After hearing a presentation on MVA at the National Building Museum in 2005, a Washington Post reporter said that "non-adherents" may find the principles "eccentric, to say the least", as houses not facing east or north are said by MVA adherents to be "practically begging inauspicious forces to sweep in and wreak havoc."
A Washington Post reporter, after attending a presentation on MVA at the National Building Museum in 2005, stated that non-believers might find the principles "extremely eccentric," as houses not facing east or north are considered by MVA adherents to be "effectively inviting bad luck."