Did you see last night's? The couple from Philly or Pittsburgh (can't remember which). They wanted to keep their starter home "under $700,000". Nice. And the property taxes of $15,000 a year. WTF? Of course, they settled for the fixer-upper at $560,000.
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No, I missed it. I haven't been watching that since I moved because I generally only troll the HD channels and that's not in HD on my crappy cable system. Sounds douchetastic.
They seem to be pushing the House Hunters international, a lot. That doesn't do anything for me because I have no frame of reference.
It was probably Philly. You'd be hard pressed to spend that much in Pittsburgh.
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On the downside, she kept going on about school districts.
On the upside, she didn't mention granite countertops once.
On the downside, he said "I can see me watching football in here" in that way that you can pretty much imagine him doing.
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I looked on the hgtv site to see if I could identify that episode, but I couldn't. Are you sure it was Property Virgins and not one of the other 20 shows that are basically the same?
It was probably Philly, but for $700,000 in Bucks County, you could get something tasteful and 19th or 18th century. But not 4000 sq feet of tasteful and old. North of Pittsburgh in Beaver County, $700,000 might get you something close to an actual mansion, not just a McMansion. Or, for that much, you could get a sweet condo or townhouse in Mount Washington in Pittsburgh where you can see the whole city.
I've seen several of those episodes where the people start off saying they want to live near the city, but of course they want a massive fuck-off kitchen with granite counters, they don't want to be able to see their neighbors, um, ever, apparently, they want three bedrooms, and they never want to hear traffic outside their windows, and, of course, their assumptions about how much everything costs is low by about $300k. So they end up moving at least an hours drive away from where they were looking initially.
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Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
I may have mentioned this before, but that same friend of mine has a fantastic idea for an HGTV show. Find couples who are separated and then follow the process as they have to fix up their house to sell (or short-sell) so they can split it up and get divorced. That would be fantastic tv. Really get to the essence of what makes those shows entertaining.
My friends just bought a short-sale place like that in Downingtown, PA (in there defense, they have no pretense of living near Philly. Their jobs are nearby). The couple left all kinds of stuff in the house, including her wedding dress. Like an angry ghost. They got a really good deal on it, but buying a short sale is a pain in the ass because you never know when or if it's going to close.
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Reed John wrote:
I looked on the hgtv site to see if I could identify that episode, but I couldn't. Are you sure it was Property Virgins and not one of the other 20 shows that are basically the same?
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Reed John wrote:
They got a really good deal on it, but buying a short sale is a pain in the ass because you never know when or if it's going to close.
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Reed John wrote:
A friend of mine in Boston who is planning to move soon said she really wanted to get on one of those shows so that she and her husband could really "douche it up." But then she found out the people who appear only get like $100 or something like that.
WOM wrote:
And yeah, I know Sandra when I see her.
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Could be Ashley & Brad, then. I'm all confused...or drunk...or something.
One of the housewarming gifts [on MFP] was a complete kitchen gut a couple of weeks ago. They really pulled out the stops on that one. Producer's daughter, I suspect.
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