[quote=davelj]These appreciation forecasts are utterly bizarre. I would divide them by 4 and be glad they hit those marks (and, yes, I realize they’re cumulative).

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/housing-markets-that-will-be-strongest-by-2014%5B/quote%5D

Not just bizarre, but utterly useless. How are people going to afford to pay the mortgage on a house in an area that has no jobs?

Do media outlets like Yahoo actually pay people for this stuff?