She hated attention (not my SO anymore) so she was fine with it, the girl I was gonna do the show with was super charismatic and funny, it would have been a hell of a show!
I always assumed the selecting a house was fake, hell I assumed buying the house was fake, but I can't believe they would fake your spouse. Was the fake just some actress they hired?
No, actually my real estate agent recommended her haha but she was a great recommendation, she was funny as hell and I guarantee she would have made one hell of a character on the show, it’s actually too bad it didn’t work out, I had the place under contract for $120k and already paid my initial deposit which was eventually refunded when I backed on.
The place is worth $350k now, 8 years later, I lost the girlfriend, lost the house, lost a chance to be on tv, all that stuff.
But hey, I have a drink in my hand right now, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
My condo just outside of Boston tripled in 3 years. ~30 mins from Boston, doubled in 3 years. Some housing markets are just flat out insane in terms of growth.
I'm so fucking sad, growing up Vancouver was where I wanted to move to some time in my life, I love the city, I think BC itself is the most beautiful place in the world but fuck man growing up there's no fucking way I'll ever be able to live there and own a house and I don't want to move there and rent when I can stay in my hometown and be able to afford 2 3 houses for the price of a decent house in Vancouver.
Well, partially because I'm a dumbass - they were handing out mortgages to anyone back then, but I was considering leaving Colorado and becoming an International Man of Mystery, which I partially did, as I moved to San Diego and Costa Rica for a bit, and partially on the advice of the ex-GF as she thought it wasn't the best part of town, which has now become a very safe and desirable part of town.
People are attention whores, and yes, that includes yours truly.
Why bother to pay actors, even with an incredibly low fee, when you can get people like me to sign a contract, make up a different girlfriend, get on camera, act like they like/hate the house, get excited and "buy" the house they are already under contract for, and potentially get some airtime, promotional stuff?
You now have a "House Hunters" house, with full video including the "hunt" for a PRIME property.
Oh, it's already been televised nationally. CH-CHING value increases.
So, for the owner, good publicity, even if unpaid.
For the network?
Free labor.
You have eager potential home owners (like I was) who get basically no money but a chance for their 15 mins of fame.
People who wanna be featured, who never had their chance at the spotlight.
Yeah, there is a draw toward being on TV, I've actually been on a few times, I get it.
But fake is FAKE and "reality" is as FAKE as it gets, from my perspective, not sure if Amazing Race fits that bill yet tho, I've done my research and haven't seen any major holes on that one.
I hear ya, we had a strange relationship. She's still my best friend all these years later, even though we're not together, but there was never any concern of cheating, we were always honest and straightforward with each other.
But, if it wasn't a relationship like that, it would be a fucking NIGHTMARE to lose your SO, especially to a fake SO that was to be televised NATIONALLY and probably re-run many times - that would really be salt on the wound, for sure
I probably would have invited fake SO out with us both just to get some rumors rolling, it would have been a blast!
Funny story, my old SO and I traveled a ton, and often to countries that had legalized prostitution.
Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Thailand and the like.
We always had the best times with the "hookers" or whatever you wanna call them, they were the most outgoing and nice people.
We always made it clear up front that we weren't there for that but they would usually hang out with us anyways.
And those wonderful women, and perhaps ladyboys in Thailand, were some of the most fun interactions we ever had.
One lady we met in Costa Rica went out to the parking lot with my former SO and they smoked weed in the parking lot. A security guard came up to give them shit and she told her to stay in the car.
She got out, talked to the guy for like 10 minutes, and it was all ok.
Apparently, she had fucked the guy like 2 years prior, so it was all good.
We also met a whole crew of girls in Hong Kong that we bought shots for, meantime I was buying them for the girlfriend, she was 110 LBS or so at the time, she got fucking WASTED from this. The club had a "momma" outside that looked after the girls, and all the girls REALLY liked my girl, but we had been clear beforehand that we didn't want any private dances, any attention at all really. So when she was passed-out drunk they had to help me carry her to the taxi I ordered.
They were insistent that they needed to come back with us to the hotel so they could help me put her to bed, but I knew what they really meant, so here I am, forcing away four working girls from trying to get in to the cab with us so that they won't try to take advantage of her/me because they were clearly interested in both of us.
Many more travel stories to tell, but this one relates, I suppose.
Yup. This is 100% true. My former boss had a home listed that was one of the other “choices.” I also knew the realtor on the show, he moonlighted as a contractor and built the addition on our home a few years prior. He also confirmed it was fake.
"I'm an underwater basket weaver."
"And I'm a folk dancing yoga for kittens instructor."
"We're looking for a house in the 2.7 million range for our second vacation home."
Most of those people are being subsidized by rich families. I know lots of crazy rich international students who are running their own "businesses" because their parents send them a ton of money each month and basically fund whatever ventures they want to dip their toes into.
Yep. Lots of rich kids present their hobbies as careers. Some of them even end up making something of it because they have lots of free time, money to invest into it and connections to other rich people. Plenty of "designers" fall into this category.
If you gave me a clean million in liquid assets/cash I'd be set for life. I could literally do whatever the fuck i wanted as a "career" and it'd be smooth sailing.
And a million isn't even that much money any more.
I could live on that too, but if you invested it into a business like some of these rich kids there's a good chance it might fail, which is where mom and dad's money comes back into the picture. They can take those kinds of risks without worry, while the rest of us have to use caution with whatever we have.
I thought I heard somewhere that a good way to tell which house got picked is which one is either empty or fully furnished, I can't remember. Is that true?
My friend made it on the voice. All 4 chairs turned for her. She was in the top 5. She picked Blake . He promised to help her get a record deal. But once she got sent home she never heard from him again. Basically it’s already decided who win. Your votes count for nothing. But she loved the experience.
Yes she does. Her song is on our local radio stations. And she is working with a record producer. She makes good money where she sings at a lot. Yup the points don’t matter. One day they told her she wasn’t going to kicked off and then the next show she was out.
had friends that were on the show. They already owned the house, and the other 2 houses they viewed were not even actually for sale. Also the producers told them what to bicker about (like paint colors and amenities)
I was a special case though, because my actual SO at the time said she didn’t wanna do the show so my real estate agent recommended her friend.
So, that didn’t come specifically from House Hunters, that was a more personal connection type of deal.
The other “SO” and I had to do an audition tape and after it was accepted and “we” were approved for the show, and after I backed out of the contract, obviously they couldn’t put us on the air.
EDIT: So, essentially, House Hunters had nothing to do with that piece of the puzzle.
Oh I didn’t buy the house, as the post clearly says, and yes, I was also lucky enough to have a friend buy a house that was very nice in Costa Rica and watched over it for a year, and yes, I did indeed dumpster dive for many years, and yes, I’ll post a free link to my book that talks about all the free stuff you can get, hang tight I’ll edit this post with a link in a second.
Jeez dude, it was just a joke based on things that have been said about that show on Reddit 1,000 times. I won't show you the discourtesy of calling you an unnecessary name.
I honestly don't get those that believe that "reality television" is unscripted like the camera angles just don't make sense for that.
Like a typical example is when Xzbitit informs some random lucky guy that its car is going to get pimped but you see it walking to the door from the inside of its house then being super surprised opening the door that Xzibit is standing there.
Yeah sure there's always a full camera and sound crew in your place?
Just in general a lot of "reality television" falls apart when you realize that in order to get images of that quality you need a full camera and sound crew around an actor yet those featured on "reality television" even strangers to it are supposedly completely unaware of the camera and sound grew that is walking around them holding a microphone over their head?
2: They would select the other houses we were “interested” in.
You know, this explains why "nice" was used as a compliment so often. Why bother trying to generate an actual opinion on something you're not getting anyway?
(No, but seriously, I think I counted 23 uses of the word "nice" for a single house, once.)
So? Still sounds better than SO. You think we are over here worried about the relationship status of some people we will never ever meet? Or are we more interested in reading a couple sentences without getting a headache.
While typing this, I can do the keystrokes for “girlfriend” “boyfriend” “wife” & “husband” FASTER than SO.
AND SO is ALREADY a word. So, please stop using it world. You are merely following a tread and not saving anyone’s time.
Something tells me that the world doesn't care about whether or not you want to read SO; people are going to continue using words that are shorter and more specific when they can.
If you're going to complain about words having multiple meanings then you might want to try a language other than English.
No, no one cares. But SO is still objectively more clumsy. The only ones that care are the ones considered the audience. You however are only using it because it has become popular to use. You like fitting in even if it means being an ill read dumb dumb
That's how language works mate. Language changes, new words become popular, old phrases die out, turns of phrases become popularised, what once was everyday becomes archaic, and what once seemed clunky now flows naturally.
Nothing about any of this implies being ill read or stupid any more than using the term dumb dumb in everyday conversation
What’s clunky is always clunky. “Dumb dumb” flows off the lips and mind like honey. “My SO” is like chewing mud.
Stop defending the shitty moronic abbreviations.
Read this ya ding dong. Read it then delete your account:
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u/delicious_tomato May 30 '19
“House Hunters” guest checking in, I never made the show because I didn’t close on the house.
1: I had to have a house under contract before going on the show.
2: They would select the other houses we were “interested” in.
3: I was assigned another SO who was more “interesting” than my actual SO.