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Real Estate Bubble

An asset bubble FED cannot inflate enough since 2000.

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Barndominium

The fancy name for turning a cheap metal barn into an overpriced house so you can pretend you’re living the simple life.

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Builder Grade

The housing equivalent of fast fashion, which looks decent on the surface but won’t survive more than a few seasons of actual use.

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A clean house

The sign of a broken WIFI

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US Foreclosures Up 14%

The exciting economic indicator that says more Americans are realizing their dream home was actually a 30-year financial prison.

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HELOC

The bank’s favorite trap, where you turn your home equity into a 5-year foreclosure.

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American Standard

The plumbing company that still slaps “American” on the box while quietly producing most of its fixtures overseas with lower standards.

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Kitchen Island

The overpriced granite altar that every suburban couple fights over during home renovations, even though it mostly collects mail and abandoned Amazon boxes.

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Case Study Houses

The mid-century modernist experiment where architects built glass boxes in the California hills and pretended that living in a fishbowl was the future of human happiness.

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Roof

The architect’s brilliant solution to make sure rainwater finds its way inside the house while pretending to protect it.

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