Under-the-gun brothel owner Maynard “Joe” Richards is in the process of selling two of his three bordellos to Northern Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof, whose Moonlite Bunny Ranch east of Carson City is the setting for a long-running HBO reality show.

Hof said he hopes to see his application to operate in Nye County come up for a vote by the end of August.

He already is planning major renovations at Richards’ two brothels in the town of Crystal.

Hof said he plans to turn each property into a desert oasis, one called Dennis Hof’s CatHouse and other the Love Ranch Brothel and Bar.

He might even try to capture the whole process on film, maybe turn it into a documentary on the making of a brothel.

It sounds like great television to Hof. “Me on a bulldozer knocking those old buildings down, construction guys yelling, hot girls running around — I think it’d be great.”

Meanwhile, Richards who was indicted in 2006 on two felony counts of wire fraud after he paid then-Commissioner Candice Trummell $5,000 to rewrite an ordinance that kept him from building a new brothel at the south end of Pahrump, is expected to complete his one-year term at a Las Vegas halfway house within days, but he is scheduled to remain on probation for another four years.