I hate all of the shows when they have real estate agents "tour" the house and give a suggested listing price on the spot. Agents have no idea ahead of time about the house, not even a room count, and they just cough up a price! No pulling of similar active comps, no research on similar solds, just "Here's your instant answer."

No matter how confident I am of my original opinion, I always back it up with research before I give suggestions to a client. These shows give the impression, I fear, that agents just pull their numbers out of the air with no research.

Back in the day house hunters would mention this was home 15, 18, 23 that the family has viewed. Guess that information wasn't interesting enough to warrent air time. on another note...

The agents seem a bit pushy during the showing phase. I let my clients tour the home and I am there to answer questions. If I see something important, I will mention it. However, I don't do a room by room guided tour.

Well, House Hunters is about my least favorite show on HGTV, but the issue that really bugs me on Property Virgins or My First Place is the terms of purchase they usually seem to talk about. Nothing down, $2,000/month, no principal payments for 5 years. Seems like a blast from the past, and totally unrealistic in today's market. I want to write them and say, "JUST STOP WITH THIS BS!!!!!"

Whatever happened to that gay investor guy that had OCD? I actually liked his show. He had million dollar homes in the California hills. His whole team was afraid of him because he was a control freak. I thought his show was always interesting to watch. I wonder what happened to him.

You mean I think Jeff Lewis. It was a crazy show. They did 2 seasons and then no more so who knows. I think alot of high end reno's such as his will tank in this market because when they don't sell for what he wants he can't refi out some equity to save his bacon. Hopefully he realized the shift and is doing what is moving in the market or else he should be underwater by now in debt.

The other shows I have my DVR so I just watch a 30 minute show in about 16 minutes.

The positive part is that buyers beleive they could find a home they like in after seeing 3 homes.

I wouldn't want a show having buyer beleive they HAVE to look at 50 homes before purchasing. That would really suck to ingrain that in buyers minds. I usually try to get them under contract in 10 homes or less.


I have had a few where we saw 3 properties that day put a contract in and closed in 30 days. Now if they all were like that...............:)

My wife and I love watching the show Flipping Out...it is hilarious and Jeff and Zoila are my favorites. I consider the show entertainment/reality TV and not really teaching the art of flipping. The show actually starts season 3 on August 10th

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Popping up the corn and taking out my favorite glasses....Love the show too....

What I don't like about HH...its the Dorky music they play every second they can..Its not really a jingle- It sounds like nails on a chalk board to me!

House Hunters is a "fake" reality tv show. It's scripted. The show finds buyers in escrow or who have already closed escrow. Then it finds a couple of other homes to "show" to the buyers. These are homes that in reality the buyers may have never seen before, but they pretend they are looking at them for the show. Agents apply to the show hoping to be chosen for an episode. They were not involved in the actual sale transaction and often they are from some other state. If you google this topic you'll get lots of hits. I remember reading an interview of one agent who applied to the show and he made the initial cut to be the starring agent in an episode, but then he got ticked off when the producers told him he had to wear a certain color blazer and had to make certain comments in certain ways. He declined.

I never watch House Hunters. Boring. Fake. Can't stand it.