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The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing from BiggerPockets.com

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This beginner's guide to real estate investing (approximately 30,000 words), from the leader in real estate investing education, networking, and dealmaking, BiggerPockets.com, contains eight chapters, each focusing on a specific part of your investing journey. If you can master these, you increase your chance of building wealth through real estate and minimize the risk of failure or loss. This guide will walk you through the following: - How to Invest in Real Estate - Your Real Estate Investing Education - Choose Your Real Estate Niche and Strategies - Create Your Real Estate Business Plan - Find The Best Investment Properties - Financing Your Real Estate Investments - Mastering Real Estate Investment Marketing - Knowing and Executing Your Exit Strategies As you work your way through this guide, remember that this is not all-encompassing. It is a 40,000 foot view of how real estate investing works and is designed to give you the basic tools to get past the all important question of how to get started. As you read along, make note of any questions or highlights and then come back to BiggerPockets.com and search the site or ask questions on our forums to learn more about anything on your mind.

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