Book Review

After writing the initial version of "You don't have to wait for the FOR SALE sign", I asked several people at various or different stages of their investment career, to help me evaluate the contents of this book before we published it in its final form. Some of these investors are very new to the world of property investment and some are seasoned investors with well established portfolios. I would like to thank them here for their assistance and input. I asked these wonderful people to write a quick couple of words, explaining what this book meant to them and how it affected their property investment methods and careers. These are their words. Thank you for the brilliant feedback, the valuable input and comments you gave about the book.

Werner Froneman
Mojave International

During the past ten years, I’ve travelled to more countries than I can remember. I’ve lived, worked and met people from all walks of life, from prime ministers of Europe, China and South Africa, to advisers to the president, CEO’s and directors, designers and developers, artists, professors and teachers, even bus drivers.

I’ve been involved and excelled in various business ventures, including US Retail Management, Marketing Promotions (contracts in Gauteng for Hooch, Norton Internet Security, ABSA, Shield and Cell-C), Personal Medical Care in the UK, Professional Photography in U.K and S.A, Fine Art Auctioneering and Investment in America and Europe, Personal Consulting Services, sales development and training on luxury cruise liners, and many more. This was an education that money would not have been able to buy.

After much research, my chosen “investment vehicle” in South Africa was to be property investment. I had a hunger to know as much as I could about it, in order to reduce my chances of failure. I attended a few recommended seminars by very successful investors, who got me so excited about easily making my millions, it was almost to good to be true. But they’ve obviously succeeded at it, therefore so could I.

The problem was, even though I’ve been given a great overview, just exactly HOW was I supposed to do it? The detailed steps to optimise my investment and avoid the pitfalls obviously eluded me.

After spending nearly R20 000 on their investment seminars and structures, I realized that I still had to figure it out myself by making mistakes, learn from it and hopefully not bankrupt myself in the process. I couldn’t afford to “get it wrong” and therefore I seriously wanted and needed a guide through what seemed like a wilderness of methods, procedures and possible pitfalls.

Then I came across this book “You don't have to wait for the FOR SALE sign”. Though at that stage, it was still in its infancy, it was exactly what I needed; packed with practical, real world scenarios, based on years of experience, knowledge and understanding. The author created a simple, interesting and easy to read guide, to truly help people like me…someone who was disappointed in the empty promises of others!

This great book has given me the absolute confidence to fearlessly invest in property. It provides you with the contracts you use, the easy step-by-step analyses to evaluate any property, thus enabling you to see the “real world” projected numbers before you commit to anything, and also how to sidestep possible pitfalls which ends up saving you thousands. If I’m unsure of anything, I simply contact the www.propertyinvesting.co.za team. There is always an experienced person available to advise me.

This has forever changed the way I will invest and I thank Graham and Property Investing for revealing, what everyone else was too selfish to do.

Tertius Joubert

Being new to property investment, I found “You don’t have to wait for the FOR SALE sign” a breath of fresh air. I used the previous year to perform my property investment planning with this year being the execution phase, i.e. putting my plan into action. During the planning phase I read a number of books on property investment and although I learned a lot from them they certainly did not live up to my expectations. They go into some detail of property investment but stops short of telling one exactly how to plan, how to execute, what to look out for, i.e. it they all lack real substance. One was always left with a feeling that there should be more, there must be more.

Then I discovered Graham's little gem and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is short, concise, to the point, with a no-nonsense approach to property investment which you will not find anywhere else. True to its name, it really is "The 7 step missing guide for property investors". Here you will find real world practical information on how to set up, fine tune and execute your property investment plan with tips and tricks of the trade abound. This is highly recommended reading and should be the first book everyone reads on property investment.

Riaan van Deventer
Prothesis Management

After a business degree and 7 years experience in franchising and IT, I turned to training upcoming business persons in business and people skills. For more than 10 years I have enjoyed helping others on their way to a better life.

Mentoring in spiritual matters, personal health, fitness, family life, people skills, personal finances, leadership, business management, property investing, financing as well as risk management, has become a way of life.

I am married to my queen and partner Ally; herself in Senior Management and a Chief Electrical Engineer.

When we as people hear or read about the lives others are living, we often desire to have some of those aspects in our own lives, but seldom think about the road that needed to be travelled to reach that place. In fact most times we desire the results, but are not willing to undergo the journey. The truth is that there are still some people, who have travelled difficult roads and learned things the hard way, who desire that your journey will have less bumps. Graham is one of those people and this book will warn you of bumps in the road or even show you some of the better roads to travel on your journey to successful property investing.

Even though I have travelled the road of property investing myself, I have still learned so much from this book and found better roads, for me and those I mentor, to travel on our future roads to property investing and business development.

This book and some action from your side will help your road to be much less bumpy than what mine was.

Your success depends on your ability to learn, relearn and unlearn and then pass on what you have learned.

Ally and I believe that success is determined by the impact you have on the lives of those around you and we desire to surround ourselves with like minded people. Thanks for this book Graham. It is a blessing to know you.

Our passion for life, excellence of service and love for people helps us to live life on purpose.

Pamela Wright

This is a remarkable book about property investment. It takes very little time to read its powerful recipe for getting big results from assessing the property prior to buying.

Francois de Jager

Ek het baie geniet om die boek te lees. Ek het baie van die kliniese manier gehou waarop jy jou analises benader wat die emosie deel van eiendomsbeleggings heeltemal verwyder. Ek hou ook baie van die praktiese advies wat jy gee en sal verseker baie van hierdie advies in my eiendomsbeleggings voorentoe kan gebruik.

Verseker `n goeie boek wat ek vir enige iemand wat in eiendomsbelggings belangstel sal aanbeveel om te lees. Soos jy in die boek se ‘conclusion’ noem is dit nie veronderstel om `n totaal omvattende boek van eiendomsbeleggings te wees nie. In jou boek fokus jy op `n spesifieke tipe eiendomsbelegging benadering waar jy nie noem of koop om te verkoop, buy to let, koop met nothing down, koop vir kontantvloei positief vanaf dag een af jou voorkeure is nie, wat jy wel doen is om hele reeks toerusting en hulpbronne uit te wys wat `n mens baie prakties in enige van die bogenoemde tipe strategiee voordelig kan gebruik.