Excellent Guide to Beginning an Investment Career

This book is absolutely fantastic. Gary Keller has written a guide that is extremely easy to understand, motivational, and overpowed with knowledge of investing in real estate. I do not currently own any real estate, but I now have meeting setup with an agent next week - no joke. This book provides the tools necessary to get over the fear I had of investing in real estate. I know that with this book as my guide, my investing strategy is going to change substantially. I now realize that you do not have to be wealthy to start out in real estate. The opportunities are there. You just have to be willing to take the next step. I look forward to the future and my future as a Millionaire Real Estate Investor.

MK

I just received this book and I purchased it based on the 5 starts given by other readers. I am very disappointed. The book is full of "fluff" to cut to the chase. It keeps on talking about all these different paralells about how one choose not miss opportunities. It lacks on specifics.
I expected some real pointers on what potential investors should do to get traction on their real estate investment. What mistakes to avoid. How to properly evaluate proterties. Look at cash flow etc. Real investment issues.

Big disappointment. I plan on returning this book.

Of all my real estate investments... this book ranks #1

My daily mail arrived as it does each day at 3:00. A stuffed Express Mail packet at the bottom of the stack catches my attention. It's my copy of 'The Millionaire RE Investor.' I fan the pages casually when the phone rings. It's my 3:00 appointment. The conversation ensues while I hold open to page one. I'll read it after the call. First few pages. Then shelve it. After all, I have a technology company to run and a big contract to close.

3:35 - deal completed. Another notch on a belt riddled with notches. Gonna need a new belt pretty soon. I look down and think back on all the books responsible for my success. Both personal and business. Books that honed my skill to reel in the type of contracts that grow companies. That can be closed in a 35-minute call.

I scan page one. Basically I'm not committing. After all, I'm an experienced investor. What I don't know I can fit into ...

... this entire book. 75 pages later. It's 5:35. I've held all calls. Put off my end of day meetings with staff. It's me and Keller. The Millionaire Real Estate Investor. The book comes home with me. I take it to bed. And proceed to stay up until 4:00 a.m. and just about finish it. And I thought only Dan Brown and Elmore Leonard could do that to me.

8:00 a.m. I'm back at my desk. A Starbucks IV inserted into my veins. My conference bridge has my mortgage guy here in CA. My Cyberstar Realtor in Portland. My financial planner in NYC. I'm orchestrating a real estate deal I never thought possible. And it was there under my nose all the time. Only two things could have made this happen; a nose job or this book.

Kellers book is for those who invest. But truthfully it's really for those who don't or who will someday. The psychological path Keller takes especially in the re-enacted dialogue with his students throughout, reads with a Hollywood script like fluidity. Think Mamet. Calculated. Pinpoint. With a clarity that marks Keller as not just a great thinker and teacher but as a great writer as well.

To that end, it is going to be a while before the book finds its home on the shelf. I have 4 children and this is going to be their required reading. Not out of greed to amass fortunes. But for reasons far nobler than you could imagine. Read and become enlightened.