There have been short-term booms and busts, but the long-term trend looks like this: http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/54aadb0df92ea1558800c86a/Case-Shiller_

There have been short-term booms and busts, but the long-term trend looks like this: http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/54aadb0df92ea1558800c86a/Case-Shiller_Simpl-Percentages.jpg http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/54aadb0df92ea1558800c86... Imagine a version of yourself in 1987 waiting for the bubble to burst.