Space heaters, blow dryers and other high loading items can exacerbate the chattering. 1 thing to note is when a breaker trips, that's a good thing.

I'm curious if there are any companies or groups challenging the presiding assumption that building individual wealth through real estate inherently reinforces and exacerbates housing equity/justice issues... maybe there are strategies that allow people to align REI teams and rental approach with social impact objectives?

So, basically, it's the States' fault I am seen as a possible loan dodger -- they set up rules to make it easier to just walk away, then wonder about the unnecessarily high foreclosure numbers exacerbated by those using the option allowed them by certain States even if they could afford to pay their debt.

Negativity is often exacerbated by the media and it's incumbent on people to discard that mindset.

Came across this after someone told me my current target area, Virginia Beach, was sinking, so exacerbating any sea level rise.

Lots of people have hindsight bias exacerbated by a misunderstanding of the 2008 Financial Crisis that drive them to expect when RE prices get to high the bottom drops out everywhere. 2008 was a credit bubble that drove a Real Estate bubble.

“So they’re not creating congestion or exacerbating air quality issues,” said Nick Josefowitz, a board director for BART and the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority, which oversees ferry service throughout the region.More at link.

Adding more to the mix tends to exacerbate the issues. 

Everyone complains about the length of time a short sale can take, and wasting time trying to negotiate a short sale that is not a serious offer only exacerbates the problem.

I didn't read all of the replies, but the real rate of return is easy to calculate:https://www.carboncollective.c....Real return = ((1 + nominal rate) / (1 + inflation rate)) - 1This is NOT the same as simple math that most people use; especially when there are compounding effects over time that are exacerbated with high portions of your real purchasing power being inflated out of existence with drunken-sailor-like fiscal policy.