Start with Google or wherever else you get your news, but skip past the flashy articles on house flipping—you can usually do this by weeding out clever titles full of puns, amusing as they may be.

Nothing flashy.

Big flashy house and luxury car might look good today but steal real wealth from your later years.A good foundation is key. 

@Robina McCronSpend it on a car, credit cards, flashy clothing, televisions, and a pool full of jello.

I've tried hanging flashy CDs from the gutters and the Bird-B-Gone fake hawk.

It makes me wonder how these guys are still fooling their lenders with flashy powerpoint presentations...I will say this though - not sure to what extent Foxconn is considered in these forcasts; there might be a need for another 3,000, maybe 5,000 units from secondary growth, but I am not sure if they will be renting in the over $2,000 developments?

get people's eyes on the flashy things first, so that they overlook the rest... hopefully their inspections catch all these 1/2-assed stuff. would be interesting to see what your house ends up going for. 

There are a lot of flashy, trending, VC-funded startups doing the same thing.

If her car is modest (doesn't mean junk, just means not "flashy") and seems to be taken care of, that's a plus.

The first house we sold, and then bought a too-flashy house with the proceeds.