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COPYRIGHT 2004 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: JOAN WHITELY , REVIEW-JOURNAL
Wendie and Jerry Goudchaux of Las Vegas will be featured soon on "House Hunters," a cable network series that tags along while a family searches for, and finally buys, the house of their dreams.
The camera will show the couple relocating from a home in California's San Fernando Valley to a similarly sized home in northwest Las Vegas, outside the Las Vegas Beltway. The program will air at 8 p.m. June 8 on the cable network Home & Garden Television, which is on Cox Communications channel 64.
The show "culminates in them getting a house. It's only a half-hour. The appeal of our show is you get to tour three houses with the home buyers," explains Betsy Allman, producer of "House Hunters."
In reality, many home buyers -- particularly in a heated real estate market such as Las Vegas -- don't acquire the perfect house by the third visit.
"I know very few people who have only looked at three," Allman admits. "But we don't tell that part of the story. We tell the happy ending."
The Goudchauxes, whose children are grown, wanted to cash out of the expensive California real estate market for a comparable home here.
The Goudchauxes still work, but need to commute only one week a month to Los Angeles in their jobs as textile merchants.
As the tape rolls, the couple visits three properties, all single story. "When we retire we don't...
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