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Lizzie needs to grow up. She sounds like a 6 year old with all this "Nobody came to my birthday party, boo hoo". Get over it. I thought Vicki looked the worst in her robin egg blue dress. She looked like a stuffed sausage, and needed at least two sizes larger. And her basic denial of the dumb and dumber comment was awful. But when Lizzie kept pushing it, you could see Vicki was trying to come up with some kind of lie about saying those words. And why is Lizzie's friend in this show more than some of the regulars?

The Georgia couple left a lot to be desired. I just don't understand some parents today who are worried about buying a house with a little stree traffic, or a pool, or one of those tiny "lakes" in a planned community. My kids grew up with a pool, and we had a kid-proof gate so the kids didn't fall in. And,if you're worried about a road in front of your house, want to know a little secret? YOU WATCH YOUR DAMN KIDS !!!!!!!! These parents are so concerned about little Johnny and needing to see him from the kitchen, but they don't want to watch little Johnny in the yard?

What the bimbo in Phoenix doesn't realize is that you have to change your lawn twice every year, or else your lawn looks like crap. It's the reason why we here in the desert have xeriscape properties. Every spring you can't golf for two weeks because they have to thatch the fairways and greens and change to summer grass, and in the fall they do the same thing to change to winter grass. I can't stand people who move from one part of the country to another part, and insist that their property looks like it does in the old place. The woman yesterday drove me nuts with wanting her place to look like Tampa. You're not in Tampa, and what works in Tampa doesn't work in the desert southwest. It's this attitude that has ruined our desert and made it not fit for those with breathing problems. The Canadians and cold climate US persons insisted on bringing with them their indiginous plants and trees, and it's made for huge problems with increased humidity and pollen counts. Many municipalities have gone to prohibiting certain trees and flowers now in order to improve the air quality. But I will say, their baby was absolutely adorable.

All of these women could benefit from time to time by this old saying: If it doesn't look good, don't stick it out on your front porch". I know some of you liked Lizzie at the beginning, but not me. Sorry, but she can look like a t***** at times, and her lips are way too puffed up to look natural. And to denigrate her husband in such a nasty manner, speaks loads about her personality. I don't care how drunk you are, you NEVER say something like that in front of a camera. Hell, you don't say something like that ever. I've been to Bali, and it's a beautiful country. The people are very spiritual and very friendly. But to be honest, while I don't know what hotel they stayed at, it was by no means as fancy as some of the hotels I've seen there. This one looked very generic and not very Bali-like. The super exclusive hotels have lots of Balinese artwork and their furniture in the rooms are handmade by local artisans. These rooms, while large, looked like they could have been at the Peninsula in Chicago. I couldn't tell the airline they were on, but if you want separate pods for sleeping, the best are on British Airways and Emirates. On Emirates, they are introducing small apartments on some of their planes, with sitting rooms, separate bedrooms and showers. Of course, a one way ticket now on Emirates from London to Dubai is $17,000 for their basic first class

If producers are writing the scripts for these house hunters, I would be embarrassed that they're trying to make me look like an idiot. I was yelling at the TV last night with the couple in Chicago where the woman said that bidet toilets are totally gross. Well first of all, Toto washlets are not bidets, they are for washing the entire area. We've had the washlets for over 20 years now and we LOVE them. Unless that woman has ever used one, she doesn't know what she's talking about. Ladies, we all know that our darling husbands, at times, aren't the best in cleaning a certain area of their person, and we see the inevitable skid marks. Since we've had the Toto, not one skid mark. The Toto is self cleaning and does not harbor germs anymore than a regular toilet. And if you live in a cold climate, you know how nasty feeling it is to sit on a cold seat in the middle of the night. You don't have that with a Toto. And if this wife was as big a germaphobe as she claimed, her husband was totally correct when he said that all the exposed duct work was nothing but a dust collector, but she would not listen. What a bimbo they made her out to be.

Wyatt drove me nuts during yesterday's show with his little tippy toe whatever while in the meeting with the Forrester bigwigs. Whenever he said anything about Hope and the diamond, he did this little tippy toe jump up, like some little kid who's excited when mommy opens up her birthday present from a three year old.

And these writers have this unending need to focus everything on the Captain. In reality, no Captain leaves his ship to go off and do whatever. He must always remain in command, and he sends others off to do what needs to be done. Maybe these writers have watched too much Star Trek where Kirk went off and did everything despite having lots of capable crew members to do what needed to be done. My cousin is in the Navy, stationed on the USS Monterey, now in Norfolk, and he told me that no way would a Captain behave like the Last Ship captain. He said his shipmates get a lot of laughs from this show.

Wyatt=Ping. Liam=Pong Hope is a ball. This story has become nothing more than a ping pong game with Hope bouncing between both men, with little regard for anything. It's getting old, boring and not worth watching. Either this show needs to bring on new characters, bring back old characters (Nick, Jackie, Bridget) or else just shut the thing down. I was hopeful when they had the whole Dubai story, which was really quite good, but now they're back to the same old, same old. Well, at least we know Hope's price---a large diamond will buy her heart, and her cooter.

The Chicago woman with the burnt out fried hair who seemed to have a phobia of granite. Her "boyfriend" is insane to be sharing anything with that whacko. I really wish they'd have realtors who would have the balls to smack some of these idiots and say something like "Hey, you have a budget of $130,000. You ain't getting granite, stainless steel, a California Closet, a master bedroom that measures 20X20 and a master bath with a huge tub with a chandeliere".

When Lexi told her mom that she would always choose her family, what family did she mean, her human family or her Eshpheni family? It would depend what part of her is stronger, but I would guess she might choose her Eshpheni family over the humans. BTW, does Tom have anything to do with Lexi's parentage? Is he a "partial" father, or is he out of the picture entirely?

Please tell me that Quinn wasn't in the booby hatch and really was in Mexico to kill the owner of the Hope for the Future diamond? I've had the feeling all along that she never went for treatment and was up to her tricks trying to get her baby in good stead with Hope. It wouldn't surprise me if Quinn had something to do with his death, and now that the Mexican police want to speak to Wyatt, it just makes this all the more interesting.

I saw the commercial featuring the straw haired Chicago woman and thought why would HH even want to feature that bimbo? I'm just amazed by the differences in real estate costs around the country. It seems you can get a really lovely house in some cities in Texas for very low prices, but put that same house in So Cal, and it's in the high 6 to low 7 figures. Bellalisa, I agree with you on how out of touch some buyers are. In most cities, but especially in LA, your first thought needs to be location, especially when you have a small budget, and not whether you have granite/stainless steel in the kitchen. It's the same here in Phoenix. Some areas are downright dangerous to live in, so even if you find a nice house, you really don't want to live there. BTW, just to let you know, we were talking about the Toledo couple and Tony Packo's restaurant the other day, well, a semi was driven into the front of the building, doing major damage. The driver apparently had a heart attack and died on the scene. Very sad situation.

And who just brings in a total stranger as a room mate with a married couple. Sorry, but if you can't afford to rent or buy a property, maybe it's the real estate gods telling you that it's not a good move. And I might be wrong, but didn't the Equador couple say they didn't speak Spanish? OK, so how are you going to do whatever if you don't speak the language?

I can see wanting to have a somewhat neutral kitchen. I'm a little obsessive about changing things in my house, like bedspreads and curtains, so if I had kitchen cabinets that were an unusual color, It would make it tough for me to change things up, color wise. I remember seeing an older HH where the wife brought in a decorator, who in reality, designed the kitchen to HER taste, and despite the fact that the wife didn't like the colors, she agreed. The decorator said that white cabinets are SO out, and so she chose light blue cabinets. I'm sorry, but light blue cabinets all over the kitchen is going to look dated after a while and I'm guessing you're going to get tired of the blue everywhere. And since when are white cabinets passe?

I watched a repeat of an Renov. show and I have to say that there's no way I want to hire a professional decorator to do anything in my house. I always feel that you're getting their taste and ideas and that they don't listen to what the owner wants. I will say that the wife was very strange and started crying about everything, but the decorator insisted on doing the renov in HER taste, which included blue cabinets---she had the balls to say that white cabinets are SO passe, yeah like blue cabinets are going to be the rage of the future. Sorry, but white cabinets are everywhere and are not out of style, but I bet that their blue cabinets will not be a selling point in the future. I always believed that you keep some things neutral and then use color to spice things up.