Flutterby™! : unintended consequences

Charlene and I have been looking around at real estate, especially as the crash begins, trying to get a feel for what's where, and in our voyeurism yesterday were browsing ZIP Realty and ran across the houses in Ross. After some giggles at the taste of people selling a fifteen million dollar house, Charlene said "I wonder what that'd buy in Fresno".

So we slapped two million plus into the search engine and went poking around Fresno. Found at least one house that... well... in comparison the place in My Big Fat Greek Wedding can only be described as "tastefully restrained".

However, this afternoon I get a call, a Realtor who was tracking us on ZIP Realty who wanted to see if he could help us with houses in his area. I asked what his area was... "east Fresno". I hated to deflate the guy, but... well... no, sorry, dude, we weren't looking at multi-million dollar houses on your beat to buy.