Don Summers and Doris Jolicoeur of Professional Reality will be on HGTV’s Caribbean Life Apr. 27 at 8 p.m. The real estate couple spent three days filming the reality TV show in St. Lucia, a Caribbean island they plan to make their home when they retire.
A Canadian couple who spent three days filming a reality television show here, plans to make Saint Lucia their new home when they retire.
Don Summers and Doris Jolicoeur of Morinville, Canada, both realtors, will appear on HGTV’s Caribbean Life on April 27 at 8 p.m.
The couple recently visited St. Lucia for a three-day production shoot to create a 30-minute programme, and said the film helped them in their pursuit of owning a property on the island.
“It’s tracking our pursuit of a property down in St. Lucia,” Don Summers said of the show’s topic, according to a report on morinvillenews.com.
Summers said he and his companion started the process last November on a trip with a fellow realtor. He explained that the show summed up what they initially came here for. The couple was able to look at three different homes on the show and pursue one of them.
Summers said when the opportunity came about, he was happy, because he was always ready to return to the island. However, he said the experience of being behind the cameras made the island trip a little different.
Like Summers, his partner Doris Jolicoeur said, “It was too much work. I totally respect actors now.”
The realtor went on to say she would frequently have to say her lines over again because she would forget to add the phrase “US dollars,” preferring to express real estate prices as 240 or 250 as they do in their day-to-day life. Nevertheless, the couple was happy that they were doing this in their future home.
Summers and Jolicoeur are both big fans of the island and are looking to spend even more time here. The couple said it’s a low cost of living and has wonderful people.
“They really like people. They’re down-to-earth people,” she added.
Jolicoeur said she is fascinated by the Gros Islet Jump Party, which is held every Friday night. The couple took part in this event during their previous visit.
“Every Friday night they have a thing called a Jump Party,” she said of the community of Gros Islet where they stayed. “They shut the town down and get out these huge speakers. They blare the music and there are people on the side of the street cooking food. Every age is there. You’ll be getting gas and be invited.”
Summers and Jolicoeur now have properties on MLS in St. Lucia and will be buying a property themselves to rent out on a short- or long-term basis until they retire there one day.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: http://morinvillenews.com/2014/04/09/from-real-estate-to-reality-tv-local-realtors-to-appear-on-hgtv/