I bought up some condo's in North Scottsdale in the tech crash of 99/00
one one was like 164k the other was 178k i think in bank repo in Kierlands.......sold them both in 08 with a bidding war on them....it was crazy. before that i had a prop management company lease them for golf vacations. When the realtor said I had over 20+ offers the first day on market in summer of 2006.....I sold both in the first hour for over 650k
I was making some good money at IBM but 6 months after that... I said "adios" at 49.....never worked again for any another company.
Some days luck smiles on you....that was my once in a lifetime