01-20-2009, 01:32 PM
Hey Kathy,
I keep missing that one. My wifes seen it like three times. She commented that the agent was obnoxious(sp). I have seen some that I know they had to have cut and edited to death, LOl.. The other one is the flip the house show.. I always have trouble with their math.
Blessings,
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young
I keep missing that one. My wifes seen it like three times. She commented that the agent was obnoxious(sp). I have seen some that I know they had to have cut and edited to death, LOl.. The other one is the flip the house show.. I always have trouble with their math.
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Originally posted by KathyH
LMAO at your newsletter Dave, I love the part about not stealing your car. []
Speaking of agents, I just saw that HGTV Househunters show on the Alaska couple looking to buy oceanfront in Puna, that I was alerted to here. (I guess it repeats fairly often).
The agent that showed homes to that couple, was everything I don't like. She was the perky glossy high sales pitch here's your dream home, everything is good, hey it's only $900 a square foot.
She pitched catchment water as "never having to pay a water bill again." OMG!
She never said a word about Lava Zone 1 and the implications.
Just sold them a fantasy lifestyle, for over $700K
Almost sold them the fixer so they could "personalize" the place, an 800 square foot fixer 2/1 for over $500K. Not a word about the challenges of fixing houses here.
Stuff that made me laugh ... they saw the house on the really high post and pier that is required for oceanfront in Kapoho (12 feet?) and laughed and called it the tree house. Not a word from the agent about how that's so the storm surge stays under your living area when the weather acts up.
This is the one where they drive through the "cute Bohemian Village" of Pahoa. It was like they bought the Disneyfied version of Puna, and the realtor totally played it that way.
I'm so glad I've never had an agent like that. I've been shown houses by sellers' agents that insisted on walking me through with my agent, who did that, but it always turns me off.
Blech. It left a bad taste in my mouth, the lack of information these buyers got. Maybe all that was cut out for TV, but I think it would have been more interesting for home buyers to hear the real scoop.
Blessings,
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young
Blessings,
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young