Have you heard there's a new movement afoot to put a positive spin on buying and selling real estate? People are coming at it from different angles. Twenty top Realtors (by their own admission) are gathering ideas for an eBook heralding the currently maligned real estate market.

Tim O'Keefe takes on positivity at its core, and various bloggers at real estate news giant Inman say it's our job to overwhelm current negative news with cheerfulness - or at least a few facts about how bad the current market is not.

Could it be that the day-in-and-day-out whining about real estate is keeping us from talking about the thousands dying around the world every day? Strangely war is a divisive subject and natural disasters bring people together in empathy…An economic downturn is more like an earthquake or hurricane. The nation that whines together and all of that.

Real estate is usually more stable than stocks, bonds and other kinds of investments. A large part of the current drama occurred by mixing the two. But remember, investing is not the main purpose of real estate. It's main function is to provide a place people can live and pay off and live happily ever after without a mortgage (perhaps by using some of our mortgage savings tips).

A home that's paid for and apple pie.

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