Welcome to Real Estate Investing For Dummies, 2nd Edition! We’re delighted to be your tour guides. Throughout this book, we emphasize three fundamental cornerstones that we believe to be true: ✓ Real estate is one of the three time-tested ways for people of varied economic means to build wealth (the others are stocks and small business). Over the long-term (decades), you should be able to make an annualized return of at least 8 to 10 percent per year investing in real estate.
