Deals That Make Sense
2nd Edition

More than two dozen actual case histories
by John T. Reed

John T. Reed
342 Bryan Drive
Alamo, CA 94507
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About the author
John T. Reed was a landlord for 23 years. He has been a real estate writer since 1976.
He has invested in New Jersey, Texas, and California. He is the editor and publisher of John T. Reed’s Real Estate Investor’s Monthly, a national newsletter—and the author and publisher of 20 books on various real-estate investment subjects.
His real estate experience includes single-family rental houses, duplexes, a triplex, and apartment buildings ranging in size from twelve units to over two hundred units. He has been resident manager of his own buildings and property manager for other owners. Initially, Mr. Reed owned apartments in New Jersey—one of the most anti-landlord states and one of the tightest markets. From the seventies through the nineties, he was a landlord in Texas, which was at the other end of the spectrum in both laws and market conditions. Mr. Reed holds a bachelor of science degree from West Point and a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School.

Thanks to…Ron Baker, John Beck, Randall Bell, Rich Braun, Wayne Carrington, Rick Cohn, Greg Crouch, Dave Del Dotto, Gary DiGrazia, Matt Fletcher, Scott Gaffney, Larry Kaplan, Shirley Kennedy, Tom Kurkjian, Ron LeGrand, John Leuck, William Nickerson, Bruce Norris, Kevin O’Donnell, Mark O’Shaughnessy, Ron Starr, Ted Thomas, Paul Thompson, John Toraason, Jim Young