Dreamhouse on DIY network *rollzeyez*

[gategrrl]

Mermaid and I are watching "Dreamhouse" on DIY network on cable, and I have to tell you, it is one of the most frustrating experiences watching this.

The house DIY is focusing on is in San Diego, by the beach, worth a half million, and bought by three guys fresh out of college.

One of the kids is confident that he can get loans whenever, and his roommates are tapped out financially.

But really, the MOST annoying aspect of the show isn't the callowness of the rich boy, it's the many many commercials interwoven in the 1 minute of show-time inbetween. 

I'm watching this wondering when they're going to throw their hands up in frustration, and how the financing and "sweat equity" inbalances are going to ruin their friendships. Rich boy's inventor father is quoted several times as saying something along the lines of "well, they're in their midtwenties. They'll make mistakes. I made mistakes at that age." I guess he's right.

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[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

If it's by the beach, in San Diego, and big enough for three single guys, then it must be an absolute HOLE to be worth under a million.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Thing is, it's NOT large enough for three young guys. It's a two bedroom with one bathroom, and one of them lives out in a pop-up tent-trailer in the back yard. The addition is supposed to add two new bedrooms and another bathroom, I think.

When they started tearing down the wall where the addition was going to go (they were counting on the entire huge addition costing them $15000 each, a total of $45,000, LOLOLOL) they found CHICKEN WIRE helping to hold up the outer wall, plus a ton of termite damage done to the wood frame. Yeah, the place is a POS.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah: they were also counting heavily on their friends helping out, and even got the girlfriend of the rich boy to design the addition. The film crew interviewed her--she and rich boy had broken up because he told his buddies he couldn't keep on dating her just to get a design out of her.

She told the film crew that what she designed for them would normally have cost $3-5,000. I think they showed her with the guys, but it might have only been to illustrate what happened for the film crew in the past.

So, in short, they have had friends come here and there but unless they've got an incredibly set of friends...they themselves bug out and don't show up at times.

OMG. The DIY network is so annoying. I'm recording the shows so that we can watch the 10 minutes of actual show and not the 20 minutes of commercials.

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

CHICKEN WIRE!??? Hold on while I catch my breath from laughing so hard.

Did these guys ever hear of the word "home inspection"? Seriously, these guys are a bunch of maroons. I'm tempted to go down there and offer them $24 dollars worth of blankets and beads for it.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

I'm not sure an inspector could have seen the building materials, though, or test the frame within the wood...but given that they're right next to a couple of tall apartment buildings, and the house is so old, who knows? Callow rich kid is in the realtor business in some capacity that I'm not clear about, so he probably thought he knew what he was doing.

I feel sorry for the guy's friends for listening to him. They shouldn't own a house this early in their single lives, you know? He probably also told them it was a great investment, and even mentioned one of them getting married later and living there. Uh huh. Like THAT is going to happen. I don't think so.