The Book on Rental Property Investing
Brandon Turner · 2015
The Book on Rental Property Investing (2015) is a book by Brandon Turner on Real estate investing. Brandon Turner's hands-on playbook for building wealth with buy-and-hold rentals: how a single property pays you four different ways, how to run the numbers so no deal can fool you, and how to find, finance, and manage cash-flowing property.
The definitive nuts-and-bolts guide to buying rentals that actually cash flow, not hope-and-pray speculation.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of The Book on Rental Property Investing pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.
- Real estate builds wealth through **four wealth generators** working at once: monthly **cash flow**, your tenants paying down your **loan** (amortization), long-term **appreciation**, and **tax benefits** like depreciation, so one property earns you money four different ways.
- Buy for **cash flow**, not appreciation. Turner treats rising prices as a bonus, never the plan, banking on appreciation is speculation, while positive monthly cash flow pays you now and lets you survive a downturn instead of being forced to sell.
The other 5 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 9 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- Why Rentals Are a Wealth-Building Machine
- Cash Flow Is King: Never Speculate
- Pick a Niche and Master One Market
- Which Property Type Should You Buy?
- Running the Numbers Without Fooling Yourself
- The Down Payment Problem: Creative Financing
- Finding Deals: The LAPS Funnel
- BRRRR and Forcing Appreciation
- Landlording Without Losing Your Mind
Finish The Book on Rental Property Investing tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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