Real Estate Reality TV Shows: More Realistic Since Bubble

Among the first real estate-themed reality TV shows that launched in the 1990s was House Hunters produced by Pie Town Productions. A lot has changed since then.

"People are much more willing to talk about details that were once considered too intimate like how much they've spent on a home and how much profit they made on the sale of a home," said Jennifer Davidson, a principal at Pie Town, which recently launched Flip or Flop, a real estate-themed reality tv show that began airing this year on HGTV.

The show is about Tarek and Christina, who buy homes and make them over before selling.
"It's doing well in the ratings, because they are a couple not a corporation," Davidson said.

How do you buy condemned homes?

Question : How do you buy condemned homes?

I'm not interested in the courthouse auctions of foreclosed homes, i dont have that kind of cash/credit for mortgages. A buddy told me that some condemned homes simply dont go up on the auction block because they are too cheap. an example is, i live in pennsylvania, near lancaster city, supposedly theres condemned row homes that are listed for 3k(buy price, not auction) these are the types of houses that you gotta sleep in as you remodel because its in a bad area, yet you will have no problem selling it for about 30k when its finished, rehab is supposedly about 10-15k if totally stripped and condemed (which they usually are).