Jeri Sarrge, from Realty Solutions Group, located at 200-204 Front St. in Owego, N.Y., along with her client, Andrea Gregori, will be featured this week on the hit HGTV television show, \u201cHouse Hunters.\u201d<\/p>\n
The episode premieres Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 10:30 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n
Sarrge, a Tioga and Broome County realtor, has kept in contact with the House Hunters producers since her collaboration with Ike and Julie Lovelass, owners of the Owego Kitchen and Belva Lockwood Inn for the May 2018 episode, \u201cHistoric Home and Hotel Hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Producers reached out to Sarrge for another creative show idea, and she knew just where to turn.<\/p>\n
The new HGTV episode, filmed in February this year and the first to feature Broome County, features Andrea Gregori, an opera singer who has lived in the area for over 25 years.<\/p>\n
Gregori\u2019s house hunt focused on her desire to find a smaller home. Gregori was looking to downsize to about half of the 1,800 square foot home she had been living in due to a budget constraint and other reasons. Extra considerations in the search factored in a more secluded area, less neighbors, a yard for her dog, as well as wood floors.<\/p>\n
For Gregori, the wood floors were not only significant because of their inherent appeal, but as a specific need for her profession.<\/p>\n
In the art of opera, Gregori remarked, \u201cWood floors generate the best acoustics.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n The Tri Cities Opera brought Gregori to the area in 1994, and since then she has been singing professionally at local venues such as EPAC and the Cider Mill, at major well-known events outside the area like the Newport Festival and the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, and today is the artistic director at Binghamton\u2019s Theatre Street Productions.<\/p>\n