House Hunters

Especially when you get to see the interiors of so many differently styled homes, some with breathtaking oceanfront views or distant mountains and valleys providing the terrace with eye candy.

What gets me is the insistence that no kitchen is complete or saleable without granite counter-top, that every home has to have at least three bathrooms, that a master bedroom is too small if it's anything less than 14' x 18', and that any room featuring wallpaper is an absolute no no.

Interesting too, to see couples (interracial, hetero or gay) viewing the properties together, some couples looking about as ill-matched as you could possibly imagine but obviously each couple totally committed to living together indefinitely in homes that range from 200,000 to 1.5 million of U.S. dollars, and often basing their decisions on how big the yard is for their beloved dog or how safe the yard is to accommodate kids and pets when it lacks a proper fence.

Even more fascinating is House Hunters International which shows the vast difference in standards between European and American real estate markets, along with some gorgeous scenery in exotic settings which compensates (sometimes) for a certain lack of craftsmanship in utilities.

My friend TIVOs this show so I am subjected to it every time I visit. Will somebody please tell these annoying crybabies to shut the flock up already? For God's sake, people are losing their homes every day and all they do on this show is hiss and moan about the counter tops, the paint, the appliances...You have all this money to buy an otherwise really great house and you are worried that the stove isn't pretty enough? Hello, here is a scientific breakthrough--wait for Home Depot to have one of its no interest for 12 months deals and get the one you want. Oh, the family room is too small! You know what is small and uncomfortable? The tent cities that once-proud homeowners are forced to live in now.

So whenever I'm traveling I always end up running into this show as I don't have a normal television set at home. I really like this show I think when I watched it I thought it was the lottery show about building your own house but it wasn't. I really like this show the episode that I originally saw was a good one and then I watched the marathon and one thing I noticed around the 3rd episode a lot of people don't know what they're talking about on this show. I'm not talking about the real estate sales people. I'm talking about the people who think they know what they want. It kind of makes the show a little bit hard to watch or a bit hard to swallow or a bit bitter or sour or whatever you want to call it it kind of sours it a little bit. A lot of the people in there say really nasty things about some of the homes that they walk into. There's really nothing that bad about the home but the way they tear down The house's character I feel is unnecessary. We get it you don't like the house it's your money it's your dream and all of that but sometimes the house just isn't for you I feel like it's really tasteless and distasteful how they speak about some of these properties if you don't like it just don't buy it. Also a lot of these houses are good and they don't seem to see it. They just want something that they can't afford and they just can't accept the fact that they can't afford what they want. A lot of people have really bad taste on this show. But because the real estate sales people are good they're not going to have them walk away with something that bad. Which is refreshing on my end because if I were to buy a house and someone showed me houses and my own budget and a lot of them had that look to it you know I'd be happy about that. These people seem more on the ungrateful side and I think that irritates me. But the show is very good at some things just to see what houses are on the market maybe put yourself in the position that you might get to look at some homes.every once in awhile by the way, someone with a good taste comes along. On the episode I'm watching this one person's mother is really trying to tell their kids right and they're just not listening and a lot of times average people don't know anything about stuff but this mom really knows what she's talking about she's trying to look out for a kid and he's just so ungrateful.

I've been watching House Hunters for years. It's time to stop watching is because it's not realistic at all. Most of the time they're not shown what they want. Choices are given but it's far reached and the things that they're scripted to say is either dumb or not the way the average person talks when deciding on their home. The show should come across as real as possible and don't show the home that they're going to choose in the beginning. Sometimes I think that the home is already theirs and that they just remove everything and then put it back after the choices are made. We realize that it's tv and people can't say anything, but come on, sometimes they say the silliest things.

I agree with a lot of the other reviews. I love seeing all the different homes and places. But I can not stand the people. Complain about everything. I am not using that bathtub cause it has a gold faucet and so on. I am getting to where I turn it a lot. I cant handle all the negativity through the whole show. I understand there are things you may not like but these people just acting ungrateful!