04-07-2013, 11:05 PM
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My mom watches that show religiously lol, ive watched it a couple times, my cousin worked for the mother company that owns hgtv and told us all about the behind the scenes shiz with this show. The filming location varies every episode depending on the person, ive seen them work with families in NJ and NY on some of the episodes. They give their wish list of what they want to the Realtor and the designer, they get to walk the current house and then they start right away and they do it on purpose to add some action to the show and purposely leave room for issues.
The designer says the budget is based on the wish list as long as there are no hang ups, some of these people have houses that aren't to code and are grandfathered into the newer local laws. When you do renovations you have to bring it up to code and it can kill the budget. Like I mentioned HGTV sets alot of this up for effect but they give them a hell of a deal at the end of the day.
Those Reno budgets are usually half of the true cost of work because they have "free" labor they charge them for materials mostly. Alot of the snags the designers run into the owner would have to fix out of pocket anyway to sell their home because the buyers inspector would find the issues.
Worst case scenario is say they spend 30k in reno they add 60k in value to the list price of their house when they sell it. Also the Realtor behind the scenes secures the properties these people are interested in with no need to go crazy for negotiation and all the closing costs and shit is covered by hgtv. I am pretty sure all the potential buyers of the "contestant" house that they choose to "list" are informed the house was on HGTV's love it or list it and it leads to a quicker sale then normal for that area.
Bottom line is the show leads you to believe some of the people get shafted and go through alot of stress but they make out real well at the end of it all.
The designer says the budget is based on the wish list as long as there are no hang ups, some of these people have houses that aren't to code and are grandfathered into the newer local laws. When you do renovations you have to bring it up to code and it can kill the budget. Like I mentioned HGTV sets alot of this up for effect but they give them a hell of a deal at the end of the day.
Those Reno budgets are usually half of the true cost of work because they have "free" labor they charge them for materials mostly. Alot of the snags the designers run into the owner would have to fix out of pocket anyway to sell their home because the buyers inspector would find the issues.
Worst case scenario is say they spend 30k in reno they add 60k in value to the list price of their house when they sell it. Also the Realtor behind the scenes secures the properties these people are interested in with no need to go crazy for negotiation and all the closing costs and shit is covered by hgtv. I am pretty sure all the potential buyers of the "contestant" house that they choose to "list" are informed the house was on HGTV's love it or list it and it leads to a quicker sale then normal for that area.
Bottom line is the show leads you to believe some of the people get shafted and go through alot of stress but they make out real well at the end of it all.