Trentovation
Responding to TV Show Viewers
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 30 For me, this writing feels overdue, making this exercise in looking back more than writing for the curious or those planning courses to reach a wider audience of their own. It also benefits me to think out moments on the timeline that started with blogging on Blood, Sweat,…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 29 Summerville, South Carolina is a large community twenty-five miles inland from Charleston and is now a widespread city that straddles the interstate highway connecting the low country coast with Appalachia. The old house I’d just closed on, built circa 1907, was eighty feet above sea level, a safe…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 28 This Response to TV Viewers series is unwinding into a written accounting more in depth than I had originally set off to share. It’s rooted in my intent to answer questions about my experiences working with and for the home improvement networks making American Rehab Charleston and Restoring…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 27 When the interviewer teased, “C’mon, Trent. Act like you’re a little excited about getting your own TV show,” it sent my mind racing. My brain began to replay phone calls, both with HGTV/DIY and the company this crew worked for. No one on either end had mentioned this…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 26 The Rehab Addict DVDs, sent to me from the show’s production company in Minnesota, had arrived without any note or instructions. Because of this, I watched and considered them as some sort of general prep preceding the film crew being flown in to meet up with me. I’d…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 25 After being invited to send in videos to New York, a programming director connected me with a production company in Minneapolis. At the end of a brief phone call, my contact there directed me to keep an eye out for a package. And a few days later, a…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 24 If this is your first time reading any of this series, or you’ve missed, skipped, or fallen asleep reading previous posts, I’d like to provide a brief recap if you don’t have time to start at the beginning. I buy and fix up old homes in the Berchador…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 23 In my early years as a general contractor, I built a new home for an older lady. In some ways she reminded me of my late grandmothers, and we worked well together ironing out creases in the gray areas. Although there were nonnegotiables on this house, things we both knew…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 22 I’ve already described how rehab addict Nicole Curtis made a tiny comment on my blog, and because of that gesture I began writing posts that might lead to an opportunity in television. So, there’s no need to go over all that again. Eventually, this goofy plan more or…
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Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 21 One question I’ve heard for decades goes something amounting to, “What’s the hardest part about working for yourself buying and renovating your own houses?” People are curious about financing, inspectors, the difficulties with finding subs to hire, etc. For me, the big hurdle to overcome has most often…