LOL at realtors and this T4L guy discussing a conspiracy to drive down house prices in a neighborhood. Do you think OCR wrote all those articles for four years in hopes that he could eventually drive down the price of a single house? What a friggin’ joke!

And where were you guys when prices were rising to insane levels? How come you didn’t have your panties in a bunch during the ride up? Was it because you were benefitting? Maybe you yourself as a realtor or appraiser or whatever contributed to the insanity with some hype of your own?

Rest assured that there were many more conspiracies to drive prices up than there will ever be to drive prices down. Our own government has put in place a system to inflate house prices beyond any reasonable level and is to this day using incredible amounts of taxpayer money to keep house prices unaffordable.

And for God’s sake T4L, if you’re going to trot out some entity with ‘ethics’, pick something else other than the mainstream media. The MSM was gorging themselves on ad revenue from the real estate and mortgage brokerage industries during the whole time this bubble was inflating and didn’t dare print a negative word about it. The MSM is about as ethical as Bernie Madoff.

All of the housing bubble bloggers should be commended for their efforts. They were out there putting their ass on the line trying to protect people when our own government wasn’t doing anything about this crazy housing bubble and was in fact working against us.

Thanks for fighting the good fight, OCR. You helped a lot of people, including me.