HOLD

By: Steve Chader, Jennice Doty, Jim McKissack, Linda McKissack, Jay Papasan

Narrated by: Paul Keith, Laura Seaton

Length: 7 hrs

Publisher's Summary

Take HOLD of your financial future! Learn how to obtain financial freedom through real estate. The final book in Gary Keller's national best-selling Millionaire Real Estate Investor trilogy teaches the proven, reliable real estate investing process to achieve financial wealth:

• 1. Find - the right property for the right terms and at the right price.
• 2. Analyze - an offer to make sure the numbers and terms make sense.
• 3. Buy - an investment property where you make money going in.
• 4. Manage - a property until it's paid for or you have a large amount of equity to leverage.
• 5. Grow - your way to wealth and financial freedom.

©2013 Rellek Publishing Partners, Ltd. (P)2013 Rellek Publishing Partners, Ltd.

Critic Reviews

"When it comes to getting results in real estate investing, HOLD will have you learning best practices from the industry's leading experts. It is a practical must-read to begin your personal journey into real estate wealth." (Tony Jeary, The RESULTS Guy)

Ecellent book on buy and hold (rentals)

Where does HOLD rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I have owned rental properties for 7 years so have some knowledge and experience in this area already. This is an excellent book specifically for buying and holding properties as rentals. One of the best I have read/listened to so far. Anyone that is serious about getting into Real Estate should use many sources for information and learning on an ongoing basis, there are other good books out there and a lot of resources available if you look. You can always learn something new and if you only pick up one new good idea that makes you a few thousand dollars then a $25 book and a few hours is well worth it.This book focuses more on the act of finding, evaluating and buying rental properties, good how to information, not so much about managing properties or being a Landlord and dealing with landlord tenant issues and that is ok because I am not aware of any claims by the authors that this is a landlording book, this is a book about buying rentals as a business and investment. "Landloring" by Leigh Robinson is a great book for more nuts and bolts of actually being a landlord. Hold and Landlording together would give someone a good education if they are new or experienced already.I really enjoyed and highly recommend all three books by this company, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, Flip, and Hold. All very good and went over a lot of the actual how to information and RE strategy.

Who was your favorite character and why?

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Which character – as performed by Paul Keith and Laura Seaton – was your favorite?

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Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It was a very educational book that helped to encourage me to buy more rental properties and helped answer a few questions I had that was unsure of but now feel much more comfortable with.

Any additional comments?

Buy this and all the other books by Gary Keller's company that interest you. As mentioned above I have read all three on this subject and liked them a lot and am planning on rereading them once a year along with a few other really good books.

23 of 24 people found this review helpful

Very amazing buy and hold step-by-step book

An amazing step-by-step on guide for real estate investment using the buy and hold strategy. It covers all the steps in pretty good detail from initially looking for investment property and analysis all the way through acquisition, managing the investment and tenants and expanding the real estate investment portfolio. I feel all the tips and info are useful and practical and planning to put them in practice sooner than later. There is a lot of info from this book, luckily I also have the kindle version to jump in quickly for reference. All in all an amazing book I would recommend, especially to those trying to get started into buying and holding property and looking to increase cash flow.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Very Informative and Inspirational

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, it gives a step by step process for building financial wealth through rental properties. It's exactly what I was looking for!

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Which character – as performed by Paul Keith and Laura Seaton – was your favorite?

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If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

The Wolf of Rental Properties

Any additional comments?

Awesome! A+

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Great Information!

The book has a lot of information to digest. Take notes, bookmark, whatever it takes to remember. Then, take action!

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Great foundation and overview of real estate investment!

Great amount of information and practical examples to drive the points home.

Great book for someone looking to get into real estate investment.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Excellent book for new real estate investors!!

Provides way more detail than Keller's first book (How to be millionaire real estate investor) and is very informative. Provides sample worksheets and many figures to view while listening. So far this is the most valuable audiobook on real estate I have listened too yet.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Detailed and in depth

Picks up where the millionaire real estate investor leaves off. This book however in very little fluff and motivation, it breaks down buying to own in a very detailed manner and walks you through two comparative properties for every situation. AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ/LISTEN if your getting into investing.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Nuggets of gold, worth the read.

Nuggets of gold information throughout this book. Worth the read or re-read. Online handouts are available for free and help to diagram and supplement the audio book.

3 of 4 people found this review helpful

High level but good

If you already have rental property, 50% of the book will be refreshers that you probably already know. It's littered with good nuggets and tons of practical applications. Good deep dive on leverage as well as a good formula for anything from sniff tests to full modeling.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

great book

although I have read many books on real estate investing. This one by far does the best job of laying things out step by step by step. And also offer worksheets and figures to help you understand.