scruffydog, I just don’t understand your mind. I thought the discussion is going to die down. Did you just buy a house and now that you see the neighborhood house prices slide and you cannot accept that house market is going south is a reality? Unemployment data – if you think all of the house bubbles behave the same way, then we do not have to predict which way this market is going to. Reality – there is a house bubble and it is deflating. How fast is it deflating, no one knows. A lot of ppl here want to buy houses but they won’t and don’t want to buy a house when it is still at the peak or near the peak. We are not fueling anti-homeownerism!!!!!