friday free for all!

Here's your open-topic post for Friday July 20th. Here's a few stories I've noticed this week to kick the discussion off:

- Whats that smell? City workers strike looming.
- 65,000 homeowners in BC affected by leaky condo issue?
- Young families move to the suburbs.
- New blog about bad landlords in Vancouver.
- Buyers remorse: just get over it?
- US home builder confidence plunges again in July.
- Ohio AG files suits against 10 lenders for appraisal fraud
- Fed, Lenders and Wall st. to blame for US mortgage crisis?

...everyone but the buyer it seems. What are you seeing out there? Post your news, anecdotes, links and commentary here!