I live in an area with a low cost of living, and these properties are shocking to me. Most of the couples on this show have a budget of 500,000+, and around where I live, that could literally buy me a brand new mansion. I would love to see them do an area with houses around 130,000-200,000 to see what you could do on a lower budget.
shareI don't have a problem with the $500,000 episodes. It's the $800,000 and up ones that tick me off. $500,000 depending on the area MIGHT get you a finished home in or around the area I live, but not always. However, $800,000 and up DEFINITELY would.
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This has been a problem from the start of this show.IMHO.
Years ago, then the brothers started the show, I used to think that maybe the show was shot in Canada, so maybe that's why the home prices were so high?
But then, the brothers started renovating in the USA, and still....the prices for used homes were very expensive.
Also, on my TV Guide most of the time, they don't say where each Episode takes place, and that drives me nuts.
I think it would help the viewers, if they knew where each renovation was taking place.
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My wife and I have a modest 1950s tract house in southern California that cost us nearly half a million in 2005. We could probably sell it today for around 400k, move to Waco, where "Fixer Upper" is done, and buy a fully renovated vintage two-story farmhouse on ten acres, with a lake, and have plenty of money left over. Some regions are just ridiculously overpriced, and for no logical reason.
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