My Husband is a Real Estate Appraiser and just explained to me that it's not your house any way, so deal.

"Because they just own the title to it, the Government actually owns the house. Because when you pay taxes you technically can lose the house at any time, the government can take it from you, so you don't actually own it."

So there, people who are peeved because there is some guy walking around San Diego taking pictures of all the houses so that he can create a database of every single house, put it on the internet and let people search through it to see just how pretty houses are in San Diego.

From NBC San Diego:

"The goal is to establish a database of every residential property, actually every property, in the country into a database," said Kevin Allen of Anderson Appraisal Services. "What we want is the picture that's going to best show what this house looks like." It's a database that a company named Zaio plans to sell to real estate appraisers.

And make their jobs just a little bit more comprehensive.

So there, DEAL.

One Man's "oh my God I've had to declare bankruptcy and my life is falling apart" is another's "woo hoo, look at that steal of a deal."

Just released on Market Wire:

San Diego's Finest Real Estate (SDFRE) is launching the "Great American Dream Home Tour." In February and March, the company will take prospective buyers on a four-hour guided search for bargains within the San Diego residential foreclosure market. The tour's first stop: Solana Beach, Del Mar and Carmel Valley on Saturday, Feb. 9 from 9 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

It's kind of like a star spotting, fancy house tour, only instead of Leonardo Dicaprio you have the possibility of viewing the poor guy moving out his soon to be repossessed furniture because he couldn't afford to refinance his already high interest rate loan.

Our housing market might suck a little but it doesn't suck a lot.

So Dean Calbreath over at The Union Tribune writes his article about how our housing market isn't the worst it could be:

In a study released last week by the U.S. Council of Mayors, San Diego did not even make the Top 50 list of communities that will be hurt by the decline in home prices next year. In fact, it ranked 88th in a roster of 362 metropolitan areas nationwide. Which still puts us at the bad end of the scale, but nowhere near the worst.

And people run with it.

How's the San Diego real estate market doing? Not bad at all, according to a commentary article in the San Diego Union-Tribune, which purports that America's finest city is feeling better with regard to the real estate market than the rest of the country.

This prompts the question, who is Dean Calbreath, and what else is he the authority on that we can run with? Will he tell me what kind of tree I should get for Christmas? Will he let me know where the best cup of Hot Chocolate in San Diego is? Will he please let me know WHY it thinks it can rain in San Diego? Did Dean Calbreath sign off on the rain?!