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Authors: Frank Gallinelli
ISBN-13: 9780071445436, ISBN-10: 0071445439
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Frank Gallinelli is founder and president of RealData® Inc., one of the top software companies for individual real estate investors. He is the author of What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow.
Your complete reference guide to finding, financing, and building a portfolio of exceptional investment properties
Insider Secrets to Financing Your Real Estate Investments is today's most comprehensive examination of financing alternatives for real estate investors. From types, terms, and sources of mortgage loans to tips for convincing even the most demanding lender, it provides everything you need to know to overcome one of real estate investing's most important hurdlesgetting the money to buy the property.
More than that, however, this no-nonsense guidebook supplies you with a wide-ranging introduction to virtually every aspect of real estate investing. Vital topics covered include:
Real estate investing has allowed thousands of average Americans to start with a modest investment and build exceptional, lifelong wealth. But before you can excel, you must learn the basics. Insider Secrets to Financing Your Real Estate Investments is a boot camp for real estate investing, revealing what you need to know to succeed, why you need to know it and, most important, how to convince lenders to give you the money to start.
Frank Gallinelli is founder and president of RealData® Inc., one of the top software companies for individual real estate investors. He is the author of What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow.
Acknowledgments | ix | |
Introduction | xi | |
Part I | How to Choose A Real Estate Investment | |
1 | Identify Your Comfort Zone | 3 |
2 | Where Do You Find Good Properties to Buy? | 11 |
3 | Line Them Up-How to Compare Potential Investment Properties | 19 |
4 | Don't Get Burned-Doing Your Due Diligence | 39 |
Part II | Financing Your Investment Property | |
5 | Types, Terms, and Sources of Loans | 53 |
6 | How Much Can You Borrow? | 77 |
7 | All Cash, No Cash, or Some Borrowed Money? | 89 |
8 | Line Them Up Again-Comparing Loans | 115 |
9 | How Do You Convince a Lender to Finance Your Real Estate Investment? | 119 |
Part III | The Offer, the Closing, and Then What? | |
10 | What's Negotiable? | 145 |
11 | The Turning of the Screws-What the Lender May Demand | 149 |
12 | How to Read a Closing Statement | 153 |
13 | Forms of Ownership | 167 |
14 | The Morning After-What Do You Do Now That You're the Owner? | 173 |
Appendix | Loan Tables | 179 |
Glossary | 185 | |
Index | 197 |