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Apparently Season 2 is a go, 13 episodes, Brett's got pics up on his Instagram account. No idea when the air dates are, but I don't think they started filming until June, so 2018 seems like a good bet.

Was this the house that had all of the SECURITY CAMERAS IN USE signs all over the property? As I recall, there was a commercial dumpster across the street and it looked like a terrible area. If you look up the Zillow link above, the rough Zillow "guesstimate" of property values in the area is in the $80k range. Didn't this couple put in north of $250,000?

If you REALLY needed to move your tiny house around frequently, you would just buy an RV - something that is built with the type of lightweight materials that make it practical to move. I suspect most of these tiny houses don't move often, which is why they can be built with drywall and tile and granite/concrete counters and residential windows. And, of course, a lot of them are site-built, not built on a trailer platform. I have a 21' travel trailer (168 sf) and it is fine for camping out in the forests (or the beach) for weeks at a time. Sure, it is small, but since the majority of your time is spent outside, it really isn't a problem. Most people who "full time" or "snowbird" in RVs have 35-40' trailers (which is still only 320 sf max).

Watched two episodes of Tiny House Paradise (or maybe Paradise Tiny House) - one built in the jungles near Tulum, the other built in Hawaii. The "kids" building the tiny house near Hilo were hilarious. It's pretty clear that they had someone behind the scene doing the major structural framing and then they admitted they had an electrician and a drywaller, but the swinging bridge and the zip line and the artistic furniture were great. In both cases, the tiny houses had extensive outdoor living space, which is where you'd actually spend most of your time. Although both of them could use bug screening, I have been in both of those places and it is really necessary.

Because most of the houses are slab on grade, so any ducting has to be in the ceiling. Once the ducting is in the ceiling, then it makes sense to put the air handler up there as well. Heat pumps are still usually mounted on the ground, though.

Also the "I am all that is man" (or whatever the exact quote is) - while I realize that you may THINK you are, fortunately you are NOT.

I thought that avoiding the whole issue of their relationship was a good idea. Anything they say could be regarded in a poor light, so saying nothing was probably best. They seemed to be getting along as well as they ever did - Christina slightly overspends and Tarek rolls his eyes and goes along, which is pretty much the status quo. Remember that we have come to grey and white via dark cabinets and dark floors and as soon as something else becomes popular, we'll move that well as well. The advantage of grey and white is that it is very neutral, can go with ANY accents colors and particularly allows the "pop of color" items to shine. Didn't care for the backsplash tiles, but since they put them up right over drywall without any surface prep, they'll come off fairly easily. The all-grey-tile shower is a different story, that will be an expensive fix. Didn't like it and I thought it made the shower stall look like a tiny freight elevator. On the other hand, what do I know, there was a bidding war for this house. These people can't be getting regular mortgages as I doubt the house would appraise that much higher than the comps, complete reno or no - I think the limit on a jumbo mortgage is $625,000 (it is $417,000 in most of the US except about 18 high-cost housing markets), so you'd think there would be a sweet spot right below that. Agreed about Christina's stagers, they make the house look attractive and clean and even if you don't like the exact furniture and colors, it's easy to see the layout and flow of the space. Less is more in staging and the Vegas gal - who seems to design houses for singles who love the casino life and AirBnB owners who want Vegas kitsch - hasn't figured out that her staging makes the houses look tiny and cramped. At least if I bought the house in this episode, I'd only have to change out the one shower and the backsplash tile in the kitchen, everything else can stay (even if marble is not my favorite, waaay too slick for bathroom floors and easy to stain or markup as as a kitchen counter, although if you do a lot of baking, a marble surface is great). Most of the houses on the Vegas show, the flooring, counters, tile, sinks, brass crap and light fixtures would ALL have to go. I've seen multiple episodes of T&C's show where the trash in the house - and particularly the graffiti - looked staged to me. But, yes, in general the houses are in poor shape, which is why they should never be surprised by cracked foundations, bad wiring, bad plumbing, dead HVAC, bad roofs, serious code violations, unpermitted additions, etc etc. I think it is part of the TV drama when they are, with a couple exceptions here and there that are things you could not catch by taking a very careful look at the property. I think the difference in the amount of work needed is that the houses that T&C flip are purchased in the price range where you can do a new roof and gut the kitchen and bathrooms and still make a tidy profit. A basic complete kitchen (cabinets, tile floor, countertops, appliances) is $15,000-$30,000 in both locations. If you buy a house for $370,000 and expect to sell it for $500,000 (a 35% increase), there is room to do all that work. If you buy a house for $175,000 and expect to flip it for $220,000 (a 25% increase) your costs are such that a new kitchen and a new roof are out of the question. The Vegas couple like to claim they "do the work" themselves, but if you look at mistakes on the shows, they are always blaming it on someone else while they were either out of town or on another site, no different than T&C. And there are always lots of people in the background in both shows, like the competent tiler workers that Tarek should let set all the tile instead of doing a sloppy job himself for the TV closeup.

The production company was looking for more projects, so they are going forward as if there is a new season, but the network (HGTV ed: the show was on DIY, owned by Scripps Network, which also owns HGTV - and Food Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel) hasn't announced the show is renewed, so it is still in limbo. There, typing that ought to make them announce today or tomorrow that they've renewed the show, so that I am wrong.

HGTV had him on as a "judge" on the most recent episode of Brother v Brother, so he's still apparently considered saleable by the network. I know they were scouting potential properties in Yucaipa. Haven't found anything that says the show was renewed - but the hideous "Flip or Flop Vegas" just got another season, so they really need to bring Brett back as he is a much better host with a much better show.

I tend to watch this with the sound off because I detest the "I want to beat my brother!" whining. Lol at the cabinet mistakes in both houses, though. I think I actually believe the 1 week timeline in this case, I think they had to get the measurements out before they were really done putting up the walls and they were apparently too rushed to do a double check. Also, unlike a lot of home flipping shows, they were actually looking forward by adding gaskets to outlets (that is probably not a code requirement) or leaving the buyers more flooring. A lot of the flips I see are rush jobs designed to look good on the surface but doing the bare minimum to get it done - not what you would do if you were the homeowner living there. The one design is a bit too modern for me but the other house seems so small and tight on the main floor. Also, I hate the brass/gold accents and it's something I would replace immediately.

Watched the last episode of the season - clearly the design and colors were to the homeowner's taste and not theirs (or mine), but what seemed like a real mistake to me was that the large frameless painting blended in to the wall color, that seemed wrong to me. Although I like seeing things done with color, even when I am not all that fond of the colors, as I am not a fan of white, white, white. Also, lol at the daybed not fitting.....

Depending on the state, you won't see the actual sale price until the sale is closed. Here, at least, the price on the on-line listing stays at whatever it was when the listing was removed from market and the actual sale price isn't updated until the sale is registered with the county. It's likely marked "contingent" instead of sold because the seller would be willing to take back up offers if the contingent sale falls through. Usually contingencies are for things like selling another property first.

So I understand that both the tile and the grout in the kitchen were painted? This is the problem with low margin flips - things are slapped together to look "good" (the pics in the realtor listing above are hideous, so "good" is a relative term) but there are lots of problems underneath. That is not to say a flipper who does a complete tile job always does a good job, but a splash of paint over something like tile has about as long a life as make up for a night out. Sure, you can paint tile with epoxy paint IF you roughen the surface, mask very carefully, use a good quality paint, but that that point you might as well just re-tile, especially on a backsplash, which isn't structural and doesn't have to be water-tight.

In the last episode I saw (I think I am 2 or 3 behind, at least), Erin drew a pattern for wallpaper, which I really liked (except I would have liked a bit more green and less blue). I was pleased to see what a great job she did on that, because sometimes I look at her "house" drawings in the beginning and think "hmmm, call it American Primitive and let it go."

I prefer the "3 hours to forge a knife in your signature style that will meet tests X, Y, and Z" - that way they separate out the people who really aren't skilled enough or have issues with time management after the first challenge. It was clear in the last episode I saw (the one where the contestant burned his hand so badly) that he did not have a lot of experience forging - what the heck was he doing on a show called "Forged in Fire"? Also I think the competitors should be forced to sit through a basic shop safety lecture (they may actually be) - things like warning people when you are arc welding or how to do the hot metal in a tight workshop with several other people. Was it this last episode where David wanted the floor safety people to make the young guy turn the tip of the knife the other way on the belt sander? Sure, not all home shops have those big power hammers or gas forges (many still use coal forges) but the ultimate point is that I am not watching this show to see someone damage themselves permanently or have a heart attack on the forge floor. Also, I know my metallurgy better than a lot of the contestants do, and I am just a geologist, not a knife-maker.

Didn't care for the couple in the water damage episode but liked most of the remodel - except for the table in the master bath. I guess it is supposed to look high-end, but it is just a space-waster. Make the bathroom smaller and the closet bigger if you have THAT much space. I'll never be a posh person, I guess. The issue with the flooring was odd - they originally showed the couple a hand-scraped matte almost grey-toned wood which they couple liked. Then the next thing they showed was an entire garagefull of boxes of a glossy chestnut wood. Completely different. It sounded like the wait was partly over their daughter's medical issues taking precedence and partly over getting the insurance company to pony up the money.

So in the last episode they showed some glimpses of their new home, which they talked up as their "forever" home and how they would all grow old together in this home - and yet as soon as they finished the reno, it went on the market. http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-nate-berkus-hollywood-home-for-sale-20160914-snap-story.html Hmm, so they didn't like their own finished reno? The neighborhood? Found something they liked better?

This is one of the few shows in which I think that the homeowners do actually have some input on design. Even though Nate said something along the lines of "I am not going to consult you on every detail" a few episodes back, it looks to me as though they do design with homeowner's preferences in mind. This last episode with the brown and green walls was not at all to my taste, but the homeowners seemed pleased with it. In general I've liked the shows so far, even when some of the choices wouldn't have been mine. And Poppy is completely adorable.

Nate and Jeremiah's latest, the house from "Uncle Al" in Eagle Rock? That was the first episode in which I did not like very many of the design choices, particularly the wall colors. It made the house look so dark and I liked the grasscloth wallpaper better before it was painted. She did say she didn't want beige, and. boy, did she not get beige. I did like the dining table (although not the brass legs) and most of the furniture. This is the first episode in which the homeowners actually had a budget that was realistic AND not only did N&J stay in budget, they came in $15,000 under.

I stopped watching this show at the blue and gold episode, but I do like the possibility of flips in other cities where the cost of the house and the potential price of the flip preclude the $100,000 materials/labor flips of the original Flip or Flop. It IS harder to flip in a lower priced area because you have less headroom. You can't spend $50,000 on a kitchen when your initial cost is $125,000 and your flip value is most likely $150,000. The thing about low margin flips, though, is that you know the flippers did the cheapest job possible and you have to be very wary of serious plumbing/electrical/foundation issues. The other issue with a lot of these flip shows, where they buy something for $150,000 and put $150,000 in it (Fixer Upper, original Flip or Flop, Home Town) is that it all depends on what the rest of the houses in the neighborhood are worth. If all of the houses in a neighborhood are going from a low of $150,000 to a high of $250,000, you CAN'T spend a total of $400,000 on the house and improvements, not unless you plan to stay forever or you like throwing money away, because you will never get the money back. You aren't going to be able to finance that, either, because you'll never get appraiser approval, so you'd be looking at all cash. I am surprised T&C's houses actually appraise when they are selling for more than local comps - or maybe that is an all-cash price, you'd be surprised at the number of all cash buyers, even in the 1 million mark.

The problem with the tacky blue and gold house was - say you liked the floorplan and location but hated the colors - it would cost you a fair amount of money to change those colors because they were in the hard surfaces. What I know about the other ForF, which is certainly not set in stone (but is up on Wikipedia). Looks like Atlanta in summer and then Dallas, Chicago and Nashville in Feb 2018. Some of these hosts have already had a one-shot with HGTV about flipping in their communities and at least one couple is ALREADY divorced, so that drama can't happen again Flip or Flop Atlanta will be a television series airing on HGTV hosted by real estate agents Ken and Anita Corsini. It will be a spin-off of the HGTV series Flip or Flop. It will premiere in summer 2017 and be held in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] Flip or Flop Texas will be a television series airing on HGTV hosted by real estate agents Andy and Ashley Williams. It will be a spin-off of the HGTV series Flip or Flop. It will premiere in February 2018 and be held in Dallas metropolitan area.[1] Flip or Flop Chicago will be a television series airing on HGTV hosted by real estate agents Mark and Liz Perez. It will be a spin-off of the HGTV series Flip or Flop. It will premiere in February 2018 and be held in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Flip or Flop Nashville will be a television series airing on HGTV hosted by real estate agents DeRon Jenkins and Page Turner. It will be a spin-off of the HGTV series Flip or Flop. It will premiere in February 2018 and be held in Nashville, Tennessee.[1]

Well, that was my other point, I'd rather not have butcher block near the sink and stove because I'd rather have an undermount sink and that is really only available with solid surface (granite, quartz, etc). There are also molded-in sinks available with Corian, but I am not a Corian fan. Otherwise the usual install is to use silicone seal to "glue" the sink in and then either use drilled tabs on the underside lip of the sink or a kind of wire turnbuckle that supports the sink. I have always run another bead of silicone seal between the sink edge and the counter to keep anything from getting in between the two surfaces. It never seemed like a big deal to me. Yes, from the hosts, clients, workers (although there have been several non-white workers), shots inside other Laurel establishments, you'd get a different impression. Although I think the pilot episode had a black couple as clients.

His goal is to restore the house as much as possible while still making it function and a bit more to the homeowner's taste. He's tried to talk a few people into keeping tile (I think it was the show with the root beer brown tile) and when that didn't work, he went for a (very expensive) sort of period correct, if not actually old, tile. I don't think any of the houses he has done have been on the historical register for the areas or he'd be facing a committee to approve the changes. Marble would actually be correct for the period, but not correct for the smaller "humbler" cottages that he has been working on. I'd be kinda pushing back on some of the muddy earth colors he picks for exteriors - yes, it's historically accurate, but it's not always flattering.

pssst.. wrong show, that's Flip or Flop.

Edit: Spoke too soon, apparently they have both been signed on for more episodes. The headline says "Season 8" but the text says that they will extend the upcoming season to more episode. Wonder if it has anything to do with the nearly universal thumbs-down (internet reviews, comments on HGTV's Fb page) that Flip or Flop Vegas is getting? Pretty sure the "new" (ie: already finished) season will be short, too. Season 6 was 17 episodes, Season 7 will be 5 episodes. Pretty clear that either HGTV is done with them or they are done with HGTV, whichever way. Although I am sure the 5 episodes will have great ratings as viewers tune in to analyze every word and/or glance. Pass on the excitement for me. As it is I was already just FF through the intro to the house layout, preview of a couple rooms and then on to the final reveal.