A Times real estate column gets it right. Finally.

Flickr photo by Big Fat Rat.

Reading the business section of yesterday’s New York Times, I found myself nodding in agreement at a column written by Damon Darlin.  The headline was “Great Time to Buy (Famous Last Words).”

As any regular of this blog knows, I have so many pet peeves that I’d need a whole zoo to contain them. Mr. Darlin mentions one that looms large just inside the entrance of my teeming zoo and represented in the photo above:

“‘IT’S a great time to buy a home.’