Yeah, SEH my target area-don’t wanna tell anyone if I bot already or not, cyberstalkers you know-I use Outtamojo for a long time, on many forums some very heated : ) As for your house search, let me guess: you told your realtor you wanted to look for bargains- reo’s, short sales and stuff. So, he/she drags you down to Questhaven area of SEH, where entire streets are for sale. You post this on SDL and they say yeah you can’t make this stuff up yada yada. Your bearishness is thus “confirmed”. Ok, what if you tell me you want to see some really sick people. I drag you to a hospice. Will you then conclude that we are all about to die? I could give you a tour of my hood of about 140 some-odd homes :1 has a for sale sign, 1 is abandoned. Shadow inventory to come out where I live? Hah, that would just return us to NORMAL for-sale levels. Anyway, my point is, when I started looking, I thought they would practically GIVE me the house-until I actually started making offers. If this trade war gets outta hand you may get your $128 sq/ft home but until then, I would try to balance the responses you get from your written offers with whatever the perma bears project.