Hi Lonn, I have had more calls in the last two weeks from buyers and other Realtors then I have had in the last two months. I, like you believe our market will turn around this year. Donold Trump said if you are thinking of investing in real estate, make your move before July of this year. That's when we should see home values start to move up.

I'm far from being that optimistic. I see pretty much no changed around here (Chicago's northwest burbs) and I don't think we'll see anything good at least till 2009, but more like 2010.

Hah!  We still have over two feet of snow on the ground and what with giant mountains of snow from plowing and snow blowing you can't even walk around a house to look at it.  The sun has come out, however, and some roofs are now visible.  We just hope all this is gone by July! Once we clear this (over 110 inches so far this winter) out the market will probably explode. But we're not clear of snow storms until May, if we're lucky.  But the skiing and snowmobiling are still great!

I'm not sure Florida actually has Spring. But the Canadians and English are starting to come over in force.

The more foreigners the better I say. We need as much help as possible to bail out this market.