Flipping America

FAR 222 “House Flipping is Dead”   Expected Air Date: 1/21/19 Opening “House Flipping is Dead! Long live Flipping Houses!” Have you ever wondered about that phrase, “The King is dead - long live the king!”? The first time I heard it I must have been in middle school (we called it Junior High School back then) watching a movie. Aside from the apparent contradiction,which is actually a literary device known as epanalepsis, I figured it probably had something to do with declaring the next guy king. It turns out I was right. It started with the French in the 1400’s and spread throughout Europe as a way to provide stability in the kingdoms and avoid civil war after the death of a monarch. It’s like saying “Charles VI is dead, long live Charles VII.” But that doesn’t roll off the tongue in the same way does it? So today I’m proclaiming that House Flipping is Dead. And at the same time I’m saying “Long Live Flipping Houses.” I’m not the official real estate coroner so this is just my opinion, but we are at what coul