Flipping America

A little over a year ago while going through the mix of show research I came across a story from a small local newspaper called the Flathead Beacon. My first thought was flathead as in the engine. My next thought was “fathead” which was an insult my brothers and I used to trade. But this must be a geographic area with which I was not familiar. So I clicked the link and introduced myself to a section of the great northwest I had not previously known and Kalispell, Montana, population 22,000.  The newspaper has a regular real estate column providing us with stats on local sales and the area market. It’s well researched and well written and I noticed that the author was not only a realtor but also a real estate researcher. So I decided to include a check-in on Kalispell as one way of keeping my finger on the pulse of the real estate market around the US. Then sometimes last year Mr. Dews published an article, which I referenced on the show, showing a statistical link between the placement of various numerals in