>But at the same time if you can make it happen it has a huge impact on your net worth/retirement/kids college ect. Well the joke was always you had to have an

>But at the same time if you can make it happen it has a huge impact on your net worth/retirement/kids college ect. Well the joke was always you had to have an all cash bid 20% over asking in the Bay before the run up anway so you already had to have a pretty massive net worth to buy in the first place. >I don't know where houses are 400k these days though. Basically anywhere outside the Coasts in the US?