sdrealtor pointed out the obvious. powaysellers copious amount of posts suggests her life is one dimentional. It is what it is. Ignore it or accept it for what it is. Pinpointing the market’s trend is impossible by anyone. Im sure most, if not all (despite number crunching none of us can validate as being empirically correct) are using anecdotal information as a guide to our current/future behavior. Education level is irrevelant (forgive my MBA from the academic powerhouse SDSU) here. I have enjoyed this site because I am a benefactor of selling three homes (1 in LA, one in aliso viejo and one downtown San Diego). I now rent with the expectation I will enter the market when evidence points to an increase in home values over a few months. I didnt need a degree to surmise this is a safe strategy. Powayseller seems to pontificate which can easily turn anyone off. The common demoninator here is our agreement that home values will decline.