paramount, we live within a bike ride of each other and within a few miles of the OP, let me ask you this since you are doubting your instincts: Do you see more vacants today than last year or the year before? It’s August, what’s the brown lawn percentage compared to the past two summers? There’s always a back story to the story, so just trust what you see. My experience was that in the summer of 2007, brown lawns started showing up, summer 2008 they were every 6th or 7th one. Today, not so much, I can walk my dogs and only see one or two out of a few hundred. People can tell me all the stories they want but I didn’t just start making notes about brown lawns and vacants, I’ve been a student in this class for a couple of years (as have you) and the worst is not yet to come, it is behind us.[/quote]
It’s true, our hood looks much better these days – we had one last hold out (brown lawn) on our street and driving home today I noticed the new owners preparing the soil for a new lawn.
