@Jared Lomker
The Book on Real Estate Investing with no or low money down, by Brandon Turner. It’s the best book on how to do your first several deals.
Set For Life, by Scott Trench. It has an excellent blueprint for the non real estate parts of life, while still making real estate your primary investment. He also talks about how real estate can enable you to take more risks with your career and jump to a more interesting and challenging job.
House Hacking by Ben Leiborvich. This book has a really creative chapter on how to scale using low money down to buy houses with guest houses. I used that strategy on my last deal. I liked it because I could improve my lifestyle, while still resisting lifestyle creep and buying two units with one deal.
Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, and Quads by Larry Loftis. This book has a lot good detail on how to structure offers to get accepted. It’s older, but a lot of the ideas on how to get an offer accepted are useful now as things have become a sellers market.
Every Landlord’s Tax deduction Guide by Stephen Fishman. This is a really handy introduction to landlord bookkeeping. I used it to teach myself bookeeping and how amortization schedules work. I have now done my own rental property bookeeping for eight years and have been able to save over 20k in expenses with a thirty dollar book. Real money.
Buy and Hold Forever by David Schumacher. This is another older book, I got it at a used book shop eight years ago. But as a younger real estate investor this is really helpful seeing the power of appreciation over a long period of time. Many of the investments in this book where held longer than I’ve been alive, and that’s where the bigger profits are. I have reread it a couple times when I have been slacking on the savings, as motivation to remind myself the potential profits over the long term of invested savings.
