A recent topic suggestion revolved around the housing bubble 'camps.' "How to constructively communicate with agents, sellers and Joe’s on the street about the issues. I’m no anger manager, and I’ve ranted at some possibly nice folks. Forgot they were people like me, with kids to feed, just with different abilities and tools."

"Let’s all agree to live together. Some folks are gonna burn. Face it, but don’t push their faces in the pee just because they pissed on the rug."

"A lot of people here are highly-educated, learned on the job or had very terrific mentors. There are regular people out there who didn’t have the same opportunities. Our schooling system has failed. They never even learned to balance a checkbook in school. Remember, they are getting their stock advice at the legion hall."

A reply. "I think the backlash directed at many of these people is a result of their own arrogance and know-it-all attitude that they projected over the past five years. I think they brought it on themselves with all of the buy now, RE never goes down, etc. crap. They took the ARMs, HELOCs, etc. resulting in the massive price escalation, while we took normal mtges and did the what was right for us. Now, we are supposed to have sympathy/patience for/with them????"

"Sorry, I don’t think so…. They 'rode' the crest, they crash with the wave."

Another said, "Not after I’ve listened to them tell ME how stupid I am for not buying a house - 'real estate only goes up,' 'rent is just throwing your money away,' 'I’ve already made 200K’ or having to stomach the general bragging of how great they are at 'investing.' These morons deserve every bit of ridicule they’re getting."

A letter to the editor. "Re: 'High home prices, stagnant wages put squeeze on middle class' (Business, Sept. 3): Finally the citizens are getting smart enough to not pay those ridiculous prices and getting nothing. I mean, a home in North Hollywood with two bedrooms for $1 million? Now those money grubbers who are fleecing people who long to get some of that so-called American dream can eat the debt themselves."

A Motley Fool. "I've spent the past few months casting a hairy eyeball at a lot of the pro-housing hypesters out there, the folks I feel have cheered on a dangerous bubble with little regard to the potential dangers to consumers' pocketbooks or the economy at large."

"So I want to be sure to offer a golf clap to one of the outfits that's been in my crosshairs, the National Association of Realtors. Yesterday, for the first time that I can remember, it appears to me that the NAR came clean on the housing bubble, right out in public."

"David Lereah, the endlessly quoted chief economist for the organization, finally acknowledged openly that sales are tanking and prices going down. He used uncharacteristically firm language, tossing out lines such as,'...people who purchased last year with the intent of flipping are likely to get burned.'"

"Unfortunately, this may be too little, too late. But hey, baby steps. At least the NAR has snapped out of the Kevin-Bacon-in-Animal-House-squashed-flat-on-the-sidewalk mantra: 'All is well!'"