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TRUMP UNIVERSITY COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE 101

Just what is commercial real estate? It ’ s

• Office buildings (all the way from skyscrapers down to a small
building with a dental office in it)

• Apartment buildings with five or more units
• Stores, whether they ’ re in big malls or small, local shopping
centers
• Hotels and restaurants
• Industrial space (factories, warehouses, and so on)

It ’ s no wonder that the value of U.S. commercial real estate is many
trillions of dollars, given that we spend most of our waking hours work-
ing in it, shopping in it, and even celebrating and vacationing in it.
I ’ m not going to keep you in suspense. Here ’ s a huge secret, right
on the first pages of this book:

The wealth opportunity with commercial real estate is enormous for
the very reason that most people think they could never own it.

If investors only understood how it ’ s possible to make a fortune
from commercial real estate, they would ruin the market for the rest of
us. So thank your lucky stars that commercial real estate remains
shrouded in myth and misinformation for millions of real estate
investors.
They convince themselves that it ’ s not worth doing commercial
real estate because they imagine a series of huge barriers in their way.
Here are just three of the many psychological barriers to entry:

• “ The bigger the building, the bigger the down payment that
I need. ”
• “ I couldn ’ t possibly own a shopping center; I know nothing
about retail sales. ”
• “ All the good deals must have long since been picked over: I ’ ll
see only the lousy ones. ”

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