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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is correct. Houses in my neighborhood that would have been $1.2 a few years ago are now going for $1.6 or more. It is depressing for those of us who were looking and could have bought but didn't do it quickly enough and now find that we missed the boat. But it really doesn't help to dwell on it! You can only move forward from where you are and who knows what the future will bring. [/quote]

Same. We’re now priced out of a neighborhood we love and hoped to buy in.

It’s  pathetic that so many of the people on this forum can’t have compassion for people priced out by a ridiculous and unimaginable sharp increase in such a short time.  Just confirms my suspicions that half of you are corporate slumlords, brokers, and builders greedy for cash. [/quote]

Same here. We were looking and could have bought but thought we would be patient for the right fit. Now we are having to look at much lower quality houses at a higher price. I don't really understand why people on this forum can't understand how that would be disappointing. Imagine you wanted to book an airline ticket, you wait a day to confirm your travel dates and all the sudden the ticket price jumped by 40 percent. Wouldn't you be regretful and disappointed? Now instead of your holiday to Rome, you are looking at spending even more money to go to Atlantic City. And no, I am not trying to start a debate on the merits of Atlantic City vis a vis Rome - it is just an example![/quote]

I get it, I really do. It feels like the housing market is moving faster than “normal” buyers can keep up with.

I think the negative reaction to this thread is that OP had $1.2m to spend on a house while rates are low and yet … didn’t. Why? Clearly she could have bought a home but was unwilling to jump in. Or was picky about what was on the market?

She is 50. I am 38. I graduated into a recession. Many of my kids’ friends’ parents are 40s to even 50. They bought houses while I was still in HS or college! OP had SO much more opportunity than me to be an adult when the housing market was more affordable, but never bought anything. I now live in a house that is valued less than $1.2 even following the COVID price run up. We paid 800k back in 2018, but I’m sure she’d thumb her nose at my house. So I’m just having a hard time feeling sorry for her. And with a 300k HHI I know I’m part of the UMC, but OP thinks not being able to afford the $1.7m house makes her MC. Just not a very sympathetic poster.

If OP were a 30 year old who had just finally scrounged together a DP and they were bummed a 500-700k house is now close to 900k+, I would feel bad for them. [/quote]

You know nothing about her life so you have no reason to be so judgmental. You’re assuming her life was just like yours and you’re shaming her for not making the decisions you would have made in your life. Nonsense. [/quote]

Sure sure sure, but OP has also made cringe statements about never becoming “upper middle class,” and has acted like a victim at every turn. (The market, a landlord who won’t negotiate with her, no one will want to marry her, etc.) And all this despite being in a stronger financial than the majority of people in this area. 
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The best I can say is that, if this is the type of person she is in real life and not just blowing off steam, is that I hope she had a therapist or at least a loving friend she can talk to. Someone in that mindset is never going to be happy. For her own sake, as well as her kids’ wellbeing, something has to change. [/b][/quote]

This is concern trolling and IMO bullying behavior. Stop throwing the word "therapy" around like an underhanded insult (yes, it's clear your are using that work to take a dig at her). It contributes to the stigma around mental illness and is offensive.
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