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Originally posted by Charming:

LOL - you will find the same thing in this country. Most of our subdivisions are filled with folks relocating here from OH, PA, NY, NJ, CT, etc. Many ask me questions and are concerned about living in the "South" and the "locals" (Cuz you know how we are down here in the sticks - we all marry our cuzins, swill rot gut and don' have a real good grasp of Englush while driving around in our pick up trucks with a coon hound and gun rack - ) What the reality is - the locals are few and far between in most of the newer subdivisions. In one subdivision where my clients purchased a home, he is retired police, the street they are on has multiple retired police, fire, etc from up north. This is pretty typical for our area, nary a banjo in sight.

I supposed the draw for these places (domestic and foreign) is that they're extremely friendly because most of the people they will live among are also from elsewhere, and therefore open to new friendships.

What's with the "good light in the bedroom"? And then the room with only 1 small window can be the office. Give me dark while I sleep and light in the office. I like to see the numbers, its easier to sew and beads are easier to match.

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Originally posted by JanetB216:
What's with the "good light in the bedroom"? And then the room with only 1 small window can be the office. Give me dark while I sleep and light in the office. I like to see the numbers, its easier to sew and beads are easier to match.

I often wonder why some people needs so much room in the master bedroom.

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Originally posted by Debbyinohio:
That is retro! When I was a kid in the 60s, my parents had turquoise appliances from GE. Those were so cool! They also had stainless steel and I HATED it! Showed fingerprints and I bet they still do!!!

Ooh, turquoise! I would love it. Turquoise appliances with grey boomerang formica. Honestly, if I ever won Powerball, I would own a home that made you feel like you'd stepped into 1963 when you were in it.

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Originally posted by santa_fe:
There's nothing wrong with formica and in my recent tours of middle class homes, some only 5 years old, I saw plenty of it.

I could do without the white stuff that my current apartment has. It stains if I just think about having some grape juice.

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Originally posted by santa_fe:
I often wonder why some people needs so much room in the master bedroom.

Too many people think they need more space than they really do.

Everyone has a list of priorities when they are house hunting depending on how they live. Then they have a list of "wants" depending on how they WANT to live.

When I was househunting here in the Austin area I passed up a house that had a darling private patio outside the french doors from the master bedroom (one of the things on my want list) because it didn't have a stand alone shower in the master (one of my necessities due to health considerations). I'm still (6 years later) trying to save enough to take out the large master bedroom window in the house I finally bought and put in french doors leading to the back patio.
Altho I'd have loved to have granite countertops, I'm happy with the formica because in my price range I'd have only been able to get run of the mill granite rather than what I really wanted - so this will do until I can get a slab of something spectacular.
As for large rooms - say, in the master bedroom, I love space and this bedroom is quite large - room enough for my queen bed and a comfortable sitting area without feeling the least bit closed in. My one regret is that in getting this large master, the secondary bedrooms are small (maybe 11x12 & 10x10), so it's difficult to arrange them with the feeling of space that I like.
My eldest grandson just bought a 2 bd/2bth condo in Seattle with a huge balcony and a fabulous view of the Space Needle - it's nice, plenty of light and beautiful upgrades, but knowing how picky he is (he's been looking for nearly 2 years) I'd sure have hated to be his real estate agent.
I see a lot of posts hating on people who want granite and s/s - and really don't understand why. If YOU don't want it, fine - but in certain parts of the country (like here) that's what people really want, so it's no skin off your nose.

So many of the people who insist on granite and s/s and other high-end features can barely afford a bare-bones house. I think this is what many people are reacting to.

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Originally posted by santa_fe:
So many of the people who insist on granite and s/s and other high-end features can barely afford a bare-bones house. I think this is what many people are reacting to.

Hmm--I appreciate what both D64 and SF are saying here. For me, it's the bloody, badly-scripted ATTITUDE of the "hunters" and odd sense that I am entitled to--what? Granite(?!)--Or the sense that a home is a finished product to be handed to us. (To be fair, I get this sense much less with HHI, which I'd prefer to watch anyway for the venues.)
If HGTV insists on inundating us with HH 24/7, why not re-cast the concept a bit to engage creative, imaginative house hunters who can blue-sky--envision the possibilities of different spaces and choose the workable ones?
But maybe I am old and impatient, and just don't consider whining entertainment...

I do not know what show - I watched about 2 minutes and that was enough. The people looking for a house took their dog, Butters, with them and let the dog in the house!! They flat out said if the dog didn't like the house or yard they weren't going to consider buying. I can't believe the real estate person let them bring the dog - and he was a large dog - about 80 pounds. What's wrong with people???

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Originally posted by Peoplearenuts:
I do not know what show - I watched about 2 minutes and that was enough. The people looking for a house took their dog, Butters, with them and let the dog in the house!! They flat out said if the dog didn't like the house or yard they weren't going to consider buying. I can't believe the real estate person let them bring the dog - and he was a large dog - about 80 pounds. What's wrong with people???

Oooohhh, Peoplearenuts (and I love your handle), forgive me, it's my field: but I have the script in my head now:

"Butters? Butters? What is it, girl? There's a well under that bush??? There's a little girl in that well? Wait...is it granite?"

I recently saw a Love it or List it where the girl announced to Hillary that she just found out she was pregnant but she looked about 5 months along and her husband kept harping about every location not having a ravine in the backyard for him. You have to wonder how many of these nasty couples end up getting divorced, only a few of them seem nice to each other. The worst ones were an Oriental couple who wanted fung shui. They were the most demanding and cold couple I've ever seen on the show. Total turnoff!!!

I think I saw the worst, most entitled person on an episode filmed in Destin, FL. I don't recall her name - but the world revolved around her and her skanky little dog. Budget be da**ed! I want, I want, I want.

Just caught up with this thread, what a hoot! I think it was an episode yesterday (there was NOTHING else on TV) that the woman said something to the effect of "who would ever use vinyl in there?" She was talking about the kitchen.
The other thing that has always made me wonder is this microwave over the stove thing. Yeah, it looks nice but how do you heat up stuff in the mw while boiling water on the stove? And, your kids, well, I guess these people are "Mommies of the Year" because their kids can't make popcorn until their over 5' tall (a friend of mine at work would be in REAL trouble).
Gotta wonder.

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Originally posted by doodles64:

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Originally posted by ZenMama:

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Originally posted by santa_fe:
Remember: "If you come inside one more time, you're gonna stay inside."

Boy, do I remember that one from my childhood!

I dont get these buyers that say stairs are too dangerous for little Billy or they are worried about the pool outside because little Sally may get too close. Uh, don't you watch your kids??

Well, I can sort of understand the pool thing - kids can turn into Houdini in a moment - but, for the stairs unless it's a steep flight that ends in tile (which I wouldn't have no matter what because I do not like ANY stairs) kids will learn to go up and down them safely.
As for "don't you watch your kids" - when my eldest was 2 and I was hugely pg w/ my second, we visited my brother and his obsessively clean wife for a week. Steven pulled all the leaves off her favorite plant, got into her classical record collection and scattered them all over the floor (out of the jackets), found her green stamp books and tore them up, wrote on one of the doors with green crayon, dumped ammonia water on her freshly waxed bathroom floor, dumped gritty cleanser all over her freshly waxed kitchen floor, threw the cat down the stairs a couple of times, and...for the grand finale found his way into the back yard and took all the plastic holders off the 2 ft. pool and let all the water out of it. Was I watching him? Like a hawk - he was just an extremely quick and active (and normal) little boy. Now, 48 years later he's a calm and respected preacher in the small town where he lives.
It is different if you just turn your kids loose and go take a nap or something...but, I know how fast those little boogers and move. Not having a pool is a small price to pay to avoid tragedy - some friends of mine dealt with the grief of one of their grandchildren drowning on their property.

MY oldest boy was like this, what he was doing was imitating the host with constant cleaning, he was giving things his constant attention!

My oldest boy was hyperactive, and would get up before me, sometimes 3 or 4 AM to do what he called helping me or cleaning, OH MY I could write a book on what I found when I was awakened! Sometimes by him diving off the bureau onto my bed.

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Originally posted by jaysmom49:
Just caught up with this thread, what a hoot! I think it was an episode yesterday (there was NOTHING else on TV) that the woman said something to the effect of "who would ever use vinyl in there?" She was talking about the kitchen.

What planet was she from, or was she only 5 years old?

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Originally posted by doodles64:
I see a lot of posts hating on people who want granite and s/s - and really don't understand why. If YOU don't want it, fine - but in certain parts of the country (like here) that's what people really want, so it's no skin off your nose.

Doodles, for me it isn't the materials themselves that are the problem -- it's the entitled attitude and the samey-ness of it that inspire my derision. It just seems like every single one of the 37 daily episodes of HH features a couple sniffing about how they just can't be expected to live in a house that doesn't have SS & G.

I recently saw an episode of HH where the husband wanted the master bath to have an enclosed toilet. He stated that his wife walked in on him often when he was on the can. They were looking at homes that had at least two bathrooms, and still he wanted enclosed toilet.

Don't get me wrong. I think sitting on the can is the one place where everyone should have the privacy they want.

But still, I wondered:

* Why not lock the bathroom door and keep your wife out?
* Why can't you use a different toilet in your new home?
* Why can't you get your wife to not barge into the bathroom when you're in there with the door closed? Why can't she respect your privacy?

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Originally posted by santa_fe:

...But still, I wondered:

* Why not lock the bathroom door and keep your wife out?
* Why can't you use a different toilet in your new home?
* Why can't you get your wife to not barge into the bathroom when you're in there with the door closed? Why can't she respect your privacy?

I know. DUH???

I still wonder how many couples REALLY use the bathroom at the SAME time when they're getting ready for work in the mornings?

I can't imagine sharing blow drying my hair while DH is brushing his teeth at 6:00 AM

I hate all the complaints about the people on these shows...but...I would like to propose changing the HH to HHL with the "L" for Lunacy after tonight. A show is now on with a couple looking in Denver suburbs and her big deal is not having a master bathroom where the shower faces the mirrors. Why? You may ask...because when she was younger she saw a movie where someone got out of the shower and saw a reflection of somebody in the mirror and is still frightened. Why would anyone get on nationwide television and tell everyone they are so...so...oh, never mind.

My question is, Where in the world do they find these individuals. Or is it that we have been invaded by aliens and haven't noticed?

Could not have a number 4 in the house number
House numbers could not add up to 13
Could not have a shower that faced a mirror because of a horror movie.

Oh my,

I saw a woman last night who didn't want trees and/or birds in or near her yard.


She made the remark: That birdfeeder HAS to go!!!

Really???? Wow!

LOL...I love all of these replies. My top episode of House Hunters would have to be the one where the mom mentioned her son about 50+ times..."Jackson would love this", "This would be great for Jackson", "Jackson would like this yard"...JACKSON, JACKSON, JACKSON!!! Lady, you need to let up...by the end of the show I loathed the name JACKSON...And when they are buying a 500K house and complain about the paint or wallpaper...Jeeze, you're buying a half million $ house and you're complaining about an easy and affordable fix like that??!!! AHHHHHH!

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Originally posted by Peoplearenuts:
I do not know what show - I watched about 2 minutes and that was enough. The people looking for a house took their dog, Butters, with them and let the dog in the house!! They flat out said if the dog didn't like the house or yard they weren't going to consider buying. I can't believe the real estate person let them bring the dog - and he was a large dog - about 80 pounds. What's wrong with people???

That was hilarious! If Butters just lay in the yard then she was bored and did not like the house - so dumb.

These comments are so right on!

This color is hideous!

Wallpaper! Wallpaper! More Wallpaper!

OMG I can see the neighbors!

I LOVE the crown molding! (Like you can't buy it at Home Depot)

That fan has got to go!

Gold fixtures!

This bathroom is too small... (What are you going to do in there? Cartwheels?

I need my bedroom near the kids in case they need me.

The cat smells!

I have to park on the street!

Can we ask for the TV?

The idiosyncratic homebuyers you all poke fun at, justifiably so, should prove once and for all that HH shows are NOT scripted.

No writer anywhere, no matter how bad, could possibly dream up the inane remarks and situations you hear on the show. It may be a cliche, but it's true: The truth is stranger than fiction.

More than the prospective buyers, even, are the Real Estate Agents - as they walk thru and the buyers remark on something they don't like, the Agent replies with a wave of her/his hand "oh, yes, but that's an easy fix" no matter if it's ripping up all the tile, putting in double sinks where there was a single sink or installing things in a kitchen that will need extensive plumbing. Yes, many things really are an easy fix - paint color (altho with a 2-story foyer and/or family rooms it becomes less of an easy fix), maybe the lighting fixtures, changing out old carpet for new carpet - but many of the things will take a professional to do correctly and money.

LOL @ the Jackson episode - I remember that one well. I think that ranks right up there with the guy who didn't want a toilet anyone else had sat on and the woman who couldn't stand her clothes to touch her husbands.

It sounds like HH has a lot of viewers. I don't watch this show, so all the above posts are interesting to me. I get the high or low points without having to watch the show.

I did watch one show and I lucked out because it was the doctor from Fargo and I really enjoyed that episode.

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I think "Jackson" will remain a classic on this board. Perhaps if his name had been Michael we would have long forgotten this episode.

It's a funny thing how many people don't seem to give any thought to how they might appear to a national audience. No birds, no clothes touching my own clothes, etc. Those are the kind of things I'd keep to myself.

I noticed that whenever people make comments like "_____ would have to go" or "This is a complete gut job", I usually view them unfavorably.

I don't doubt that what you are saying is true for your area.
But, I moved from Ca. to the Florida Panhandle, and I can tell you, that I have moved back to
17 Century America. After 6 years of living here, I still cannot call it my home.

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Originally posted by rker321:
I don't doubt that what you are saying is true for your area.
But, I moved from Ca. to the Florida Panhandle, and I can tell you, that I have moved back to
17 Century America. After 6 years of living here, I still cannot call it my home.

I have a feeling that you have mis-posted.

my my I have to agree with a lot of these posters,

the things people come up with to buy a house


my most irritating ones are the one with pen and paper in hand and do scores, and they buy the higgest scored house LOL

I wonder if these people on HH and HHI have any vision on what they want?
I guess its a matter of to each their own??
LOL