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I have been watching HGTV also and have noticed the same thing. I don't think they are trying to portray housing costs, a bottom, etc. I think they try to show you an inside view of the buying and selecting process. I laugh because the whole process is so different than anything I have been through in the last year. I can't get my head around people who rely on an agent to pick the houses for them. I find houses I am interested in off of the MLS or an RE website and tell my agent when I want to see them. I'ts never a short wait when I put in an offer. Sometimes, I hear back in several days but most times, I never hear back.
What cracks me up are the shows that claim to make changes to your unsellable house so it sells. The ones that stage, do minor updates, etc. I have noticed the shows usually say at the end "Traffic has picked up and the sellers are expecting an offer any day now". Real Estate speak for "It still hasn't sold yet".
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I've been watching TLC's housing shows (between those of ones of little people and ones of families of a bakers dozen) anyway I noticed a few glaring problems with these shows
1) Some of them show housing in Canada. Now there's nothing wrong with that but the Canadian dollar has less value than the US dollar (currently 5% less)
2) Some of these shows are old...quite old. I just saw one today that was five years old. Look for the end when it shows roman numerals
MM is 2000
MMV is 2005
MMX is this year.
If anyone advocates that housing is fine and that the housing shows somehow show a pricing floor or that everything is ok it clearly isn't.
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