HGTV Fans

[Anonymous]

What is your favorite show?


I love House Hunters and Property Virgins. The show with the brothers is growing on me, a close third.

[Anonymous]

I really like Love It or List It

[Anonymous]

I like House Hunters/Property Virgins/My First Place, too, though they are starting to grate on me more and more because of all of the first time home buyers in their early 20s with $200k budgets saying things like, "I will not buy this house because I have to have dark cabinets, light granite, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors throughout, a 1000 square foot master suite, at least 2 acres of land, a three car garage, and room for my cupcake baking business". They're just getting too whiny and all they seem to feature are these types of young couples. Also, the girl always says something about getting to be the one to make the final decision because she "always gets what she wants".

[Anonymous]

House Hunters -- I love it but it's a total fake!

People on the show have already closed on their choice of house, and they go back and find two others to show them making a "choice."

[Anonymous]

House Hunters International. It is classier than House Hunters.

[Anonymous]

Some of the women on House Hunters are total idiots. Must haves include:

Scrapbooking rooms - I have lots of time to kill.
Gift wrapping rooms - My hobby is spending DH's money.
Huge closet spaces for me - Jack for DH, he's on the back burner in our marriage.
Incredible views - I look out of the windows a lot.
Neighbors can't be too close - I don't want them to hear us not having sex.
Open floor plan for entertaining - I have a zillion friends.
Stainless steel appliances - I'm into fads.
Granite counter tops - I have no design sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:House Hunters -- I love it but it's a total fake!

People on the show have already closed on their choice of house, and they go back and find two others to show them making a "choice."

Yes, exactly. Huge disappointment. I had a friend on House Hunters International and they pretended to be viewing the house they already owned!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:House Hunters -- I love it but it's a total fake!

People on the show have already closed on their choice of house, and they go back and find two others to show them making a "choice."

Yes, exactly. Huge disappointment. I had a friend on House Hunters International and they pretended to be viewing the house they already owned!

I like HHI mostly because I want to see the houses in other countries. I don't actually care which house the people buy. And I hate the constant Caribbean/Central American beach episodes. Boring. Give me more Europe/Asia/Middle East!

I used to love Designer's Challenge and Designing for the Sexes. That was years ago, before HGTV got really popular and loaded up on fake shows.

Also love "Bang for the Buck".

[Anonymous]

House Hunters, My First Place, Property Virgins. I love when they say they can not live in a house without stainless steel appliances & granite countertops. I swear stainless steel appliances are going to be like the advocado green appliances of the 60s/70s. Just once I'd love to hear someone say "we'll have to cover up this wood floor with carpet." Or "too bad, stainless steel, I was hoping for white appliances."

[Anonymous]

Income property. Scott McGillivray is a genius!

[Anonymous]

Property Virgins, Real Estate Intervention, and Designed to Sell.

Especially love watching REI and seeing homes in our area and sellers with completely unrealistic ideas of what their house is worth, and finally being given a clue on the realities of what the down housing market means. Everybody is so convinced that their part of town escaped the housing crash.

As for stainless, although everyone wants it, I've heard a few buyers on Househunters say "Well, black appliances. We wanted stainless steel, but we can live with these." Not often, but occasionally. The best part of the faux househunting part is listening to their critiques of the home that they've already closed on and then going back to listen to them in the "X weeks later" about how much they love their house. The ones that are really bad actors/actresses are hysterical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like House Hunters/Property Virgins/My First Place, too, though they are starting to grate on me more and more because of all of the first time home buyers in their early 20s with $200k budgets saying things like, "I will not buy this house because I have to have dark cabinets, light granite, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors throughout, a 1000 square foot master suite, at least 2 acres of land, a three car garage, and room for my cupcake baking business". They're just getting too whiny and all they seem to feature are these types of young couples. Also, the girl always says something about getting to be the one to make the final decision because she "always gets what she wants".

haha it's so true. morons.

[Anonymous]

I like Holmes Inspection, though it freaks me out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the women on House Hunters are total idiots. Must haves include:

Scrapbooking rooms - I have lots of time to kill.
Gift wrapping rooms - My hobby is spending DH's money.
Huge closet spaces for me - Jack for DH, he's on the back burner in our marriage.
Incredible views - I look out of the windows a lot.
Neighbors can't be too close - I don't want them to hear us not having sex.
Open floor plan for entertaining - I have a zillion friends.
Stainless steel appliances - I'm into fads.
Granite counter tops - I have no design sense.

Lol! The men always want a "man cave" to avoid the harpy they married who is forcing them to buy more house than they can afford.

[Anonymous]

OP here, so many good points!

I love when the couples are in the D.C. area, and end up not buying because they couldn't find the stainless steel, brand new, master suite connected to the double sink bathroom for 300,000 in Vienna, Va.