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TV viewers probably don’t realize what happens in a neighborhood when a house-flipping show like Flip This House sets up shop. East Atlanta has become the setting for a series of Flip This House episodes following the adventures of Peter Pasternack and Brian Trow of Foundations Investment Group. So far, the group has “flipped” four houses in East Atlanta and are working on their fifth.

In each case, there are Buzzers living nearby. And we get an unfiltered, up-close look at what you don’t see on TV. One Buzzer is shown briefly on Foundation’s first episode - they accidentally ripped up her fence. Two Foundations houses are on the same block of Van Vleck Avenue close by several Buzzers, and I was among several Buzzers who took the opportunity to tour the long-on-the-market Van Epps house during and open house last summer.

That was an amazing experience. I’ve never been in an open house for an unfinished house … especially one that they pretended to finish for a TV show. Here’s the guest bath as it existed during the open house:

So, anyway, Pasternack and Trow have started on their fifth East Atlanta house, no doubt for another episode of Flip This House (at the time of this writing, only one of their previous four “flips” here has sold). It’s on Monument Avenue, which is a bit of a narrow street, and Foundations decided to drop their construction dumpster right there in the street. Atlanta city ordinances would appear to show this to be illegal, but the Buzzer next door is just hoping to both get the dumpster off the street and not have contractors tearing up his yard to get to the Foundations house.

On EAV Buzz: Permits for dumpsters on the street?