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House Hunters International should be divided into two shows: Vacation House Hunters and regular HHI.
You, and others, make some valid points about many of the vacation home buyers especially those who are looking in tropical locations.
It's the full-time residents and the American ex-pats who make the more interesting episodes IMO. A few weeks ago they had a guy who was buying ( a second home) in Italy and his budget was only 65K . He ended up buying a total wreck for ~20K.
It was fascinating. What I would really like to see is the place in a year or two from now. I wish they would go back and revisit some of the people who buy major fixer-uppers and see how the projects turn out.
I agree- the rare ones I have seen with locals or expats in other country buying normal properties are interesting. I just wish they would lay off the rich American vacation home thing- we get it, there are a lot of rich people out there living far nicer lifestyles than the rest of us. We don't need it pounded into us on every episode.
Wow...some of this is sounding so sour grapey It's entertainment, pure and simple. I think they show a nice range of different price points. It's not bad to imagine living in and around beautiful settings. In fact, visualizing pleasant things can help make them happen.
"Buy Me", which was mentioned earlier in this thread was a great show and should have won HGTV awards inmo. Very realistic. Sadly it didn't seem to catch on as much as House Hunters and I don't think they are creating new episodes
What I don't like on bang for your buck, is that whent he Real estae person & designer say stupid things like, Oh, this is not what my buyers would want, like, or need. Or most buyers want this, or this isn't child friendly, or no grass here...
My logic would lead me to believe that if you are spending 90 thousand dollars on a back yard reno, some how, I don't think they are planning to sell any time soon.....
and aslo with the in house renos, they are always worried what they think potential buyers want, are they mind readers, clairvoyant??? or something I am not getting....
geez, when I move i don't give a rats arse they buyers want, let them do it themselves, like I had too.
i agree with that, most people dont even plan on selling their home on the show and if they did, there would be buyers, unlike what the realtor says.
Wow...some of this is sounding so sour grapey It's entertainment, pure and simple. I think they show a nice range of different price points. It's not bad to imagine living in and around beautiful settings. In fact, visualizing pleasant things can help make them happen.
"Buy Me", which was mentioned earlier in this thread was a great show and should have won HGTV awards inmo. Very realistic. Sadly it didn't seem to catch on as much as House Hunters and I don't think they are creating new episodes
this is so true and this is why i love to watch the shows where the settings are out of my everyday settings.
The international edition can be tiresome. I've seen enough people who are retiring at 35 years of age to the Caymans and complain about the limitations of their 5 million dollar budget. Or the ones buying a second home on Cabo and are whining about the lack of granite counters or that they only have a view of the beach from a couple hundred yards away. Sheesh!
I find this annoying too. It is interesting to see homes in different parts of the world, but I can't even wrap my head around moving to most of them. I always wonder how they are doing it, where they get their money, etc.
i agree with that, most people dont even plan on selling their home on the show and if they did, there would be buyers, unlike what the realtor says.
everyone has to sell eventually. Maybe not next month, but eventually. There is always something that they say buyers won't like, that I WOULD like, or that wouldn't matter to me. Other times they are right on. Some home owners do strange things.
You are so right. Even though I prefer the International edition to the US edition, I do agree that many of the rich US retiree ones are tiresome. I often get the impression that their only motivation for doing the show is to see how thick they can lay on the "I'm rich" schtick. As my mama said... it's not nice to be a show-off! Maybe their mamas never told them that (or they forgot).
wow, this reminds me of this one HHI episode where the family was from the UK. the father invented something and used the money to buy a vacation house somewhere. he was SO annoying b/c I swear he was pitching his product for a good chunk of that show! not only showing off how rich he was but how "awesome" his product was (can't even remember what it was).
the vacation homes are beautiful, I just don't like the attitudes of some of those buyers.
Personally I much prefer to see the shows in which people are buying houses where they are actually going to live at, no matter where they are.
Vacation homes do not give you a true sense bc buyers are not even going to spend that much time there in the first place, so they are willing to overlook some things they wouldn't in case they would live there "full-time".
The most shocking thing by far is seeing the housing prices in some parts of the country and how much people pay for a condo. I would never pay half a million dollars for something that's attached to someone else's property.
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It's entertainment, pure and simple. I think they show a nice range of different price points. It's not bad to imagine living in and around beautiful settings. In fact, visualizing pleasant things can help make them happen.
and this is why i love to watch the shows where the settings are out of my everyday settings.
