As an OG of this site I have dropped in every few months only to close the window in disgust to see what my once loved forum has become. I have different motives today than I did back then. I bought eleven years ago after the biggest bubble in my lifetime and I will always credit this place with how I managed to time the market. Now I’m curious as my children are now adults, college grads and in the workforce, I want to give them advice that is timely as far as purchases or renting goes.
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. So you’ve been absent for almost a decade but now you want advice and you’re disgusted to find that the forum you stopped helping to maintain didn’t stay what you wanted it to in your absence. Sorry man, I feel for you, but that’s just weird.
To answer your question, housing will return to the forefront when we’re all contrarians again. Maybe never. Most of us took the knowledge we gained and profited from it and are now on the other side and whether we admit it or not are wedded to a different outlook. So we aren’t the avant garde jealous bitter renters we once were; full of piss and vinegar and stats showing how wrong housing prices are.
You want Piggington to be relevant again, pray for an activist Fed, or a recession, or both. Other than that I think, as do many others that we’re settling in to watch the paint dry.
