betty whites we re celebrating when they re 99. we don t want to cast people aside. when i think about betty white being the oldest person to host snl it s like why aren ter co snl. their funny. thinking let s use betty white s life and legacy as an example of how we want to celebrate people who have paved the way and who have remained relevant and interesting. this is a golden girls moment my friend showed me a couple days ago for the first time that had me and my husband laughing and hysterical. dorothy saying you re five years old, so am i, so is blanch, so you have a few more wrinkles, so do i, so does blanch. you re a little thicker in the middle, so am i.
you have a job, if you like your school district, if you ve got 20%, at least 20% in the bank and you re you can take advantage of low mortgage rates, this is a great time to buy a house. if any one of those things is not true, then it s perfectly fine to be a aren ter and repair your balance sheet. maybe in the next couple of years we ll see more properties come on the market. this is a normalization of home price. this is a normalization after what what was a big pop. you can see how far we ve come. if you bought a house in 2006, 2007, you still are not back to where you were on the price of the house. home prices are not back where they were. they are down 28% from the peak. some people watching us and saying, what we recovery? i m still down, home prices over the past ten years. you can see what we re seeing on right of the screen, normalization after a big run-up and a pop of a bubble, and it will take time for things to sort of fine their footing, i