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Top 10 Recommended Books for Any Property Investor
By Shenoah Grove
Successful property investing can be a challenging task. You don't want to make it harder by following bad advice.
We've been actively investing in real estate and helping homeowners with creative property solutions since 2003.
During that time, we've participated in more than 1,200 real estate transactions totally more than $200 million dollars.
Whether you're just getting started, or have been in the game for a while – there is great value to be gained from my top 10 recommended books listed below.
#1 FLIP: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit
By Rick Villani & Clay Davis
FLIP, the third book in the National Bestselling Millionaire Real Estate Series (More than 500,000 copies sold!)
FLIP provides a detailed, step-by-step process to analyze each investment, identify the best improvements, accurately estimate the costs and intelligently oversee the construction. It takes out all the guess work and almost all of the risk.
Learn how to find, fix and sell houses for profit!
FLIP is the third book to be released in the best-selling Millionaire Real Estate Series and provides a step-by-step guide to successfully finding, fixing and selling investment properties.
At the heart of FLIP is a proven five-stage model that really works in any market:
1. FIND: Select ideal neighborhoods, search for houses and attract sellers.
2. ANALYZE: Identify the improvements, and analyze the profit potential.
3. BUY: Arrange financing, present the offer and close on the purchase.
4. FIX: Develop and execute an improvement plan on time and in budget.
5. SELL: Add finishing touches to quickly sell for maximum profit.
#2 Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
By Chris Voss
A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home.
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists.
Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss’s head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives.
In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles—counterintuitive tactics and strategies—you too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life.
Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner.
Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion.
#3 UPSIDE: Profiting From The Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead
By Kenneth W. Gronbach
Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change.
For those who can read beyond the raw figures, they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.
What will happen when retiring Boomers free up jobs?
How will Generation Y alter supermarkets? Which states will have the most dynamic workforces? Will American manufacturing rebound as Asia’s population declines?
Upside puts this powerful yet little-understood science to work finding answers. Demographer Kenneth Gronbach synthesizes reams of data to show how generations impact markets and economies, and how to target promising trends.
Lively and full of surprises, the book explains:
- What each age group is likely to buy now and in coming decades
- How profits dovetail with consumer numbers
- What sectors are likely to grow or lag
- How to make sense of the numbers to chart your own path
- And more.
As waves of people are born and age, fortunes and futures are determined. Whether you’re an investor, marketer, executive, or entrepreneur, Upside helps you spot the potential for profits in ever-shifting demographics.
#4 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
By Robert B. Cialdini
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings.
Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion.
His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book.
You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader—and how to defend yourself against them.
Perfect for people in all walks of life, the principles of Influence will move you toward profound personal change and act as a driving force for your success.
#5 The Compound Effect
By Darren Hardy
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, based on the principle that little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default.
No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond.
This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire.
If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want.
You will find strategies including:
- How to win--every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they're smarter, more talented or more experienced.
- Eradicating your bad habits (some you might be unaware of!) that are derailing your progress.
- The real, lasting keys to motivation--how to get yourself to do things you don't feel like doing.
- Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum. Catch this, and you'll be unstoppable.
- The acceleration secrets of super achievers. Do they have an unfair advantage? Yes they do, and now you can too!
#6 Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
By Tim Ferris
From the author:
For the last two years, I’ve interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show.
The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists.
For most of my guests, it’s the first time they’ve agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview. This unusual depth has helped make The Tim Ferriss Show the first business/interview podcast to pass 100 million downloads.
This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and ‘inside baseball’ you won’t find anywhere else. It also includes new tips from past guests, and life lessons from new ‘guests’ you haven’t met.
What makes the show different is a relentless focus on actionable details. This is reflected in the questions. For example: What do these people do in the first sixty minutes of each morning? What do their workout routines look like, and why?
What books have they gifted most to other people? What are the biggest wastes of time for novices in their field? What supplements do they take on a daily basis?
I don’t view myself as an interviewer. I view myself as an experimenter. If I can’t test something and replicate results in the messy reality of everyday life, I’m not interested.
Everything within these pages has been vetted, explored, and applied to my own life in some fashion. I’ve used dozens of the tactics and philosophies in high-stakes negotiations, high-risk environments, or large business dealings.
The lessons have made me millions of dollars and saved me years of wasted effort and frustration.
I created this book, my ultimate notebook of high-leverage tools, for myself. It’s changed my life, and I hope the same for you.
#7 Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact
By Phil Jones
Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count.
Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over fifty countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.
#8 How Successful People Grow
By John Maxwell
Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow?
John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and here, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential.
In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches . . .
- The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
- The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself
- The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow
- The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be
- The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others
This compact read will help readers become lifelong learners whose potential keeps increasing and never gets "used up.
#9 Sell It Like Serhant: How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine
By Ryan Serhant
A lively and practical guide to sell anything and up your business game from one of the top realtors in the world and costar of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York and Sell It Like Serhant.
Ryan Serhant was a shy, jobless hand model when he entered the real estate business in 2008 at a time the country was on the verge of economic collapse.
Just nine years later, he has emerged as one of the top realtors in the world and an authority on the art of selling.
Whether you are selling a brownstone or a hot tub, golf balls or life insurance, Serhant shares the secrets behind how to close more deals than anyone else, expand your business, and keep clients coming back to you.
Sell It Like Serhant is a smart, at times hilarious, and always essential playbook to build confidence, generate results, and sell just about anything.
You'll find tips on:
- The Seven Stages of Selling
- Getting FKD: How to Be a Time Manager, Not a Time Stealer
- Negotiating Like A BOSS
- "The One Who...": Everyone Needs a Hook
- Pulling the Indecisive Client Forward
- And Much More!
This book is the blueprint for how to go from sales scrub to sales machine.
Serhant provides useful lessons, lively stories, and examples that illustrate how anyone can employ his principles to increase profits and achieve success. Your measure of a good day will no longer depend on one deal or one client.
A good salesperson never closes a deal and wonders, "What now?" The next deal is already happening. Serhant shares practical guidance on how to juggle multiple deals at once and close all of them EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Whatever your business or expertise, Sell It Like Serhant will make anyone a master at sales.
Ready, set, GO!
#10 Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
By Jocko Willink
FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE--AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOM
Jocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special operations unit of the war in Iraq.
In Discipline Equals Freedom, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Extreme Ownership describes how he lives that mantra: the mental and physical disciplines he imposes on himself in order to achieve freedom in all aspects of life.
Many books offer advice on how to overcome obstacles and reach your goals―but that advice often misses the most critical ingredient: discipline. Without discipline, there will be no real progress.
Discipline Equals Freedom covers it all, including strategies and tactics for conquering weakness, procrastination, and fear, and specific physical training presented in workouts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes, and even the best sleep habits and food intake recommended to optimize performance.
Within these pages discover the keys to becoming stronger, smarter, faster, and healthier. There is only one way to achieve true freedom: The Way of Discipline. Read this book and find The Way.
I have hundreds of books on property investing – the 10 above are the ones I would recommend to anybody getting started. I hope you've found this list valuable.
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