This article was written before we were asked
to do a rehab for Flip That House.
TV
Reality Shows Help People and Entertain
By Jeanette Joy Fisher
Besides entertaining their
audience, TV reality shows help home buyers, home
sellers, and real estate investors.
If you like to be entertained and want to learn
about home buying, house selling, and real estate
investing at the same time, here are five
television shows that can help you fulfill your
need for information and excitement.
Flip That
House Helps You Learn How to Buy, Fix, and
Sell a House to Make Money
The Learning Channel offers a peek into real
estate investors trials and successes in fixing a
house to sell for a quick profit. The show's
emphasis is on the rehab of the property and films
before, demolition, instillation, and the finished
home.
Flip That House followed ten house
flippers in season one. When the show became the
favorite reality show and most popular program on
TLC, twenty episodes were filmed for season two.
Viewers can look forward to at least forty house
flipping projects in 2007.
House Hunters
Helps You Learn How to Buy a Home
HGTV offers House
Hunters every weeknight at 10:00 Eastern
and Pacific, with new episodes premiering every
Thursday night. It's hosted by Suzanne Whang, and
takes viewers on a behind the scenes tour of the
experiences of homebuyers as they look at homes to
choose which one is right for them.
Every week, an individual,
couple, or family is followed along with their
real estate agent as they go through the often
emotional process of first finding and then
financing a new home. It can make for some
entertaining and enlightening viewing, especially
if you've never bought a home before and are
interested in seeing what to expect when you begin
your own search for a home.
Designed to
Sell Helps You Sell Your Home
The other HGTV real
estate-related offering, Designed to Sell,
airs on Tuesdays and Sundays at 8:00 PM Eastern
and Pacific. Hosted by Michael Johnson, this
program focuses on the opposite end of the real
estate transaction: the trials and tribulations of
sellers as they
prepare their homes for sale. The premise of
the show is that homeowners don't necessarily have
to spend vast sums to make their homes most
attractive to prospective buyers.
In each episode, sellers
are given a budget of $2,000 and a team of experts
to give their home the best chance of standing out
from the competition. In the end, the results are
seen exactly where it counts the most: on the
bottom line once the transaction has reached its
conclusion. This series is a treasure trove for
folks looking to learn more about the improvements
that are most effective in obtaining quicker sales
at higher prices.
Sell this
House™
Helps Home Sellers
Roger Hazard hosts
Sell This House™, which features
homeowners desperate to sell and prospective
buyers secretly recorded. Buyers express their
observations upon first seeing the house while the
sellers watch the tape. Home sellers get to see
what potential buyers like, love, hate, and feel
about their home.
The homeowners get advice from real estate and
home decoration experts who recommend changes.
Then the home sellers and the Sell This House™
team get to work redesigning and renovating the
house. You watch the work and then see what the
buyers think about the changes.
Property
Ladder Helps You with Real Estate Investing
TLC's contribution to the
real estate reality TV shows, Property
Ladder, airs on Saturday nights at 8:00
Eastern and Pacific. This show is geared toward
individual (and often first-time) investors who
want to engage in one of the most popular real
estate investment strategies today, that is,
buying a home that needs work, fixing it up, and
reselling it. (The process is also known as
flipping houses.)
The idea is to locate a
home that shows potential, spending money (which
is often in limited supply) to do whatever repairs
and upgrades are necessary, and then to resell the
house at what the owners hope will be a
substantial profit. The programs follows the
efforts of people tackling homes of various sizes
and in need of varying amounts of work, with
sometimes vastly varying results. It can be quite
emotional at times as investors tackle jobs that
they didn't anticipate and much more costly than
they had assumed.
If you want to learn, be
entertained, and get inspiration to buy a home,
sell your house, or start real estate investing,
you can get your fill every night of the week by
watching these informative and entertaining TV
reality shows. And if you take notes, you just may
be able to put them to practical use in your own
real estate buying and selling investments.
Remember, home owners are real estate investors!
Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher
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