Flip This House Star Accused of Faking Work on Popular Cable Television Show

[luv2flip]

On an episode of A&E's reality series named Flip This House, a Atlanta businessman Sam Leccima sits in front of a run-down house and calls buying and selling real estate his passion.

The authorities and legal filings claim that Leccima's true passion was a series of scams that included faking the home renovations shown on the cable TV show and claiming to have sold houses he never even owned.

Leccima says he never said to have owned the homes. While not acknowledging his televised renovations were staged, he didn't deny it and suggested that A&E and Departure Films, the production company that makes the show, knew exactly what he was doing.

[homealone]

When it comes to stuff like this, we the people will never know the honest truth as to what was or is going on.

We only hear what reporters want us to hear and that may not always be the bottem line truth.

We can only go by what we are told by others, unless you were some how apart of what was going on. Though if that wasnt the case then none of us can really know what is really the truth and what isnt.

[flip_it_fast]

I believe that happened like in 2006. I had written this about it....

Sam Leccima, of "Flip This House" has been accused of fraud and of being a con-artist for allegedly using his friends and family to act as buyers and putting sold signs in front of houses that were not his and were unsold. The repairs that were done and shown on the show were not actually done, just made to look so for television.


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Leccima, 36, presented himself as a successful real estate investor during the 2006 season of the cable show, which depicted him buying, refurbishing and reselling Atlanta-area homes for profits of $77,000 and more. But Leccima doesn't have a real estate license — it was revoked by the Georgia Real Estate Commission in 2005, with the panel ruling he "does not bear a good reputation for honesty, trustworthiness, integrity, and competence." Now he's under investigation by the Georgia Secretary of State's office for securities fraud.
By DOUG GROSS

Reality shows are supposed to be just that... reality. My idea of reality is obviously much different from his. I understand that certain things may have to be done a certain way for tv but it sounds as though he was misleading about everything he had supposedly done on the show. I love these types of shows and I hope that for the most part everything they show us is real and not faked for the sake of ratings.

That is why I simply don't believe everything I see on those types of shows. Don't get me wrong, I love to watch them. As a matter of fact thats (those kinds of shows) what I am usually watching at night when I go to bed. But they make everything look so simple and easy to accomplish and we all know in reality that it's not. Yes they can be done but not in the amount of time they make it seem like. I love watching thos shows though because they give me great ideas that otherwise I would never have thought of.

It's a real shame that the show Flip this House was basically a fake. It makes them all look bad and probably turned a lot of people off from watching them.

[troubles74]

People are full of faking things to make money and anything else that they can do for money now a days.

It is sad to say and you would think that we had more sense than this.I guess people are losing their sense of respect and self decency.Stooping to levels of stealing and lying about anything to get some bucks so we as the public have to be careful what we choose to believe or even how much of this stupid junk that is going on that we even want to keep up with or know about,

It really is enough to scare the hell out of you and make you wander how long will it be before people are desperate enough to take from poor little old me.I hope that it doesn't happen but now a days you just don't know anything.

[realestatehound]

I live in Central Kentucky and have flipped a bunch of houses and I love it. I also watch these shows and I believe that most it them aren't real, but I like to watch them. I don't know a contractor any where that would let anyone talk to them the way these guy's talk to their contractors. When I see them make $75,000 and up on a home I find it hard to believe, but maybe their market is different than mine.