Doesn’t it just make sense? If you’re a savvy real estate trend watcher, you know that when prices in a given market fall, there will be some – perhaps many – buying opportunities, with the chance for windfall profits.

That doesn’t mean it’s time to throw caution to the wind… but it just may be time to blow the dust off those offer worksheets, and hit the streets and neighborhoods looking for motivated sellers. After all, nobody wants to be stuck with two houses right now.

And comfort yourself with this. When (not IF) the American economy rebounds, it will be because of the brave few who bucked the trend and bought instead of selling.

For one thing, to be useful any Real Estate Investing Guide would need to cover every possible type of investing, including wholesaling, flipping, birddogging, buy-and-hold, lease options, tax liens, foreclosures, short sales, subject to, section 8, landlording, private money, and many more different kinds of investing and real estate topics. There are just too many topics for any one real estate investing guide to cover in-depth.

You’re far better off, in my opinion, focusing on just one type of investing or skill, and looking for a course, book, or website that covers that. Then, most likely, you’ll be dealing with a specialist who really knows their stuff, and you’ll get the most complete information on that type of investing, not just the broad brush strokes.

As an example, any book or course that claimed to be a true “Real Estate Investing Guide” would need to cover every aspect of Section 8 rentals. I know of only one course that does that, and it includes three big 3-ring binders and 8 CDs worth of material, and costs over $500 (and, by the way, it’s not even available anymore!). That’s information about just one topic.

So you can see what I mean, can’t you? No one book, course, website, or even seminar can hope to do justice to a topic as big and varied as real estate investing.

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