aldante, I feel for you brother. I wonder if Carlsbad will ever suffer the same fate as other areas, it is suprisingly resistant. Here we are, quite a ways into this thing and it’s still hanging in there, with probably quite a few buyers anxiously awaiting those empty properties, however many there are. It’s gonna take some patience and a little luck since you are waiting for the pain train at one of it’s last scheduled stops. Personally I would have gotten out the map by now and looked elsewhere. Then again, 20 years ago, I was living probably within a few miles of where you are now and I gave up and moved. The market and the economy have had a few ups and downs in those twenty years and had i stayed, I’d still be waiting. Are prices there at 2003 prices? Any sign of 2002 or 2001 numbers? I don’t follow that market, but if they get to prices for those houses in terms of those years, jump on it, because at the end of the day, out of the 2.5 million people in the county, probably 2.4 million would live there if they could afford it, when they can they will.
