Investing in real estate is significantly different from investing in stocks and bonds. Anyone can get started in the stock market with just a few dollars to invest: look at the success and popularity of investing apps like Acorns and Robinhood! Real estate markets, by comparison, have an extreme learning curve and a high cost of failure represented by the upfront costs of a mortgage. For those who are just getting started in real estate investing, inadequate knowledge and experience can lead to costly mistakes. 
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The real estate market produces a tremendous amount of long-term, secure wealth compared to most industries. Residential rental real estate alone accounts for roughly 15-18% of our GDP, either through direct rents and utilities paid or through the construction and renovation of new and existing units. Even at the lower end of the estimate, this represents the movement of roughly 3 trillion in assets. That completely outpaces the commercial real estate sector, which only represents about 1.1 trillion in assets.
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