Rental Houses for the Successful Small Investor

by Suzanne P. Thomas

A guidebook for the small investor who wants to invest in single family rental houses. Chapters guide the reader through setting meaningful and realistic goals, locating money for down payments, selecting good properties to buy, getting a loan without doing "creative financing" gyrations, managing tenants with a minimum of time, writing leases and getting good landlord insurance, and eventually doing a tax deferred exchange. Written clearly with the beginner in mind, but including the information an experienced investor needs to learn.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 14, 1999

Reviews

[Marshall Hunt]

Good info, but a lot of the information is based on successful circumstances, not what always happens. Didn't face a down market.

[Brian Henderson]

This is a great starter book for someone who needs to understand the basic fundamentals of renting a house. Thomas discusses why real estate is the key to early retirement, rental management, taxes, laws, mortgages, property selection, leases, tenant selection, etc...

The book is very simply written for the newbie.