Ronda Kaysen

At a rooftop party on a steamy July night in Philadelphia, the margarita machine was churning, the seafood boil was hearty, and the conversation turned to the default of the upwardly mobile: real estate.Almost anyone shopping for a home in the 2020s knows the script by now: Someone mentions their recent home purchase, a tale

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