I have been feeling very very bitter about home ownership and the current state of home pricing in SLC, where I bought in 2005 and put down 20 percent for a conventional square-john loan and STUPIDLY remodeled it into a lovely home for me and my now-ex husband thinking I’d never actually LOSE money if I had to sell and, well, you know the rest.

I don’t actually have to sell, yet. But I will within three years. By then, the market will either have gotten worse or better, right? That’s my prognostication, though I suspect the former rather than the latter.

But I have to say, this blog cheered me up, even though for the past two days, when an agent actually defended the notion that he or she would DESERVE more of my piddly equity than I could get if I sold at the price he/she suggested, I’ve wanted to light a torch and grab a steel rake and march … somewhere. The Board of Realtors maybe, I dunno. I’d carry a sign that says, Down With Realtor Extortion! and it would have a little drawing of one of those round black bombs with the fuse alight the anarchists used to toss about when something upset them.

So anyway, thanks. The next time I’m feeling masochistic and again consider listing my home, I’ll give you a call because today, you made me laugh and I really really needed it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Cheers.