Ok, I’m not kidding now.

About 15-20 years ago, when gays started moving into our neighborhood (which is probably 25-30% gay now), the property values started going up. This was before the market surge, in like the early to mid 90s. Old (1930-50), small (1400-1600 sq ft) homes, pretty much dilapidated. They bought these homes cheap, around $40-50K, fixed them up, planted lots of foliage and sold them for about $80-90K about double what they paid. Of course by 2001, they could ask a hellofa lot more.

Anyway, no one cared they were gay. They were too happy that their homes were now worth a lot more than other areas.