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00:00HGTV's House Hunters is popular because it shows that average Joes and Janes can own

00:06the homes of their dreams.

00:07At least, that's what audiences think.

00:09The truth is that this reality show offers little more than false promises.

00:14Here's the untold truth of House Hunters.

00:17It's fake

00:18The blog, Hooked on Houses, began exposing the series in 2010, when blogger Julia Sweetin

00:23detailed the steps producers allegedly took to manipulate episodes.

00:27Whistleblowers outline the actual process behind the show.

00:30Generally, participants have already decided on a house before filming even begins, then

00:35tour a couple other homes to complain about for the cameras.

00:38Well, it's definitely not our style.

00:40It's not new, it's not modern.

00:41I mean, I could learn to live with stairs.

00:44Sometimes, the new house has even already been purchased.

00:48Participants are reportedly paid $500 for a few days of filming.

00:51Or, as most people would call it, a few days of acting.

00:55Perhaps you would care to say that through his face!

00:58Oh!

00:59You fooled me!

01:00Acting!

01:01Genius!

01:02Thank you!

01:04More money overseas

01:06While $500 for just appearing on a show isn't bad, it's not as good as what the people

01:11who appear on House Hunters International carry home.

01:14In addition to the opportunity to visit another country, participants pocket $1,500, according

01:19to the production company's website.

01:21It's three times the cash for essentially the same amount of work.

01:25It's no secret.

01:26In 2012, the show's publicist issued a statement to Entertainment Weekly, admitting that producers

01:32seek out families who are far along in the house-buying process in order to speed up production.

01:36Even though aspects of the show are staged, the series tries to capture the authentic emotions

01:41that accompany buying a house.

01:43Okay, fine.

01:44But don't act surprised by your viewers' authentic emotions after finding out they've been duped.

01:49It's all in the hair.

01:51Despite being outrageously fake, there's still some fun to be had while watching the show.

01:55According to participant Bobby Jensen, the ending of an episode can be predicted by the

02:00participants' hairdos.

02:02Jensen told Hooked on Houses that scenes at participants' old homes and new homes are

02:05filmed close together, while scenes at the other potential homes are filmed later.

02:10If you watch carefully, you'll sometimes see inconsistencies in participants' hair lengths

02:14or styles.

02:16Watch the hairstyles, and you can predict the ending.

02:19Another tell?

02:20The winning house will usually be completely empty, while the others may still be furnished,

02:24since the new house has already been purchased and the previous owners have moved out.

02:28Pretty sneaky, sis.

02:31And in Jensen's case, the other two houses she toured already belonged to willing friends

02:36and were never really on the market.

02:38The truth matters.

02:40Audiences often expect reality television to be manipulated, and with that in mind, one may

02:44think nobody's getting hurt by House Hunters.

02:47The people at Slate disagree, saying in 2012, quote,

02:51House Hunters is presenting dangerous misinformation about the home-buying process and deleting all

02:56of the accompanying complications and consequences.

02:59Viewers use the prices, locations, and home criteria discussed on the show as barometers for

03:04their own house hunts because the information is presented as fact.

03:07HGTV have some obligation to portray the housing market as it is, or, at the very least, offer

03:13a pronounced disclaimer about the producers' creative and logistical liberties?

03:17HGTV's director of programming, Brian Balthazar, doesn't think that any of it really matters,

03:22telling ABC News,

03:24they should keep watching because you're seeing real people find the real home of their dreams.

03:30And that's all spelled out right on the show.

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