Best books on Multi Family and Apartments?

[Account Closed]

Can anyone recommend some good books on multi family and apartment investing? 

Thanks in Advance!

[Jean Bolger]

 “Insider Secrets to Financing Your Real Estate Investments” by Frank Gallinelli. 

[Gerald Harris]

Here is a link from the Bigger Pockets Blog.   It will lead you to some great articles and great products as well. 

http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?s=multi+f...

[Account Closed]

Thank you both!

[Mike B.]

The Complete Guide to Investing in Apartment Buildings by Steve Berges

[Giovanni Isaksen]

@Account Closed  this BP forum thread has more good apartment reads-

http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/116743-multifamily-resources

[Doug McLeod]

Agree with Mike B.
Steve Berges book is excellent.

[Shelby Washington]

David Lindahl - Multi-Family Millions

David Lindahl - Emerging Real Estate Markets

[Account Closed]

Thank you @Doug McLeod and @Giovanni Isaksen 

[Account Closed]

Thanks @Shelby Washington  will check those out.

[Shelby Washington]

I plan on buying my first apartment building within the next two years. Those two books especially Muilti-Family Millions have so much useful information in them they're worth their weight in gold. Have you heard of David Lindahl?

[Darren Budahn]

Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, and Quads by Larry Loftis was very good

[Danielle J.]

Darren Budahn I have read sever books on this multifamily investing and this one is by far the easiest to read and it makes sense.

[Account Closed]

@Shelby Washington I have heard and seen his books but just through Amazon. Looks like Trump tapped him to do a book as well. About to add to my book list. Thank you very much!

[J Scott]

Originally posted by @Mike B.:

The Complete Guide to Investing in Apartment Buildings by Steve Berges

 First book I ever read on real estate investing, and still one of my favorites. 

[J Scott]

Originally posted by @Shelby Washington:

David Lindahl - Multi-Family Millions

David Lindahl - Emerging Real Estate Markets

 I don't read a lot of real estate books (most are crap), but I've read almost everything Lindahl has written and it's all been great.  

Lindahl and Berges are the only two multi-family authors you need (in my opinion)...

[Justin Knapp]

@Account Closed  - take a look at some CCIM courses. There are a few places online you can find their older class books for cheap. Solid information and no fluff.

[Bill Gulley]

Here is a tip on development, design, maintenance and engineering aspects, but not to marketing.

The federal government holds and operates the largest inventory of housing units in the country. You can get many free publications on management aspects from the Department of Defense, the Government Accounting Office, the Corps of Engineers and each military branch. Management has already been invented and fine tuned to a science, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. HUD properties are referred to as "owned housing".

Some research and you'll find maintenance schedules for boilers, HVAC, how electrical and plumbing systems are managed and maintained, you'll find cost estimates per sq ft and differences in low rise vs high rise, individual units like a 4 plex to single unit dwellings.

Much of this information that is already on the planet can be adopted directly to private properties, large corporate owners didn't start from scratch devising their management plans.

Need to look outside the investor world to the real estate world at times, you'll find excellent materials, tried and proven plans that already exist and it's free or has a very small cost involved. Much of it is online as well.

I'm surprised Frank used "inside secrets" as there aren't any, everything is pretty much public knowledge! :) 

[Account Closed]

BP Friends,

I'm wowed at the promptness of feedback and the willingness to share this knowledge. A sincere thank you @Bill Gulley and anyone else I may have forgotten. I see the "light" in participating in the BP forum. I'm off to dig up my first billion, haha.

[Aaron Ross]

Real estate mavericks is also a good book. Has a story of the large high rise developers and million plus square feet owners. Most started from a small background and worked the system hard.

[Steven Scott]

I like Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, and Quads by Larry Loftis also.  It is basically my plan for investing.