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.
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.
Mindset by Carol Dweck - teaches to foster a growth mindset and that the pursuit itself of a skill or goal versus the end result and the embrace of failure on the journey is far more beneficial than to never try at all.
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson - the importance of small daily actions will lead to big results overtime.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - got me started on my journey in real estate and wealth creation. More importantly to break out of the worker drone mentality.
A more under the radar book is Rental Houses for the Successful Small Investor by Suzanne P. Thomas. Really breaks it down and helped me better understand the process
Some great books with real in depth detail are here on bigger pockets. I have recently read :
Rental Property Investing
Book on Flipping Houses
Book on estimating Rehab costs
90 Day Journal ( good to focus on goals)
Other good overall business mindset books and general personal development books are:
Any Tim Ferris’s book
Extreme Ownership
Unshakable (finance)
Work the system
Awaken the giant within
The millionaire fast lane
The E-Myth
10x rule
Next on my reading list is:
David Greene's BRRRR book
Long distance real estate investing
Landlording on autopilot
When I first started reading stuff I didn’t want to waste the time or money on books, what started as a small habit of maybe a few pages a week or so turned into about a book or 2 a month and a large library of books, definitely attribute my progress over the last few years to the books I’ve read!! Hope some of these help!
@John Neff Not real estate related, but the E Myth has been blowing my mind lately. That book gives such a great layout of how you should structure your business for how you want to live your life. 👍🏾📚
This book changes the way I looked at money, paying myself first, and how to make your saving grow. Easy to read and goes well beyond real estate to everyday life.