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.

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.

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.

In general, is anyone else sick and tired of all these WHINEY rich kids whose Mommy and Daddy are obviously paying for the houses these spoiled brats are "buying" on this show?

My husband and I are both professionals raising two children, and BARELY getting by, while these snotty twenty-somethings are on the show "buying" houses that they cannot possibly afford. Does House Hunters have something against real, working families, or are these spoiled kids all part of the House Hunters extended family (producers, writers, executives etc):

In closing, please put some real people with real incomes on your show to at least give it a modicum of reality. Enough is enough of couples who are "musicians" or "artists" or "party planners" or other such nonsense.

Join the REAL world!!!

"House Hunters" is a great show on HGTV with a simple concept - house hunters look at three homes and choose one, discussing the pros and cons in between. Hosted by the lovely Suzanne Wong, there is something very involving about this show and some other HGTV offerings, such as Designed to Sell, Buy Me, and How Much is My House Worth.

I think it's the couch potato aspect combined with fantasy that works well for this show and others on the network. We can pick our own favorite house and then say things like, "I knew they'd pick that one," or "They're idiots" when they choose, and we can also discuss how much money we think they have while asking the age-old question, "What is the big deal with hardwood floors and granite countertops?" (Without them, your house may as well go into foreclosure.) And we can listen to them carp about the color of the rooms - as if they aren't willing to paint. When the home owners are revisited in the new place later, we are able to analyze their taste. This all easily replaces looking out the window while the new neighbors are moving in.

The house hunters themselves are usually delightful people with whom the audience identifies, though not only. Many of them have pets, and if they don't, they usually acquire them once they move. So one can ooh and ah over babies and puppies. HGTV is onto a good thing.