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Janet

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> "Janet" > wrote in message
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> > In article >, replyto@inemail
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> >> On 4/20/2012 11:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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> >> > Watch an episode of Million Dollar Listings on Bravo network. Some
> >> > people insist on granite, certain colors, etc.
> >> > Then there was the couple that wanted $1.5 million in remodel and got
> >> > it on the place they paid $16 million for. All cash!.
> >>
> >> Love that show. Amazing what you see, and real estate shows
> >> bring out just how nutty people really are when shopping for
> >> or selling a house.
> >
> > Ask any estate agent; there are plenty of timewasters for whom "viewing
> > houses for sale" is a weekend social outing. They've got no serious
> > intention of selling, moving, buying (or the means to do it). Now they
> > can do it on TV.
> >
> > Janet.
> >
> I used to do that as a teenager... go to open houses, look around at what
> was for sale. I was earning minimum wage and couldn't have afforded the
> paper the deed was printed on. But it was fun looking at the homes. Now I
> enjoy watching home buyers with minimal budgets and unrealistic expectations
> get shot down on TV

Me too :-) My favourite at the moment is "Grand Designs Australia" (not
to be confused with the same concept GD in Britain). The Australian one
has people with zero taste or sense building their dream home, usually
without an architect or workable plans, with predictably awful results.

Janet