Originally Posted by burnthesheep

I'm not good with stuff like this. Other than moving to the sticks or a really undesirable location, how do you monetize on gains in value of property?

We're up enough in ours we could pay cash for an identical sqft ranch way out of town if we sold our place in town.

But we also still have school age kids. Find a dive somewhere still in town and get that? How do folks play that game?