This is a ridiculous question, another troll. Ask a thousand people and you will get 1000 different answers as to why they did not buy in a certain year. So here’s my sob story. I could not move up in 2001 thru 5 because my wife was in school. In 2005 we did not buy because at that point it was obvious that the structural integrity of the bubble was at critical load. We decided to pay off the school loans and credit cards. Now we are debt free (except for our current puny mortgage). When the prices in our target area hit my target price we will buy our next home. Hopefully that will happen soon, at the rate prices are falling up in our area it will not take very long.