I thought this book would be helpful in buying my first house, however being published in 2006, this book has become insanely outdated and does not match the current obscenity that is Real Estate in Ontario, and Canada as a whole. It completely feels like I will never be able to afford my own house, I have been priced out of the market and that is discouraging and devastating.

This book is better off as fire starter now, and I never say that about books. I'm dropping it off at a free library box.

"I liked it." - 3 out of 5 star rating.

A book about a whole bunch of really great topics, that I am already fully aware of and have been exposed to numerous times prior to reading this one.

Of course, this comes to no fault to the author. In the land of Financial / Retirement / Investment / Real Estate books, the balloon is overfilled so much... a mere whispered breath could cause it to pop. What I mean by that is, there are more books within this category that you can shake a stick at - to illustrate my point in an old timey way.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this, but again there are about 400 other books on the shelf that say the same thing for the most part, with slightly different variants one way or another.

Hell, there are so many of these types of books that say nearly the same thing, I might as well write my own and join the party. Maybe one day.

What I do appreciate about Bach and this book is that he is all about the long game and very risk adverse - which definitely aligns with my way of thought for the most part.

If you've never read a book like this before, or maybe only 1-2 others at the most, you'll likely really enjoy this and probably land it at a 4 star rating.

3 or more books of this category... and what you get here is a nicely done refresher content quick read.

Great for an introduction for people that have limited understanding of real estate.

Some things in here I know I'm going to use! The best part about this book is that the author repeats many times, that people who buy lots of houses just to flip them are stupid jerks who ruin it for everyone else.