My neophyte brain says "Well that's odd that that inventory is up over 50% from two years ago and my calculation says we are still in a seller's market.".....which then leads to "so does this mean we were SO far in the hole that even with that huge increase, by 'normal' standards we would still be in a sellers market, and our perception is just different at this juncture," followed by "or is my zooming in only on SFH in DC proper skewing my image?"

Being situated in the NW, my perception of housing has been that buying (for me) is slightly out of reach and the 50k rental homes are a thing of the past or in other markets far out of my back yard.

I'm very new to this but my thought is, it is hard to rent off something if everything is just white...seems boring and I'm coming from sales and a lot has to do with perception.

Everyone comes here with perceptions of dealing in real estate as if it were a train load of shoes.

What this does is creates a perception that we are “going to hell in a hand basket”.

I taught high school for 12 years as well, so my judgmental response to that kind of typing is that I wouldn't want someone who doesn't know how to structure a simple sentence to be entrusted with my funds and crafting binding contracts for me--it also makes my hand fairly twitch for that red pen...heh.I have not been able to comprehend why someone would want to purposefully put forth the perception of ignorance.

My perception from watching other investors is that, they don't care if your selling because your dog died and you can no longer stay in the house.

Those who care to market themselves through the perception of riches.

The rate input to the NPV calculation is big guess based on one's perception of risk, thus, as Bryan says, a GIGO machine, I agree.

I want to quickly know what category a female fits into.It's all about perception.