Ben Eisen
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13 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
Ben Eisen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It just sort of lit a match and the housing market just took off.
You had these people who were starting families.
They needed bigger homes.
They didn't even have homes.
Some of the descriptions of what it was like for these GIs returning home at the time, they were living in church basements and chicken coops.
There was just such a demand for housing that they couldn't build fast enough.
CNBC didn't exist at this time, but if it existed, he would be on it like every single day shouting from the mountaintops and talking about the economy and talking about his business.
That's just who he was.
Real estate is a very speculative industry, right?
you enter into a multi-year project not knowing if there's going to be demand at the end of the line or if you're going to recoup your money.
But the risk to the project went down so tremendously when they already had pre-approval to sell these homes with FHA mortgages attached to them.
What you had was a very regional, piecemeal kind of market where the products looked very different in all different parts of the country.
The interest rate in one place might be two percentage points different than somewhere else.
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