We were very lucky in that we bought for $172K back in early 1998 when the bubble was taking a nap. Value sky rocketed over the next few years up to $500K until the crash of 2007-2008 when it plummeted by a quarter million bucks. Very slowly recovered and we sold this past March for over $300K more than we paid.
For every story like mine there's 9 others that don't turn out well at all.
Again, lucky. And grateful.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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