[carrolldunham]

Sell family house for 500k, get apartment 250k, 250k to live off.

Sell family house for 1M, get apartment 500k, 500k to live off.

What am I missing?

[lolinder]

You're not missing anything. There's a subset of HN that sees greedy real estate speculators everywhere, even in a simple elderly couple with a simple retirement plan that involved owning exactly one home.