How To Increase the Value of Real Estate, 2nd ed.

Stop Waiting for your value to go up. MAKE it go up. This book tells you how to make the value of selected real estate go up whether your local market values are going up or down. There are many more ways than renovation to make real estate values go up. See the table of contents for a list. Since 2006, real estate values have generally gone down or been flat. Forecasts are for more of the same. So waiting for higher value doesn't work any more. You need to add value in today's market. How do you do that? My just-off-the-press improved version of How to Increase the Value of Real Estate gives you 19 chapters on 19 different categories of ways to raise the values of selected properties. The methods include both tangible changes like turning unrentable space to rentable space and actually moving the whole building to another lot—and intangible changes like rent increases and better zoning. John T. Reed’s real estate investment background Table of Contents Index Reader comments Ba