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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Thank you, MJ!Just ordered, glad to support this - and I think the concept is rock solid if applied in the right geographic location. (Just so happens I'm in that location, ha ha).
Thank you!!!Not a big digital book fan, so I just ordered the paperback.
I've actually been trying to work through a strategy like this numbers wise in various locations. So I'm hoping your book will speed up my mental clarity here.
Cheers.
Thanks so much for your support!I'm apart of the club!
Hahah I feel honored! It's an easy read. Please enjoy, @G-Man !It's so mother effing annoying how you can't copy text from Kindle browser reader into One Note anymore. Anybody got a fix?
BTW, @JustAskBenWhy I need to know because I went ahead and started your book. My Sowell book will now sit on the shelf with a bookmark halfway through it for the next 6 months, dammit.
@Scot - thank you for your support!!!Just purchased it. To be honest, not something I'll plan on doing myself, but for $0.99 to help a forum member out, definitely!
It's so mother effing annoying how you can't copy text from Kindle browser reader into One Note anymore. Anybody got a fix?
Thank you so much, Mike! Please leave a review when appropriateI set an alarm yesterday so I wouldn't forget to buy. I read almost exclusively via Kindle on my Android device so 99 cents was a great deal, but I would also have paid $16.99. I was on a road trip so I stopped at McDonald's and read the introduction--already I feel I'm in for a great book! I'll be switching back and forth between House Hacking and Burton Malkiel's Random Walk Down Wall Street.
Thank you so much, Mike!I set an alarm yesterday so I wouldn't forget to buy. I read almost exclusively via Kindle on my Android device so 99 cents was a great deal, but I would also have paid $16.99. I was on a road trip so I stopped at McDonald's and read the introduction--already I feel I'm in for a great book! I'll be switching back and forth between House Hacking and Burton Malkiel's Random Walk Down Wall Street.
Thank you so much, Mike!
Thank you!Got my copy a few days ago.
Hi!Hi Ben,
first, congratulations on your start of selling!
I'm interested. Do you have knowledge on the differences between USA and Europe?
Is your house hacking blueprint applicable to Europe (exactly: Germany)?
I will buy the book anyway. Just wanted to know if any differences exist which you may know?
Thank you, @AllenCrawley!Got my copy a few days ago. Will read soon and provide a review. Thanks, Ben!
Thank you!Missed the 0.99$ offer as I forgot to click watch on the thread. Purchased it anyways as it's an area I'm really eager to move into with the insane rents that are going in my country at the moment (Ireland). Looking forward to reading!
Hi!
This is a good question. To answer - on one hand the AirBnB concept is actually much more developed in Europe, and since my method works best with AirBnB I'd say yes. Actually Europe lends itself even better to my approach.
On the other hand, laws and regs around mortgages are obviously different, I cannot comment much on this. Should be doable, though.
Interestingly, I think that just now America is beginning to catch up to Europe with this Bed and Breakfast concept. Rural Europe has been there forever. I've stayed many a time in B&Bs in the Netherlands, for instance. I think this has to do with the fact that it is more difficult to get a mortgage and people have had to be creative in Europe. Here, in America, the emergence is a function of the growing delta between income and property values.
At the end of the day, this is entrepreneurial people saying - property is too expensive, but we are willing to be entrepreneurs and bring product to market in order to facilitate the burn. Makes sense?
Yes, that's what takes all of the guess work out. Use AirBnB, VRBO, HomeAway to underwrite your potential income. Then discount it to be safe. I go through all of the number and rationale in the book. Step-by-step.Hi Ben,
thank you for your detailed pro and con list and your perspective in general.
Here in Europe we observe the same appreciation of propertys. I think that Europe is catching up with America in the regard of mortgages. It get's easier to obtain one. Banks are looser with the distribution of mortgages. Could be due to the low interest rates though. Or a mix of a cultural change and low interest environment.
Long story short... I understand it this way: Property is expensive. But I want to live there anyway - To reduce or totally eliminate costs for property, do house hacking.
It totally makes sense!
Can I use current offers on AirBnb as a reference for my area? (As long as the features are near to my property?)
Thank you very much, Ben!
Yes, that's what takes all of the guess work out. Use AirBnB, VRBO, HomeAway to underwrite your potential income. Then discount it to be safe. I go through all of the number and rationale in the book. Step-by-step.
It's my pleasure!I order it. Thank you very much, Ben!
It's my pleasure!
People have been telling me to write a book for years. But I hate regurgitating stuff. My real estate course (CFFU) covers things pretty extensively, and I didn't want to write a book until (unless) I had something new, ,meaningful, and timely to add to the conversation.
I believe in real estate. I am not as big as many of my friends, but it is the most stable and reliable income I've got. However, in the current cycle in 2017 it's very difficult to play the RE game. Possible, but hard, and requires a lot of expertise. And with this backdrop, a properly executed house hack is far and away the most viable option for vast majority of people. It's a way to immediately increase your quality of life with real estate in ways that are not possible by simply buying a duplex...
This is why I wrote 'House Hacking'. I believe in the message and in the tools I provide. This will help a lot of people, I feel, both with perspective and technique.
Thanks for noticing!
Hahaha 2 problems with that:Sounds like you already have the next course/ebook mapped out.
"How to write and launch a book yourself on a $2,00 budget"
Seriously - do the thing and then show others how to do the thing. That's the game
Hahaha 2 problems with that:
1 - it's more like $3,000 budget
2 - and this is more important...while successful in some ways, this book launch has been a flop and a disappointment financially thus far.
I am not done, and there is going to be more data, but I will keep this thread going until we get to the bottom of what went wrong. A few people here, including @MJ DeMarco are well positioned to deconstruct this thing to help me understand what went wrong, how I can salvage this one, and what I can do better on the next.
I totally stand by my book. I think it's good and timely content. But, the launch has not gone as I'd hoped it would...
Hahah - you're funny!!!Well all you need is a new title, then:
"How to burn through $3,000 and fail: a new author's lessons in self publishing"
Hah, all seriousness though, why do you call it a flop? If you believe in the material and know in your heart that it's good, you just need to keep working it and getting it into more people's hands. Get creative. It could take a year of trying clever and innovative marketing strategies before it begins to take off... but if the content is correct, it will
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