I am buying right now! Why aren't you?

That is the goal, but the funny thing is, there is very little negative with this market, unless you believe the national media - we can all find facts that will support what we want the story to be about. 

Tracey - that is fantastic, thanks for the article, your article has helped me immensely in understanding where we are locally.

Amber - To be perfectly honest with you, I think you missed the boat.  If you believe your market sucks, then why are you doing what you do?  I would never advocate lying to someone about the true statistics of your market, but have you checked your updated stats before telling these people their market sucks? If your market happens to be rougher than most I am advocating you use a response such as

"I agree that currently we are in a tough time, BUT I am connected with many brokers nationwide and they are seeing some dramatic changes in both new housing sales as well as median prices." 

I am also asking people to look for the positive part of their market and focus on it.....even in a rough market it might be a good time to buy (maybe not everyone but for someone) find them and create a positive story and then blog about it.  Every market is local and I am telling you that if you are this negative on a blog your clients also are able to see it, sense it and likely to stay away.  Positive energy never hurt anybody.