A book by Brian Lee Burke · Team leader, Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC
The Real Estate Playbook
Everything you need to know about buying and selling real estate, from a broker who has done it for 21-plus years and thousands of homes. First-time buyers, sellers, investors: the moves that work, in plain language, with real examples. Kindle, paperback and hardcover on Amazon.
Questions about the book, or about a house? Call or text 303-955-4220 and a live person answers. Not a robot, not a phone tree.
Buyers, sellers, investors
Your first home, your next sale, or your first rental. Each gets its own chapters, written for the decision you are actually facing.
Actionable, not theory
Today’s market in plain English, how to pick the right property, how to get the most for the one you own, and the mistakes that cost people the most.
21 years, thousands of homes
Employing broker of the Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC, REALTOR® since 2002, with a construction background that changes how you look at a house.
Amazon, three formats
Kindle for tonight, paperback or hardcover for the shelf. Open it on Amazon.
The book that answers the question you are about to ask
In The Real Estate Playbook, Brian Lee Burke shares what 21-plus years in the business taught him. It is written for everyone, from first-time buyers to experienced sellers and investors, who has to make a real estate decision and wants it explained straight.
It starts with a clear picture of today’s market and where it is moving. Then it breaks the process down stage by stage: how to pick the right property, how to get the most out of the one you own, and how to read a deal before you sign it. Buyers, sellers and investors each get their own insights. Brian’s construction background gives you a builder’s eye for what a house is really worth, and how to build wealth with the right ones.
Every chapter is actionable tips and real examples, not theory. Whether you are buying your first home or adding to a portfolio, this is the playbook.
What you will walk away knowing
What has shifted, what has not, and what it means for the offer you make this year.
Picking the property, pricing the offer, the inspection, the loan, and the ten things first-time buyers get wrong.
Pricing, prep, timing and negotiation, from the broker who runs the Smart Pricing system at Kenna.
Which houses build wealth, which ones eat it, and how construction knowledge changes the math.
What actually moves the other side, and when to walk.
Every chapter ends with the move to make. That is the whole point of a playbook.
About the author
Brian Lee Burke is the team leader and employing broker of the Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC in Centennial, Colorado, a REALTOR® since 2002, and the hardest working man in real estate. He started in construction, managing the development of thousands of apartment units alongside his father, then spent two decades selling homes and building a brokerage known for answering the phone. He wrote two books so the advice he gives clients every day would be in one place.
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Where to go next
Free guide, PDF
The Colorado HUD Home Buyer's Playbook
How HUD bidding really works, the nine ways buyers lose, and the bid worksheet. 18 pages, free.
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Read the book, then ask Brian the question
Buying, selling or investing in Colorado? Tell us what you are working with and we will tell you honestly what the play is. No cost, no obligation.
Call or text 303-955-4220
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