Now if you insist on booksMillionaire real estate investor Sold or be sold10x ruleE myth $100 startup The entrepreneur mindThe intelligent investor

But I'll also recommend the intelligent investor as well as the E-Myth in real estate.

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(Ben Graham's "The Intelligent Investor" is perhaps the best volume on the subject), and I'll suggest that the core "value investing" philosophy is a direct corollary to the REI adage of "you make money when you buy, not when you sell", in that you make your money when you buy a stock when its undervalued and includes a sufficient "margin of safety" (itself the analog of a lender capping their exposure based on LTV).Patience, prudence, curiosity, and a desire to learn are hallmarks of a successful investor in any domain, and I'm with you in that I'll keep doing both :)

He is an intelligent, experienced real estate investor and his passion as an educator is evident from the start.

Me thinks it's because he read this somewhere and he thinks it makes him sound intelligent but he is unwilling or unable to defend it.  

And doesn't insult my intelligence by telling a tear down just needs "paint and carpet".

Its a short read about how money works in the simplest terms possible, and since REI is all about financial freedom, it really helps to lay an intelligent groundwork.

If we start talking about IRR, instead of CoC (which is the logical and intelligent thing to do) those 10%, 15%, and 30% numbers become a lot easier to hit...except IRR involves exiting the property, meaning the money will need to be reinvested somewhere else to keep earning you a return.

Use it all, take a piece, whatever - just make an intelligent, well-though-out decision because you are an intelligent person!