WESTSIDE  -  "Low Property Taxes", "Close to Wal-Mart", "No cicadas every 17 years" - These are some of the features that real estate agents on Cincinnati's westside are claiming this spring on the MLS.

The cicadas show up every 17 years, once in 1987,  and then in 2004.   Now in 2008, the eastside is getting the cicadas who can't do math.

At the absence of other reasons to buy on the westside,  realtor Jeff Swenson has really been pushing this feature in this spring's house sales.

"This second cicada wave is even a better selling point than I imagined," says Swenson of the reemergence, "Cincinnati house-buyers can avoid cicadas 3 times during a 30-year-mortgage."

"Although there honestly aren't many other reasons to buy on the westside, that's 4 months that you won't have to deal with the cicada noise or worry about finding that white cicada sperm on the bottom of your shoe," added Swenson.

On the other side of Cincinnati, eastside realtors are spinning the cicada infestation with a giant billboard on I-71 - "Eastside Cincinnati - Even the cicadas prefer to live here".