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		beamatronic on Nov 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $55... Which should really just boil down to carrying costs vs future expected profits

HWR_14 on Nov 3, 2021 [–]

Their risk model should really account for the possibility that housing prices go down. I mean, there were famously in 2008 banking firms whose models didn't even allow for that.

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