Well Brad, you have to remember that Jackson recently watched the History Channel's big "Nostradamus/Aztec" week of programing where they said the world was all going to end on December 21, 2012!!!
And soooo, he might be thinking that our housing values won't rebound before that date, and thus, that's why he might find that statement of Ron's a bit amusing, ya see!

(BUT, I got'a tell ya somethin' here...while I'm personally puttin' absolutely NO stock whatsoever in what that crazy old bearded monk OR what those pre-columbian Native Americans down there might've thought, I AM thinkin' that it's gonna be WAY past 2012 before we see much of a return to those "halcyon days" of "flippin' houses" for fun and profit again, dude!!!)