Oh how my peers laughed and laughed at me as they bought their fancy condos and lofts and drove around in their fancy luxury cars with Steve Winwood and Bruce Hornsby playing on the stereos. They had their health club memberships and their Caribbean vacations with the umbrella drinks and the young native girls who couldn't say no.
Meanwhile, I'm scraping old-lady wallpaper off the kitchen wall and vacuuming cat turds out of every crevice and dealing with a basement prone to flooding everytime it rains more than an inch. But at least I had no problem making my mortgage payments (which were less than what I had been paying for rent) and my Ford Festiva was paid off and I got to take the kids to Chuck-E Cheese every once in a while.
Oh well, they laughed at me then. But many of them aren't laughing so hard now. Especially since I paid off that house, got another fixer-upper, sold that house at a tidy profit and now live almost mortgage free in a half million dollar house. It's also nice that I don't have to eat at the Chuck-E Cheese anymore.
Hard work is a good thing but you took advantage of the over inflated prices just like those people did. Only they got stuck holding the bill and you had better timing.
you mean people actually laughed at you? how awful to be surrounded by such people...