The Real Word

Remote Work is DOOMING Florida Housing

Byron Lazine and Nicole White sit down to discuss mortgage fraud, the impact of remote work on Florida, Logan airport upgrades, venture capital bias, and a huge fail for Burger King.

September 13, 2022
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This week on The Real Word, Byron Lazine and Nicole White discuss the heightened risk of mortgage fraud and the impact of remote work on Florida’s housing market—specifically the rise in rents and housing prices thanks to competition from the remote work migration.

Today’s “Left, Middle, Right” segment touched on the Logan airport upgrades in President Biden’s infrastructure law, a case of venture capital bias, and Burger King’s new (and most likely doomed) plan to make consumers fall in love with the Whopper again.

Click on any of the timestamps below to watch:

00:00 – 01:50 Intro

02:26 Mortgage lenders face heightened risk of fraud

12:25 Remote work is killing Florida as a retirement paradise

19:37 Left, Middle, Right

20:09 Biden touts Logan upgrade

25:55 How broke and biased venture capital is

30:26 Burger King has a plan (that’s doomed to fail)

Click here to watch the full episode.

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