Thread by @WoodlawnWonder, I had trouble selling my 1st place. We took it off the [...]

WoodlawnWonder

I had trouble selling my 1st place. We took it off the market, put it back on a few weeks later $20K *HIGHER* without anything that would let you know I was Black...SOLD!

The look on the buyer's face when I walked into closing was priceless. https://nyti.ms/32rtDAJ

Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals

Companies that value homes for sale or refinancing are bound by law not to discriminate. Black homeowners say it happens anyway.

https://nyti.ms/32rtDAJ

Never doubt that I save all of the family Christmas cards from my friends that happen to be White for the next time I sell.

I will be throwing a few in some frames.

Real talk.

I will never be present at a showing or an appraisal EVER again. It was a hard lesson to learn, but thank God I figured it out.

I will always take a close White friend with me to see listings. It is unlikely that I will ever go by myself. Especially on the north side.

But most importantly----I will never, ever have anything that will let you know that I'm Black when I put this place on the market. Everything will come out.

Hell, I'm not ever leaving any makeup lying around or a box of Jiffy cornbread mix.

But I think I found something that is so Black but not Black to someone who is not intimately aware of Black Culture. Now *THAT* might make it into the design. Kind of my way of giving the middle finger to the extra bullsh*t I will have to go through.

Selling might be the easy part. Getting a mortgage....OY!

Now @Scenic_Decay has me thinking what else needs to come out of the house before I put it on the market.

1. Family pictures
2. Essence Magazines
3. Black Books
4. Picture of @thatonequeen
5. Sh*t, all of the pictures of Black people.
6. Jiffy cornbread mix
7. Seasonings
8. The grease jar
9. Michelle Obama umbrella
And the worst one of all...

Pimp Cat.

Now I personally don't think a picture of a cartoon cat dressed as a pimp lets you know I'm Black, but my sister vehemently disagrees.

So in an over abundance of caution, Pimp Cat will come down & New Yorker cartoons will go up.

But real talk---can we acknowledge how awesome Pimp Cat truly is?

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