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Originally Posted by opendoor
House prices back then were actually almost as high as they are now in a lot of places (New Mexico included). Some of them are only getting back to their pre-2008 prices now.
Here's the actual house:
https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...0_M23410-73949
Not quite as ostentatious as in the show (no gold toilet), but it looks like they used some of the interiors. They tried to get $1.5M for it in 2009, but it looks like it didn't sell. But it did sell for ~$1M recently. |
BCS is set in 2002. Housing prices in New Mexico were approximately half of what they are now:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NMSTHPI
Once again, the whole thing is set up for dramatic effect. Personally, I think it would have been better if they'd attributed Goodman's lack of affluence to a personality flaw/vice as opposed to his inability to make money.