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The Skinny on Real Estate Investing An Introduction to the Subject (Part 1) By Jim Randel llustration: Malinda Nass Rand Publishing (2009), 163 panels ISBN 10: 0981893562 ISBN 13: 978-0981893563

Reviewed by Israel Drazin - April 27, 2010

This book is part one of two books on real estate investing. It teaches the basics of how to make money with real estate and how to avoid losses. It addresses subjects such as:

• Tricks some people use to scam potential investors to pay money to learn how to invest in real estate.
• The meaning of terms such as cash flow.
• Risks involved in buying a house or property.
• How to calculate a return on an investment, including what needs to be in the calculation.
• When to walk away from an offer.
• Why real estate, unlike stocks and bonds, is an active investment that is time consuming.
• How to get money to invest.

In short, this small book offers the basic information that people who are considering investing in real estate need to know. The information is presented in a generally humorous fashion using a dramatization of a husband and wife who are considering such an investment.

• The Skinny on Real Estate Investing II
  
  
• The Skinny on Real Estate Investing III

Dr. Israel Drazin is the author of fifteen books, including a series of five volumes on the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, which he co-authors with Rabbi Dr. Stanley M. Wagner, and a series of four books on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonides, the latest being Maimonides: Reason Above All, published by Gefen Publishing House, www.gefenpublishing.com. The Orthodox Union (OU) publishes daily samples of the Targum books on www.ouradio.org

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