I actually fully believe that the random timer is their stop-gap measure while they re-do the entire thing... it just makes no sense to torture people like that, and I think they only implemented it because they had to do something. Your suggestion is pretty good tho, tho I am unsure if they'd even be able to do that, show it as still being owned I mean. It would have to check whether you own a house and then display the correct information and I just don't know enough about their system to know if that's doable.