In regards to lesson 1 – I have seen the same thing – an aquaintance of mine has their house listed – 3 months now, a couple of looks, no offers, but I have been told they have it “priced right”, it is just a tough market…hmmm, 3 months, no offers, maybe it is not quite priced right? This person bought in 1998 and the current asking price is more than 400K more than they paid (I don’t think they have any seconds – or if they do, they are small and were put back into the house), so they could easily chop the price and sell… but of course they have it priced right, so they don’t need to!

About lesson 2 – to repeat myself from another topic: Hire a losing coach, get a losing team. I would cut them slack if they had hired Singletary – although I can’t imagine so many stupid mistakes if he was coach. No one would want to face the coach on the sideline having made a dumb mistake with that look he used to give QB’s – that guy was scary just watching on TV.