I received this invitation to contact Priemer Home Shows and submit interest for a TV interview, and additional perks. I am very busy, and have plenty of work, but these things can be very fruitful. I am not sure I want to go thru the onslaught of phone calls and communication from Joe Public that is necessary after the promotion.
EDIT: Sorry, forgot to attach invite. Invitation is attached to next post.
I took on one of these invitations years ago and was chosen to build a 2500 SF home as a part of a home show, inside the George R. Brown Convertion Center / Houston.
I was on TV and radio. The expensive gig paid for itself……. eventually. At the time we had just bought a pool and landscape company to add to our custom homebuilding operation. We built the home in a short week and provided the landscaping and mock swimming pool. The project not only produced several new home leads, but about 30 pool leads and 60 landscaping leads. We demoed the project carefully and donated the material to our Church.
The home show management told us it was the best home ever built for the show, with no worries as to our timely completion. One of the managers told me she had to get out her own paint brush at 2:00 in the morning when using other builders.
Edited 1/3/2007 10:52 am ET by txlandlord
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Invitation attached.
Looks like they are fishing for suckers. No offense, but the style of the "invitation" seems to be that Shane was mass-mailing those things to see who would bite.
I went to the San Antonio home show about 2 yrs ago to see the hosue they built in a week. What a joke. The promoters and press made a big deal about it, and how they worked around the closk all week, right up to opening bell. But there was no plumbing, no electrical, no roof or rafters other than the front facade, etc. It wasn't a house, it was a movie set.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
You might be right about the search for suckers, but the results of the home show and home build I participated in was very good to us. It was also a "movie set" but paid off. Ours had a wood floor on 18" pony walls, framed roof with metal roofing, exteror trim and paint, drywall, interior trim, etc. It was simplified Victorian Folk style. I have some pics, but need to scan to make them avaliable. No digital camera 6 years ago.
If I ever did it again, I think I would pre-fab the home in sections, with mechanicals. After the show I would put it together like a pimped out custom modular home.
Now that you mention the potential sucker search, I remember a call from a TV group wanting to do something similar. They wanted to shoot a commercial for us at $7,000.00 a day for their crew. NO THANKS.
Hey, I also got an email offer from the CFO of The Central Bank of Nigeria. He says a wealthy client / investor who has been missing for several years and the $35,000,000.00 the client has in his account has rolled over to special status, making it avaliable to him. He wants to give me 20% to help him move the money into America.
This is not the only offer...it is amazing how much money is just sitting around for the taking in Nigeria.
The FBI calls these offers 419 scams, so I attached the "Bank Document" (see attachment) for further instructions. I've been told by some friends from South Africa that Mugu is like bonehead or bozo only a bit more serious.
Edited 1/3/2007 1:07 pm ET by txlandlord