This book contains the real estate investment histories of four highly successful individuals. Within this publication, the investors describe the paths they took that resulted in the creation of four separate, self-sustaining real estate empires. Self-sustaining means that the companies they started would continue to flourish without the day-to-day input of the founder. To fulfil such a qualification, the founder must have built a company consisting of a group of independent real estate entrepreneurs who are capable of managing and growing the business to the next level of success. The investors contributing to this book have achieved that goal.

The Empire Builders has been designed and written to help empower others in the Real Estate Industry to grow a successful business. The Empire Builders shares with readers proven methods and systems to build the basic foundation of a Real Estate career. Each chapter is broken down into successful methods that have built powerhouse Real Estate Agents/Teams and Administrators. The goal is to empower readers to build a relationship with their Admin, repair/rebuild the one they have, and more importantly build a foundation to their growing business. These methods are not a secret, they are just ones that require a passion for Real Estate, the understanding of leverage and will require hard work. The Empire Builders is an Operation Manual for a business and within, readers discover their Secret Weapon.

Transform your real estate business into a sales powerhouse In The High-Performing Real Estate Team, experienced real estate coach Brian Icenhower shares the systems and secrets of top real estate agents and brokerages. The book offers actionable systems and processes that can be immediately implemented to take you, your fellow agents, and your team or brokerage to the next level. Focusing on the 20% of activities that drive expansion, this book shows you how to create renewed enthusiasm, productivity, engagement, and exponential growth at your real estate team. With this book, you will: Discover how to create a viral goal that spreads throughout your team and drives change Learn to focus on core activities that result in the majority of your growth and productivity Cultivate personal responsibility with public accountability and accelerate growth with a custom team dashboard that measures metrics for success Written for real estate agents, teams, brokerages and franchise owners, The High-Performing Real Estate Team is an indispensable resource that will guide you toward growth while providing you with the resources and downloadable materials to reach your goals faster.

Build a Rental Property Empire has been a hugely successful book for Mark Ferguson, who is a house flipper (almost 200 completed), Landlord, Broker, Blogger, and Influencer. Mark started out with residential properties but when the market became too hot to cash flow in residential he switched to commercial real estate. After finding success in commercial real estate many of his followers have asked for this book on commercial real estate.Build a Commercial Real Estate Empire is not a fluffy motivational book about how rich you can be investing in big real estate deals. It is a how to book. How to buy, finance, find, repair, manage, and value commercial real estate. It comes with more than 10 case studies that go into the details of deals Mark has done in the last 3 years. The good, the bad, and the ugly.If you are interested at all in commercial real estate. I do not mean multifamily residential apartments, but retail, industrial, office space, this is the book for you.If you are looking to simply dump huge amounts of money into big commercial properties this is not the book for you. This book shows you how to add value, how to get great deals, and how to refinance the properties to take cash out for bigger deals. All while bringing in quite a bit of monthly income. Real estate is a wonderful business with so many opportunities. Commercial real estate is an often-overlooked niche, which means there is a ton of opportunity.What the book covers:Commercial Real Estate Strategies Intro How I got Into Commercial Real Estate Start Big or Small? The Basics of Commercial Real Estate Commercial Versus Multifamily What Type of Commercial Properties Do I Like? Where Should You Buy Commercial Rentals? Commercial Numbers, Analysis, and How-To What Makes a Deal a Deal What Is the CAP Rate, and Why Is It So Important? How to Find Deals on Commercial Real Estate Financing Commercial Real Estate Commercial Appraisals How to Find Tenants and Manage Properties How does Tenant Improvement (TI) work? Commercial Leases Repairs and Contractors Be Prepared for the Waiting Game! Taxes, Opportunity Zones, and 1031 Exchanges Working with Partners and Syndication Case Studies Case Study #1: My First Commercial Property Case Study #2: 7,000-Square-Foot Office Building Case Study #3: A Steal From Facebook Case Study #4: One of My Best Deals Ever Case Study #5: $2 Million? Was I Ready? Case Study #5 Part 2: Adding Millions in Value Case Study #5 Part 3: BRRR on a Big Scale Case Study #6: Vacant for How Long? Case Study #7: My First Mixed Use Case Study #8: History in the Making Case Study #9: Don't Ignore the Small Deals Case Study #10: "The Compound"

We admire them. We want to be them. But we don't understand how they do it. How do commercial real estate investors create portfolios worth billions? As an experienced investor, you know that patience and hard work are equally as important as trying to take your available cash and leverage it toward your next deal. But according to real estate advisor Brent Sprenkle, building a substantial portfolio requires a unique drive to weather any storm and keep pushing forward. In Billion Dollar Portfolio, Brent shows you how to purchase multiple investment properties and maximize your growth by leveraging your resources-even the ones you didn't know you had. You'll learn how to find the right properties, finance and reposition them, increase their value, and sell or refinance them for a profit. With the stories of his most successful investors, you'll see how you too can endure the ups and downs of the business to ultimately build your own billion-dollar portfolio.

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Empire Builders tells the story of Oris P. and Mantis J. Sweringen, two brothers from Wooster, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although they were born into abject poverty, Oris was an extraordinary visionary who, with the help of his devoted younger brother, amassed a vast fortune in real estate and railroad developments. Their major breakthrough came in 1913 with the establishment of Shaker Heights, an affluent garden suburb connected by a brand-new interurban railroad to the booming midwestern metropolis of Cleveland. The Van Sweringens' ascension after Shaker Heights was meteoric, and it culminated with the construction of the 52-story Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland in 1927. However, the country's economy came crashing down after the 1929 stock market collapse, and their empire crumbled around them. Empire Builders is the first new biography of the Van Sweringen brothers in more than twenty years. In it, architectural photographer and local history author Lauren R. Pacini tells the remarkable story of the Van Sweringen brothers through words and images. This richly illustrated volume features more than 150 new photographs of the still-fabulous historic homes the brothers built throughout greater Cleveland. The foreword is written by John J. Grabowski.