Real Estate Investing Essentials

This ebook teaches how to evaluate real estate investments using numbers rather than gut feel, and gives them four beginner strategies they can match to their own situation, capital, and risk tolerance. It walks them from understanding how investment property generates returns to running a full property screen.

What's Inside:

• How rental income, appreciation, and equity build returns.
• A framework for choosing one of four investment strategies.
• How to run a property screen and calculate cash flow.
• How to read a cap rate and cash-on-cash return correctly.
• A checklist for spotting red flags before the first offer.

What Readers Will Learn:

• Why most first-time investors overpay and how to avoid it.
• How to choose the right strategy for the current situation.
• How to calculate cash flow on any property quickly.
• What due-diligence red flags look like before the offer.
• How to build a repeatable process for future deals.