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To: biometricgngboy who wrote (13324)	8/27/2003 8:42:33 PM
From: biometricgngboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Posted on Mon, Aug. 25, 2003 < TURF \| REAL ESTATE Reality for real estate DOUG HANKS dhanks@herald.com Don't get Turf wrong: We're fascinated by the real estate industry. But would it keep us from changing the channel? The Discovery Channel is going to find out this fall with a new reality show, Double Agents. The show pairs two real estate agents with house hunters and tracks all the angst that goes with the search for a dream home. Originally this was supposed to be a contest, with the two agents competing to find a couple a home within 48 hours. One agent was supposed to talk to the husband alone, and the other just to the wife, according to publicity materials still available on the cable channel's website. But that premise has been scrapped, a spokeswoman for Discovery told Turf, as long as we didn't name her. Now the show will play it straight: Two agents helping a buyer or buyers (single mothers, married couples, gay couples, etc., the spokeswoman said.) The only twist is that there are two agents helping, not just one. Which isn't to say there won't be drama. Ray Stevens, owner of Oxford Real Estate in Oxford, Md., recently filmed an episode with his daughter, who is about to join him in the brokerage. As cameras rolled, the two showed a 30-something Virginia couple through the historic town and the rural neighborhoods nearby. It wasn't exactly real: Stevens already had shown the couple property once Double Agents arrived, but the show had everyone pretend to see some rejected homes for the first time. Eventually, the couple settled on a home as the cameras rolled and as the producers packed up thinking they had an episode in the can. Then problems surfaced during inspection. ''We're actually looking at other homes,'' Stevens said in a telephone interview from Oxford. ''So I don't know how this is going to turn out.'' miami.com

To: biometricgngboy who wrote (13324)	9/2/2003 3:13:19 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<Lobbyists do battle as banks try to enter real-estate market> biometricboy....you should read some past posts on this subject on this very thread. The tale of banks getting into the real estate sales game makes a great story, but I'd be careful if I were rooting for a victory by the banks. If you want the banks to prevail in this battle, you just might get what you're wishing for, and if so, you deserve what you get in the end. Meanwhile, the odds are against this ever happening....but, hey, if it does.... everyone will adapt and still make money.....except people such as YOU and the common, innocent, noninformed homebuyer.