Smart Realtors today go on about how slow declines are going to be and how some areas are going to be different… we just don’t know which ones they are. They work on buyer’s patience or lack of and sympathize at all the right times like when the wife wants a house. They schmooze really good and butter people up waiting for that moment of weakness. They show that they themselves are very susceptible to those same weaknesses. Nobody wants to be a hero right? Most likely the buyers today are buying with people like that as much as with the perma bull, easy to see through kind.