Real Estate Investors' Desk Encyclopedia.

``Written specifically for real estate investment, this book is distinctive from other real estate encyclopedias. Each entry includes the definition, practical applications, and mathematical formulas for arriving at the return-on-investment (ROI) figure(s). This book will be a great reference tool and a learning guide for the real estate professional, the established investor and the layperson who is learning the complex business of real estate investment.''
Example entries:
Daisy Chain:
The practice of owners selling a property in order to get that equity as a down payment for a higher-valued property and then successively following the practice to obtain ever-increasing higher equities.
damnum absque injuria:
Damages or injuries of no consequence may, in legalese, be termed thus.
data approach method:
See: Market comparison approach.
DCF: See: Discounted cash flow.
de facto:
As distingtuished from de jure (meaning "by right"), de facto means "by actuality."
de jure:
As distinguished from de facto (meaning "in fact"), de jure means "by right," i.e., as a matter of law.

- Excerpted from text of book.