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.

Quote from @Bryan Melendez: Hello all, my name is Bryan Melendez.I am new to all thing's real estate, residing in South Florida. 

Not only investors, also talk with lenders, property managers, agents, construction people on the sidewalk.

Used an agent through the Agent Finder function on BP How did you finance this deal?

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

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.

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.

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