Mastering the Art of Commercial Real Estate Investing: How to Successfully Build Wealth and Grow Passive Income from Your Rental Properties Paperback – December 18, 2018

I loved Doug Marshall's writing style. This book is well written, to the point with no-nonsense. No beating around the bush. He instructs with an easy way to understand the ins and outs of real estate investing from buying, financing, managing and selling.What I especially enjoyed about the book is that he gives advice on just being a good business person and principals to live a successful life in general. He shares his favorite business books and sentimental stories of what he learned from his parents that made him a successful person today.I really enjoyed this book as I, myself continue to learn about my future in real estate investing.

I like the way the author broke down the subject matter into four sections and related each one to his real life experiences. It's obvious that Mr. Marshall knows commercial real estate investment quite well. He uses a straight-forward yet detailed approach in his descriptions of each step toward income property investment. This book offers value to both the beginner or the seasoned commercial real estate investor. It's one to keep on your bookshelf for future reference.I also appreciated the five appendixes where the author provides additional principles to live by, definitions of terms and references for additional study. Well done Mr. Marshall.

Written by a commercial mortgage broker with experience in the industry, the book gives the reader a basic introduction to commercial real estate, the decision matrices as well as the steps in the lifecycle from pre-purchase through sale or exchange. A good introduction to commercial real estate investing.

I have been in CRE for 14 years. I have read a lot of CRE books and Doug’s book is in my top 3. Easy to read and focuses on the fundamentals without getting overly complex. I read so many books that get wayyy too far into the weeds. This is a book that I am going to gift to many people.

I have read so many books on multifamily investing and it was so nice to read one that was not just a bunch of hype. I have invested in quite a few SFR, but want to move to multifamily apartment. This will help me move to the next level. So many of the books I have read are not really that practical or detailed. You can tell from Doug's writing that he is wise and trying to help us not make the same mistakes he has made. I can tell he has a CCIM designation, because of the depth his knowledge and understanding of understanding what it takes to be successful in multifamily investing.

Not breakthrough stuff here and could be a little more practice with the guidance.

The title says it all. I read this book almost 2 years ago along with a number of other books on commercial real estate. Of all the books I read, this was the most helpful. Many of the ones I bought ended up being “rah rah” books that read like a motivational speaker was talking to you. A few were text books that went into lots of details about structuring deal terms or financial metrics. All of those were helpful in some ways, but not nearly as much as this one.What I found most helpful about this book was it covered the main phases of commercial real estate: buying, financing, managing, and selling. It did so using numbers and examples that took the conversation to a deeper level than most of the other books I read but not so much information that I got bogged down in the details. For example, I recently found my first commercial property that I wanted buy. Of all my real estate books, Doug’s was the one I picked back up to review before beginning the buying process.

Mastering the art of commercial real estate is a great book. It teaches you the basics to give you a good understanding of what you need to look out for and how to do it. This is a great book for beginners to get the full picture of what CRE is and intermediate investors to better understand CRE.