My Love/Hate for House Hunters

Dreaming of my own "Barndominium"...someone call Chip and Joanna...

Hello HGTV fans and those forced to watch it in the waiting rooms of Dentists, Doctors, and anyone else with a TV in the lobby. I am here to pose a question for you:

Does anyone else yell at the TV while watching House Hunters or is that just me?

Ryan doesn’t understand why I watch it but it’s amazing background noise while i’m writing, menu planning, budgeting, etc. However, the few times I turn my focus to the program, I end up yelling at the screen.

Why would I yell at a television show you may ask?

Because why not?

Also because these people always have completely unrealistic expectations or they have a “must have” list that is the complete polar opposite from their significant other!

First, every room they go into seems to be a gut job. If there are friends with them instead of a spouse, they are always super bossy or backstab the buyer in a “bless their heart” kind of way.

The couples always disagree to the point where one of them always looks completely unreasonable and entitled, they ask for way more than they can afford, and what they want conflicts with other things that they asked for so it’s impossible to make them happy and then they blame the poor realtor! Like the woman who wanted a farmhouse with a Grand Foyer that had a curved double staircase with elaborate chandelier...have you ever seen a home like that? I know I haven’t.

And to top it off, it’s all fake because they’ve already closed on this house before coming on the show!!!!! We've been lied to!!!!!

Then don’t even get me started on House Hunters International with the family that sold everything they owned, moved to Italy with 7 kids on budget of $1000/month, and had no jobs lined up (that was a real episode). Half the time they go to some really foreign country and get mad at the poor realtors because they thought they could get a fully furnished apartment with typical American comforts for $500/month, only to find that they’re looking at a 1 bedroom, 1 bath with no oven and is actually a murder scene. Ok, maybe not a murder scene but there definitely a blood stain somewhere.

If you feel the way I do, you may actually enjoy the British version of House Hunters found on Netflix called “Escape to the Country.” It will change your entire perspective on the way Americans search for and renovate homes and I’m obsessed with it; even Ryan likes it and he hates my British television obsession so...pitch made.

Anyways, I’m still watching it... maybe Property Brothers will come on soon?