New book: The Commercial Classroom: Lessons in Commercial and Investment Real Estate Brokerage by Edward Smith Jr.

Commercial real estate instructor and author, Ed Smith, has published another book on commercial and investment real estate brokerage. It is designed to help those new to the industry and to serve as a refresher for experienced agents. "The Commercial Classroom" contains 52 lessons on various facets of brokerage. It starts with how to build a commercial practice and then gets very specific as to what you need to know about listing commercial properties, investment basics and formulas, leases, capital gains taxes, exchanges, marketing and much more. The author has been in real estate for over 35 years specializing in commercial and investment properties and has been teaching commercial continuing education courses for the past 10 years. He has written four continuing education courses and three other textbooks. This book is self published and may be ordered from the authors website: www.CommercialEd.com or from Amazon.com.