HGTV Hidden Potential Park Slope Couple Searches for Home

[Arwen]

Does anyone know if Hidden Potential clients actually renovate the homes they buy?

[middle-of-nowhere]

I've been wondering the same thing about that Hidden Potential show in general. It always seems as if the designer always comes up with some stunning plan for the house and it seems like it almost always be more expensive than what they said it will cost.

[aj2007]

Originally Posted by middle-of-nowhere

I've been wondering the same thing about that Hidden Potential show in general. It always seems as if the designer always comes up with some stunning plan for the house and it seems like it almost always be more expensive than what they said it will cost.

The people on Hidden Potential don't even usually buy the house. They just go on the show and look at homes they "may" buy that they could improve on but in reality it doesn't happen 95% of the time.

[Hamza]

Originally Posted by jeffcon0

I can live with the fact that many people make more money than me

Originally Posted by holden125

Maybe I can't.

What you are experiencing is the classic negative effects of a society with high income inequality. Irregardless of any American-dream mythos, people are still people. It still hurts to see someone else doing so wildly better than you when you're working as hard as you can.

Marx was right on this one thing... it's dangerous, on a social level, for the rich to be so rich and the poor to be so poor.

And so you know you're not alone, it bothers me too. I don't want to begrudge hard-working people their fairly-gotten gains. But if I stay in NYC, all I'll ever do is rent, and I want to put money in my house so I can send my kids to college.

It boggles my mind when I read the NYTimes' "What you get for 5 million..." real estate section, or when I see people plunking down 25% down-payments for million-dollar mortgages. Even to this day, ever having -- let alone spending -- a million dollars seems amazing to me. Where on earth do these people get the money??

[vitalove]

Originally Posted by aj2007

The people on Hidden Potential don't even usually buy the house. They just go on the show and look at homes they "may" buy that they could improve on but in reality it doesn't happen 95% of the time.

Really? That's actually sad. They seem to spend a lot of time in the NY Tri State area as of late. People are so desperate to buy something here.

[TrelaJoman]

Originally Posted by aj2007

The people on Hidden Potential don't even usually buy the house. They just go on the show and look at homes they "may" buy that they could improve on but in reality it doesn't happen 95% of the time.

How do you know this? I've never seen them do a follow up to any of these shows. That's actually one of my complaints with Hidden Potential. You never find out if they bought the house, how the renos went or how much they went over budget (which you know they will).

[vitalove]

Earlier seasons would show the result. It was exciting to see what people would do. I'm hoping they will do an update show in the future.