I never received this book. I never heard back from the seller after sending 2 emails. not reliable!!

I have the 2001 edition (first?) and it was very helpful in getting me through my real property class in law school. I've also been using it to help me during bar review, and it's been a godsend in getting me through covenants & equitable servitudes. I would assume the newer edition is even better. I would highly recommend it.

Some of Property is pretty straightforward, and other topics are ridiculously counterintuitive. This book makes it so much easier to put it all together and make it ALL make sense. Especially essential if your prof is the type who likes to hear himself talk and never take questions ...

This book got me through my Property Exam, especially the parts concerning conveyances. If you have a professor who'd rather ramble on for hours on end about conveyances, without really explaining what all the terms mean, then you are going to need this book. The other parts are also helpful -- covenants, nuisance, and restrictions on land use -- but I mainly focused on the conveyance sections.

This book was great at explaining some of the weird property rules that are out there in a way that was very understandable, and most importantly, easy to remember. My property class was only one semester, so we didn't cover everything that was in the book, but I can attest to the personal property stuff, adverse possession, servitudes, landlord-tenant law, zoning, nuisance, and eminent domain.

You will read the cases and go to class, but you can't touch this subject until you've answered fifty questions WRONG. It can either be in this book or on the exam. You decide.

The quantity of typographical errors in this hornbook (and it is a second edition!) are sufficient to make me recommend that you don't purchase it. The errors are not just simple misspellings (though there are plenty of those), but the kind were the wrong word, or party name, is used in such a way as to destroy the value of a hypothetical and cause unnecessary confusion. I get the sense reading it that the authors hastily jotted this book on a plane ride and had one too many scotches on the way.

To put it simply, when I found myself going to other sources to "hornbook" my hornbook, I knew it was time for a negative review. At $37, you shouldn't have to double check what is supposed to be your backup. Skip it until they clean up their act with a third edition.

This is a useful resource but unfortunately contains a good many typographical errors. Often these would not be a problem, but where the "Example" identifies people as, for instance, A, B and C, and the "Explanation" indicates A where it should indicate B, that's definitely a problem and may confuse some readers. Obviously the vast majority of these are correct, but in a book like this they should ALL be correct, without exception.

E&E is a good series, but watch out for typos in this volume; there are a lot of them. And pay attention in class.

Very few of the cases in my text are listed in this E&E. I realize that it is not keyed to my text, but that makes it frustrating to utilize to supplement my material. At first, I thought I might have bought the wrong book. I hope that later in the semester it becomes more useful in explaining the concepts.

This book, like most of the other E&E series, were essential for me to get through the first semester of law school. There are some who claim that using these books mean one doesn't pay enough attention in class. This is just flat wrong. I went to class every day but still couldn't grasp the Rule Against Perpetuities until I read this book. I just wish I had known about these E&E books before I went to law school.

I used this book throughout the semester and read it alongside my case book. Usually other students struggled with the basics in class, but I already had the vocabulary and the black letter law down after reading this book. I don't understand the prior reviewer's comments bashing this book--perhaps they are referring to an earlier edition? I thought this book was easy to understand and a great supplement for a difficult course. Of course, Property is so difficult that I recommend using this study aid throughout the semester, rather than trying to cram it all in at the end--perhaps that is the issue prior reviewers had.

My prof was not an old school prof that didn't teach us anything (like many law profs), so I didn't really need this book much. In addition, this book's usefulness varied by section. The Co-Ownership section was decent. I actually found that the section on Covenants was pretty bad. The authors' explanation of "touch and concern" was not good. In contrast, I found the section on Estates and Future Interests (three chapters) to be very helpful.

First---as I've reviewed for the other E&E's, the database is melding the reviews together.

I'm speaking of the newest edition which is quite good. I laughed reading the reviews below where people compare these to emanuel's and gilbert's when really they are a different breed.

If you do your job and outline and supplement with E&E you really can't go wrong. They provide explanations and practice, not a "hold your hand and walk you through everything and do your outlining for you" method that apparently a lot of students want--hence the sales of emanuels and gilbert's.

In sum, if you are looking for a comprehensive outline on law get a commercial outline. If you are looking for explanations and real practice, take a look at these. As the reviewer below stated, this newer edition is definately worth a shot.

The two editions appear to be tied together in Amazon's database. Reviews given to one appear in both places. In my opinion, the Second Edition (ISBN 0735539790) resolves a lot of the criticisms that I have heard and read about the first edition. Let the reviews scare you away from the old edition, but give the new one a look. It's worth it.

I don't know what the editor's at Aspen were thinking when they let this one fly. Every other Aspen book I read was excellent. This book is horrible. It does not explain the black letter law well at all. It offers vague examples to back up concepts that are never fleshed out in a way to make any sense. Often the Examples questions are too vague to figure exactly what they are trying to test you on and the explanations will refer to ideas you have never discussed or to opinions in cases that as a beginner you would never have read. There were some questions that the author assumes you will figure out from reading the actual cases but HE NEVER TELLS YOU TO READ THE ACTUAL CASES and since you dont have the cases you don't know to look into their opinions anyway. Regardless, a beginner's book like this is supposed to help you understand the letter of the law in a straightforward way, not force you into wrangling with old American (and sometimes English) common law cases to divine what a rule is that you don't know yet.

Also, and this is what really burns me, the authors, of all the people in America who could probably write this book, have the most unclear, obstruse, and indirect writing style. Anyone who knows how to edit would have noticed this from the start, but Aspen didn't and let it fly. I have read 5 chapters and I can't recall anything I have learned so far (unlike all the other E&Es I have read. Aspen, what is wrong with you people? I am so disgusted right now I can't see myself ever paying for anything from you again. $40 is bad enough of a rip off for poor students as it is.

This book is garbage. Absolute garbage. I think Glannon's Civ Pro is great, and I have read many others that I can learn from. I am in chapter 8 right now, and I have been searching the internet for a way to tell the company or the authors that this book sucks. I visited the Aspen publishing webpage, but they don't give a crap, they just want to sell books. THIS BOOK IS PATHETIC. Wherever you are, Mr. Burke and Mr. Snoe, thanks a lot. 40 bucks for this crap. I just hope I can resell it to somebody who didn't read this review.

Buy this and High Court summaries keyed to your casebook and you're set. I also used the Gilberts and Sum and Substance 1L tapes while commuting to school--the best preparation with the least effort.
Property isn't the easiest 1L subject but you get the hang of it. This book does help but it's not as easy going as Civ Pro, Ks or Torts, for instance. Still, a great help considering the subject.

This was my primary study aid for my property final. It did an OK job of filling in the holes in my notes and the instruction in the case book - its sections on future interests and the rule against perpetuities are actually quite good. On the downside, several sections are hopeless - for instance, the section on concurrent ownership and marital interests.

look, the secret to law school is finding the 1 hornbook you need to survive your class. this is not it. (sorry harvard.) this is poorly written. most indications seem to be that gilbert's is much better. for what it's worth, the other things you need are: chirelstein for contracts; glannon for civ pro; there's nothing for torts, but i suppose glannon for torts is better than the rest; chemerinsky for conlaw; i don't know if there's one for criminal, but I used gilberts.
this is poorly written and poorly explained. I've heard that gilbert's is better.

Anyone who listens to that Harvard nut-job is a sap. This book is alright, not as good as Gilbert's, though. The way to go is to pick ONE book that makes sense to you and study it well. Harvey's "forest and trees" theory begs the question: If he falls down in a forest and there is no one there to hear his cries for help, will anyone care?

I am only a mediocre student at a mediocre school. But property is our thing and our property prof is our toughest--she was the top grad at Stanford or something and heads up the whole environmental movement out here in the Pacific Northwest. Property was my hardest class by far, yet I passed. I owe passing to this book, because the class was all way over my head. This book gave me what I missed in class and got me to survive the worst exam I ever took. All 1L law students need it. Anyone who is not a lawyer but finds themselves needing to understand basic principles of property law (maybe you are involved in a suit against your local zoning board and need someone to explain to you what your lawyer is saying) needs this book. In fact, if you own your own home or business, you probably need this book. I used to own my own home before I changed careers and went back to college. If I had this book back then, I would have been a lot more saavy in dealing with my obnoxious neighbors. Heck, if you rent you need this book so your landlord doesn't screw you. I think the reason some reviewers hated it is that they are the geeks of your law school class who got all A's without trying. They probably hated Cliff's Notes, too.

I have a number of the E&E series books, and they are generally very helpful. Unfortunately, Burke and Snoe's Property is written in the same way that most law profs teach- a little heavy on the legalese without completely explaining themselves. The "Harvard law student" sounds a little too enthusiastic for this book considering it really falls far short of the others in the series. I would not recommend it, and hope that the E&E editors clean up the next edition.