An episode of "House Hunters" featuring Seattle resident Valerie Sloane and her friend Mary Jo Reynolds will air Monday, November 7th at 11pm, and again later at 2am. If you aren't able to view it this evening, here's a link to the House Hunters segment.
I played the real estate broker. It was a stretch, but I made it work.
You've probably seen House Hunters before where the premise of the show is a buyer decides to make a home purchase and then the agent "presents" 3 homes to choose from. By the end of the 30 minute show, the buyer decides which home to buy.
Valerie was renting a house in West Seattle and realized she wanted to move closer to the city and she was ready to be a homeowner. I showed her homes in the Central District, Seward Park, Mt. Baker, Madrona and Capitol Hill.
The HGTV producers try to create some drama about what the buyer will decide and even show the buyer and her friend making the big decision. However, it's all faux, as the buyer has already bought and closed on the house by that time! That's why some of the shows look like the buyers and the agent are acting. Because they ARE!
Valerie was renting a house in West Seattle and realized she wanted to move closer to the city and she was ready to be a homeowner. I showed her homes in the Central District, Seward Park, Mt. Baker, Madrona and Capitol Hill.
The HGTV producers try to create some drama about what the buyer will decide and even show the buyer and her friend making the big decision. However, it's all faux, as the buyer has already bought and closed on the house by that time! That's why some of the shows look like the buyers and the agent are acting. Because they ARE!
In real life, I took Val to look at dozens of homes, she bought one and then they went back and "re-enacted" the home search for the film crew.
Then, after Valerie moved in to the new home and fixed it up, the film crew came back and filmed an "after" segment to show how cute her new home is.
The buyer, Valerie Sloane, is a private tutor, but the family she works for did not want their children on the show, so my son Sam David, a student at St. Joseph's School in Seattle, was the stand-in stunt double.
Don't have cable? You can watch House Hunters online.
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