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By James Kimmons, About.com Guide to Real Estate Business

Flip This House - A Reality Flop

Sunday May 27, 2007
Though reality TV is supposed to be "real", most of us realize that some creative latitude is OK to juice it up a bit. But A & E's Flip This House seems to have gone a bit further than that. An Atlanta TV reporter did some investigative digging and turned up a few flips that appear to have been totally fabricated.

What's the fuss? Just a few allegations, so you be the judge:

  • Sam Leccima, featured in the series, had his real estate licensed revoked even before the filiming of the first episode.
  • Leccima didn't own the homes as represented, nor were the reported profitable flip sales real.
  • The TV report at one point stated "...a house was “landscaped” with plants that were immediately removed after a phony open house."
  • Well, my faith in "reality" has been dashed to pieces now.

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