. : )2% there and here in the United States it's about 1 to 1.5% annually.Last year billions from the Canadians rolled into the Untied States for real estate investing.My clients on commercial properties usually generate 10 to 15% annual returns and have rental increases each year.

I am going to build a multi-billion $ empire that has influence across the globe—THAT is my desire.I don't wish to be average.

You don't want to be like the millions of real estate appreciation investors who lost hundreds of billions during the real estate crash. 

The property was in the New York area, the investor was all but bankrupt at the time to boot so he couldn't really buy it anyway, but still he obsessed and everyone bet against him after finally giving up on trying to stop him.That investor was Donald Trump, and that deal, the impossible sure looser deal, is what brought him from the ashes, wrote books, made him famous, and launched the multi billion brand Trump.I would say the most dangerous thing in this world is a psychic pessimist; once computers in the home was impossible and now we carry them in our pockets, history is made by those who do the impossible, even in real estate. 

This combined with rising home prices in some areas of the U.S. have made the single family home market a little less attractive for some real estate investors in recent months.Blackstone Group has purchased over $7 billion in single family homes over the past several years.

Memphis is having their own boom too with over $4 billion dollars in construction projects either just wrapping up, in progress or about to start.  

My personal database built over the last 13 years has individuals with a combined net worth in the billions.

Also,  come to think about it, he referenced I think Rockerfella in saying that, " He's worth a billion, but owns nothing".

However, Blackstone seems to think there's something to it, they bought Vivint for 2 billion dollars back in 2012

Cuban now says the team is worth well over a billion.