whole New Business!: The how-to book of syndicated investment real estate by Gene Trowbridge

 Amazing, I'll be reading for a while! Thank you for such a thoughtful list!

[Kira Voden]

Quote from @Jared Hottle:

This is a great list. Not much to add other than I have found real estate books a lot less applicable since they are written for a broad basis. I would suggest reading some mindset or human behavior type books. My favorites would be Influence and How to win friends and influence people. Great for thinking about how to find deals and negotiate with sellers/tenants/banks anybody really.

Great take, and I think its sitting on my book shelf waiting to be read!

[Kira Voden]

Quote from @Andrew Bosco:

Stellar list above! I would just add "Never split the difference". It's a great communication/negotiation book, which is essential for RE. 

 Negotiation is my downfall! I took a psychology class to try and help build skills just for this purpose. 

[Kira Voden]

Quote from @Michael Mannino II:

Hey Kira! This is a list of my favorites (not all just real estate, but business in general too) - 

Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kyosaki

4 Hour work week - Tim Ferris

The success principles - Jack Canfied

100M offers - Alex Hormozi

What It Takes - Stephen Schwarsman

Traction - Gino Wickman

Maintenance man to millionaire - Glenn Gonzales

Profit First - Mike Michalowicz

Why We Want You To Be Rich - Donald Trump and Robert Kyoskai

The Go-Giver - Bob Burg

Awaken the Giant within - Tony Robbins

Extreme Ownership - Jako Wilkins

Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins

 Thank you for putting together such a thoughtful list, can't wait to check these out!

[Kira Voden]

Quote from @Nick Harrington:

Hey Kira - 

Here's my go to list for anyone, and I'm sure some of these have been repeated before. Also this list is not being paid for by Bigger Pockets - but their content is GREAT. 

This is the order I'd read them in as well. 

Rich Dad Poor Dad - Great place to start, helps understand the mindset of what it means to take control of your life, get out of the rat race, and take control of your finances

Set for Life - A more modern day approach to Rich Dad Poor Dad that has tactical strategies you can walk away with on how to help grow your income, manage your finances, and build passive income

How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginners Guide - A great real estate investing guide, going over how to find deals, different options for rentals, property management details, and essentially all you need to feel prepared to buy your first deal

Buy Rent Rehab Refinance and Repeat - One of the best books I've read that truly opened my mind to the power of how to scale a real estate business and how to do so creatively. Gets into the details of ways to finance properties, minutia of how to find a deal, work with contractors, and reinforces the idea that the deal is made when you purchase based on the purchase price. 

Hope this helps and is a good starting place for you!

Great that you suggest what to read first, really appreciate that!

[Kira Voden]

Quote from @Kuriakos Mellos:

Hey there! A fellow Milwaukee area investor myself:

The above a great list. I have found myself going back and referencing this book a lot:

The 12 Week YearBook by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

It is more a mindset motivator for me, but it helps tie my long term visions that I want to get out of realestate and keeps me constantly pushing forward and smarter.

Heck yeah for Milwaukee!

This sounds great, keeping your long term goals in focus is sometimes hard to do. Nice to have a resource to keep going back to to keep you focused. Can't wait to pick this one up!

[Lydia R.]

Quote from @Kira Voden:

Just checked out Landlording on Autopilot from my local library and really enjoying and getting a lot out of it. Wondering what your favorite real estate investing books are?!

 I am currently reading The 5 am Club and I love it. Not exactly a real estate book, but fantastic nonetheless 

[Drew Sygit]

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

[Randy Rodenhouse]

I will recommend reading on the more unconventional side of things...the debt market.  In other words buying, selling and creating notes for cash flow.  

A great starter book about debt market is by Jim Napier called "Invest In Debt".

I also wrote a book (about building income using Self Directed IRA and Solo 401k) but no self promotion..lol