Talk:House Hunters

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I have read complaints on line that the people on House Hunters already have to be in escrow before appearing on the show, and that the two houses they will eventually reject are, therefore, essentially a sham. I don't want to add this fact (?) to the entry until I see a reliable source, though. Can anyone verify this? == From Jun 11, 2005 Here is a link to a VERY revealing article about House Hunters -- probably far more than the producers would want us to know: http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/052405/loc_househunt001.shtml

The "prospective buyer" had already bought her home, and was recommended for the show by a college friend who works for HGTV. The "realtor" was not her realtor, but someone who won the part based on sales -- and she was told if she "flubbed her lines" she would be replaced. The homes the "buyer" was shown were not even for sale -- one was the home of the neighbor of her "realtor" and the other was the home of someone who knows someone in the production company. Instead of showing the "buyer" in her actual new home, the show will "will portray her as living in the elaborately decorated model." == http://homebuying.about.com/od/homeshopping/qt/Walkthrough.htm

"Ever watch HGTV's House Hunters and try to guess which home the buyers will choose? Well, I'll let you in on a secret. It's the vacant house! Trust me, nine times out of 10, it's the vacant one. That's because they film the show backwards, starting with the house the buyer purchased, just before it closes escrow." == http://www.on-stjohn.com/2009/06/09/hgtv%E2%80%99s-not-so-real-reality-show/ "This is Ted and Sharon Prosser, who will star in House Hunters International...We’re anxious to see it, but we were surprised -maybe naively so - to learn that the “hunting” was already long done by the time the show’s producers came around.

'The show isn’t really a reality show,' Ted tells us. 'You have to own the house already that gets picked at the end of the show.'

In other words, the Prossers had to be very good actors. HGTV does redeem its credibility, since the other houses in the show were actually properties the Prossers looked at."

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Slightly outdated?
This article claims 13 seasons of House Hunters. According to TV.com, they're up to 52. http://www.tv.com/shows/house-hunters/episodes/ Rain bow Of Light   Talk  03:15, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * - Now up to "Season 115" in 2017 ... what, do they have 1 episode per "season"? 2601:246:0:ED97:3141:60E9:1C07:3A2A (talk) 14:10, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Recent experience on how "produced" this show is
The college friend of my sister-in-law was on a House Hunters International episode in Urugray. According to him the show started by deciding the country they would visit, and finding the house they wanted to be "chosen", which was not even for sale. They then approached the owner (the college friend's sister) and asked is she knew anyone who spoke good english, which lead the the college friend and his wife being chosen as the "perspective buyers". They then produced the episode pretending that the college friend and his wife were moving back to this Urugray after going to college in the US and were looking to buy a house (they were actually just visiting for a summer vacation). They also choose two other houses to be the houses not chosen, and had him go through the motions of looking at them for the camera. He pretended to pick winning house (his sister's) got paid and went back to the US after the vacation was over. No house was even for sale or purchased. The show is entirely scripted and produced. It just shows off nice houses in other countries, but the sales are are pure fiction. Mathewignash (talk) 04:15, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Recent AV Club article confirms show is entirely staged and doesn't involve real homes for sale (http://mobile.avclub.com/articles/hgtvs-totally-fake-house-hunters-is-still-totally,81121/?mobile=true). Page should be updated accordingly. 24.118.41.153 (talk) 14:50, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Never edited wikipedia before, and I know this isn't material for the article, but my husband and I just filmed an episode and it was 'real' enough. We had 'reenact' some things that had already happened, but we more or less did things as we did them, just a few things twice I guess. The house was really our house and the houses we looked at we had really looked at, just before the cameras arrived. They made us talk endlessly about our hopes and fears, but they were really our hopes and fears. I guess some shows are totally scripted? But our experience wasn't really like that. Not sure how to sign off! Sorry! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.176.109.132 (talk) 07:37, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Source
"... what's the problem? ... House Hunters was always much more about showing us an attainable reality than a fantasy. The show ... in which people just like us ... go shopping for the best home their money can buy, not only glorifies the dream of home ownership, but makes it seem achievable. ... This plays right into our inexplicably unwavering attachment to home ownership: Despite the collapse of the housing market, polling continues to demonstrate that we regard owning a home as the cornerstone of the American Dream—a perception that undoubtedly played a role in the home-buying craze prior to the bubble’s burst...Showing houses that aren't even for sale at prices divined by its producers, House Hunters is presenting dangerous misinformation about the home-buying process and deleting all of the accompanying complications and consequences. It's turned what is actually a messy, frustrating, often dead-end process into a seamless (and perhaps necessary) path toward fulfillment."


 * Why It Matters That House Hunters Is Fake slate.com Nemissimo (talk) 18:28, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

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