Good Lord, it’s become too much.  I thought maybe it was all the rain we were getting that was making me so angry today, but I just realized the problem.

From The Columbus Dispatch … – home sales gain 4.8%, still less than where we were a year ago. (Hat tip to OSU Brian for that link)

But HousingBubbleblog.com says … – “Sales of new single-family U.S. homes were off 23.3 percent from a
year ago … although the West
did see a 37.7 increase."

Then there’s NBC’s Today this morning … – Prices down 4% nationally, while the Western portion of the US is down 28%.

And homebuilders are crying …

I think I’m at the point where I’m just going to stop listening.  It’s gotten to be too much, and everyone’s contradicting each other.  I don’t know that anyone really knows what’s happening with the housing market, yet they all keep yelling louder and louder, hoping that someone – ANYONE – will listen.  We’ve had the best years in real estate we’ve EVER had as a nation in the last four years, and suddenly things are slowing down and it’s all going to hell in a hand basket.  I don’t believe it.   There are problems, but the sky’s not falling here.

Here’s what I know … there’s too much out there.  Don’t believe everything you read on the Net.  No, Bill Gates is not sending you money.  You don’t go to the Net for advice on how to surgically repair your shoulder, you go to a podiatry specialist that focuses on shoulder reconstruction.  I’m going to stop listening to all of those who keep screaming about real estate when they aren’t qualified to talk about the New River Valley (see Jim Cramer).  Want advice on the LOCAL real estate market?  Ask me. 

Other than that, I’m going to stop listening to the rest of that crap.  It’s just too much.  How about you?  Is it too much, or not enough?