Plenty of books will tell you how to invest in specific types of real estate - how to do a house flip, how to run an apartment block. This book, instead, describes all the different ways of investing in real estate and helps you work out which is right for you. It also explains the business basics; how to value properties, how to value REITs, how to get started in crowdfunding. It also identifies the top traps that lose first-time real estate investors money.