“I still feel that if most could go back and do it all over again, they would get as many properties as they “Could not afford”, neg/am them and make a mint.”
I could not agree more with this point.
If you have read my many posts, (portrait of an addict) then I did post awhile back about the bitterness and my own reticence on the very same missed opportunity that you just mentioned. This is very true.
The same is true with investing in stocks during the bubble and such.
So there may be a small amount of merit in your statement and personally I willfully and freely admit to being bitter about missed opportunity and not leveraging to the hilt a few years back and buying as many as I could.
However I don’t think that transcends to the same anger I have about bailouts and such.