My mom told me it's never polite to talk about money. Wealth is relative. The more wealth on has, the less one should discuss it. – Perry Chase

I totally agree with that statement, and I regret that I allowed myself to be goaded into disclosing the returns on the sale of my house on another thread. (jg: …So, ps, you're not going forward with your website/forecasting service, since you didn't hit anything out of the ballpark in this run up?)

I should have said, I owned a San Diego home from 2000-2005 so of course I profited at time of sale.  At the same time, I did not leverage this opportunity by putting down less money, nor did I buy rental properties.  So while I benefitted from the timing,  I also underplayed the opportunity.  In the process, I've learned enough that hopefully the next opportunity will not miss me by.