Bernard “Barney” Zick has been called an insightful business strategist. Barney’s home study courses are still available for many of his products. His death in 2005 didn’t leave you on your own. Many reliable sources offer his multiple courses and resource material. For example among his home study courses are “Getting Started & Foreclosure Fortunes”, “Hidden Profits Through Creative Real Estate”, “Negotiating for Real Estate Investors”, “Creative Financing”, “Income Properties” and “Business Entities”

Whether you are new, as an investor, or experienced, Barney’s courses are tried and true as many users have attested to. Getting Started & Foreclosure Fortunes includes how to make $10,000 cash in 90 days, how to make your real estate fortune and stay motivated and also some fantastic interviews with people that make a living doing foreclosures. This book includes the four levels of foreclosure, shows you all the opportunities and lets you pick your own to meet your own needs and style.


Negotiating for Real Estate Investors and Creative Financing are among Zick’s most popular books. In working with real estate investors knowing the “magic words” will move the negotiations along. In Negotiating for Real Estate Investors you will learn how to counter moves, for “The Shout Back” and the “Good-Guy- Buy Guy” tactics, learn how to glean real seller motivations, real property problems and still let the seller feel that their offer or price is negotiable. This is a “Target Negotiation System” that will move you from slow meritocracy to fast success. Creative Financing includes how to buy and sell and negotiate for owner carried financing. It also includes how to restructure Real Estate notes and mortgages and an introduction to options. S.T.P. (Sell the Payment) is the most advanced way to yield at least 33% more and buying real estate for no money down while the seller still gets cash! Barney has lots of options to choose from and all have multiple areas of real estate investor success skills.