What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow And 36 Other Key Financial Measures

What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow And 36 Other Key Financial Measures

Formulas that make the difference between making profits and losing equity

The only way to win the real estate investing game is by mastering the numbers. This revised and updated edition of the popular reference shows how to target the best investments in the present market. It answers all your real estate questions, and provides new discussions of capital accumulation and internal rate of return. This book’s basic formulas will help you measure critical aspects of real estate investments, including

Discounted Cash Flow
Net Present Value
Capitalization Rate
Cash-on-Cash Return
Net Operating Income
Internal Rate of Return
Profitability Index
Return on Equity

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars How to cope with the numbers
This book is an essential for anyone new, or seasoned, in real estate. You won’t find a better summation of how to cast you due dillegence net around any real estate you might want to buy. The style is easy to comprehend, just try reading up on internal rates of return in most of those other books out there! This book is a keeper for doing the numbers in real estate.

5 Stars Seminal reading
For everyone even THINKING about RE investment – from an agent’s perspective to that of the investor, it is required reading. I’ve been back to it 20 times and 99% of the time, the answer I was looking for was there.

5 Stars Should be “Required Reading”
I have recommended to all of my friends to read the following books in order to shortcut the process and learn what they need to know. I told them this is what I would do if I did it over again. (I have my CCIM, Masters of RE from CU, ULI Development Certificate, NAIOP courses) But in all those, this would be most beneficial and starting here would help in short-cutting the process:

1) What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow – Gallinelli

2) Insider Secrets to Financing Your Real Estate Investments: What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Finding and Financing Your Next Deal – Gallinelli

3) Professional Real Estate Development – 2nd Edition – Peiser

4) Principles of Real Estate Syndication – Friedman

5) Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur – Randel

I have read several other real estate books, but they tend to go way off course. This one tells you practical knowledge shoring up the base/foundation in order to understand more complex issues, but at the end of the day, simplisity will win out.

I think I have probably told at least 10 friends to read these books and they should be part of their “Library” as this will get them where they need to go and understand without practical experience.

I wouldn’t recommend it if I didn’t think it wasn’t great.

I have no relation or affiliation to Frank G, just have read so many books, would like to shortcut the process for other people eager to get there and I love to read other people’s reviews on Amazon so I know which ones are useful.

Hope this helps

5 Stars Essential Resource
In all my years of using financial analysis tools, teaching them to audiences all across the country, and educating students at my top-ranked College of Commerce, I’ve never encountered anything as clear and well written as Frank Gallineli’s book. “What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow…and 36 Other Key Financial Measures” is, I promise you, an absolutely painless and positively interesting way to learn these important concepts. This slim volume manages to bridge the gap between sophisticated investors with a need to brush up on some financial tools, to complete novices with no finance or business background. All readers will find the book useful, straightforward, and full of helpful explanations that are thorough but never condescending. If you are a student in one of the finance fields, you need this book to keep on your desk from now through graduation and beyond. Anyone else, whether broker, investor, loan officer or business person, should also keep this book near at hand for easy reference. Because of the very modest price, I recommend you buy two copies–one to keep, and one to re-sell to the person who will inevitably want to “borrow” your copy and never return it.

O. William Evans, J.D.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Alabama Center for Real Estate

The University of Alabama

127 Bidgood Hall

Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

5 Stars Better now than never
Why did I not come across this wealth of information before? Anyway, this is an indispensable aid to any RE numbers cruncher, do the maths, due diligence…whatever. When is the latest edition to the other book coming out? Can’t wait.

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