Making your first real estate purchase for investment and profit can be a great thing. The problem is that you need a real estate coach and some guidance to make all the right decisions. This guide gives some hard and fast rules to virtually guarantee profits and success. There are some rules that may surprise you. Most real estate professionals are there for the commissions and do not specialize in the actual investments. The author has been very successful both as a broker AND as an investor. He gave away his brokerage (making a small percentage of the sale price) in favor of making 100% of the profit as the investor. With a 100% "SOLD" success record that includes profits 99% of the time, his resulting rules are sometimes the reverse of popular opinion. His simple mathmatical samples show the way to net typical profits of 30% in a sellers market OR a buyers market! These rules keep you away from costly mistakes and emotional decisions, to reach your goals.