I apologize for a blatant self serving answer, but you ask.

I suggest in order:

1. My "Get The Money / A Consumers Guide to a successful Mortgage Application."

2. "How To Make Friends And Influence People"

3. "Think and Grow Rich"

4. Art Fetig’s excellent "Selling Lucky" (available at his web site.)

5. My "One House At A Time / Finding And Buying Single Family Rentals"

6. Optional. My "Flipping For Fun And Profit"

7. What ever the current text books are for your GRI. Get started early on the GRI and then the CRS.

8. If after you get started you decided to get into any thing other than single family, start with the Board (NAR) classes.

9. You can’t go wrong with anything by John T Reed.

Well I’m felling a little foolish, I just looked back to make sure I spelled you name right. I should have looked closer in the first place. You could just organize your blogs and comments, throw out the non-real estate,the feel good stuff, and print a pretty good book yourself.

The advice stands. Stop watching Oprah and start reading, better yet start teaching! I taught one night a week for five years, I read the required text I already knew the material but it makes you sharpen your arguments and wits.

Keep Blogging,

Bill

William J Archambault Jr

The Real Estate Investment Institute

http://www.reii.org