During the housing bubble, common sense (or at least the conventional wisdom) was that "real estate prices only go up" and "buy now or be priced out forever" T

During the housing bubble, common sense (or at least the conventional wisdom) was that "real estate prices only go up" and "buy now or be priced out forever" These are real sentiments that I heard from real people who while they were wrong (and I felt they were wrong at the time) aren't completely stupid.