How to Invest in Rental Properties: Without Mortgaging Your Soul

by Mabel Armstrong

Book Overview

This book will teach you to: Set realistic investment goals; Find the best expert to consult; Uncover hidden sources of cash to pay for your investments; Find the right properties to buy; Decide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972892907
• ISBN13: 9780972892902
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Stone Pine Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A solid guide to turning a profit on small rental properties

How To Invest In Rental Properties Without Mortgaging Your Soul is a solid guide to turning a profit on small rental properties, which provice the safest and highest return on investment and can offer supplemental income or retirement security. Chapters address common myths about real estate, how to finance one's purchase, managing one's business and the basics of fixing up property for fun and profit, common financial mistakes that women in particular are susceptible to (such as treating clothing as a financial investment or being reluctant to take even small risks), and much more. An excellent all-in-one introduction to the benefits and pitfalls of the real estate world.

An Empowering, Enjoyable Investment Guide

Mabel Armstrong has accomplished a difficult task with her book, How to Invest in Rental Properties without Mortgaging Your Soul. She has written a thorough, step-by-step investment guide with clear, accessible language and an encouraging, friendly tone. She explains basic investment principles in a simple, logical way, but personalizes the information she provides with individual case examples, many of them her own. To this reader, Armstrong sounds like a real estate investment expert; but because she provides stories of her own confusion and inexperience, I trusted her and believed I was capable of doing what she has done.If real estate investment seems like a dry subject, be prepared for a surprise. Armstrong's guide has an attractive cover and layout, a wonderful chapter on social responsibility, and an overall personal style I found thoroughly enjoyable. I felt as if I got to know this likeable author through her personal anecdotes, and felt as if she wouldn't mind if I telephoned her to ask for advice. In addition, the book is an empowering read: Even when the details get complicated, Armstrong breaks them down into orderly, do-able tasks, so the reader is left feeling I can do this! Though its focus is real estate, I'd recommend this book to anyone who is ready to learn more about taking responsibility for her money.