The danger when you're in your 40s and 50s is to be house-rich and cash-poor.

We don't have to put a house on every vacant lot.

I wanna be regular again - to be in a house or apartment or something. Just to get out of a hotel because this isn't really my life anymore.

Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.

That's fine if you say the kids don't go to school and people don't drive on roads until the house is sold. Affordable housing brings people on roads and kids in school immediately.

I went crazy when he paid off the house so quickly - as a CFP, I thought of the deductions he'd lose by paying off the mortgage. He broke one of the first rules of financial planning.