Buy My Home FastFast Solutions for Selling Your Home

Review by James Allen for The Spill Zone Rating: I must warn any prospective buyer away from buying this sloppily thrown together disaster of a book. As far as I can tell, it is nothing more than a book-length advertisement for the author’s website, which, of course, offers services and information available by subscription. I can’t double check this though since I just now tried to look at the author’s webste and it was completely down, server can’t be found.

Much of the book talks about what information you will need to input into the website in order to come up with a projection regarding a property’s appreciation in the next few years. However, it does not show you how to do the calculations and projections. Rather, you must go to the author’s website for this.

In addition, the author throws in a bit of material about how to be successful in real estate in general and how to get rich and retire off of real estate. He also adds in a touch of motivational material, such as “the five C’s.” He tells you for example to have confidence, believe in yourself, and even to eat a proper diet and to exercise 15 minutes a day. My guess is that the author knows that the audience for get-rich-quick-in-real-estate literature is used to seeing lots of this Tony Robbins/Robert Kiyosaki type of motivational stuff, and felt he had to throw it in so that that particular audience would feel at home.

What really destroyed the credibility of the book very early on was how badly it was written. The author’s command of English and of real estate terminology is marginal at best, and within a few pages I knew that I was reading the work of an amateur. Here are some gems from the book that brought me some laughs:

On page 89, he says to do a lead disclosure form because “this helps detour further legal action.” (He means “deter”)

On page 181 he says that you can “quick claim a property to an LLC.” (He means “quitclaim”)

On page 176 he talks about a “law suit” from his insurance company. (He means “lawsuit”)

On page 186 he lists the tools you need to become a successful real estate investor. In addition to “access to internet” and “calculator” he also lists “blank sheets of paper.” (Wow, what a powerful insider secret!)

So, the book purports to be about how to get rich in real estate, and also attempts weakly to motivate you (p. 163: “You can do it”). I promise you that if you have even the most rudimentary knowledge of real estate you will learn nothing at all of value from this book. If you are a beginner and know nothing, you will also learn nothing from this book, and would be much better served by a more thorough, less self-serving and better written book than this one.

Review by J. Taylor for The Spill Zone Rating: After only a short reading, I have to say I’m truly intrigued. It seems as though the Author has found answers to all the real estate questions that until now, have been largely unanswerable. There’s a certain quality to the writing which indicates that Mr. Ross has done quite a bit of research on this topic. Initially, I was very skeptical of any book that would make such grandiose claims, but the examples and principles are so clear and easy to understand that it all makes logical sense. If learning and applying the book’s concepts truly make it possible for regular investors to accurately predict the value of any property, then anyone interested in making money in real estate should consider this book.