Not everything in this post is written tightly strung together.  A few thoughts for the moment:

QE, quantitative easing.

Remember a few years ago, when hurricanes went through the southern part of the U.S., and people with house owner insurance policies, had their policies fail to pay out?  What guarantees that the same sort of thing won't happen again, if wildfires come blowing through the land in the 10s of thousands of square miles at a time, and far more destructive than what anyone could h...
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The housing market, how much has it bounced back? Is the housing market status one big amalgam that can be judged as good, bad, or bouncing back, or, are there many different dynamics that comprise it, where there are aspects that have improved, and aspects that are still about the same?

Mortgage rates for an average residential property now are almost 'unthinkable' in terms of how low they are. Rates in the 3s. A good thing, bad thing, for everybody?

The rate of unemployment, does it hav...

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According to local online newspapers that cover Colorado Springs, Colorado, on November 2, 2012, there has been 1 house rebuilt.
Congratulations.
Meanwhile, there is a long road ahead.
High-end estimates of the number of houses destroyed in the Colorado Springs area resultant of wildfire the last week of June 2012, was about 350 houses.

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