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There’s a cottage industry emerging on Twitter, with various accounts and followers seeming to take delight in the financial woes besetting Metro Vancouver homeowners hoping to sell their homes, or selling their homes at crushing losses. Leading the charge are two handles — @mortimer_1 and @VanREflipflops — that have plenty of fodder with assessments plunging, sales down and values plummeting.

Here’s a look at five examples highlighted on Twitter of homes in Vancouver and West Vancouver where the owners took a bath, or are at least one foot away from a nasty fiscal scolding.

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1. 2235 West 21st in Vancouver’s Arbutus Ridge neighbourhood

Potential bath: $740,000 plus costs. Mortimer — who has 2,124 followers — points to this home that was bought in April 2016 at the market peak for $3.92 million. It’s just over 1,800 square feet, it’s old and it’s ugly. But it’s on a nice 50 by 120 lot in a good location. Regardless, the owner Zi Min Yang has the house listed at $3.18 million. Interestingly, the money on this place was made by the previous owner who sold the property to Zi for $1.5 million more than they paid for it two years prior.