The Kansas City Star reported this Sunday that 2007 home sales were ugly. Well they weren't talkin about my girlfriend Miss Johnson County Kansas. While she wasn't beautiful in 2007 she was at least cute. Johnson County KS has 24 zip codes and 16 of those zip codes showed an increase in sales price for the year 2007. That is almost 75% of the zip codes in Johnson County showing a price increase for 2007. Now I said she was cute and that is because those gains were generally modest with most being less that 1 percent but that sure beats declining values.

So what does this mean for all of us. It means stop believing what you read in  the paper and find out for yourself. Statistics don't really mean that much anyway. I believe you can make statistics say anything you want.

You can say that Tom Brady has completed 10 of his last 12 passes and you would think wow! he is on fire but then realize that his previous 20 passes were incomplete and he was really 10 for his last 32 passes, not so good.

Everyones house is different, every neighborhood is different and every persons situation is different. While the whole Johnson County market could be described at cute, your girl might be gorgeous.

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