Given that real estate, in the long term, increases in value on average 4% per year, does purchasing a home make sense?

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction2.

I'm Samantha Derman from Los Angeles- I am passionate about animals AND real estate investing.

Basically, I need a whole team: a real estate agent, a loan broker, possibly a property manager, etc.

I'm Suhael from Downers Grove, Illinois, passionate about real estate investing for passive rental income.

I’ve been actively making offers on duplexes for the past several months because I want to get started in real estate now.

This is because it is expensive to buy and sell real estate.

As a real estate broker here in South Florida, I have recently observed a noticeable trend in the real estate market: an uptick in what many are referring to as "Price Improvements" on property listings.

You want to be in real estate then skip traditional college.

I am currently 21 years old, and have recently begun to get into what it would look like to invest in real estate.