To: silenceddissenter who wrote (86875 ) 8/24/2007 11:23:27 AM From: John Vosilla Respond to of 306849 Parts of FL are already back to 2002 prices with no end in site so another leg down is a certainty there. So if I buy at auction later this year and 2008 at 40% below a market value that happens to be at 2000 prices considering where our dollar is and how much higher the cost of construction are today I would say that is as safe as anything I've ever seen. This whole situation is so amusing. The suits and armchair economists have no idea of what real estate is all about, how to really invest, how to find the deals that insure profits yet everybody is an expert now in the age of the internet. On the flip side I talk to tons of investors in the game everyday few that have a clue as to how the pimps on WS and in DC impacted their industry. Many have come to realize lately the whole mania was all a scam (as all here would agree). A few others still think this whole collapse is overblown and due to the media being to negative.. Watch NYC, San Fran, London home prices and how they adjust the next few years for the ultimate clues of our future.. Remember Puplava, Mish, Grande, Roubini, any realtor pimp, national association of homebuilders ect.. all have their agenda. It is create traffic, create interest and sensationalism equating to dollars using their myopic view and target audience.. As to deficits and tax issues it would be nice for some politicians to actually talk about our declining dollar and inability to throw what is now a couple of trillion dollars in misallocation of capital in Iraq.. The whole conservative agenda of the Bush administration on the immigration, fiscal and gov't intervention overseas angles of the equations ended up being liberalism at it's finest. Then hijacked by the far right on stem cell, global warming, alternative energy that can do so much to better mankind,what a joke..Think about it how can the successor ever be as bad as GWB with his/her decision making. Pick any loser out of the crowd like the Eddie Murphy character in Trading Places and they'll do a much better jobs.