As I investigated more, I saw the similar pattern that @Peter Sik was speaking of - low to no appreciation on the homes. 

How serious is this pattern of denying claims? 

(Tough to prove, also, but if you can demonstrate that other owners have had the same complaint and there's a pattern, you bolster the chances of a reporter hearing you out on that assertion.)

Congrats for not falling into the trap.The pattern is almost always the same: these people went to the bank, which told them what the most expensive house they could afford to pay off was, the buyers then established a price ceiling just short of the highest number the bank quoted them, and then they met a realtor who pushed them past their price ceiling and up against the highest 30-year mortgage the bank was willing to offer them.The people buy that expensive house, move in, and then spend the next fifteen years justifying to everyone they know why the house is a good investment (usually based on inflated appreciation numbers).

However, in researching and paying attention to what wealthy folks do you can start to see patterns and correlations that some say correspond to becoming wealthy.  

For all I know it's happening elsewhere these days but subprime mortgage originations, hiring patterns, documentation requirements, etc. are all materially different than 2006.

It’s not bad but it lets one know migration patterns.

That finding was reinforced by a separate but related study from Stanford and Cornell universities, which looked at the migration patterns of California’s millionaires based on nearly two decades of data from the Franchise Tax Board.

It probably does affect significantly spending patterns there.

I know it is slightly unreasonable to request a perfect neighbor that adheres to all my neighborly preferences but the disruption to my sleep patterns are doing harm to my career and personal life.