Build a Commercial Real Estate Empire: How to Scale to New Heights With the Right Financing, Deals, and Strategies

Build a Rental Property Empire has been a hugely successful book for Mark Ferguson, who is a house flipper (almost 200 completed), landlord, broker, blogger, and influencer. Mark started with residential properties, but when the market became too hot and cash flowing became more difficult, he switched to commercial real estate. After finding success, many of his followers asked for this book. Build a Commercial Real Estate Empire is not a fluffy motivational book about how rich you can become by investing in big real estate deals. It is a how-to book. It teaches you how to buy, finance, find, repair, manage, and value commercial real estate. It comes with more than 10 case studies that go into the details of deals Mark has done in the last 3 years, including the good, the bad, and the ugly. If you have any interest in commercial real estate—not multifamily residential apartments—but retail, industrial, and office space, this is the book for you. If you are looking to simply dump huge amounts of money into big commercial properties, this is not the book for you. This book shows you how to add value, get great deals, and refinance properties to take cash out for bigger deals…all while bringing in substantial monthly income. Real estate is a wonderful business with so many opportunities. Commercial real estate is an often-overlooked niche, which means there is a ton of opportunity. The book covers:What the book covers:Commercial Real Estate Strategies

• Intro
• How I got Into Commercial Real Estate
• Start Big or Small?
• The Basics of Commercial Real Estate
• Commercial Versus Multifamily
• What Type of Commercial Properties Do I Like?
• Where Should You Buy Commercial Rentals?

Commercial Numbers, Analysis, and How-To

• What Makes a Deal a Deal
• What Is the CAP Rate, and Why Is It So Important?
• How to Find Deals on Commercial Real Estate
• Financing Commercial Real Estate
• Commercial Appraisals
• How to Find Tenants and Manage Properties
• How does Tenant Improvement (TI) work?
• Commercial Leases
• Repairs and Contractors
• Be Prepared for the Waiting Game!
• Taxes, Opportunity Zones, and 1031 Exchanges
• Working with Partners and Syndication

Case Studies

• Case Study #1: My First Commercial Property
• Case Study #2: 7,000-Square-Foot Office Building
• Case Study #3: A Steal From Facebook
• Case Study #4: One of My Best Deals Ever
• Case Study #5: $2 Million? Was I Ready?
• Case Study #5 Part 2: Adding Millions in Value
• Case Study #5 Part 3: BRRR on a Big Scale
• Case Study #6: Vacant for How Long?
• Case Study #7: My First Mixed Use
• Case Study #8: History in the Making
• Case Study #9: Don’t Ignore the Small Deals
• Case Study #10: “The Compound”