We went out with our real estate agent last night to look at some duplexes in her neighborhood as possible investment properties.  She’s in a great neighborhood and we had the best pizza there I’ve had in years – that alone could make it worth buying there; but of course, no one’s going anywhere till we sell this house.

She said the market out there is crazy.  Buyers aren’t buying.  They’re waiting.  Buyers are afraid that if they buy this week they’ll regret it, because maybe a better deal could’ve been had if they’d waited another week.   She said some brokerage houses have closed.  No business.  Can’t afford to keep their doors open right now.

I said “Doesn’t anybody need a house?”  She said of course.  But people are scared, especially with all the bad news on the news every night.  It’s like a joke already.  I heard that Stephen Colbert did a whole spoof on all the doomsday predictors.  I wish I could’ve seen that.

Do you remember the alar scare a few years back, and then no one ate apples for about a year and apple sales plummeted?  I don’t remember being told if or when it became safe to eat apples again.  I just remember all the scares and what it did to apple sales.  

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We had another open house today.  I thought that was pretty optimistic of my realtor, given our conversation from last night.  But actually, someone came through and expressed interest.  He said he wants to come back and look again with his wife.  We’ll see if/where that goes.  But at least someone is out there looking.