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Sorry, I jumped topics there, my mistake.

Detroit Renovations (Nicole Curtis) purchased the house, for $32k way back in 4/30/13, it is still showing as being owned by her, 20 months later, and no licenses for rental. She had it on and off the market a few times, lowered the price, and it's currently inactive. Ithink it's a matter of over pricing and location isssues. I doubt she's making much money on this one after all this time!

The latest Lebron episode was pretty boring, but it was nice to see more of the family who's house it is. I can see why Lebron picked that little girl to help, she is adorable and has a lovely personality, she just shines. The look on Nicole's dad's face was great, when Nicole's son said he was in charge, standing there with a clip board, in spotless clothes, not dirty and sweaty like everyone else. I don't think grandpa was impressed!

I believe that statement really is from Nicole, same combative attitude against anyone who's not praising her, and same incoherent and rambling sentences she writes on social media. I hope what she takes from reading this forum is that viewers, who used to like the show, now find it ridiculous. She and the show have changed, she is not the humble woman looking for investors she used to be, she now has a sense of entitlement and the show is less informative. It's now a show about Nicole more than it is about the houses. I have a friend who is a very well known author, household name sort of guy. He once told me the last thing anyone in the public eye should do is read everything about themselves, fans will worship you and give you a massive ego and a false sense of your own importance, critics who will hurt your heart and make you doubt yourself, all of it affects you and the people closest to you. There's a reason they say fame comes with a price.

Many messages back, I posted a video that was made to sell the house prior to Nicole's BF purchasing it. You can see the whole house, as it was, when he bought it. The bathrooms were intact then, and gorgeous, and you can see the kitchen had already been remodeled. Granite countertops in kitchen and pantry, not sure if they were new cupboards, but they weren't terrible. I'm sure Nicole's BF wasn't about to spend money on replacing a fairly new kitchen just for her show, so she simply didn't mention it. I had to laugh at how her voice over says, "I've spent the last few months doing xyz rooms..." It's obvious that this all happened over a long period, never mind her saying so on social media. Why not just be open and honest about the scope of the project? I love the "royal we" she uses all the time, it's obvious she was mostly the interior designer on this project. Professionals were hired for everything, including the placement and installation of the elevator. Nicole barely got her hands dirty, except for a photo op now and then. The fakiness of so much of her shows makes me question everything she says, so much is misinformation! The "adding a personal spin" doesn't appeal to me either, I want to see the house, not her son getting his braces off. What did that have to do with anything?

I love it when she puts subway tile in a house built before 1904, when subway tile was invented, and then says it would have been original to the house.

Nicole said on facebook that it took 2.5 years to complete. It was her boyfriends house and I don't think he was doing it all at once, the pool house was one of the later projects. Plus she had other projects she was working on during that time, her own flips for profit, with her regular crew. I do like seeing the inside of this house, it's gorgeous, and luckily it doesn't need a lot of structural work. Nicole has someone else's money to use, and a bigger budget, so she's actually hiring professionals to do a lot of the work, which is great. I'd rather see someone else do the work right, and have Nicole jump in now and then for a photo op, But that pool scene was really fake and dumb. She keeps saying it's in Minneapolis, it's not, it's in St. Paul, whole different city. I don't know if she's just trying to simplify it for us stupid viewers, or she gets easily confused, but then again this is the woman who was amazed that there were antique snow globes, she had no idea they weren't a new invention...

Here is a youtube sales clip of the house before Shane Maguire purchased it, for $950k, in 2012. Now we know how Nicole knew what the bathrooms were before they were gutted, and why she was so upset, they were gorgeous! The house seems to be in good condition, it just needs some decorating, the previous owner sure liked pink!

Sorry, I thought it would copy the case page. Follow the link, click on Civil, Family & Probate Case Records Search Results, enter the search under the party name, Nicole Curtis, it's the one v. Jason Jenny.

She puts some kind of deed agreement in the sale contract, but I don't know how legally binding it is. Another reason to not buy a house she's selling, work done by volunteer labor and cheap fixes, and she seems to stick her nose in your business. She recently was complaining on social media that she drives by "her" houses regularly and someone who bought one of them doesn't have a flag flying!! What a PITA, they're not her houses anymore. She has yet to sell the open bathroom house, it's been on the market a while. Isn't it gorgeous!? From what I have gathered from her posting on social media, this house belonged to...... you guessed it, probably..... another ex boyfriend, Shane of the Gold Guys! They split this summer. It seems like an older person's house, so I am guessing he bought it as an investment, the title was in his name alone, and it sold this past spring. I don't know if she met him when he hired her to reno this house, but from her pics on FB, he gave her the 60s pickup for her birthday before she posted pics of this house, so it looks like they knew each other pretty well when she started this project. At least she has the budget to do this one right, and can hire professionals for almost all the work. It made me laugh when she looked at the wainscotting the carpenter made and installed and she said "A normal person would stop here, but not me, I'm going to do them all!" Or something to that effect. Umm, no, a normal person would finish all the walls too, it's just that the flipper in Nicole would normally stop with one wall! I did like that she gave Scott at Guilded Salvage the credit for the idea to continue the panelled wall into the bathroom, he's a great guy. Things that made me laugh in these first two episodes: She was not in Minneapolis looking at St. Paul, that is not possible, they are not directly across the river from one another, she was most likely in West St. Paul, or Mendota Heights. Why say "I'm in Minneapolis looking at St. Paul..."? I know someone who doesn't live here wouldn't know that, but still, I find it odd. She now has a little title under her name when she does the ending monologue that says "Restoration Expert", really? Tell that to your bath and kitchen countertops in the 4th St House! Could her son Ethan be less enthusiastic to be "working" with her, or on camera? Yeah, he got to clean the fake log fireplace! He doesn't seem to want to be part of the show, ever.

I should add that I did feel a bit bad for Nicole recently. There was a wedding on the front lawn of Minnehaha, big tent, flowers everywhere, it looked lovely. Someone got married there, just not Nicole.

There was a decision reached in the case, not in Nicole's favor, so she is appealing it. I think she is just dragging this out to torture the guy who owns it, her ex who is the oral surgeon. It probably not too bad for him, the house is rented, and property values In Minneapolis are going up, especially in the SW neighborhood where Minnehaha is located. Despite what nicole may say on TV, it has always been a high end neighborhood, and her ex is making more money hanging on to the house. Here's the latest filing, http://pa.courts.state.mn.us/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=1615847108