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. >> reporter: tanisha and paul johnson bought their home in california in 2016.with a coveted view of the bay, but a long to-do list. >> it needed a lot of work, but we were up to the task. >> reporter: and their work paid off, so they thought. they added a deck, a gas fireplace, and additional living space. in january of 2020, with the buildout almost finished, they decided to refinance and take some cash out of the property. they got an appraisal. >> it was right before covid hit, so the rates were extremely low. so we were trying to refinance to take advantage of the low rates. >> reporter: to their surprise, the afrazier wrote in her report that the house was only worth $995,000. >> we were sick to our stomach. we were upset. we were angered. >> i was disappointed, because one, i knew that the house was worth more than that. and secondly, because we needed the house to appraise for a certain amount to be able to pull out the capital in it. and when it didn't come in at that, it was devastated. >> reporter: they suspected the low ball valuation from an amazing

mercy was already leaving her to care for two of her sisters. 12-year-old siamata and 1-year-old tanisha where she was at work. my father says he didn't know my mother's real age, that she told him she was 18, that he found out only when mercy caught them in bed. my mother says he didn't really find out until they were applying for their marriage license a week later, when he finally got a look at her birth date. my father had been a college activist protesting the naval occupation, studying literature, writing poems about american colonialism in puerto rico. my mother, so young, so desperate to leave her abusive mother, so in love with my father, would have done anything to keep him. sometimes when i write this story i think of my mother as the villain, tricking my father, knowing when grandma mercy would come home from work, leaving the bedroom door unlocked, forcing to become a husband, a father, when what he wanted was to read books and write poems and save the world. how maybe i wouldn't be here if grandma mercy hadn't threatened to have him thrown in jail. sometimes it's my father

. >> reporter: owners paul and tanisha austin knew it was worth at least $1.3 million based on a 2019housing market heated up, paul met a new appraiser and showed her around. >> what was the number value, you opened up the piece of paper -- >> oh, $998,000. >> less than a million dollars. >> which means almost $400,000 less than you previously had gotten a year earlier. >> yes. >> reporter: so they applied for a new appraisal, but this time -- >> i'm going to guarantee i'm going to get the appraisal that my house is supposed to get. >> reporter: in the united states, what is your best guarantee getting the best appraisal possible >> being white. >> reporter: so theyworked to erase themselves from their own home. >> all of the art, took that away, pictures of our family, anything that, you know, would resemble that this home belongs to a black family. just grabbed it all, put it all in the shed, put it all away. >> reporter: and they asked a white friend to stand in when the new appraiser arrived. >> this time you open the paper and it says what -- >> $1.482. >> yes, $500,000 differenc