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I have gently probed him to see what his desires are with the house.

Do you mind gently asking your readers (or Twitter followers, or however the news got out) to halt the barrage?

Please be gentle, this is the FIRST draft (been sitting here for 2 hours trying to get this down) http://bit.ly/1k86bbY Thank you to everyone!

So that was true and they did not.. the issue is as you describe instead of a gentle easing into rates normalizing with slow methodical raises you have the shock factor and it has shocked the market there is NO doubt about that at least in certain markets and for sure for new construction SFR's  Sales are still happening but its nowhere near a normal pace. 

Best strategy: get someone to spill the beans on their success by massaging their ego, copy off of them.

Gently to some, pretty rudely to ones I think know better.

Put down your minimum credit score and other qualifications in a gentle manner that makes it sound like you are doing them a favor. 

(& gently helping them find). 

You can take a screw driver and gently poke the drywall.