Books

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  Our Adventures in Real Estate

  What We Learned

  by Filip Filmar

  Five years of essays from this site, edited into a book you can read front to back. It is in six parts, in the order most investors meet the topics: why real estate at all, entities and ownership, financing and loans, taxes and 1031 exchanges, buying and deals, and agency, risk and advice.

  Each part ends with a list of further reading from the primary sources, such as the IRS, the California FTB, the Fannie Mae guides and the CFPB. A glossary at the back explains the finance and real estate terms.

  The blog post The Book Is Out says what is in each part, and what is new compared with the site.

  Published in July 2026, for Kindle and in paperback.

  187 pages.

  Buy it on Amazon: Kindle or paperback →

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  Our Adventures in Short-Term Rentals

  What We Learned

  by Filip Filmar

  In September 2020 we bought a mountain house in Twain Harte, California, expecting that renting it out now and then would pay for it. Since December 2023 we have also rented out a beach condo in Panama City Beach, Florida. This book covers the short-term rental in depth, from both houses: picking a market and a house, financing a second home, setting a place up, pricing every night of the year, running it from a distance, guests and reviews, taxes and insurance, regulation, marketing past the platforms, and whether it was worth it.

  It is the sequel to Our Adventures in Real Estate: What We Learned, and it is written the same way: first person, every number with its year, and the parts that went badly told as plainly as the parts that went well. It is for people who own their first short-term rental or are about to buy one. It is not for readers who want to get rich quickly.

  Coming soon, for Kindle and in paperback. The first draft is complete, and is now being reviewed and edited.

  About 208 pages in the current draft.

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