Mortgage In the Movies
In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey runs this type of institution that helps people buy homes.
What is a building and loan?
The White House has been home to every U.S. president since this man.
Who is John Adams?
Mr. Rogers lived in this friendly kind of neighborhood.
What is a beautiful day in the neighborhood?
In real estate, this is the classic rule: location, location, ______.
What is location?
The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans because the builders forgot to check this.
What is the foundation?
In The Big Short, this 2008 event was fueled in part by subprime mortgages.
What is the housing crisis (or financial crisis)?
This spooky family lives at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
Who are The Munsters?
This animated yellow family lives next door to Ned Flanders.
Who are The Simpsons?
A home buyer’s offer can be “conditional” or “this,” meaning there are no strings attached.
What is unconditional?
This ancient world wonder took 20 years to build as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This Pixar movie features a flying house lifted by balloons.
What is Up?
This Kansas farmhouse was carried away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
What is Dorothy’s house?
These two Brooklyn roommates lived upstairs from Larry and Balki in Perfect Strangers.
Who are Mary Anne and Jennifer?
This type of “sale” happens when the seller owes more than the home is worth.
What is a short sale?
The Empire State Building famously has one of these for sightseers on the 86th floor.
What is an observation deck?
In Home Alone, the McCallister family’s giant house is located in this U.S. state.
What is Illinois?
In Friends, Monica’s NYC apartment had a rent-controlled price that was completely unrealistic. This borough was its location.
What is Manhattan?
Sheldon Cooper’s neighbor, Penny, lived across the hall in this TV show.
What is The Big Bang Theory?
The term “curb appeal” refers to how a home looks from here.
What is the street (or curb)?
In 2010, this Icelandic volcano grounded flights and reminded us Mother Nature can halt any construction project.
What is Eyjafjallajökull?
This 1986 Tom Hanks comedy features a fixer-upper that falls apart in hilarious ways.
This 1986 Tom Hanks comedy features a fixer-upper that falls apart in hilarious ways.
Fallingwater, designed by this famous architect, is built over a waterfall.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
This eccentric neighbor of Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor was never fully seen over the fence.
Who is Wilson?
This real estate term means the last payment is much larger than the previous ones.
What is a balloon payment?
This historic London theater, rebuilt in 1997, was once home to Shakespeare’s plays.
What is the Globe Theatre?