check yo house
http://zillow.com
go there, enter your street address/city/state and see how much your house is worth (or atleast what this website thinks) and how much your neighbors homes are worth, too. it's very cool. it knows when your house was last bought and for how much and has all this other information. so far all of the info is accurate on my house besides the fact that we have 2 bathrooms not 1. my parents bought the house in 2000 for $112,000 because it was a SHIT house that an old man literally soiled all the floors with piss and poop and we fixed it up and in a year it was worth $400,000! shows how hard work pays off.
ok now go do it and tell me how much your $2,000,000 houses cost in california or whatever!