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mine if you bought a house. i took a lot of heat for that rant, especially with the national association of realtors, but not as much as the ridicule that was heaped on over and over again last year when i predicted that housing would bottom. look, just take a look. >> housing sales will continue to drop. >> don't you dare buy a home now. you will lose money. >> so let's start the countydown. we have 309 days until june 30th of 2009, 309 days until housing bottoms. there's only 210 more days left before housing bottoms. housi housing, could it last and bottom? it seems to be on track for my june 30th bottom call. i knew i shouldn't have worn this -- hey, i nailed that sucker. i took a lot of heat for those rants, but here we are now, the 2007 loss guarantee held up, right? the average home has lost about 20% of its value, up since i gave you my money-losing guarantee except for the 40% declines in california and florida, and the 50% slide in vegas, and then today we learned from the case shiller index, the authority on these matters we had or first month-to-month increase. when did it begin? june 30th. you with