What this is
Every day, this industry produces a sentence that means roughly the opposite of what it says.
Cozy. Charming. Motivated seller. Priced to sell. Luxury — right up until three million dollars stopped buying it. The vocabulary is not an accident. It is the product.
So this is a running record of the language, the arithmetic underneath it, and what the whole performance costs the person standing in the driveway. Most of it is true. That is the problem.
The glossary
- Cozy
- Small.
- Charming
- Old, and the wiring knows it.
- Great bones
- Everything else is bad.
- Chef's kitchen
- One oven.
- Open concept
- Someone removed a wall and stopped.
- Mature landscaping
- Fuel.
- Up and coming
- You are the experiment.
- Motivated seller
- Two payments.
- Priced to sell
- Priced, at last, correctly.
- Needs TLC
- Needs money.
- Investor special
- Uninhabitable.
- Luxury
- Formerly meaningful.
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