Property LadderThis is a TLC show where hapless people with a smidge of extra money burning a hole in their pocket buy houses that look more like heaps of falling timbers, and try to fix them up and sell them for a kajillion dollars.
What shocks me the most about this show is that it usually works. The people are almost always inept; they go overbudget, blow their timeline, and spend money on weird things. Like the flipper last night was a 23-yr-old girl who wanted the condo she was flipping to scream "Ashley" (which also happened to be her name), so she painted the bedroom red and got this crazy naked people "artistic" bowl for the bathroom sink. And still, she managed to make a profit of about $60,000.
What I like about the show's set up is that the host has been flipping houses for ten years. She talks to the potential flippers and gives them good, practical advice. No one ever follows it. Which I just don't get. Usually Kirsten does a walk-through and says "don't knock down that wall, you won't get your return on it" or "you don't really need new cabinets and a bar that is on hydraulics that lowers to the level of a sushi bar." And the next scene is the flipper talking to the camera, saying "I know Kirsten won't like it, but I really want the new cabinets and I'm sure that she'll come around." Ummm, she's the expert and this is the first time you've done anything more than change a roll of toilet paper. Maybe you should come around!
And after all of the mistakes and overspending and awful style, they still make money. This is why I feel like Keith and I should get a fixer-upper. These people make it look like there's no way you could lose money. Though I know that's not true, it's easy to be persuaded.
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