Final installment of Gary Keller trilogy a best-seller | North Salem NY Real Estate

The third and final book in Gary Keller’s “Millionaire Real Estate Investor” trilogy is the best-selling real estate-related book on Amazon.com today, and the other two books in the series are ranked in the top 10, despite having been published years ago.

“Hold: How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for Wealth” debuted on USA Today’s Best-Selling Books list this week at No. 62, just behind singer-songrwriter Neil Young’s memoir, “Waging Heavy Peace.”

Published Sept. 13 by McGraw-Hill, “Hold” details strategies and stories from successful real estate investors for those who want to follow in their footsteps.

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“We wrote this book to share the models and strategies we’ve been using for over 20 years,” said Jim McKissack, a Keller Williams Realty affiliate in Denton, Texas, and one of the book’s five co-authors.

“Where else (but in real estate) can you invest money, get a high rate of return, have a tenant pay down your debt, write off expenses, depreciate over 27 and a half years, exchange it for more properties, and some day own it free and clear and have cash flow,” said Jennice Doty, a Phoenix-based investor and one of Hold’s authors.

The other two books in Keller’s “Millionaire” trilogy are also holding on to top 10 positions on Amazon.com’s list of best-selling real estate-related books. “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent” — published in February 2004 — is ranked No. 2 today.

“The Millionaire Real Estate Investor,” published in March 2005, was listed at No. 6 today.

Austin, Texas-based Keller Williams Realty claims to be the second-largest residential real estate company in the U.S. Brokerages affiliated with the franchisor have 690 offices in the U.S. and Canada and more than 80,000 real estate agents.