Hello there, future landlord. You’ve found what you’re looking for―a complete package of information and resources to teach you what you need to know and make your life (and your tenants’ lives) easier. With Property Management Kit For Dummies, you can learn how to manage single-family homes, large apartment buildings, treehouses, dollhouses… okay, there’s not much info here on managing dollhouses, but everything else is definitely covered. Find good tenants, move them in, and keep them happy and paying rent on time. When it comes time for a change, learn how to move tenants out and turn over the property, easy as pie.

This book makes it simple to understand tax and insurance requirements, building maintenance concerns, and financial record keeping. Plus, the updated edition reflects the current rental property boom, new technologies, changes to the law, and the inside scoop on the latest Fair Housing issues to keep you out of court. Emotional support animals? Rent control? Bed bugs? Eviction? It’s all in here.

• Find out whether property management is right for you, learn what you need to get started, and be successful as your residential rental property portfolio grows 
• Get your ducks in a row―develop solid marketing and advertising strategies and resources, build up-to-date rental contracts, figure out the legal side of things, and minimize your income and property tax bills 
• Make sure you’re renting to responsible people, and deal with the occasional problem tenant without major drama 
• Maximize your cash flow by keeping your rents at market prices, efficiently handling maintenance, and ensuring your property has great curb appeal with the features and benefits sought by today’s tenants 

Become a top-notch property manager with this one-and-done reference, plus online bonus materials.

Focusing on buying and leasing commercial real estate, this book offers “an executive’s guide to hiring a broker for today’s complex real estate deals.” Written in a first-person perspective, the author offers ideas and insights to make executing business deals more productive (and easier) for both brokers and their clients. Author: John J. Culbertson, CRE.

This is the newest edition of this standard favorite, updated to include current economic terms as well as revised business terms. It is the successor the Mr. Friedman’s popular Dictionary of Business Terms, including over 8,000 definitions. It is a reference guide for students, business owners and the general public. Topics include accounting, tax, business law, communications, transportation, the Internet, economics, insurance, real estate and more plus an appendix of abbreviations and acronyms. Also available in a Kindle version, this book is part of the Barron’s Business Book series. Author: Jack P. Friedman, Ph.D., CRE

Whether new to litigation valuation or experienced, practitioners will find this book a valuable reference. It includes practical information, tangible examples and case studies, with information that extends from fundamentals of litigation appraisal through assignment execution to expert witness testimony. Subjects covered include eminent domain and condemnation, title issues, taxation, easements and more. CRE members contributed sections or case studies on environmental contamination, matrimonial dissolution, bankruptcy and lease renewal. CRE member contributors: John G. Ellis, Anthony S. Graziano, Thomas O. Jackson and Michael Y. Cannon.

This guide serves as a single resource for eminent domain practitioners, answering questions about eminent domain and condemnation procedure in every state and the District of Columbia. Topics include what can be condemned and by whom, condemnation proceedings, challenge procedure, abandonment, attorney fees and costs, plus much more. CRE members Casey Pipes, Gary L. Birnbaum, Anthony Della Pelle, and Gregory F. Servodidio authored chapters.

An invaluable resource for anyone providing international real estate valuations, this revised edition , edited by Howard Gelbtuch, CRE, provides a wealth of information about appraisal practice in 47 countries. Included is comprehensive, on-the-ground information from local experts, including CRE members Noelle Brisson (France); Nicholas Captain (Guam); Guniz Celen (Turkey); Raymond Lo (Hong Kong); Demetrios Louziotis (Japan); and Michael Tung-Mao Tseng (Taiwan). This one-of-a-kind text serves as your passport to understanding real estate valuation around the world! Note: Regional chapter bundles are also available to order for Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East, Asia and Oceana, The Americas. Editor: Howard Gelbtuch, CRE

Drawing on legal, regulatory and professional appraisal literature, Appraising Conservation and Historic Preservation Easements examines the valuation of conservation and historic preservation easements from the contradictory perspectives of the IRS, the courts, easement-holding organizations and appraisers. It includes the history of easements, general land use considerations, valuation methodologies to be applied to specific easement-related appraisal assignments, detailed examples and sample sections of appraisal reports relating to various easement properties and appraisal situations. Author: Richard J. Roddewig, CRE

Expanded and updated throughout, Planning and Control of Land Development provides a comprehensive view of land use law integrated with a full review of planning practice and techniques. This Eighth Edition retains the organization, features and approaches that have made prior editions well-received, but has been revised with several significant enhancements. Author: Dwight Merriam, CRE

Practitioners, planning professionals and students will value the information and insights in this newer edition in a popular series of books on land use law. It contains a compilation of ABA Section of State and Local Government Law committee reports from The Urban Lawyer, including a wide range of topics such as cellular telecom facilities, green buildings, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, fair housing issues, eminent domain issues and ethical issues. Author: Dwight Merriam, CRE