The window of opportunity for buying looks to remain open for some time...Mortgage delinquencies hit record high in Q2Delinquencies and foreclosures set record in 2nd quarter, as more homeowners lose their jobs By Alan Zibel, AP Real Estate Writer On Thursday August 20, 2009, 10:12 am EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 13 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage are either behind on their payments or in foreclosure as the recession throws more people out of work, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday.The record-high numbers in the report are being driven by borrowers with traditional fixed-rate mortgages, rather than the shady subprime loans with adjustable rates that kicked off the mortgage crisis.

When the writer mockingly refers to Florida beachfront property as a "pre-existing condition" - try to get hurricane insurance for Florida beachfront property.

OIL - you better sit down.Here's an interesting read, important and verifiable information :About 6 months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest.

Finance ex- The writer is credentialed by Associated Press as Economics writer.

We use open office - which is like the open source equivalent of MS office - comes with writer, which is like word, calc (=excel), as well as equivalents of things like power point, etc.

Although the movie "2012" was a horrible movie, I would be curious to see how a writer would make the next 100 years turn out after 2012, you could call it 2112.

One thing that I have noticed, whether it is forum posting, blogs, emails, instant messages, etc... is that many times, a reader will put an entirely different emotion on the written word than the writer intended.

I'm thinking most of these writers are from NYC or other high rent metros, so they are impressed with places under 150k.

Such as rent reminders, notice writers etc?

I hate it when writers leave out key details in their news reports.