I've read tons of real estate investing books over the past three years, but don't have much real experience.

He has some books and courses that are pretty good.

I'm setting her up with a marketing strategy (she'd better buy into it, I have a book coming out on it), and I'm thinking about also test-firing an ad in the paper.What has worked for you?

In an earlier thread I was asked by another boarder to give my opinion on the new book "Making Hard Cash In A Soft Real Estate Market" by Wendy Patton and Justin Ryan.I just read the book and found it to be an easy read that had some good information.

Any book suggestions for learning more about real estate and how others got started?

I purchased a condo hotel in Orlando and would caution anyone thinking about Condo Hotel investing to really to their homework.Specifically(1) Only buy units with at least a 1 year history of income and bookings, and try to get a branded hotel.

Most of the time the bank will sell it for that because they want the property off their books.

Read books at the library.

Some of the time landlords, tenants or both will cook the books when it comes to what has been agreed.

This shows that a deal is always just a deal, it is what you do inside your head that makes things seem difficult.If you havent got past your "What if" voices, and onto making money, then go to work on your head, not to work on more investing books.