# Breaking Bad: SPOILERS - filming exterior shots of the White family home **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126 "2014-03-07T16:55:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126/1 "2014-03-07T16:55:29Z")
Exterior shots of the White family home were filmed at this actual family home: > **[Examiner is back - Examiner.com](https://examiner.com)** > > Examiner.com is the go-to source for millions of people who want to know what's happening in their city. And we're still growing! However, in the last season, there are exterior shots of the home where: [spoiler]it’s kinda fucked up. It’s boarded up and IIRC been spray painted with graffiti. My question is, did they actually fuck up the real family’s home? Not that it couldn’t be repaired easily, I think it was mostly cosmetic damage. Or did they use another home or some special effects?[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Reverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@Reverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverse)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126/2 "2014-03-07T17:22:40Z")
They had their prop department dirty up the place and then clean it up afterwards. No actual damage was done to the house. They talk about it on one of the podcast episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126/3 "2014-03-07T17:35:57Z")
Cool, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Reverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@Reverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverse)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126/4 "2014-03-07T17:40:45Z")
For your listening pleasures, the podcast can be found here: [AMC | Watch TV Shows & Movies Online | Stream Current Episodes](http://www.amctv.com/shows/breaking-bad/insider-podcast-season-5) The episode where they talk about the White House is 509. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126/5 "2014-03-08T20:00:46Z")
[QUOTE=The Linked Article] Shockingly, a number of realtors estimate the market value for the house at somewhere between $150 - $200k, and its notoriety wouldn’t add to that any. Apparently the real estate mantra “location, location, location” holds true. [/QUOTE] How could this possibly be true? When you are beating people away with a stick and stating your refusal to sell in a national publication, how can your home NOT be worth more than any other house in the neighborhood? That seems absurd to me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126/6 "2014-03-12T00:24:11Z")
> [@Reverse](#): > > …The episode where they talk about the White House is 509. I don’t think either the Obamas or the Secret Service would take kindly to anyone dirtying up the White House. > [@jtgain](#): > > How could this possibly be true? When you are beating people away with a stick and stating your refusal to sell in a national publication, how can your home NOT be worth more than any other house in the neighborhood? That seems absurd to me. Agreed. I don’t understand why the value wouldn’t get a bump up of _some_ kind. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126/7 "2014-03-12T02:26:47Z")
I live less than half a mile away from the house in question. It’s just a regular middle-class type house in a regular middle-class type neighborhood (although the landscaping of some of its neighbors improved dramatically just about the time filming started). I’d say $150,000 - $200,000 is a pretty accurate price range. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-spoilers-filming-exterior-shots-of-the-white-family-home/683126/8 "2014-03-12T14:20:03Z")
When more people want to buy something, that is called “Demand” and that makes the price go up. If hundreds of people want to buy the house at $200k, I bet there are a few that would pay $300k for it. That’s called “The Market”. Those realtors are idiots.