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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Vosilla who wrote (57510)	4/5/2006 10:44:36 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

I am in south Tampa today -- signs all over the place "for rent" and "for sale". The market is clearly shifting from the days when people cruised the streets hoping to lock in a house as soon as it hit the market. This is not an issue anymore. The only issue is what happens as a result of this shift from sellers' market to buyers' market. Prices soften -- we know that. It is everything that comes after this softening that is a mystery. US builders are going to face trouble -- i can't see it any other way. They are cyclical -- and this is the sour part of the cycle for them. Perhaps they look cheap to the naive and it is a market for idiots who don't know that it would be entirely "normal" to have a five to ten year slump in housing prices at this point.