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How to Build a Real Estate Empire: Wisdom from the Best in the Business Hardcover – September 15, 2005

by Marcel Arsenault (Author), John Hamilton (Author), Ben Leeds (Author),
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This book contains the real estate investment histories of four highly successful individuals. Within this publication, the investors describe the paths they took that resulted in the creation of four separate, self-sustaining real estate empires. Self-sustaining means that the companies they started would continue to flourish without the day-to-day input of the founder. To fulfill such a qualification, the founder must have built a company consisting of a group of independent real estate entrepreneurs who are capable of managing and growing the business to the next level of success. The investors contributing to this book have achieved that goal.
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    Foundations of Wealth Pub Co
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    September 15, 2005
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    5.5 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches
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    0977073300
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Foundations of Wealth Pub Co (September 15, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0977073300
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0977073306
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

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Plaster Disaster
4.0 out of 5 stars Good info
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2006
Good read and full of usefull info for the experienced and newbie investor. Since there are 4 authors all offering different life experiences and backgrounds, you don't get the "tunnel vision" you get from some books where the author can only tell you about their own personal experiences. A little bit like "Rich Dad" in the way that it inspires you to think differently, but it also has the routine real estate 101 teaching that you find in almost every book of this type. The book focuses mainly on long term investing (as the title implies).
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Doug Oberfield
3.0 out of 5 stars Not too much substance here..
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2007
While it made for a good read, if you have any moderate amount of experience in real estate investing (I've been doing it for several years), this is mostly a book on common sense items...

I was hoping to see more detail about the individuals highlighted, rather than a brief overview of how they became successful.

There are a couple decent points in the appendix regarding valuation and such, but mostly stuff that you should already know if you're planning on buying investment real estate.

Overall, there isn't a whole lot of USEFUL information to be gleaned from this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories from behind the scenes!
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2012
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If you want to know what it's like to be a real estate entrepreneur then this is a must read!

The guys do a great job sharing some great personal stories to highlight key points.

The book is well worth the money!
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Don Marco
4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing but upside...
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2005
As a Buyer or Seller, this book offers great insight on how either side is played. From start to finish, the information is relative, informative, and most of all useful. Representing a strong market (Miami, FL), I found many of the quotes to be applicable and consistant with the profound market conditions currently. This is one book that I will read more than once!!!
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Inspiring to who is interested in multi family investing
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Kevin Kingston
5.0 out of 5 stars At Least 100 Need to Know Concepts For Anyone in Real Estate
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2005
How to Build a Real Estate Empire,

by the gang at Marcus and Millichap

What a great strategy, for a real estate investment brokerage firm to write a book that encourages people to learn about how to build wealth through investing in, you got it, real estate. What's even more brilliant is to highlight 4 of their (most likely) best clients and tell their success stories. Hats off the gang at Marcus and Millichap, they are definitely an aggressive firm that is going places!

Although the book claims to be for the more seasoned investor, there is much to be learned even for a beginner as long as they are interested enough to stay with it. The first four chapters tell about four investors and their successes. I would like it to have been more in-depth but you can get more than a few sound strategies from the short chapters (one per investor) that cover each investor. For example:

Ben Leeds says, "I am primarily an apartment investor. The multifamily segment is more definable, more predictable-a necessary commodity and more responsive to affective management. It is also easiest to finance...."

He also says he regrets everything he ever sold.

Leeds has 75 separate apartment projects totaling over 1,600 units with a value over $160,000,000.

I would have liked more than 25 pages about his story.

Next up is John Hamilton who built his real estate portfolio up from $0 to $200 million with some major hiccups along the way. I also would have liked more than 11 ½ pages on him.

A good tip from Gerald Marcil who has a portfolio of $150 million is to constantly monitor your holdings to see if the equity could be better utilized, with less risk someplace else. Something else he mentions that I am a big believer in partnerships. If someone wants to be a part time real estate investor, they should partner with someone who is full time. His chapter ends with, "If it was profitable and easy, everyone would do it."

The story of these investors absolutely shows that it is possible to build a huge real estate portfolio starting from practically nothing but determination and hard work.

The book then moves on to a bunch of interesting statistics and annotations which read a bit like a textbook, but are well worth glancing at and remembering them to use as a reference in the future. Some of the topics included are: a growing population and how it will affect real estate, lots of different market indicators and some great reference web sites. There is also a great section on real estate partnerships and how they can be structured.

Having written a book myself, A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate, by Kevin Kingston and having built a real estate portfolio of $25,000,000 starting from less than zero just 5 years ago, I will say that the concepts in this book are 100% worth knowing and the inspiration you can get from people that have built $100-$200 million portfolios are worth listening to.

By Kevin Kingston, author of: A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate

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