I saved enough Sunday Homes sections (from the Union Tribune and the like) over the last three years to be able to share with you that the players were a large part of the game.
“Buy now or be priced out forever” was never part of the game before….yet I have several DOZEN articles written locally by realtors over the last three years that suggest these were the new rules of the game.
Unless…you feel I should buy now or be priced out forever? Didn’t think so.
No way to separate the two (players/the game)…none at all. By the way…buying a house to live in should never have become a game.
P.S. Any “hit-the-number” appraiser friends of yours should expect to be visited by the FBI in coming years. Usually I would say something like “Heaven help them”. Not in this case….”burn, baby, burn”.