What happened to the good ole days? Used to be you could walk into a sales office and get sized up to see if you were a "worthy buyer?" Then, if you did not feel too uncomfortable, you could ask for a "Lottery" ticket to see if you could "Win" an opportunity to buy a new property. And if you survived all of those pre-requisite terms, you could finally buy property @ the beach, let it equitize for a couple of weeks (maybe a month over on the west side), and sell it for few hundred $k with a click on the blackberry? Now we are here. If you want to buy beach property today, you get courted with little smokies, egg rolls, balloons and bottled water minis, only to be confronted with Enron price matrices. I miss the good ole days when "south of the bay" was synonymous with "sealed bid" and the biggest casualty from hurricanes were colored urine and hangovers.