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What's a Real Estate Institute president to do? A 20 year low in house sales, housing finance regressing nearly as far, and prices showing the worst falls in the country. What's the solution to such a problem when your members are leaving the industry and queuing up to sell flat screens again? Distraction! Talk the unquantifiable data outside the date range of the stinky figures you've just released, of course. Dealing with an inattentive media is always a bonus. They don't ask questions, just repeat your choice quotes. Sometimes dealing with such sleepwalkers can be frustrating, being so desperate to write their own nonsense angle they can derail your own narrative, as The Mercury's Meryl Naidoo proves when referencing figures from the September quarter... INTEREST rate cuts have failed to rally homebuyers in Tasmania as sales plummeted across the state. Now I had to take my socks off to do it, but I think the September quarter ends at the end of, well, Septembe...