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House Hunters and Beach House Delusions
from 147 - Love Tim (with Kevin Tienken) · #147
7 min
Riff on House Hunters-style reality shows, southern realtors, cheap gigantic homes in the middle of nowhere, and fantasies about beach houses versus the reality of homelessness and squalor nearby.
- Tim watches House Hunters episodes set in real areas with incompetent-looking realtors selling cheap beach houses.
- He was 11 years old performing in Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway tour, stayed in hotels and traveled on a tour bus.
- Realtors enthusiastically pitch views to excited buyers, but most people on the show would be just as happy getting drunk and posting conspiracy theories online.
- His wife watches House Hunters while they live in a two-bedroom apartment in Sunland with two kids and a streetwalker who tries people's doors looking for food.
- Buyers in the middle of the country get massive 10,000 square foot homes for $97,000 or $300,000 because they're in the woods with no neighbors.
- His favorite episodes feature someone obsessing over an archery range in one house's backyard and choosing it despite other better options.
- People on these shows who clearly inherited money have no clue what a mortgage is and casually decide to buy second homes.
- Realtors get elaborate tragic backstories inserted into the show introductions, like Susan whose son is incarcerated and barricaded in a bathroom to steal her pain medication.
- Real estate agents on these shows look haggard, beat up, wearing tank tops with dark eyeliner, pencil-thin eyebrows, and purple lipstick.
- Real estate has no middle ground—either people make serious money or they barely passed the test and don't know anything while stumbling around houses.
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