Today, I want to talk to you about the best books that you can be reading for
becoming more knowledgeable in real estate investing. So I've got a question
here. What are the best books on real estate investing? Listen, I want to be
really honest and upfront with you guys, you got to understand something about
this industry. It's something people probably don't want you to know but
there's a lot of books out there on real estate and a lot of them are based on
one person. Either getting lucky telling a half story or only doing a niche that
may not even be legal today. And it's amazing that you can have one success on
one deal and make 50 grand and all of a sudden, you're the expert. You write a
book and then everyone wants to start learning from you. My personal experience
is that, there's a lot of garbage out there in real estate. So do I have a ton
of real estate books to recommend to you? I don't. I will recommend a few to you
today but I think the bigger thing that I want you to understand is that, at the
end of the day, there's a lot of people that are interested in real estate
because you can make a lot of money with very little effort.
That's very true. I retired at 26 because of it and yet the other thing that I
learned is that you've got to find a niche and you've got to be super smart
and intelligent about it and better than a book is having a mentor. At any day of
the week, I would rather have a person or their system walking me through how to
do it versus then reading hypotheticals about how it goes. I mean I wrote a book
out there. If you haven't, you can download it for free. You can go over the
website and you can actually just pop in your name and email. I'll give you a
weekly newsletter to kind of keep you up-to-date on what's happening in the
real estate arena. I'll even show you some of my deals or invite you to do
some with me. But at the end of the day, my real estate book is going to share
with you a very specific system and if it weren't me telling you this, would be
like my advice might be, "hey go read that book and then go out and do it yourself."
Some will. Most won't. So make sure that when you really look at knowledge being
power, that it's really the application that's power. Now a couple of books that
really influenced me in a huge way, Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad"
Robert Kiyosaki didn't even really have a rich dad. It's really I think just it's
a novel. But it was a clever way to share an idea. The book is totally worth reading
because what it'll do is, it'll help you see whether you get that financial itch
scratch. It'll help you understand if real estate's going to be your play. Because
really, I think you got to catch the bug and be willing to dive deep and put in
some time and effort on it. I also really loved Robert Allen. He's written a couple
of books. You know multiple streams of income, books like that. But again, those
books are really designed to get you excited and get your mind thinking. And
Robert Allen's books were great for planning ideas to really get me to think
outside the box. I mean to become a successful real estate investor, you're
going to be thinking and acting totally different than what your parents taught
you growing up more than likely. Than what society or what school has taught
you. Reverses what college has taught you. I mean understand that entrepreneurs,
take on enormous risk, but have enormous possibilities that the system just can't
afford. They're not going to promote and they're not going to give you. These
books are really good for giving you ideas to really find out whether you
have an appetite to get outside the system. Now aside from those books or
even downloading my book, if you really want to be successful, you've got to find
a mentor. You got to find a system. There's a lot of systems out there. When
I wrote my book, I'll tell you the premise of it. I basically said wait a
second here I got my mentors and they're telling me there's 30 different
strategies and I've been reading up on them, but they're not all created equal.
There's good strategies and there's dumb strategies. And I wanted to know which
was best. So my book was basically my mathematical process of finding out
which of all strategies was best and that really served me. It was my
hypothesis. I based my portfolio on it. Retired at 26 after four and a half
years. It was totally awesome. I loved it. I've gone on to do so much real estate.
Today at ten thirty in a couple hours, I'm actually closing on a two and a half
million dollar commercial project. I'm thrilled about it. It's one of the
biggest cash cows of my life and I'm excited about it and yeah it all started
because a man recommended a book that was dated. I won't even tell you what it
was because it was effect from the 80s but I read that book. I caught fire and
what it did is it really plant an idea that I needed to get serious. So where do
books belong in your real estate endeavor? To get you excited, to open your
eyes, to give you some ideas but your next step from there is you've got to
get a system and you've got to get a mentor. By the way, I do offer a system
and I do offer mentorship between me Steven Miller and my entire team.
Check out the website. Get the book for free but beyond reading, when it's time
to actually take action, I got to a point my life where I said you know what? I
need things to be different. I need my life to change and I need to see that
money show up. No book was going to make that happen. But a system and a team did.
So when you finally get to that point where you're done learning about it and
you really want to do it, then check out that website where me and my team can
step in and get you crushing it in your world. If you haven't picked up your free
copy of "Straight path to Real estate" wealth", I've made it available in PDF and
also in mp3. All you got to do is head over to the website and then we'll get
that downloaded for you and then look forward to seeing you on the next video.
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