Welcome to the real estate and financial independence podcast. My name is Chad Carson. You can call me Coach Carson. I'm your host for the show, which is all about learning to invest in real estate so that you can achieve financial independence and hopefully

do more of what matters it's kind of the big picture that's what i aspire to not always perfect at

it but we're trying to make money we're trying to build wealth so we can do all those things in life

that really matter to us really glad you're here today the topic of the episode I'm really excited about if you

are a reader of books like I am, I'm definitely a book nerd. I've been that way for a long time.

Today's episode is called the top 10 real estate investing books for beginner investors.

I'm going to share with you my top 10 list. And with each of those books, I'm going to kind of dig into them, tell you what I like about them, what some of the big ideas that I've taken away from those books, because they're all, all 10 of them are on my shelf. And then also give you a couple caveats here and there, just things that I think to be careful of, maybe could have been done better, or maybe need to be explained more from each of those books.

So that's the idea today. But before we jump into the heart of this episode, I want to remind

you of something else that goes on at Team Coach Carson. And so if you're interested in getting

started investing, if you're a beginner, like the topic of this episode, I have a lot of free resources on my website.

And if you want to get, I actually have a seven day course that kind of walks you through step by step, what I think are the most important steps to getting started, just that you can review and help you get organized with your thinking and kind of put you in the right direction.

And if you want to get that, you can go to coach carson.com forward slash get started.

If you go to that website, then you can enter your email and I'll send you that seven day free course

and also have some other resources at the bottom of that page on getting started.

So hope that's helpful

for you. Just go to coachcarson.com forward slash get started. All right. So back to the topic of books

and learning if you're new investor. I want to start off by telling you a story related to this

and a story about me when I first started investing. It was about, let's see,

16 and a half, almost 17 years ago now when I started. I was 23 years old. I was a brand new

investor. And I had just graduated from college with a biology degree of all things,

and a minor in German. So I basically was qualified to tell you the species

of the tree in the front house in the front of a real estate house. And I might be able to

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