Top 5 Most Recommended Real Estate/Business Books

Everyone needs a good book recommendation. Here are my favorite 5 business/real estate books that I’ve finished reading.

1.) Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki – I know it is probably the most unoriginal answer to this question. But the redundancy of the answer should speak for itself. I've read the book 4-5 times all-in-all and I still get something out of it each time that I do.

2.) Set For Life by Scott Trench – If you have never read this book, Scott Trench underlines some profound wisdom that will change the way you view saving money, making money, and the path to financial freedom.

3.) Raising Private Capital by Matt Faircloth – This is a great guide for anyone in any business who ever needs to raise private capital for startups or acquisitions. While written from a real estate perspective, the tenants discussed in the book are applicable to every business sector.

4.) Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki – This book is a logical next step after Rich Dad Poor Dad. Kiyosaki outlines the differences between the employed, the self employed, the business owners and the (passive) investors. Indispensable in one's self education.

5.) Art of War by Sun Tzu – This is arguably not even a business book, however it was part of the curriculum at an introductory business class I took at a university. Sun Tzu discusses wisdom that is equally applicable to the ancient battle field as it is in modern business.

5.5.) Honorable mention – I have not finished them yet, but really want to recommend them.

Titan by Ron Chernow is a massive biography of the wealthiest man who has ever lived, John D. Rockefeller. Ron Chernow writes with stunning skill that reads like fiction while exploring who Rockefeller was as a person, why he did what he did, what his thought process was like and how he became the richest person in history.

4 hour workweek by Tim Ferriss will take what you have always thought about being rich and put it on its head. What I like the most about the book so far is that it is giving substance to the aspiration of being rich and simultaneously helping eliminate fear associated with taking huge leaps.

Check them out!  A few of them are available right here on Biggerpockets, and the rest you can find on amazon!