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Post by woodiedog on Sept 12, 2020 16:37:32 GMT
Thank you Kao! I’m off to find the episode you described!
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Post by Bearcata on Sept 14, 2020 2:30:37 GMT
Watched Selling the Big Easy and it's a combination of House Hunters and a staging show. You will see clients looking for a home and see two houses and then you will see a client who is trying to sell a property and the team staging it for sale. I enjoyed the staging part. I do like to see houses in different parts of the country. However it always scares me when they show New Orleans with all the flooding that city seems to have and much still not recovered from Hurricane Karina which hit the town in 2005. Sometimes I catch Animal Planets "Pitbulls and Parolees" which is filmed in the poorer parts of New Orleans and it is not that nice.
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Post by Bearcata on Sept 14, 2020 5:51:12 GMT
Season 2 of Windy City Rehab will consist of 5 90 minute episodes.
Alison's partner Donovan Eckhardt did lose his contractor license but has gotten it back. At last count they were involved in 3 lawsuits.
I must admit at times it is hard to like Alison as she will many times in an episode always say it's about the money to the point it seems that is all she cares about and it gets viewers thinking what will she do to get all that money? Cut corners? Use subpar materials?
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Post by woodiedog on Sept 14, 2020 9:52:59 GMT
Thanks to Kao, I found the premier episode of Brother versus Brother and it did not disappoint! The two houses they chose are amazing! Built in the 1920s and abandoned years ago, these houses have some beautiful architectural details. I loved when they walked through both houses. I like the renovation they both did, but would have kept more traditional elements. Can’t wait for the rest of the episodes.
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Post by waywyrd on Sept 14, 2020 11:37:01 GMT
Season 2 of Windy City Rehab will consist of 5 90 minute episodes. Alison's partner Donovan Eckhardt did lose his contractor license but has gotten it back. At last count they were involved in 3 lawsuits. I must admit at times it is hard to like Alison as she will many times in an episode always say it's about the money to the point it seems that is all she cares about and it gets viewers thinking what will she do to get all that money? Cut corners? Use subpar materials? 90 minutes?! I can barely make it through 60 minutes of Christina, I don't think I can deal with 90 of Alison. Maybe I'll record so I can fast forward.
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Post by nennie on Sept 14, 2020 13:04:04 GMT
Season 2 of Windy City Rehab will consist of 5 90 minute episodes. Alison's partner Donovan Eckhardt did lose his contractor license but has gotten it back. At last count they were involved in 3 lawsuits. I must admit at times it is hard to like Alison as she will many times in an episode always say it's about the money to the point it seems that is all she cares about and it gets viewers thinking what will she do to get all that money? Cut corners? Use subpar materials? 90 minutes?! I can barely make it through 60 minutes of Christina, I don't think I can deal with 90 of Alison. Maybe I'll record so I can fast forward. I won't watch Alison. 10 minutes of her is too much.
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Post by Kao on Sept 14, 2020 14:24:34 GMT
I watched Selling the Big Easy as well and loved it. I've visited many times (if you can swing it, go for Halloween; it's amazing and everyone goes all out) and always enjoyed the food and recreation. Treme is a historic African American middle class neighborhood and that house she showed them there was marvelous; I love ligh ceilings and big windows with those shutters! Unfortunately, I knew they were going to go for the new build even though it was nice too because you "gotta entertain!" Bearcata: The rundown areas of NOLA are far away from where most tourists would go anyway; hence no one caring about it or the people who live there. If it were the French Quarter, Treme, or the Garden District city funding would have been used to fix the issues a long time ago but unfortunately, no one cares about poor people. There was a huge issues with outsiders buying up houses in the 9th Ward (the area hit hardest by Katrina), renovating them and turning them into Air BandBs (which totally screwed over longtime residents looking to fix their own properties because of taxes, or they didn't want to be bothered with living near the transient nature of Air BnBs because people were completely disrespectful). Due to the massive amounts of complaints (and in some cases, lawsuits) the city banned Air BnB last year, effectively sticking those vultures who decided to make a buck off the misfortune of others. A lot of these "landlords" are now either renting or trying to sell their properties.
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Post by Bearcata on Sept 17, 2020 1:26:03 GMT
They are showing the best of Kitchen Crashers after Windy City Rehab. Alison Victoria does know how to design kitchens, they look fabulous.
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Post by Kao on Sept 17, 2020 2:50:30 GMT
That whole house was fabulous. I only caught the last half hour of it so I have to rewatch, but she has a knack for finding vintage items and incorporating them in her renovations. That arch and scones she found for the pantry and the wood doors for the closet were fabulous.
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Post by Cootie on Sept 17, 2020 4:55:00 GMT
Charlotte Drew Hawk was born today for those who followed Mina's pregnancy on Good Bones. Congratulations to the Hawk family!
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Post by momrek06 on Sept 17, 2020 5:47:13 GMT
Charlotte Drew Hawk was born today for those who followed Mina's pregnancy on Good Bones. Congratulations to the Hawk family! CONGRATULATIONS to all the HAWK’s!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Post by Kao on Sept 17, 2020 14:18:18 GMT
A Royal flush! That is fantastic!
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Sept 17, 2020 17:08:35 GMT
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Post by Bearcata on Sept 18, 2020 6:00:36 GMT
That whole house was fabulous. I only caught the last half hour of it so I have to rewatch, but she has a knack for finding vintage items and incorporating them in her renovations. That arch and scones she found for the pantry and the wood doors for the closet were fabulous. Surprisingly Windy City Rehab Season 2 Episode 1 - Spend More to Make More - September 15 2020, was quite good. Alison seemed human and not another money hungry flipper. There is something really funky how Donovan's company is drawing money from the Wood house bank loan and yet nothing is getting done. I really hope the show is not simply screwing the viewers sympathy toward Alison and making Donovan the bad guy. Overall it was nice to see Alison project manage the house and get in depth on her design process. I hated the front door. What ever stain they put on it, it looked FUGLY. The women knows how to do a kitchen and a bathroom. I would not have gotten rid of the window in the bedroom that became the wine room. I have seen that wine holder piece before in another house. I will be curious to see how this mess gets resolved. At the beginning of the show Alison states that she and Donovan are partnered in 12 companies one for each house they are working on together and later in the episode she states that Donovan is working on 7 other properties. It is confusing. But one thing I really like is that they give a really good scope of time regarding how long it does take to do the homes they are working on. This contrasts really well with Flipping 101 with Tarek which premiered Thursday night. All the folks who have asked Tarek for help are idiots and I would be terrified to buy a property from anyone of them.
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Post by Bearcata on Sept 18, 2020 6:10:34 GMT
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Post by Kao on Sept 18, 2020 14:35:28 GMT
I'm seriously beginning to wonder whether she or Donovan pissed off the wrong people in the city or folks are trying to get over now because their house was on TV because it's highly unusual that a developer/designer gets sued this much and have these many stop work orders put on their properties; I've seen developers do much worse in this city. Judging by the circumstances of the first episode I'm beginning to think Donovan is more than a little bit shady.
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Post by nennie on Sept 18, 2020 15:17:27 GMT
I don't dislike her designs it's her attitude and persona that puts me off. She is arrogant. I would like to believe she isn't that way outside of the show but the old rule of thumb if someone shows you who or what they are believe them. If I see a commercial come on with her I turn it. We all have personality traits in others we don't like and hers is on my list so I don't watch her.
As for the lawsuits/stop orders etc I don't know how with that many they can get any jobs done. I personally wouldn't use either one of them no matter how good you can design. I would be afraid to put my money into them doing a job.
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Post by Kao on Sept 18, 2020 16:31:58 GMT
I don't dislike her designs it's her attitude and persona that puts me off. She is arrogant. I would like to believe she isn't that way outside of the show but the old rule of thumb if someone shows you who or what they are believe them. If I see a commercial come on with her I turn it. We all have personality traits in others we don't like and hers is on my list so I don't watch her. As for the lawsuits/stop orders etc I don't know how with that many they can get any jobs done. I personally wouldn't use either one of them no matter how good you can design. I would be afraid to put my money into them doing a job. In her defense, in her line of business (and the fact that she works so closely with the trade, workers, etc) being a woman you have to be a bit of a [censored], strong-willed, and very exact with what you expect from people because otherwise those men will walk all over you. We saw that happen in Season 1 when she kept giving the person who was supposed to build the stairs in the Lincoln Ave. property chance after chance and he slopped up the job, refused to come to work and didn't answer her calls. When she finally got fed up and fired him, he got mad and threatened to go to the city if she didn't pay him the rest of money for the job (that was very shoddily done and not completed). Sometimes, you can't be nice; I wouldn't call her arrogant as much as "having expectations that she wants met."
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Post by Kao on Sept 18, 2020 16:40:11 GMT
That whole house was fabulous. I only caught the last half hour of it so I have to rewatch, but she has a knack for finding vintage items and incorporating them in her renovations. That arch and scones she found for the pantry and the wood doors for the closet were fabulous. Surprisingly Windy City Rehab Season 2 Episode 1 was quite good. Alison seemed human and not another money hungry flipper. There is something really funky how Donovan's company is drawing money from the Wood house bank loan and yet nothing is getting done. I really hope the show is not simply screwing the viewers sympathy toward Alison and making Donovan the bad guy. Overall it was nice to see Alison project manage the house and get in depth on her design process. I hated the front door. What ever stain they put on it, it looked FUGLY. The women knows how to do a kitchen and a bathroom. I would not have gotten rid of the window in the bedroom that became the wine room. I have seen that wine holder piece before in another house. I will be curious to see how this mess gets resolved. At the beginning of the show Alison states that she and Donovan are partnered in 12 companies one for each house they are working on together and later in the episode she states that Donovan is working on 7 other properties. It is confusing. But one thing I really like is that they give a really good scope of time regarding how long it does take to do the homes they are working on. This contrasts really well with Flipping 101 with Tarek which premiered Thursday night. All the folks who have asked Tarek for help are idiots and I would be terrified to buy a property from anyone of them. I'm wondering about the legality of that myself, especially since they have each home set up as separate LLCs to limit liability. If all of the houses were under the same umbrella theoretically you could dip into one house's money to finish work on another because it's one big pool, but all of their projects are legally separate entities. Something in the milk ain't clean; the question is how much did Alison know about it.
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Post by Bearcata on Sept 18, 2020 19:18:33 GMT
Surprisingly Windy City Rehab Season 2 Episode 1 was quite good. Alison seemed human and not another money hungry flipper. There is something really funky how Donovan's company is drawing money from the Wood house bank loan and yet nothing is getting done. I really hope the show is not simply screwing the viewers sympathy toward Alison and making Donovan the bad guy. Overall it was nice to see Alison project manage the house and get in depth on her design process. I hated the front door. What ever stain they put on it, it looked FUGLY. The women knows how to do a kitchen and a bathroom. I would not have gotten rid of the window in the bedroom that became the wine room. I have seen that wine holder piece before in another house. I will be curious to see how this mess gets resolved. At the beginning of the show Alison states that she and Donovan are partnered in 12 companies one for each house they are working on together and later in the episode she states that Donovan is working on 7 other properties. It is confusing. But one thing I really like is that they give a really good scope of time regarding how long it does take to do the homes they are working on. This contrasts really well with Flipping 101 with Tarek which premiered Thursday night. All the folks who have asked Tarek for help are idiots and I would be terrified to buy a property from anyone of them. I'm wondering about the legality of that myself, especially since they have each home set up as separate LLCs to limit liability. If all of the houses were under the same umbrella theoretically you could dip into one house's money to finish work on another because it's one big pool, but all of their projects are legally separate entities. Something in the milk ain't clean; the question is how much did Alison know about it. Donovan was the GC, the general contractor and he was responsible for getting the subcontractors to do their jobs. It looks as if that one company BE Custom Designs was sending invoices and being paid out of that one account and that company was owned by Donovan. It is possible that the scope of doing that many jobs was simply too much to track and Donovan was "robbing Peter to pay Paul" as the saying goes. Well there are 4 more episodes to go and at this point it is getting interesting.
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Post by nennie on Sept 19, 2020 1:19:37 GMT
I don't dislike her designs it's her attitude and persona that puts me off. She is arrogant. I would like to believe she isn't that way outside of the show but the old rule of thumb if someone shows you who or what they are believe them. If I see a commercial come on with her I turn it. We all have personality traits in others we don't like and hers is on my list so I don't watch her. As for the lawsuits/stop orders etc I don't know how with that many they can get any jobs done. I personally wouldn't use either one of them no matter how good you can design. I would be afraid to put my money into them doing a job. In her defense, in her line of business (and the fact that she works so closely with the trade, workers, etc) being a woman you have to be a bit of a [censored], strong-willed, and very exact with what you expect from people because otherwise those men will walk all over you. We saw that happen in Season 1 when she kept giving the person who was supposed to build the stairs in the Lincoln Ave. property chance after chance and he slopped up the job, refused to come to work and didn't answer her calls. When she finally got fed up and fired him, he got mad and threatened to go to the city if she didn't pay him the rest of money for the job (that was very shoddily done and not completed). Sometimes, you can't be nice; I wouldn't call her arrogant as much as "having expectations that she wants met." I guess you and I see her different. I think she is arrogant.
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Sept 19, 2020 2:34:00 GMT
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Post by Kao on Sept 19, 2020 3:15:32 GMT
It's very sad, but you could see it coming with how rushed everything was. This is why you don't marry the rebound.
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Post by Bearcata on Sept 19, 2020 5:02:01 GMT
In her defense, in her line of business (and the fact that she works so closely with the trade, workers, etc) being a woman you have to be a bit of a [censored], strong-willed, and very exact with what you expect from people because otherwise those men will walk all over you. We saw that happen in Season 1 when she kept giving the person who was supposed to build the stairs in the Lincoln Ave. property chance after chance and he slopped up the job, refused to come to work and didn't answer her calls. When she finally got fed up and fired him, he got mad and threatened to go to the city if she didn't pay him the rest of money for the job (that was very shoddily done and not completed). Sometimes, you can't be nice; I wouldn't call her arrogant as much as "having expectations that she wants met." I guess you and I see her different. I think she is arrogant. After watching season 1 and season 2 of Windy City Rehab and then the Kitchen Crashers compilation episodes you see different sides of Alison's personality. She did not come across well on season 1 of WCR but surprisingly I like her on season 2 and it's like she is different person on Kitchen Crashers.
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Post by atwi80d on Sept 19, 2020 5:03:56 GMT
My parents love HGTV. Well my mom does. My dad loves cop shows but that is another story LOL! Love ya Dad!
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Post by Bearcata on Sept 19, 2020 5:06:45 GMT
OMG ...Tarek is going to propose to his girlfriend in next week's Flipping 101 episode. Ant was in the UK because of the pandemic so he and Christina have not been together for a while???? Is this a break up because of the pandemic??? Well it will make for an interesting season 3 of Christina on the Coast.
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Post by waywyrd on Sept 19, 2020 14:02:43 GMT
Aw, I thought they were doing well. I'm sorry to hear this.
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Post by momrek06 on Sept 19, 2020 22:06:43 GMT
Wow, how sad for everyone. Christina and Ant and all their children.
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Post by woodiedog on Sept 20, 2020 13:06:11 GMT
so sad. I am more sad that they immediately brought a baby into their relationship. Looks like daddy will be splitting his time between England and CA.
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Post by Arielflies on Sept 23, 2020 0:12:51 GMT
Not sure about this article, but it does flow with what we've learned with these shows. Ty Pennington is hosting another make over show...
Why Do HGTV and ABC Keep Letting This Man Renovate People into Foreclosure? ginamerlot Shannon Melero Today 2:30PM •
Before there were 75 different iterations of Property Brothers shows was a dark time when home improvement fixes came solely from weekly installments of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, starring the worst host in the history of hosting, Ty Pennington. If you didn’t get to live through the mad years of Home Edition, consider yourself lucky, but also brace yourself: because Pennington is back for vengeance in a new series from HGTV, Ty Breaker.
Though Pennington is something of the Guy Fieri of home renovation shows, he has been notably absent from the sacred space of home renovation reality since the demise of Home Edition and his other popular show, Trading Spaces. In this new series, Variety reports Pennington is back to “help families in need decide whether to overhaul their current property or renovate a new one.” Astounding that Pennington would be allowed within ten feet of any family in need considering the outlandish homes he designed and project managed on Home Edition resulted in several families being left homeless.
The major flaw with Home Edition was the gap between what participants needed and what the unhinged Pennington wanted to give them. He would run amuck on a small manageable home and convert it overnight into a behemoth with themed rooms, living rooms built to look like movie theaters, and backyards that could double as amusement parks. But once the big bus rolled away and the volunteer builders returned to their lives, homeowners were left footing the bill for property taxes, utilities, and mortgages—things they were struggling to pay before Pennington came in and turned the kids’ room into an elephant safari with a mattress. One woman’s home was foreclosed on nine years after her makeover when the mortgage ballooned from $30,000 to $113,000.
It makes little sense why HGTV, a network that has more home reno stars than they know what to do with, would take back Pennington, a man marked by his hideous over the top designs and a dark past littered with tears and foreclosures. But considering that HGTV also has a similarly thoughtless history to ABC, the network that broadcast Pennington’s original show, the decision isn’t completely out of character. According to Country Living the HGTV Dream Home, which is raffled away every year (and that I’ve entered to try and win twice) often has the same nightmarish effect as Pennington’s made-over homes on recipients.
“Of the 21 people who’ve won Dream Homes over the years, only six, or about 28 percent, actually lived in their home for more than a year,” Country Living reported in 2018. “The vast majority either took the cash alternative or sold the house back to the developer within a year of winning.” Why would someone turn down an expertly designed “urban oasis” planted in the woodlands of Montana? Taxes! The property taxes alone on any one of the Dream Houses could bankrupt a family, as it nearly did in 2005 when that year’s winner ended up $430,000 in debt after moving his family to Texas to turn the home into a bed and breakfast, which they were unable to do because of zoning restrictions. The financial strain was compounded when the family had to borrow against the house to pay for cancer treatments.
Before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Dream Home winners would be flown out to the location of the home and given a Winner’s Weekend which involved hotel stay, house tours, and meals all on HGTV’s dime. Homeowners were then given an option to live in the home for 12 months with the financial responsibility resting with the home’s builders. If the family wanted out, they sold it back to the builders. But now, the option is to take the house (and the car if applicable) or take a lump sum payout, which is of lesser value. The house goes on the market and HGTV turns a profit when it sells to someone who could afford it.
Dreams really do come true if you just build them yourself!
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