JWM, thank you that was insightful. I guess I underestimated my little hobby, thinking it was an electronic modern day barbershop only interesting to those of us participating in it.

bob, I didn’t have to tell her that I read them but what’s the harm in it really? In most cases it is probably better that the salesperson knows they have an informed buyer regardless of what they are selling, like a guy walking onto a car lot with his internet printed invoice price. I only divulged it after a conversation where she sounded like one of us anyway, no b.s. or plattitudes, just some honest answers much like the two sdrealtors, bugs, rustico, HLS and a few other people connected to the biz usually give. It could have been a ploy to play to the buyer (if it was it worked) but I doubt it, my line of work is about reading people and their motivations and I got a good read so I would prefer to do business with someone like that (of course the price isn’t where i think it is going just yet, but compared to others it’s getting closer). With the credit crunch I think the down cycle just got a shot of steriods and the knife may fall faster than anticipated so I am finding out what exactly I want and who I wan’t to do business with for when time does come.