附註:Includes index.
Preface -- CHAPTER 1: Handyman Properties: A Niche of Opportunity -- Handyman Specials-The Rehab-and-Sell Strategy -- Just the Opposite-The Buy-and-Hold Strategy -- A Blueprint for the Novice Investor -- CHAPTER 2: The Real Estate Rehab Business Plan: Outline for Success -- Overview of Investment Strategy -- Finding Target Properties -- Determining the Purchase Price of Properties -- Buying and Financing Properties -- Home Inspections and Estimating Repairs -- Rehab Strategy -- Marketing and Sale of Completed Houses -- Profit Potential of Rehab Projects.
Cash Investment Requirements -- Pulling It All Together -- Is the Rehab Business Really for You? -- Getting Started -- CHAPTER 3: How to Find Your Real Estate Agent -- Real Estate Agents-Your New Best Friends -- How to Find Motivated Real Estate Agents -- The Real Estate Agent Mating Ritual -- The Buyer's Agent -- CHAPTER 4: Diamonds in Your Own Backyard: Characteristics of Neighborhoods and Target Fixer-Uppers -- The Number-One Criterion for Selecting Profitable Neighborhoods -- Older Neighborhoods -- Just Say No to Expensive Neighborhoods.
Fixer-Upper Candidates: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- CHAPTER 5: Working with Your Agent to Find Bargain Properties -- Goldmining for Properties in the MLS -- Dialing for Dollars with FSBOs -- CHAPTER 6: The Real Estate Underground: Foreclosures and Bank REOs -- Mortgage or Deed of Trust? -- The Three Foreclosure Markets -- Bank REO Market-Superstore for the Rehab Investor -- Bank REO Departments -- The Secret of Buying Bank REO Properties -- Government REOs-Steals and Deals from the Bureaucracy -- HUD's Infamous 203(k) Program -- More Government Giveaways.
CHAPTER 7: Count Your Chickens before They Hatch: Figure Your Profits before You Buy -- Start at the End -- Maximum Retail Value -- Go Figure-Calculating the Purchase Price -- CHAPTER 8: The Fine Art of Real Estate Appraisal: Determining Maximum Retail Value after Repairs -- Appraisal 101-The Basic Concepts -- The Sales Comparison Approach -- Three Criteria for Selecting Comparable Sales -- Adjustments-Correcting for Dif ferences -- Completing the Appraisal -- As-Repaired versus As-Is -- CHAPTER 9: Cash Is King in This Business: Even If You Don't Have Any!
Nothing Down-Alive and Well, but Dif ferent -- Expose Yourself-Briefly-to High Leverage -- All Cash, All Cash, All Cash -- No Money? No Problem-Here's Where to Get It! -- Jump-Start Your Investing with Partners -- How to Attract Money like a Magnet -- Other Sources of Money for Deals -- Is the Existing Loan Assumable? -- Structuring the Deal-Putting It All Together -- CHAPTER 10: Spotlight on the Private Mortgage Industry: Show Me the Money! -- The Games Bankers Play -- The Little-Known World of Private Mortgage Lending -- Private Lenders-Who Are These People Anyway?
