“Actually, the first show, Drew was approached for a first show called Realtor Idol-basically American Idol for realtors. We mulled it over to make it what we were doing with clients, and that’s what Property Brothers became. Then our company took off and we were approached to do a show called My Dream Home. We licensed Drew at the time I was at university for business management, I went back to college for construction and design. We were like, ‘There could be something here.’ So we kept doing it over and over and we had friends in business who kept asking to do it with us as well. It was a $200,000 house, we put $250 down, fixed it up, and sold it a year later for a $50,000 profit, and that’s when the light bulb went on. When we were coming out of high school, we didn’t want to be struggling actors and-I remember the conversation-we were like, ‘Let’s invest in real estate!’ We knew nothing about it so we bought every book we could, we watched infomercials on how to make millions with no money down, and a lot of it was bad information, but we managed to use what we could and bought our first house at 18 for only $250. He and his twin brother Drew began as actors.
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