Friday, April 2, 2010

House Hunters

Some couples probably look forward to the weekends so they can try new restaurants, get wasted at bars and get crazzyyy. Not Mike and I. Our luxury is sitting down and watching as many DVR'ed episodes of House Hunters as we can handle.
If you haven't seen it, it is a show on HGTV that follows people buying a house in a certain city within a certain budget. The realtor shows them three houses (on camera that is) and then they pick one at the end. 
Mike and I both like looking at houses and we also both like critiquing ugliness/making fun of people in the comfort of our own home.
In case you want to be like us and get into it here are some hints:
The people with the lower budgets complain almost more than the people with the highest ones.
Ex: "ohhhhh, wow the neigbors are a little close huh?", "hmmm the master is a little small", "ohhhh we were hoping for a bigger backyard".  These people are shocked that they don't get everything they have ever wanted in their $150k budget.
-People will complain the most about a house in their summary at the end, and then end up picking it half of the time
-If people look at a house "a little above budget" they often end up picking that one

Some terms/phrases you'll hear frequently:
"Ohhh nice, look honey, there's crown molding in here!"
"The master has a tray ceiling"
"OMG the bathroom has DOUBLE VANITIES" (this is the holy grail of house hunting)
"And now let's head to the Jack n Jill bathroom" (Mike and I HATE this term)
"Wow, this kitchen needs updating"
"Oh, there's a pool. That makes me nervous for the kids"
"Oh this is a good size breakfast nook"
"Is this an upgrade?"
"Wow, I don't know, this room will DEFINITELY needs to be repainted" (as if they can't buy the house because of the heinous paint color)

Some of our favorite episodes:
The Richmond one with a $750,000 budget---self explanatory why this is our fave

The one where the people get an apt in the city and decide to knock down the wall to the kids bedroom so the living room is bigger, and make the kids sleep on the couch-as if that's a normal, acceptable solution

The one where there's an engaged couple and the woman keeps being obssessed with "kid" aspects of the house ie the playset and the pool. We were really creeped out that she was so baby obsessed until they cut to 3 months after buying the house and the woman is "2 months pregnant" ie-5-6 months pregnant and they want people to think she WASN'T pregnant before they got married.

The Napa Valley one-cause it has cool houses

We also like House Hunters Intl on occassion, but its really hit or miss. Usually the people are weird and the houses are really janky for what people are paying for them.

If you need a new show to get addicted to, I highly recommend House Hunters.

No comments:

Post a Comment