House Hunters, please Buy Me: real estate shows

[bloo]

We like watching Buy Me. I try and figure what city they shoot in and always guess it is Toronto or Montreal. For us, it is the most realistic one.

[grumpygirl]

bloo said:

We like watching Buy Me. I try and figure what city they shoot in and always guess it is Toronto or Montreal. For us, it is the most realistic one.

Did you see last night's with the old couple who have flipped something like 60 houses? They buy them, fix them up, live in them, get bored, sell it, move on. They were smart and hired a home stager and eventually a real estate agent. That helped them sell in 2 weeks. They weren't nearly as clueless as some of these people.

The one with the 2 women in the old Victorian that was FULL of geegaws and stuff were obnoxious. The one woman REFUSED to declutter or lower the price. She was a nutter. But then they didn't sell and ended up staying in that house. GOOD!

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bloo said:

We like watching Buy Me. I try and figure what city they shoot in and always guess it is Toronto or Montreal. For us, it is the most realistic one.

Old ones are definitely Toronto or Montreal - mostly Montreal, because I think the production company is/was based there. There are a bunch of recentish Vancouver ones, and the newest on HGTV Canada have actually identified their US locations (one was Raleigh NC and the other was Chicago, I think.) Which takes the fun out of trying to guess where they are.

[bloo]

The two I remember is the woman who was an architect and fixed up a house in a seedier section of town. That house was all kinds of cool.


The other was the WWII vet and his wife. His choice is using cement block instead of a concrete wall, forty years ago, cost him like $6000. I was gald they sold the house and moved into a assisted living.

one was Raleigh NC and the other was Chicago, I think

If it was the Chicago bunglow one, one of the houses was really close to our first house.

[nitenurse]

spordelia said:

My favorite house-selling/house-buying shows are the British ones that HGTV runs. I watch "Selling Houses" with Andrew Winter (mostly known as "The Prat" in our house) to make fun of him and "Location, Location, Location" and "Relocation, Relocation" with Phil and Kirsty because I flove those two. So entertaining. And with cute accents!

I want Colin and Justin of "How NOT to Decorate" meet the husband. He's taken over the games room (ok, we keep the airhockey table down there) The Kaiser's Flag is not art, nor are Barrack boxes suitable storage items. He really doesn't get my objections.

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You aren't Canadian, are you? Because Colin and Justin are doing a Canadian series of 'How not to decorate', and last I checked they were still recruiting homeowners...

[nitenurse]

I know but I think their focus is Ontario, probably Toronto. 'Cause you know the rest of the country doesn't really exist.

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nitenurse said:

I know but I think their focus is Ontario, probably Toronto. 'Cause you know the rest of the country doesn't really exist.

Yep, it's the GTA. (Sadly, I don't think our house is tacky enough even if they came this far north.)

I'm bored and looking through the casting calls. Most are GTA, with a few in Vancouver and Montreal. The only one for Ottawa is Design U. Property Virgins is looking for people in Southern Ontario, Cincinnati and upstate NY.

And Mugsy? They're giving Tatiana her own show (following the process of setting up her own real estate company).

[Mugsy]

Tatiana's show will be about setting up her real estate company? I don't know... that sounds kind of dull. But she's such a firecracker that you never know.

I just like seeing other people's houses inside. I'm nosy like that, esp. when they're nice houses and I can glean them for ideas. We built our current house (on our farm) 19 years ago and it has served as well as we raised our kids, but now we are getting to the point where we have to decide - what next? Our son wants to take over the farm (and the house), so I want to build on some land we have. Everyone says you have to build twice to get it right - like most people have that option!

But it's years away, which is good, becasue I can have every detail picked out and planned when the time comes. No rushed choosing of paint colours and doorknob styles for me!

Last night I watched a HH of a woman buying a vacation home in Hawaii because she went there about five times a year. The mind boggles - I cannot comprehend that sort of lifestyle. But she was very nice, and her biggest demand was a washer and dryer - no homezilla here. The places she toured went from 400 sq. ft. to 1600 sq. ft. She chose the middlin' one - 800 sq. ft. and was very happy.

In Hawaii. Five times a year. Imagine!

I saw the Buy Me ep with the two woman and all their world-travellin' tzotchkes. Wow. They were selling becasue one had been offered a job in another city and the other packed up and sold her flower store. When the house didn't sell, she didn't get the transfer and her partner was pissed that she didn't have a job anymore. No kidding. Although why she didn't wait until the house was sold to close the store I'll never know.

[grumpygirl]

Plus the woman on Buy Me who didn't get the other job was a biatch. She treated her partner very badly and was just extremely bossy. I felt bad for the partner.