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The Complete Guide to Real Estate Finance for Investment Properties: How to Analyze Any Single-Family, Multifamily, or Commercial Property
by Steve Berges
from Wiley
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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Author knows nothing of basic finance 
The author actually described the valuation of a bank CD as simply dividing the cash flow by the interest rate - a perpetuity valuation! But one does not receive the CD cash flow for eternity. A CD is a single cash flow that requires a simple time-value discounting.
This teaching is akin to describing how the planets orbit the sun based on the theory of electromagnetics, or how a hybrid car runs so efficiently because a little gnome is in the engine turning a handcrank! A complete lack of conceptual... more info
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lots of info to digest 
you may want to read this book two or three times to make sure you understand the information. More for an experienced investor with complex formulas. But once you understand them and then apply them they make perfect sense. Anyone thinking of buying multi family or large commercial properties should definetly read this book.
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Terrible!!!
I study with this book in my Real Estate Finance class. It's terrible. There is nothing new here. It's only about basic finance but, he changed the terms to look fancier. These new named financial terms are so much confusing. There are also so many errors in this book. Moreover, the author never stops talking about his achievements. I'm so sick of this book. I can't believe that they pick up this book for us to study.
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Not the book for new investors or for financial analysis 
In my opinion, as a non-author, this book is poorly written.
The book gives examples on financial calculations that can be done to determine if a piece of property is a good investment. However, the examples given are either too complex to be meaningful outside of the specific situtation or too simple to gain any understanding.
The second section of the book on "case studies", is not made for new investors. The examples involve huge sums of money and very complex situations. Two examples come to... more info
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