Someone is confusing a home with a financial investment. Get your base set up, a place you can raise your family and your children can run around. Travel all you want but you know you have somewhere you can always return when shit gets crazy. No one said you had to sell it or use it to make you money. Owning multiple homes you never see I think is fucking stupid but build out that family compound.

I'm lucky and was left land with a house, it needed serious repairs (roof, band joists rotten, drywall) but it has helped me save and have no worries about a mortgage.

I say left ( I bought it from my aunt for $100) fuck you taxes.