Making Your Real Estate Fortune--Robert Allen 490 pages
This ability to apply creative techniques to the particulars of a given transaction is a key ingredient to successful real estate investing.
The "big guys" have been doing this for decades--perhaps from time immemorial.
No one in the upper echelons of investing puts their own money on the line.
It is always OPM ("other people's money") that makes the macro world of real property enterprise go around. This insight has filtered slowly to the rest of us down on Main Street.