Starcraft references ho!
Dave's house is built on top of an active Vespene Geyser. Apart from the Zerg, Protoss and Terran forces perpetually trying to destroy his house to claim the geyser, he can't cook any food at home or risk leveling his home. (It happens monthly.) Due to the frequency of his Vespene-related home destructions, his insurance rates are sky-high and his home isn't worth the plywood and timber it's built from. The timbers themselves are made of balsa wood, making his already precarious living situation more so; plus he is allergic to balsa wood, and has severe issues with a perpetual rash from several tiny fragments of wood lodged in his subdermis from the many explosions that have leveled his home. In addition, the ground it's built on is haunted by the ghosts of several hundred Marines, Zealots and Zerglings that have died trying to claim the geyser.