How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Getting Started

Tailor your approach to real estate investing with this valuable book from the co-hosts of The BiggerPockets Podcast; their life-changing, customized advice “will catapult you 5-10 years ahead of where you are now.” (Ryan Harris, Super Bowl 50 Champion and real estate investor)

Real estate investing can be a powerful way to build wealth and achieve true financial freedom. But it can be hard to know where to start: From BRRRR and flipping to short-term and long-term rentals, how do you know whether a real estate strategy fits your personality, lifestyle, and financial goals?

In this groundbreaking guide, two of the biggest names in the real estate business have teamed up to write the most comprehensive manual ever. How to Invest in Real Estate is the ultimate strategy guide to help you achieve personal and financial success through real estate investing. Josh Dorkin and Brandon Turner—longtime hosts of the world’s #1 real estate podcast, The BiggerPockets Podcast—use their insider knowledge to help you find the strategies and opportunities in real estate that match your resources and your goals.

Unlike most traditional real estate books, this one won’t tell you there is “one secret path” to success in real estate investing. Instead, you’ll find dozens of unique paths to profitability and discover more than forty inspiring true stories from real estate investors who are succeeding in today’s economy.

Inside, you’ll learn:

How to balance a full-time job with real estate projects—and earn more from both!

All about LLCs, corporations, and getting your friends and family on board with real estate investing

Eight unique property types and twenty-eight fantastic methods for finding great deals

Eleven powerful strategies for building wealth through real estate

Partnerships, BRRRR investing, and other creative ways to fund your deals

And so much more!

Brandon Turner is an author, entrepreneur, and active real estate investor with more than 500 rental units and dozens of rehabs under his belt. He is the Vice President of BiggerPockets, co-host of The BiggerPockets Podcast, and author of four books, including The Book on Rental Property Investing and The Book on Managing Rental Properties. Brandon has also been featured in numerous online and print publications―like Forbes.com, Entrepreneur.com, and Money Magazine―where he enjoys showing others the power and impact of real estate investing and financial freedom. A life-long adventurer, Brandon (along with his wife and daughter) splits his time between his home in Hawaii and various other destinations around the globe.

Joshua Dorkin is the founder of BiggerPockets, as well as a serial entrepreneur, investor, podcaster, publisher, educator, and co-author of How to Invest in Real Estate. He started BiggerPockets to help democratize the real estate investing landscape for himself and others, aiming to make it accessible for everyone, regardless of income or education. Today, BiggerPockets is the premier real estate investing website online with more than 1.7M members and reaching more than 70M people with the message of financial freedom through real estate investing. Joshua, along with his wife and three daughters, make their home in Denver, Colorado, and spend any time they can traveling, exploring, and adventuring.