Trump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received

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Trump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received

Donald J. Trump and 100 contributors
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A hundred investors, one chapter each, and the same three rules keep showing up: location, patience, and never overpay.
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Lessons learned

01
Buy the worst house on the best street.

The advice repeats across a dozen contributors. Location fixes everything else, and nothing fixes location.

02
Know your numbers cold.

The investors who lasted all say the same thing: the deal has to work on paper before it works anywhere else. Emotion is how people overpay.

03
Patience is a position.

Several chapters are about waiting out a market or a seller. The money is made in the buy, and the buy is often made by not buying yet.

04
Relationships close deals.

Brokers, lenders, contractors, city officials. Half the book is about who you know and how you treat them. That part transfers straight to sales.

05
Cash flow over appreciation.

The contributors who got hurt bet on prices going up. The ones who got rich bet on rent checks coming in.

Who should read it

Anyone curious about real estate who wants a lot of perspectives fast. It's a buffet, so skip the chapters that don't apply and keep the ones that do.

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Logan Winn, MBA

Enterprise sales at Salesforce, Envestnet | Yodlee, and ADP. Partner in two JG Academy jiu-jitsu gyms with a back office that runs on Claude agents. I write about money, business, and running a company on AI.

https://www.loganwinn.com
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