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I've been watching this on Friday nights, probably for a couple years now. It's basically a show where they buy old wood frame houses and move them and renovate.
In the beginning it was interesting, because they stayed true to the style of the house and actually reused things.
Lately this year though, it's gotten stupid, IMO. They show the walk through of the house, then move it. Next thing you know there's absolutely nothing left of it, and all of the wood framing, trusses, etc are brand new.
What's the point of buying a house at an auction and then paying to move it, if you aren't using any part of the structure? It'd be cheaper to start from scratch because they basically are?
All of the houses look the same now too. Everything is framed up to 10 foot ceilings, weird house/room layouts with rooms that look huge but don't seem to have much flow. The outside of the houses look silly and have no style, basically a box with windows and a front deck or little porch. I saw one where there wasn't even a post on one side of the porch. Another episode had a living room with now windows nor window in the front door.
The auctions where they buy the house are obviously staged with paid extras walking around looking at the house but they don't usually bid.
Then the end when the renovated (basically totally rebuilt now) houses are sold have lots of what I'm assuming are paid extras "pretending" to walk around the house and examine it as if they've never seen a house before.
I do like some of the ideas they have in the show, but everything looks the same now. Also, the price the houses sell for at the end is outrageous. The one I saw tonight sold for $250,000. And there's no garage, just a shell rock driveway, and they move all the houses into a neighborhood that looks like it's just random houses everywhere.
Sorry for the rant, but I don't get this show. It may as well be Texas New Build than Texas Flip N Move.
In the beginning it was interesting, because they stayed true to the style of the house and actually reused things.
Lately this year though, it's gotten stupid, IMO. They show the walk through of the house, then move it. Next thing you know there's absolutely nothing left of it, and all of the wood framing, trusses, etc are brand new.
What's the point of buying a house at an auction and then paying to move it, if you aren't using any part of the structure? It'd be cheaper to start from scratch because they basically are?
All of the houses look the same now too. Everything is framed up to 10 foot ceilings, weird house/room layouts with rooms that look huge but don't seem to have much flow. The outside of the houses look silly and have no style, basically a box with windows and a front deck or little porch. I saw one where there wasn't even a post on one side of the porch. Another episode had a living room with now windows nor window in the front door.
The auctions where they buy the house are obviously staged with paid extras walking around looking at the house but they don't usually bid.
Then the end when the renovated (basically totally rebuilt now) houses are sold have lots of what I'm assuming are paid extras "pretending" to walk around the house and examine it as if they've never seen a house before.
I do like some of the ideas they have in the show, but everything looks the same now. Also, the price the houses sell for at the end is outrageous. The one I saw tonight sold for $250,000. And there's no garage, just a shell rock driveway, and they move all the houses into a neighborhood that looks like it's just random houses everywhere.
Sorry for the rant, but I don't get this show. It may as well be Texas New Build than Texas Flip N Move.
