Need a new stove put in.The existing system is downdraft but I don't see anything decent below $1400 and options are limited.

Currencies go up and down and you were caught up in a downdraft.

Got this house to refirb and found that someone has taken the original furnace - a down-draft that blew into the ducts in the crawl-space - and changed it to an updraft.

This was partially due to hedge firms taking large short positions during the down draft.

there are downdraft vent systems intended for use on island and peninsula cooktops. 

In all of these, I installed a “downdraft bubble” or block cold air from infiltrating through the chimney and I have had no issues.  

When a “thermal” collapses, the warm updraft can quickly turn into a strong down draft.

Are your chimneys getting a downdraft?

But by then I had put a lot of money into things that I personally wanted - heavy-duty locking subfloors; 2x6 walls for more insulation; downdraft custom Jenn-Aire stove; etc - that no one wanted to pay extra for.

Perhaps, since Michigan did not have a housing bubble but did catch the downdraft of the economic collapse and the decline in manufacturing employment.