Jim Randel commercial real estate attorney, investor, author
Jim Randel has been writing about real estate and business for twenty-five years.
An attorney by education and graduate of Columbia University and Law School, Randel has made his living as a real-estate entrepreneur – buying and selling single-family houses, apartment buildings, land, retail centers, factories, distribution facilities and office buildings.
His first book, The Real Estate Game, was written in 1986. This book led to guest lectures at Harvard and NYU Business Schools and to numerous radio, television and public appearances around the United States. In 1988 Randel went back to his activities as a real estate buyer and seller.
Randel wrote his next book, Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur (McGraw-Hill) in 2006. This book has received rave reviews from readers and industry professionals, and has reached #1 ranking on several Amazon categories, including Real Estate Sales where it has been ranked #1 for about one year.
Randel believes that any author owes his reader tremendous respect. That an author needs to do the heavy lifting, reading and studying a topic in depth, and then synthesizing and summarizing for the reader the salient points – preferably told in an entertaining fashion.
His third book, THE SKINNY ON THE HOUSING CRISIS: What Every Homeowner and Homebuyer NEEDS TO KNOW!!! is nothing less than an entirely new genre that Randel and his ten-person team have created – with the reader in mind. It is the first of another half dozen such books now in production – the goal being to cover important and current topics in that manner which is most likely to be understood, absorbed and appreciated by the reader.
