3-2-1, we are back. Welcome to our Sunday broadcast. And for those of you are listening to us for the first time, this is our informal podcast where we really talk about whatever's on our minds, and we pick out some really bizarre news articles to share with all of you guys. So it's not strictly housing related. If you want all the latest housing news and if you want to frankly

know how to prepare for the mini housing boom that is clearly going on, you absolutely positively

want to be listening to our daily podcast because as we've been predicting, as we started predicting,

the yo-yo is starting to go in the opposite direction and the pendulum is swinging back

towards a seller's market.

And for those of you who have decided to emotionally take yourselves out of quarantine,

you are experiencing probably what it's going to feel like an amazing boom market.

Now, a warning that all of you need to be taking into consideration is that boom market will not last.

There's no real reasons to believe that it's going to last much

beyond third quarter this year. So early fall, I hope you'll have essentially made your money and you're

ready for what's going to be an abnormally slow, normally slower part of the year. And yeah,

you guys are preparing for the following year. We're going to keep you apprised of all the latest

information, everything that's relevant to not, to make it so you guys can all, you know, we're all working on this

to survive through this first phase of the pandemic economic deterioration that the global economies

are experiencing. And then after that, we're going to be working together to help you guys

determine what's next. So, Julie, before we get into

your fun story about Elon Musk and Mars, do you have anything housing related? Do you want to share

with listeners? Well, there's all kinds of interesting housing related stuff going on. Talking about

what you were just alluding to, there's an interesting article over on Housing Wire that says summer is the new

home buying season. And of course, we all know spring has historically been dubbed the real,

you know, the spring season, but due to COVID-19, summer is the next spring. So we have seen

the strongest time for mortgage purchase applications between February and early March, homebuyers were getting antsy to purchase.

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