The 5 Best Books On Property Investment (Ep68) - YouTube

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Today I wanted to talk about the five best books on property investment that you should
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read if you are an Australian and considering investing in property.
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I am Ryan McClain from PositiveCashFlowAustralia.com.au where I teach people like your how to find
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and invest in positive cash flow property and if you want more information and details,
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step-by-step guides on how to find positive cash flow properties, then I put that all
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in my product membership site which is PositiveCashFlowAcademy.com.
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So you can head over there and sign up if you are interested in knowing exactly how
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to find positive cash flow properties.
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Today, I am talking about books and more specifically the five books that I recommend for Australian
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property investors.
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Book #1, which I have talked about a myriad of times on this podcast is Steve McKnight's
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book 0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years.
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This is like my pinnacle of real estate investing books and one of the reasons I love this book
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so much is that when I was 16 and when I was about to get on an airplane and go on a family
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holiday, I picked up this book and made my dad buy it for me and it changed the way I
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thought about property forever and it is probably the reason why this website and this video
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exists today.
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0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years is great because it showed Steve and his business partners
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venture on how they actually accomplish this fate and it also goes into details about individual
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properties and it looks through the numbers and how he got the point where it was positively
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cash flow and what his cash-on-cash return is.
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So it is a really great book because it talks about the property market in Australia, talks
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about managing your finances.
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It looks it had a __1:58____ cash flow properties and overall it is just a fantastic rate.
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Also covers things like property wraps which is when you sell by own or finance, when you
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already have a loan on the property and it goes into all these great details and I recommend
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it as the #1 buy.
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So if you want to get access to that, you can purchase it through Fishpond which is
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an Australia bookstore, got to pca.im/130.
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That is an affiliate link.
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You will not pay anymore, but it helps to support PositiveCashFlowAustralia.
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So thank you very much if you go through that book.
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Book #2 is How to Create an Income for Life, which is my Margaret Lomas.
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So Margaret has written many books.
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I think it is going on 10 or more now about investing in property in Australia and more
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specifically investing in positive cash flow property.
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I remember reading one of her books.
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It was the Pocket Guide to Positive Cash Flow Property and I was reading it as I was driving
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with my dad from Sydney to Lifco when I was about 17 years old to go out and look at property
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out there.
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So I have read many of her books and this one How to Create an Income for Life is my
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favorite of hers and it is a great read to teach you not just about investing in positive
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cash flow property, but more about how to think about investing in property so that
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you can attain financial freedom in the link, it is pca.im/incomeforlife.
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Book #3, which is From 0 to Financial Freedom which again is by Steve McKnight, but it is
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its most recent book.
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So obviously since 2001 when he first released 0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years, the Australian
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market has changed dramatically and the property market is not what it used to be and Steve's
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strategy of buying cheap properties that were positively __4:00____ 130 of them may know
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what for every investor today.
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So Steve takes a fresh look at the property market and how he would go about achieving
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financial freedom.
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Again, if he was to start investing in 2013 or 2014 or 2015.
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So From 0 Financial Freedom is a great read that you should get your hands on as well.
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So just go to pca.im/freedom if you are interested in that one.
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Book #4 it is an oldy but it is a goody and it is Seven Steps to Accelerated Wealth by
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John Fitzgerald.
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This was one of an early, one the first property books I read after I read Steve McKnight's
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book and it was given to me by my pastor at that time.
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I went to him, he was a successful property investor and I said I want to learn about
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property, I want to become a successful investor and he lend me this book to read and it does
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not talk about positive cash flow property per se but it talks about neutral cash flow
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property.
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It talks about building well through growing the equity and growing the capital gains and
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even achieving financial freedom through the growth in equity that you can attain.
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So I do suggest reading that book as well.
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Just go to pca.im/7steps.
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Book #5 is Rich Dad's Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki.
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This is not specifically a property investing book but it does talk about property investing
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in general and it also goes into more detail about share tradings and using options and
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stuff in shares as well.
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So to great overview that anyone who is interested in learning more about investing.
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The reason I love this book is it leads on from Rich Dad, Poor Dad and the Cash Flow
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Quadrant which are two books that I recommend as well.
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But he talks about how he recommends people investing property because it is like a mini
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business and it helps us to understand cash flow in, cash flow out, and helps us to learn
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and to manage that and I think one of the best things that we can get as investors is
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experience and Robert Kiyosaki just gives us a great overview of investing in general
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and investing in property as well.
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It is a very easy read.
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He uses lot of stories and I got the audio book and I went through it in like a day because
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it was just so good and that was the second time that I have been through it as well.
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So, today you have the five best books on property investment that I recommend.
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If you are an Australian property investor or if you are wanting to get into the property
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market, again it is 0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years by Steve McKnight, How to Create
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an Income for Life by Margaret Lomas, From 0 to Financial Freedom by Steve McKnight,
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Seven Steps to Accelerated Wealth by John Fitzgerald, and Rich Dad's Guide to Investing
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by Robert Kiyosaki.
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The #1 that I recommend is still 0 to 130 Properties and the link for that, if you are
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listening to the podcast and did not quite catch it, is pca.im/130 and that will redirect
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you to Fishpond.
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I buy all my books through Fishpond.com.au because it is kind of like Amazon in Australia,
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not quite as good but it has the biggest range and I will find that if I go to a book store.
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There are so many of them that have closed down but they never have the book that I want.
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I always had to order it in and I may just buy it online, it is cheaper anyway and so
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I always go through Fishpond.
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So I hope that this has helped you look at some books.
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If you want to look at our full list of 30 books, go to PositiveCashFlowAustralia.com.au/books
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and you can get a full list of 30 books that I recommend.
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So if you get through the five and you want to keep going, then there is more for you
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over there.
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So until tomorrow, stay positive.
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Here is a link to go to another video that I recommend if you want to get educated and
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you want to invest in property right and it is a video about assets and liabilities and
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redefining them and not just necessarily take what the dictionary says or what our accountant
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says, but actually redefine assets and liabilities so that they work for us and so that they
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help us to achieve financial freedom, which is our goal anyway.
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