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Blue Check Homes

Get a Verified Blue Badge on your home

The blue verified badge on your house lets people outside know that you're an authentic public figure. To receive the blue check crest, there must be someone authentic and notable actively living in the house.

Blue Check Homes

Get a Verified Blue Badge on your home

The blue verified badge on your house lets people outside know that you're an authentic public figure. To receive the blue check crest, there must be someone authentic and notable actively living in the house.

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"A historical architectural detail reinvented for the modern day to signal influence."

-Houzzz Trend Watch (January 2021)

How it works

Create your application for a verified blue badge crest*

Wait for a review and an interview with our board

If approved, pay the fee and get a crest installed!

*We are currently only servicing homes in the Bay Area, with plans to expand to other cities this summer.

A note from our committee

Despite recent events on social media, Blue Check Homes won't be changing our extensive verification process. If home verification is easily purchasable, we worry about potential for abuse, such as every Blue Check Home claiming 'historical status' to prevent construction, rezoning or remodeling, to the detriment of future livable cities.That said, Blue Check Homes will remain up. Similar to plaster crests from the 19th century, their symbolic meaning may change over time. Regardless, we don't wish to reduce friction and maximize sales as it can yield unknown dangers.If you hoped for a more accessible status symbol to purchase for your house, you will have to order a honey bear instead.

Who can Apply?

Homeowners who are prominent executives, thought leaders, influencers, authors, and journalists who represent prominent organizations, including companies, brands, non-profit organizations, and media organizations.Homeowners who are government officials.Homeowners who are athletes or on professional esports leagues, and coaches listed on the official team website or who have 3 or more featured references within the 6 months prior to applying in news outlets such as Kotaku, Polygon, or IGN.Homeowners who own entertainment companies, such as film studios, TV networks, and music entities as well as homeowners with public facing roles associated with their productions.Homeowners who are actors with at least 5 production credits on their IMDB profile.Applicants need proof of home ownership and their status will be assessed on a case by case basis.

Our Assessment

BLUE CHECK HOMES uses a mix of internal signals to evaluate the authenticity of a given homeowner. We also assess a range of signals associated with third-party public resources submitted in support of applications for verification to detect fraudulent submissions.We may also remove the blue badge crest from your home at any point if you no longer meet our criteria. Removal will not incur additional charges.

Installation

For verified homeowners, the BLUE CHECK HOMES installation team will secure your home's very own plaster baronial crest for a fee of $2999.99. This fee includes custom painting the background of the crest to match the color scheme of your home and a free consultation to discuss the placement of the badge. (We will not change the shade of blue on the verification symbol.) We are insured.If you purchase a second property or move homes you will have to reapply for the crest. You do not need to remove the crest if you sell your home to new homeowners, as it's part of your historical legacy and honor.

WTF Is this real?

For context, I'm an artist who makes random internet jokes that sometimes pokes fun of "let's turn this into a service" culture, internet vanity culture, and terrible capitalist ideas. Historically, decorative crests found on Victorian homes were a mark to signal wealth and importance and I thought it would be dumb if that concept also existed today. But if it existed today, would you need to be verified by a third party to signal status? Here's the origin of the joke.Yes, I ALSO THINK THE IDEA OF VERIFIED BLUE HOUSE BADGES IS DUMB. I also love to fabricate funny shitposts on a Friday night, but my medium is writing satirical copy for landing pages and creating product launches. I'm also actually a sculptor and would totally make one for someone (IDK about pricing).If I do make one, it's unlikely anyone walking around outside would react to a blue check mark on someone's house. They will probably never find it.So is this real? It's somewhere in between real and fake. Anyone can craft something out of plaster. Anyone can apply to be verified. Anyone can make a landing page. Is there an entity involved and is this being rolled out across Bay Area neighborhoods? No.If you thought this was a full-fledged service, please investigate the things you read on the internet! And if you're an artist making jokes on the internet, we should consider adding disclaimers like this, because not everyone understands your commentary and will share your jokes as fact. 😢

BLUE CHECK HOMES is not affiliated with Twitter and is run by a local sculptor in San Francisco.