best visual representation of the bubble?

[Rich Toscano]

Hi all – Does anyone know a good visual to represent either the madness of the housing bubble or the shaky state of the current market? I am thinking it must be downtown, aka Craneville, but who knows. A nest of for sale signs/lockboxes would be good as well. Any thoughts? This is for a newspaper interview I have tomorrow… thanks in advance for the tips.

Rich

Update: Sorry, I neglected to be clear about one detail: this needs to be a physical and visitable location in San Diego. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Rich,
How about this one:
http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2006/04/bubble-bench-update.html

Or this:
http://bubblemeter.blogspot.com/2006/03/bubblicious-bench-flippers.html

[desmond]

Check last Sunday’s LA Times it had an article on the city of Wilmington,CA., the city next to the largest port in the US. 7 million cargo containers come in full from overseas (China)per year, only 2 million go out. They had pictures of the 200,000 large steel containers stacked all over the city piled 40 feet high and infested with rats. It is so bad that the city can’t even findout who owns them. I believe this is the root cause of the bubble.

[mrquoi]

Here’s Craneville from Ben Jones’ blog slideshow.

http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/slideshow/#2

There are many hilarious “move-in for $1 down” style ads in the SD Reader. Also, the best massive for sale sign nest I’ve seen is at the corner of El Camino/Manchester in Encinitas.

[carlislematthew]

Drive up Mira Mesa Blvd and take a nice zoomed-in picture of the “open house” signs! OK, so this works best on Sundays..

I saw 7 signs on one street corner all bunched up together this Sunday!

[barnaby33]

Dude where’s my t-shirt? Right here man, I got ya covered!

http://www.t-shirthumor.com/Merchant2/products/hbbl.html?Category_Code=newr

Josh

[NotARocketScientist]

You could get 5 or 6 of those guys who stand on street corners with those giant “Condos for Sale” arrows to pose, desperately pointing their signs in many different directions.

[NotARocketScientist]

Another visual:

-A new house, unoccupied
-“For Sale” sign at the curb
-“Price Reduced” sign tacked on
-Weeds growing in the seams of the sidewalk
-throwaway newspapers piling up in the driveway

Seems you should be able to find that somewhere

[powayseller]

I wish I knew a location of a glut of real estate For Sale signs. That would be the best. I am willing to drive around some neighborhoods to find such an area, if anyone has a lead.

I like a Voice photo of two downtown condos at night. Only a couple lights were turned on, showing they are mostly vacant. The shot was taken between two towers.

My friend suggested if you want to be dramatic, a picture of a house auction. I think they are held Thursday mornings at the downtown court house on Broadway at 10 am. The auctioneer stands outside on the courthouse steps, and the bidders stand around him. It went on for 30 minutes the day I was at the courhouse a few weeks ago.

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