(the best part is the last house is a decent reno but still has the bad shutters warned against in the first part of the article)
When she's not roasting terrible suburban homes on her blog McMansionHell, Kate Wagner studies architectural acoustics as a graduate student in the joint Acoustics program at Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory. She's worked extensively as a sound engineer, with expertise in recording engineering, product development, and research.