I happend upon a series on HGTV "On Demand" the other night and watched a few episodes. The show is called "Buy Me" and from what I can tell, it's filmed in Canada. The premise of the show is to follow the trials and tribulations of desperate home sellers. In once episode, a young man buys a downtown loft for a fix and flip. 
During the process he apparantly met the woman of his dreams, fell in love and was convinced to buy a "cottage on the water" and time the sale of the condo with the closing of the new house. During the "high stress" course of events, which included finalizing the condo renovation and the looming deadline for the closing of the house, his girlfriend left him. In this episode, his mother is also his real estate agent. She's a little bossy but comes across pretty well from a professional standpoint.
The next episode I watched is another where the home seller stacked the deck on themselves by buying a property in the country before their house in the city was sold. The looming threat of foreclosure is discussed in length in this episode. The house in the city is a disaster! It looks as if they've lived there 20 years and never once performed a single maitenance item on the home.
To make matters worse the real estate agent they hired, a "friend" in the business, is completely unprofessional, potentially unethical, and not trustworthy. He shows up late for appointments, I don't believe is always up front and honest with the sellers and in one case scheduled an open house and never showed up to host it! Why in the world he signed a waiver to allow his actions to be shown on this show is completely beyond me!
This gets me to my point. I've stumbled across a few other reality TV shows following the life of a real estate agent. Many of them make us look like complete idiots, egotistical, all about the money, sharks, etc.... What possesses agents to allow themselves to be filmed in this manner. Oh yeah, complete idiots, egotistical, all about the money, etc....
Guess I answered my own question.
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