Wimmins...you can't live with them. I told mine about 8 years ago we needed to sell this house & move. No.
The value had went from $220K up to over $400K in little less than 5 years, because they were building $650K houses across the road from us.
Then the real estate slump hit. We went from having money in the bank to being under water overnight. Now my wife wishes she'd listened to me.
It's taken 8 years for the value to slowly creep back up to what we paid for it 15 years ago.
The people who bought those houses at $650K mostly walked away from them. Lots of them are boarded up & have been for years.
Too bad too, because they are all really nice houses.