“The Sun Was in My Eyes,” And Other Excuses For Crummy Sales

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Realtors were blaming ‘unusually bad winter weather in February’ for yesterday’s crummy sales numbers. But as the blog at Inman.com plainly points out, sales declines were the worst in the West, where February weather was just fine. Fine as in normal. Sunny. Nice. Pleasant. Here’s part of the post: ‘While it’s true that the Midwest and Northeast experienced a pretty brutal cold snap in February, it was actually the sunny Western states that saw the most dramatic drop in March home sales -- 16.7 percent. Maybe people were worried about exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays?’ Comments are always welcome.