I'm not giving anyone advice, but I'll update my situation. Bought first house 2010 and sold it at 100% increase in value 2018. Current house now up 60% in 3.5 years and expected to increase at least 20% in the next year. So yeah I'm glad I scraped together every dime I had to make that first purchase and I bought in a winning market. Owned a VW Rabbit at the time. At least the 5 cylinder sounded good.
