Residential construction is a cyclical business. Easy to say when you're riding on top of that big wheel. When the wheel is rolling over you, all you want to know is when this phase of the bleeping cycle will bernover. Queried in a recent poll on our Web site , our readers confirm that there is indeed trouble in the business. More than 80 percent of the 206 respondents say they are seeing the effects of the current slump in their sales numbers. Asked whether the next six months would see conditions improve or deteriorate further, though, they split almost evenly down the middle: 51 percent expect an upturn; 49 percent believe that the downturn has not bottomed out yet.
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