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"Scrubs" character flipping houses

The_TimThe_Tim
edited November 2007 in Housing Bubble
Anybody else here watch the TV show Scrubs? In an episode that aired a few weeks ago ("My Inconvenient Truth," from the current season, which can be viewed in full here at the moment), the plot revolved around J.D.'s life being a mess, while his brother Dan finally has it together, and has become successful and relatively well-off.

The part that I thought was especially funny was when Dan explains the source of his new success: "I flip houses."

I don't know if the writers meant it as a joke, since there's pretty much no place in the country that you can "flip" houses for easy money anymore (not even super special Seattle!), or if they're just seriously out of touch with current events.

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  • Lake Hills RenterLake Hills Renter
    "Scrubs"? Is that a show about renters? :wink:
  • redmondjpredmondjp
    You know when some new trend is featured on TV Sitcoms, that it's really over!

    On the first or second episode of the new show Carpoolers, the (RE agent) wife of one character flipped a house (all by telephone) - two times!

    The funny thing is, we just got cable (wife wanted it), and I have been watching all of these flipping shows on TLC and HGTV, and based upon the prices I am guessing that a lot of the shows were filmed 2-3 years ago. One recent episode had a guy who bought a plain-vanilla 1300 sf rambler with no view for $675K or so, and flipped it for almost $1M! It's, well, just plain unbelievable. Some of the people doing the flips are complete idiots too (thinking they can completely refurb both the interior and exterior of a house as well as add a new room onto the house for $16K--ha ha ha!).
  • deejayohdeejayoh
    One recent episode had a guy who bought a plain-vanilla 1300 sf rambler with no view for $675K or so, and flipped it for almost $1M!
    on most of these flipping shows that I have watched, they never actually sell the house. they have an expert REALTOR® come in and estimate what they think it would sell for. there have also been some pretty well publicized scammers doing the flipping on these shows.
    caveat emptor.
  • EconEEconE
    Here's one unhappy celebrity...

    http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2007/1 ... -sues.html
  • hesotriflinhesotriflin
    http://flipthislawsuit.com/
  • explorerexplorer
    deejayoh wrote:
    One recent episode had a guy who bought a plain-vanilla 1300 sf rambler with no view for $675K or so, and flipped it for almost $1M!
    on most of these flipping shows that I have watched, they never actually sell the house. they have an expert REALTOR® come in and estimate what they think it would sell for... caveat emptor.

    I get it. Just like antiques roadshow. It's really an auction. What do I hear for this rambler? Minimum opening bid is $950K. Uh, Hello, is this microphone on?

    Yes, the "flipping for dummies" book just cancelled it's press run....
  • StevePDXStevePDX
    On last Sunday's episode of Family Guy, Stewie and Brian flip a house together.

    Stewie proposes to Brian that they invest on renovating a wrecked house. However, neither of them are able to cope with each other and are unable to get the job done. The two go broke and the house begins to deteriorate beyond repair, so Stewie decides to blow up the house in the end. Over

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