The Big Book: Making it Big in Innovtive Real Estate...and Keeping it This Time. 500 Pages of easy-to-read (even occasionally humorous) motivation, explanation, plans, charts, scripts and coverage of all aspects of creative real estate financing.
Teaches how you almost always want to first try to buy a property 'subject to' the existing financing. If the owner won't agree to that you move to a lease option offer. It's just that simple. Both are powerful - both can be very profitable. Both can be good for both investor and home seller.
Another way of buying investment property is to have sellers call you and provide you with financing that you do not have to qualify for! This exciting way of acquiring investment property uses an uncommonly used seller-financing technique known as the 'subject to' mortgage.