4.8 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You've essentially created your own personal federal reserve. |
| 0:04.8 | You're printing money the same way the government does, except you get to keep the profits. |
| 0:11.4 | This is the epic real estate podcast, contrarian takes on money, housing, and policy without the guru nonsense. |
| 0:19.9 | Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. Let's go. |
| 0:24.7 | And look, let's talk about property taxes, that twice a year bill you get that feels less |
| 0:30.5 | like paying for services and more like a ransom note from your local high school's marching band. |
| 0:35.1 | It's the subscription fee you pay for the privilege |
| 0:37.5 | of not having your own home seized by the government. |
| 0:40.0 | It's supposed to fund schools and roads and firefighters, |
| 0:43.3 | but it's also a system so archaic, |
| 0:45.5 | so bafflingly complex and so fundamentally infuriating, |
| 0:50.3 | it makes the rules of Scientology |
| 0:52.5 | look like a straightforward instruction manual for a toaster. |
| 0:55.3 | And right now, that system is on fire. All across America, people's home values have skyrocketed, |
| 1:02.2 | which sounds great until the tax bill arrives, and you realize that you're being charged penthouse |
| 1:07.5 | prices for the same three-bedroom ranch house you've lived in for 20 years. |
| 1:11.6 | The situation has gotten so bad that states are finally being forced to do something. |
| 1:16.6 | And doing something has resulted in a chaotic nationwide panic scramble that's part insane. |
| 1:22.6 | You've got a few different flavors of reform out there. |
| 1:25.6 | First up, Montana. |
| 1:26.6 | Montana looked at the system |
| 1:27.9 | and decided to try something that's either genuinely revolutionary or was cooked up by a college |
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