When we decided, in 2003, to put a deposit on a new home, we estimated that our existing home would bring $275k.
By the time we closed on the new home in 2004 we were able to get $375k for our home, and the home that we had moved into had also dramatically appreciated.
Don’t know if there will ever be another opportunity like that in my lifetime but real estate appreciation allowed me to get ahead like no other opportunity of my life.
