34: HGTV and the Reality of Real Estate TV
Hustle Humbly Podcast
Alissa Jenkins & Katy Caldwell
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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💡 In This Episode
HGTV makes it look so easy… but that's not how real estate works. Katy and Alissa explore the fun and frustration of working with clients who've absorbed TV expectations. From magically fast closings to $10k renovations, we unpack the myths and share how to set the record straight (without sounding judgy).
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hgtv myths, real estate tv, buyer expectations, real estate reality, agent education, realtors and tv
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, guess what? We're recording now. Okay. We were only three minutes in to be fair. Okay, that's fine. Can you imagine? No, that'd be so sad. That would be so sad. We would be like, oh, I'd do it all again. Hi, y'all. Welcome to Hustle Humbley. It's Alyssa and Katie, and we are two top-producing realtors in the Baton Rouge |
| 0:20.9 | market. We work for two different companies where we should be competitors, but we have chosen |
| 0:24.8 | community over competition. The goal of our podcast is to encourage you to find your own way in business. |
| 0:30.2 | So stop comparing yourself and start embracing your strengths. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, everyone. This is episode 34, take two, because I didn't hit record the first time. We've just been chatting away over here. |
| 0:41.5 | Talking it up about this episode is all about HGTV and all real estate TV. Yes. So you were going to start us off with the story of you have been on real estate TV. So in 2012 or 2013, they came to our board of realtors and said, we need a realtor that can come, spend two days with us and film a show with us. |
| 1:01.7 | Yes. |
| 1:02.6 | And you were brand new. |
| 1:03.8 | I was new. |
| 1:04.6 | I was very new, maybe a year or two in. |
| 1:07.2 | And so I was like, sure, I'll do it. |
| 1:09.0 | I think I got paid like $70. |
| 1:11.1 | Oh, they paid you. |
| 1:12.1 | Like $7.0. |
| 1:13.7 | Right. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah. For two days of work. |
| 1:15.7 | For two days. |
| 1:16.6 | Whoa. |
| 1:17.7 | But it was super fun. |
| 1:19.1 | And I was like, well, I don't really have any buyers that are looking to buy the bayou. |
| 1:24.1 | Buy the Bayou. |
| 1:24.7 | Because the show I was on was called Buying the Buyu. |
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