INDIANAPOLIS â Carlette Duffy felt both vindicated and excited. Both relieved and angry.
For months, she suspected she had been low-balled on two home appraisals because sheâs Black. She decided to put that suspicion to the test and asked a white family friend to stand in for her during an appraisal.
Her homeâs value suddenly shot up. A lot.
During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic last year, the first two appraisers who visited her home in the historic Flanner House Homes neighborhood, just west of downtown Indianapolis, valued it at $125,000 and $110,000, respectively.
But that third appraisal went differently.
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An Indiana woman was shocked to see her home appraisal value double after she stripped her home of Blackness and had a white friend replace her during an appraisal.
Carlette Duffy said she had two previous appraisals conducted, which saw her home valued at between $110,000 and $125,000. The home which is located in the historic Flanner House Homes neighborhood west of downtown Indianapolis was appraised again with her white friend present.
The new appraisal amount was $259,000.
Indiana woman Carlette Duffy was shocked to see her home appraisal value double after she had a white friend replace her during an appraisal. (Fox 2)
Carlette Duffy felt both vindicated and excited. Both relieved and angry.
For months, she suspected she had been low-balled on two home appraisals because she s Black. She decided to put that suspicion to the test and asked a white family friend to stand in for her during an appraisal.
Her home s value suddenly shot up. A lot.
During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic last year, the first two appraisers who visited her home in the historic Flanner House Homes neighborhood, just west of downtown, valued it at $125,000 and $110,000, respectively.
But that third appraisal went differently.
To get that one, Duffy, who is African American, communicated with the appraiser strictly via email, stripped her home of all signs of her racial and cultural identity and had the white husband of a friend stand in for her during the appraiser s visit.
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