What do you see in your local housing market this weekend? Marketing plans? "With Florida's real estate market reeling, brokers in Miami increasingly are targeting wealthy New Yorkers as a potential new audience to buy their unsold properties. With more than 22,000 condo units that need to be absorbed, supply in Miami has overwhelmed demand, and prices are being cut substantially."

"'Florida is on sale right now,' the president of Miami-based Majestic Properties, Jeff Morr, said. A few years ago, Mr. Defortuna said: 'We almost didn't have to market to people. Now, the buyers are more scarce.'"

"With home foreclosures at a 20-year record high in California and up 68 percent nationwide, foreclosure bus tours in which home buyers visit a number of foreclosed properties in one outing, are popping up across the country."

"At one tour in Pismo Beach, Calif...Mike and Mary Hays, were looking for their dream home. One house they saw sold for $450,000 three years ago. Now the bank owns it, but it could be Mike and Mary's for $318,000."

"'It's sad, but everyone is looking for a bargain,' said Jim Fisher, another prospective buyer. 'You don't know the circumstances of why it's a bargain, but it is.'"

Or auctions? "An auction for discount-priced new homes will offer three St. Cloud houses, auction organizers said. More than 200 new homes around Minnesota will be sold at the auction, said Lisa Berry, a spokeswoman for Norman Mitchel International."

"Construction companies have an abundance of inventory because of a nationwide housing slump. 'These builders need to get rid of their products,' she said."

Or builder woes? "Housing statewide has taken a hit, according to Maine Municipal Association Communications Director Mike Starn. 'From a statewide perspective, (Sidney's housing crunch) is certainly not a unique phenomenon,' Starn said."

"'There's a couple of contractors in town that have had spec houses on the market for upwards of two years,' said Code Enforcement Officer Gary Fuller. 'I don't think it has anything to do with the town of Sidney. I also work in the town of Belgrade, and it's also happened there. I just think the housing market is in a slump.'"

"At the market’s peak, builders churned out more than 12,000 new homes a year in central Indiana."

"In the current slump, new-home production has dropped to fewer than 7,000 per year, leaving builders with no choice but to slash prices, eliminate hundreds of jobs, and look to unload huge chunks of office space."

"'I wish I had seen this coming in 2004 and 2005,' said Brad Davis, the Davis Homes LLC’s CEO. 'No one saw it coming then. We all saw a softening in June 2006. The first few months of 2007, we had fairly decent sales. In May and June, the market took a huge turn for the worse.'"

Or foreclosures? "Linda Caoli helps lots of families on the verge of losing their homes, including a single mom working two jobs to pay her mortgage. 'She says Linda the house across the street, same model, with more upgrades sold in foreclosure for $315,000!' explains Linda."

"Her client isn't the only one thinking about ditching her house to buy the better deal across the street. 'Can you imagine if you had a same or similar home and your mortgage was half the price?' asks Linda."

"Caoli is sympathetic, but she doesn't endorse the practice of it. Other real estate agents we talked to were far more critical, calling them cheaters."

"'Is it wrong to steal when you're hungry? That's an issue that a lot of people are trying to figure out right now,' says Linda."