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

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.

R. Craig Coppola is a Founding Principal of Lee & Associates Arizona and has been awarded NAIOP Office Broker of the Year six times in the past 12 years. He has completed over 2,500 lease and sale transactions over the past 23 years, totaling a value in excess of $2,500,000,000. Craig is among the very few - only 35 in fact, worldwide - who has earned the top three designations in the real estate industry: CCIM, CRE and SIOR.

How To Win In Commercial Real Estate is Craig's first book and his second, The Art of Commercial Real Estate Leasing, is scheduled to publish in early 2015.

Craig served as NAIOP Chapter President of the Year in 2003, the highest personal honor given by the largest real estate development trade association (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties). He is also a Past Chairman of the Southwest Chapter of CRE (Counselors of Real Estate). CRE is a trade organization representing the finest real estate consultants for over 50 years.

He and his wife are active within the Phoenix community and Craig is a sought-after national speaker on real estate and motivational topics.