The landlord, who felt something strange in the process of selling a house, went on an'experiment' to see if his intuition was correct.



According to foreign media such as NBC in the United States on the 18th local time, Carlet Duffy, a landlord living in Indianapolis, recently went through an incomprehensible situation when he sold his existing house to real estate.



Duffy, who bought the house four years ago for $100,000 (about 110 million won) and lived for three years, decided to sell the house when he moved in March last year.



Afterwards, a real estate expert who visited Mr. Duffy said he had calculated the value of the house as 125,000 dollars (about 140 million won), but Mr. Duffy felt strange.

This is because it was priced lower than the price of a house that was previously sold by neighbors who moved in.



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Even the second appraised value was $110,000 (about 120 million won), lower than that. In terms of cash price, it was only 96,000 dollars (about 100 million won), which was lower than the house price Mr. Duffy paid when he moved in.



Duffy, who was worried about it, decided to change just one thing before receiving the feelings three times.

That is, they hide information about their'race' in the landlord's information.



Duffy communicated with the building appraiser without telling her that she was a black woman, and when the appraiser came home for a field trip, she called her a white friend to meet her instead.




Then, a few months later, surprising news came. The price of Mr. Duffy's house was calculated as 259,000 dollars (about 290 million won). It was more than twice the price of the house that was initially charged.



For a moment of joy, Duffy was angry at the fact that her premonition was right.

Frustrated by the fact that he had to conceal the fact that he was black in order to receive a reasonable housing appraisal, he eventually sued the first and second building appraiser for violating the Fair Housing Rights Act.



Racial discrimination in determining home prices is a typical racism in the United States.



André Perry, a housing expert who conducted a study on'devaluation of assets in black dwellings' in 2018, said, "What Duffy has been through is very common. As a landlord, if you feel something weird, you can judge the results of your assessment. "It's a good idea to ask a third-party expert for help."



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