New to Real Estate · Pittsburgh, PA · Member since 2020 · 51 posts · 13 votes
Has anyone read any books that they thought to be particularly helpful? I’m pretty familiar with a lot of the bigger hitters, but would love to discover some books with less notoriety.
St. Louis. MO · Member since 2019 · 19 posts · 36 votes
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@John Neff
You said you had read the heavy hitters, so I'll take that as rich dad and Millionaire Real Estate Investor. The most helpful book I've read so far has been Never Split the difference by Chris Voss, not real estate specific, but I applied it to REI as well as my job, and it was huge on my last offer.
New to Real Estate · Pittsburgh, PA · Member since 2020 · 51 posts · 13 votes
6y
@Chris Levarek Thank you for the suggestions! I definitely am interested in building relationship, and communication skills. Looking forward to using these tools.
Realtor · Gatlinburg, TN · Member since 2018 · 261 posts · 155 votes
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@John Neff a spreadsheet to run numbers is all you need.
99% of RE books are rah-rah rants to motivate potential buyers into action or authors/ghostwriters rewriting what other successful authors have written many years ago.
New to Real Estate · Pittsburgh, PA · Member since 2020 · 51 posts · 13 votes
6y
@Matt Castle I agree. Some books are so cheesy that it’s nearly impossible to read past the first chapter. I’ll definitely continue to analyze deals & hone in my due diligence process. Thanks man!
Rental Property Investor · Syracuse, NY · Member since 2019 · 13 posts · 3 votes
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@John Neff
Hey John - one outside the box is “Can’t Hurt Me” by David Goggins. I believe before I got into RE for good, I needed a mindset reset. I’ve always had big aspirations, but just wasn’t true to myself, knowing it’s a lot of hard work to get there. You being on this forum makes it obvious you’re looking to be better than your yesterday - Kudos for that.
But if you’re not willing to make CONSISTENT, TOUGH choices EVERYDAY (I.e Health, sleep, nutrition, exercise, etc) then all the RE books in the world don’t matter. Maybe you’re way ahead in that than me, but I believe we need to work on ourselves first before anything else.