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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.

I wish I could send you all some of the Tony Packo's food. It's fantastic, so much so that when I'm back there this weekend for a baby shower, I'm bringing back a big bunch of stuff. I talked to my cousins from Toledo and they said they couldn't believe the House Hunters episode. They all said that the area the couple purchased in was just as I posted---maybe one bar, and at least two bars that are frequented by the gay scene. No good restaurants and they said that you really don't want to walk anywhere in that area at night.

I just read Caprice's Wiki entry and she seems to have a problem with telling the truth. She really is a piece of work.

Yeah, when did Ridge get a chopper pilot's license? And sorry, but there's no way the FAA would allow some crazed insane idiot fly a helicopter in the LA airspace just for the heck of it. There are so many airports in the area, and so many police and TV news helicopters that they would force Ridge to land that sucker and charge him with violating FAA regulations.

BearCat, to answer your question about Toledo, it used to be a very lively and vibrant city that was closely tied to the auto industry in Detroit. They had many plants that made parts for cars and even had auto production plants. My dad used to work for Jeep, that had an assembly plant in Toledo. My uncles all had jobs in some part of the auto industry, be it window glass, small parts and partial assembly line production. When Detroit started falling apart, so did Toledo. Seriously, the malls they used to have around the area are mostly gone. I can remember at least four malls that we used to go to that no longer exist. There's no upscale shopping anymore at any of the existing malls as they've just shut down. There used to be a Jacobson's, Elder Bermann, Lion Store and Lasalle's, all very nice stores. My cousins all come here to Phoenix to shop when they come visit. They all complain that there are no really fancy, upscale restaurants. When HH was driving around the city to try and prove how nice it is, they were showing things that aren't in the downtown area, such as the University of Toledo, the Zoo (which is a great zoo) and the Toledo Museum of Art. The actual downtown shots showed what used to be a wonderful downtown area, when shopping and entertainment was ONLY downtown. All the department stores were there, many movie theaters and live show theaters, great places to eat and just walk around. That downtown no longer exists. There's absolutely no shopping anywhere downtown, lots of empty buildings and everything. Even my family says Toledo is a dying city and has been for some time. We used to live on the Southside of Toledo, in a very nice, well kept neighborhood of craftsman style houses. Now, even that neighborhood has gone to hell. If you want nicer housing you have to look at Perrysburg, Holland and Oregon which are nicer suburbs of Toledo. To be honest, even that second house the Toledo couple looked at was very near to a slum area where gangs have taken over. Heck, we can't even go to the local cemetary where our grandparents are buried because you run the risk of being carjacked or mugged---and that neighborhood used to be VERY high end and upscale. But now, it's dangerous. The Chicago couple bugged me big time. I kept wanting to throw a brush and a box of Lady Clairol at the woman because of her nasty, straw hair. I don't see them lasting more than 2 years. I liked the husband of the Tulsa couple and their kids were cute, but the wife was off kilter in some ways. And what's with so many women not wanting granite nowadays? I didn't know granite was out of fashion. I have both granite and quartz in my house and I don't see a difference, and some quartz products are the same price, or higher, than granite.

Watched the couple from Toledo last night. Now, before you think I'm being mean, just know that I was born and raised in Toledo, and have lots of aunts, uncles and cousins who live there---so happy to have moved from that city. The announcers made it sound like there is a renassiance going on in the downtown area, making it look all lovely and great. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The buildings they showed on their driveby segments, are all closed and abandoned. Believe me, there is nothing going on in the downtown area that would make living there appealing. They kept talking about all the restaurants and everything, but the only decent restaurant on that side of the river is Tony Packo's, and the only "rehab" they've done to that area was building the Mud Hens Park. Downtown Toledo USED to be a vibrant and good place, when I was a kid, but it lost that several decades ago. And again, with this couple, the man just further emphasized how lazy this younger generation has become. I honestly think he pushed hard for the very, very, very ugly downtown condo was because he didn't want to do yard work. The second house they saw, that really pretty one on the west side near the university, would have been a better investment, but all he kept saying was it was too much house and too much work in the yard. He said that the condo was a great investment, but boy is he wrong. I have family who say they can't get rid of those industrial condos because no one wants to live in that area---just not nice and higher crime. I think they will eventually regret buying that condo if they ever have a family and need to go to a single family house.

The other thing that gets me with these couples is when they comment that this or that part of the house isn't safe for their kids. The one couple who said the pool would be dangerous for their kids, or other couples who say a busy traffic street would be bad for the kids. You know what parents? It's called watching your kids !!!!!! For God's sake, doesn't anyone watch their kids anymore? My mom watched us kids like a hawk, and we had one of those small, above ground pools in the backyard. We also lived on a busy street but we never ran out in it. I watched my kids too and none of them did things that would cause me or my husband to not buy a certain house. Lazy parents along with lazy couples who don't want to bother to paint or cut lawn.

Why do so many of these younger HH's want one specific thing in a house, and if it's not there, they check it off the list? Last night, the man who insisted on a back yard that faced West, so he could have barbeques and watch the sun set. That idiot was just so focused on the stupid sunset that nothing else seemed to matter. And I could not believe that his wife capitulated to the only house with a Western yard. Need I remind him that in Illinois, you only BBQ for a few months of the year, and that the sunsets might not be right in the middle of the yard once fall comes? Today, in a rerun that I hadn't seen, the couple from Michigan where the husband was a big guy, and he used that as his only excuse if he hated a house. What a faker when he tried to get the wife to believe that he couldn't fit through a doorway, so they couldn't buy that house. And of course, again, the wife bowed to the husband and what he wanted. She wanted an older, historic house and he wanted a new build. Yeah, he got his new build.

I would love to see Jackie and Quinn go at it, both going after Eric.

Geeze. are all millennials that lazy and unimaginative? Ever hear of dusting ceiling fans, or is she too lazy. If you used her logic, you'd not have anything in a house because it all gets dusty. Does she think her lighting concepts aren't going to get a speck of dust on them? When we bought out house in Arizona, all I cared about was making sure every room had a ceiling fan, because it lessens the amount of air conditioning you need. We even have them on our back porch.