Ghost Towns

Perhaps more appropriate for Halloween, but here's a report from In Business, Las Vegas: Las Vegas growth and location will lure plants.

Larry Murphy of SalesTraq and Steve Bottfeld, who monitor housing trends in the Las Vegas Valley, handed out their latest predictions at their quarterly Crystal Ball seminar.

Bottfeld and Murphy used the presentation to debunk what they said are myths about the Las Vegas housing industry.

Bottfeld criticized national media publications for its portrayal of the Las Vegas housing industry as having falling prices and resembling a ghost town. He said there's nothing wrong with having so many homes vacant.

Yep, what's wrong with having so many homes vacant?

While we're at it, why don't we build some factories. We'll leave those vacant too. After that we'll build vacant ports, vacant parking lots. In fact, we'll build an entire city which we will leave vacant too, and there's really no problem with all of that. Just build, build, build, and we'll leave it all vacant.

The really vacant part is the space inside your cranium!