Back to episode — Episode 1378 Scott Adams - UFOs Confirmed, Fake News Tries Erasing Trump's Obvious Successes, More
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ld be really unusual that four people would see a UFO right up close and they'd be military people and they'd have the same story. What are the odds that that didn't really happen? Really high. Really high. Like close to 100 high. It's the most common thing in your experience is that people see things that aren't there. Now how common is it in all of our experience to see a confirmed alien spaces…
← Previous segment →But do you believe that one woman's house was appraised by two people for I guess 110, 125 and then the third one was double? It was like 249,000 or something like that. Do you think that sounds plausible? Because USA Today reported it like it's true. No, it's not plausible. It's not even slightly plausible. And you should see the comments on the tweet from people who do appraisals for a living. The people who do appraisals for a living say nope, not possible. Because you have to show your work. The appraisal business is about comparables, finding other homes that are sold for a certain price that are similar.
If the appraisal doesn't show that the other homes in your area sold for a similar price, you're not going to turn in that appraisal because your own appraisal would say it's fake. Here are all the other houses just like yours and then here's yours completely different than all the other houses like yours and we're going to just keep it that way because we're appraising it for half of what all the other houses are worth. Do you think that happened? No, no it didn't happen.
Now some people are speculating that what did happen
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is that the first two appraisals, I think we do know this was during the depths of the coronavirus problem when nothing looked like it was worth anything and then the third appraisal happened when things were picking up. The stock market was up by 50 percent or whatever the number was and home values were zooming. So but still doubled? Do you think your home doubled? No. I don't know what the real…
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