Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate: How a Small Investor Can Make It Big

Introductory level

Easy to read and some great info in here. Quit pushing books to Instagram “influencers” please Brian all it does is cheapen what is a legitimately useful and thorough book.

Great job!

Item arrived damaged- otherwise hopefully a great book, reviews are excellent...but slightly disappointing as I was hoping to gift this to someone for Christmas! Oh well. Guess brushing up on my real estate saavy could be a blessing in disguise. Hopefully Amazon can fix up their packaging a little so less books arrive damaged.

I have purchased many books from Amazon, but this is my first review ever. I work in health care and consider myself a fairly well read person. Prior to reading this book, I couldn't tell you the difference between DSCR and disco. Upon completion of the book, I have a working vocabulary and fundamental understanding of commercial real estate. This book was amazing in both the breadth of knowledge covered, as well as how Brian Murray presents the material. It was all done in a very well thought out and systematic manner, guiding the reader from the beginning to the end of a deal. I believe that the good formatting is a testament to Brian's past career as a teacher. The most important aspect of this book compared to some other real estate books out there, is that the author uses real numbers, and uses his own real world deals as examples. He has a legitimate real estate company with a website that you can go to and verify that he has actually done these deals. The advice he gives, especially the little nuggets learned from his own real life examples are priceless. Reading the book, I felt like I had a mentor teaching me, and walking through the process. He has these great appendices in the back of the book with additional invaluable resources which I have never encountered before in a real estate book. I found the material presented so meaningful, that I would have gladly paid twice the price for it. So to anyone reading this review, if you really want to get an insider's mindset on how to enter the commercial real estate world and the methodology behind doing a deal, get this book. Not once does Brian ever try to sell you anything; there are no webinars, seminars, additional books, etc. Brian, thank you for taking the time to write this book and giving myself and others the chance to learn both from your successes and challenges.