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All potential buyers had to be approved in advance, and roughly 40 homes were released for purchase all at once. The first people began lining up around noon the day before the release, which meant waiting 22 hours overnight, during a record-breaking heatwave, to hopefully purchase their preferred model of home in the morning when they began accepting buyers at 10am. It was the first time that people lined up overnight for the homes, pointing to their popularity and demand for new houses, even during a pandemic.
