How to Win in Commercial Real Estate Investing: Find, Evaluate & Purchase Your First Commercial Property -- In 9 Weeks or Less

by Craig Coppola Cre Sior CCIM

Overview

When it comes to investing in commercial real estate, it's easy to make a mistake...so why risk it? Improve your chances of success with a book researched, lived, and written by a master of commercial real estate: Craig Coppola. Craig has navigated the markets, ridden economic ups and downs, and bought and sold countless commercial projects - and he's mastered the world of brokerage, leasing and investing.

Readers will learn how to set their own commercial investment goals and create a plan to achieve them, see opportunities with new "real-estate eyes," perform due diligence on a property with minimal cost, use a proven step-by-step process for evaluating properties to weed out losers and showcase winners, and traverse the minefield of letters of intent and contracts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612681368
Publisher:	Rich Dad Library
Publication date:	05/22/2024
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Craig Coppola is the top producing office broker in the 60+ office, Lee & Associates’ 40+ year history. He is one of the Founding Principals of Lee & Associates Arizona (1991) and has completed over 3,800 lease and sale transactions in the past 36 years, totaling a value in excess of $4 billion. Craig is also the current CEO of CRE OneSource, an online collaboration platform that is elevating the way commercial real estate professionals complete transactions.

Craig received the Lee & Associates William J. Lee Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He has been named NAIOP Office Broker of the Year six times, and in 2020 was awarded the NAIOP Award of Excellence. He has also been awarded National Chapter President (the highest honor given) for NAIOP (National Association of Office and Industrial Properties) and NAIOP Office Broker of the Year six times. Additionally, Craig has earned the top three designations.

In addition to his Real Estate career, Craig is also the author of six books. His first book, How to Win in Commercial Real Estate Investing, won him the “Best First Time Author Award” from The National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE). As a follow up to his investing book, Craig published, The Art of Commercial Real Estate Leasing in December 2014. Craig co-wrote, Chasing Excellence: Real Life Stories from the Streets with Lee & Associates Founder Bill Lee. In addition to his three real estate books, Craig has also written The Fantastic Life: How to Get it, Live it, and Pass it On, and What Now? A 5-Prong Approach to Handling Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment, and his latest, The Fantastic Life Revisited which is an all-new, expanded version of the first edition. 

Craig holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Nicholls State Universityand a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University. He  has been selected multiple years to the ASU Sun Devil 100 for distinguished alumni who own or lead successful businesses.

Craig is a third-generation Arizonan, married for 33 years to Tracy and father of four remarkable children.