Buffaloed in Pa Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Just watched a show of Treasure Lake Pa. Its about 15 miles from me. Showed some of the landscape and surrounding area. Elk tour and winery. Was kind of cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 those shows have been proven to be staged and nonsense for the most part, especially the international ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffaloed in Pa Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 those shows have been proven to be staged and nonsense for the most part, especially the international ones. Yeah I was waiting for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I admit I enjoy the ones where I live, or used to live. Staged or not, it's cool to see the area and what options exist at different price points. But I've been fortunate to live in some pretty cool places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Yeah I was waiting for that. i went to high school with a guy who was on there. they had effectively decided the house already. great looking couple, no kids yet. newly-ish married and he is a professor or was at ARizona. the show caught up iwth them and had them look at other houses, one way out of the price budget and another that was a fixer upper. they chose the obvious choice as is always the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffaloed in Pa Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 i went to high school with a guy who was on there. they had effectively decided the house already. great looking couple, no kids yet. newly-ish married and he is a professor or was at ARizona. the show caught up iwth them and had them look at other houses, one way out of the price budget and another that was a fixer upper. they chose the obvious choice as is always the case. The scenery and places were not staged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 The scenery and places were not staged. No, but they do stretch things. I was watching an Atlanta area show and they flashed to a scene from where I take my dog to the Framers Market on weekends. I had to re-wind....those areas were not really close to each other, but they were trying to make appealing TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffaloed in Pa Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 We rented a place at T Lake last year. Thought it was a great area. May be going back this year for 5 days. You out near Jefferson county? Clearfield county It is right underneath Jefferson. It takes 20 minutes to get to DuBois where T. Lake is at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 those shows have been proven to be staged and nonsense for the most part, especially the international ones. It's called entertainment! Not on the same level as the BILLS, but entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K D Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 they did a house hunters with EJ Manuel and it was all fake because he was already living somewhere by then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 No, but they do stretch things. I was watching an Atlanta area show and they flashed to a scene from where I take my dog to the Framers Market on weekends. I had to re-wind....those areas were not really close to each other, but they were trying to make appealing TV.framers market? Lots of art? population of construction framers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry in KC Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 About a year ago, they showed a house that I grew up in Tonawanda. It was very neat to see the insides of the house some 50 years after I last saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 The most surprising aspect of these shows, along with ones like Beachfront Bargain Hunt, is when they ask the buyer's budget, and they say 500k or even up to 1 million. Where are these younger people getting that much for a house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 The most surprising aspect of these shows, along with ones like Beachfront Bargain Hunt, is when they ask the buyer's budget, and they say 500k or even up to 1 million. Where are these younger people getting that much for a house? https://www.buzzfeed.com/laraparker/people-keep-making-the-same-joke-about-house-hunters-and?utm_term=.se2wG6Ygl8#10929440 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 framers market? Lots of art? population of construction framers? Or maybe cops with high conviction rates? It couldn't have been me, so I'll blame auto correct. But it may have been a farmers market.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 (edited) The most surprising aspect of these shows, along with ones like Beachfront Bargain Hunt, is when they ask the buyer's budget, and they say 500k or even up to 1 million. Where are these younger people getting that much for a house? The fix it shows are always the ones that get me on budget. They talk about redoing a kitchen for $10-$20k....guess if the labor is free you can do a new kitchen for $20k. BTW , my brother in law's house was on a house hunter episode, one of the homes that did not get picked. They came to record his house a good two months after the folks had bought another house, and my BIL had decided to stay and remodel. They just did not show the areas where thy had stated the remodel. Edited June 5, 2017 by plenzmd1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 The fix it shows are always the ones that get me on budget. They talk about redoing a kitchen for $10-$20k....guess if the labor is free you can do a new kitchen for $20k. BTW , my brother in law's house was on a house hunter episode, one of the homes that did not get picked. They came to record his house a good two months after the folks had bought another house, and my BIL had decided to stay and remodel. They just did not show the areas where thy had stated the remodel. Maybe if they are just painting cabinets instead of replacing. We've done a bunch of remodeling and their "prices" really piss my wife off! The most surprising aspect of these shows, along with ones like Beachfront Bargain Hunt, is when they ask the buyer's budget, and they say 500k or even up to 1 million. Where are these younger people getting that much for a house? We sold a house in Florida to a couple in their early 30's for $750,000....all cash. Good thing as it might have appraised for $100k less (but worth every penny and probably $1 mil+ Today, 6 years later.) They had been looking in our neighborhood for 3 years. Wife came in around noon, got the husband that evening and we had a deal first thing in the morning. He worked for a family business that apparently did quite well. I suspect dad had their back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Maybe if they are just painting cabinets instead of replacing. We've done a bunch of remodeling and their "prices" really piss my wife off! We sold a house in Florida to a couple in their early 30's for $750,000....all cash. Good thing as it might have appraised for $100k less (but worth every penny and probably $1 mil+ Today, 6 years later.) They had been looking in our neighborhood for 3 years. Wife came in around noon, got the husband that evening and we had a deal first thing in the morning. He worked for a family business that apparently did quite well. I suspect dad had their back. For DC inside the beltway, a $1m budget for a professional couple in the early 30's seems about right, and imagine that is the case in several urban areas in the US. Now, I think it would be hard in almost any profession outside of a tech startup cash out or big swinging Wall Street Richard to have $750K in cash at that age , so inheritance or just rich parents I am sure came into play. And why someone would want to buy a house cash is just beyond me, makes very little financial sense with money at 3.5%...unless the money was a gift and no mortgage was going to be got! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 The Alaska ones are funny. $1 Mil 5 and you get an unheated outhouse 50 feet from the main house. Colorado, similar but you need a serious off road vehicle to get through any snow fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 For DC inside the beltway, a $1m budget for a professional couple in the early 30's seems about right, and imagine that is the case in several urban areas in the US. Now, I think it would be hard in almost any profession outside of a tech startup cash out or big swinging Wall Street Richard to have $750K in cash at that age , so inheritance or just rich parents I am sure came into play. And why someone would want to buy a house cash is just beyond me, makes very little financial sense with money at 3.5%...unless the money was a gift and no mortgage was going to be got! We could have paid our mortgage off, but with a 4.25% rate being tax deductible, we decided to hold off. We have a 3.625% rate on a condo in Nashville and the tax benefits were a big part of that decision. The couple who bought our FL place may have later gotten a cash out refi, but it definitely made it a stronger offer. A potential tie-breaker, if you will. No fear of a lousy appraiser or some financing quirk messing up the deal. They won and by all accounts they are loving the house I loved, and hated to leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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