Congratulations - and enjoy the leave. Will miss your blog!

Best Wishes Jamie!

Jamie,

You will be missed not only by myself but by our entire organization. Your blogs were fodder for both water cooler talk but also our weekly sales meetings...

Baltimore housing news coverage won't be the same without you...

Best of luck and we will be sending you good thoughts!!!

-Jeremy
http://www.entrequest.com/truby.html

Jamie, Congratulations and the best wishes to you and your family. I don't know your entire history as I only started reading your blog in the last 6 months. I find almost all of your information very fair and straightforward. I am a partner in a locally owned mortgage broker shop that does really good business and treats our clients like we would want to be treated, ie. "the golden rule". I hate "ALL" brokers being lumped into the same category most of the time and I have found that you don't do that, that is why I read your blog. We do a radio show every Saturday on a local station(105.7/WHFS) and we feel it is our duty to give the public the correct information, even if it doesn't benefit us. We have been doing local radio for over 7 years now, so we must be doing something right. We are in this business to build long term relationships, not to get rich on any one deal. I just wish more brokers were like us. I am also the proud father of two boys that I adopted from Russia and when I saw your post this morning it prompted me to send you this note. Thank you for your posts and the best of luck in your future endeavors.

Good luck with parenthood, Jamie! Kids are a real blessing, but your parents are right -- they are also a whole lot of work. Enjoy!

Jamie,

We'll miss you! Enjoy every moment of maternity leave...as the father of a six month old, I can't tell you how quickly it all seems to go by! Health and happiness to you and yours.

Jamie,

Thanks for all your hard work, and congratulations on your new (or impending) arrival.

Any chance you can get someone to approve comments to this post in your absence? And are you planning on continuing this blog upon your return? If so, I propose we all take a guess at where home sales and prices will be in 8 months (June), and how the spring 2009 selling season will go. I'll start. Prices still falling year over year, let's say down 8%, sales down 5-10% from previous year. The wild card there is foreclosures. If we see a bump in foreclosure sales, that may increase sales a bit, but will pressure prices even more. Just my two cents.

Hi, everyone -- I'm back from the hospital, which is why your comments are finally showing up. (Baby Katie came early: I was supposed to be at work this week.)

I'm overwhelmed with parenting duties at the moment but will try to get someone to watch for comments on this blog for at least the short term so they continue to go up.

Thanks for all the good wishes.

Congrats Jaimie and good luck with the little one!

-Dan Iampieri

Congrats on the baby girl...

Wishing you and Katie best wishes and good fortune and luck!!!

Yay, baby Katie! Welcome!

You hit the parent jackpot, too. Oh, the places you'll go.

Congratulations!

I hope you can find some time to blog. Hey It's a blog. It doesn't have to be earth shattering news, you can just say hi once in a while.

Congrats!!! I'm going to miss your writing, but I'm happy to hear the great news! Best of luck, and I'm anxiously awaiting your return!

I hate to see the blog go on hold, but congratulations! Come back when you're ready.

Hope to see you back when you're ready. But especially glad to hear that baby and parents are doing well!