Home Buyers

Facebook suggestion #2 comes from my aunt. The topic: Stupid potential buyers that come to look at your house.

When I had TV, I enjoyed watching House Hunters on TLC. I picked up some useful pointers and advice for when I look for a house. I have also learned how not to act in front of my realtor and to be grateful if there are nice homes in my price range.

I have always known that stupid people exist, but they seem to come out in droves when TLC is involved (i.e. John and Kate Plus 8). I have seen few episodes of House Hunters that didn't have some brain dead woman on who couldn't find her dream house on her meager budget. (Good luck finding a $200,000 palace in Boston, crazy blonde chick from that episode that came on after Full House that one day.).

Anyways, reality TV aside, people have some odd demands when it comes to what they want in a house. My aunt told me that someone said her carpeting has too much personality. When did carpets take on human characteristics?

Stuff like carpet and wallpaper can all be removed. (Or you can be like my mother and just paint over the wallpaper.) Deciding not to buy a house because there's floral wallpaper in the master bedroom is extraordinarily petty. When you buy a home, new or used, expect to put some physical labor into it.

One thing I don't understand about people is their priorities. I would think finding a home in a safe neighborhood that had a new roof and a laundry room would be high on a "must have" list. Apparently, I'm not with the in-crowd. Home buyers are looking for things like unique architecture and built in bookcases. I guess it's fine to live in gangsta central as long you have arched doorways and plenty of shelving for your Martha Stewart literature.

Back to House Hunters (which sounds like Ghost Hunters which is why I started watching it in the first place. Loser?). Every episode is pretty much the same. The buyer is shown three houses which, according to the buyer, is always too small, too far away from the beach, too close to traffic, doesn't have enough windows, the bathrooms are too small, there's not enough closet space, the backyard is too small, the layout is weird, the kitchen is too small, the basement isn't finished, etc.

But I guess a TV show would be boring if people complained about inadequate schools and plumbing problems.