HGTV Urban Oasis is in Ann Arbor
HGTV has an annual program called Urban Oasis where the renovate and give away a home in a cool city. This year that city is Ann Arbor and the show will air in October.
The promotional video would make a great recruiting video. I could figure out how to post just the video.
Here's the link to the page:
http://www.hgtv.com/design/hgtv-urban-oasis
They usually include a car and some cash, too. Maybe this will be the year I finally win!
Cool idea, but here's the list of cool HGTV ideas that they have ruined:
-Love It or List It: spends more time on the hosts' made up rivalry than the actual renovation.
-Flip or Flop: this is still ok, wish they'd give us more about the actual renovation than the made up financial tension.
-House Hunters: 100% staged. These houses aren't even for sale most of the time.
-Property Brothers: so disingenuous and annoying that they deserve some physical violence against them...
I hate the property bros. something about their faces.
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My objections are very specific:
They always have that little mocking segment at the beginning where they show the people a decent place...and then pull the rug out from under them.
Spending 125% of the budget for 75% of their promised deliverables.
Those fucking highlights in the one dude's hair.
Their faces.
The terrible acting of the couple who pretend that they don't know how the show works and might be able to afford the first house they are shown.
Or the fact that they will say that because of unforeseen expenses, they no longer have the money to give the people that 2nd bathroom or finish a basement. Yet at the end they still gave them that stupid $1,200 chandelier and a $4,500 couch. Screw the couch and lights. I could pick that out later. Finish my damn basement.
If HGTV were just 24/7 tours of completed renos with before pics shown to compare, I'd watch it all the time. The drama they add in to every show during the reno process is excruciating.
The worst part of HGTV is that once you watch the first few minutes of an episode, it's physically impossible to not watch the rest because you have to see the finished product. I hate that, but am powerless to stop it unless there is a Michigan football replay on BTN.
And you have to be really quick to change the channel or turn it off immediately after the episode ends, or you will get sucked into the next episode.
Agreed. Especially on the property brothers, ugh. Although one show that's worth checking out is fixer upper. The hosts have a great dynamic and while many of the renovations have a similar feel it's always cool to see what they can do
They are the least annoying hosts, but their design style is awful to me. Why does everything need to look like a farm house? Shiplap is terrible.
I need more skin on Flip of Flop and I'm not talking Tarek.
to the delicious little pixie that is the Rehab Addict.
Totally agree on Love it or List it - I change the channel immediately because I refuse to give rating to any show that insists on inserting manufactured drama.
On House Hunters though, I don't really mind the fake part, becase I still think it gives a good sense of what $X gets you in Y neighborhood/city.
I actually think Property Brothers used to be decent. But like all "reality" shows, when they get popular, producers have this idea that people just want to see more manufactured drama and have the "characters" over emphasize their dramatic personailty traits.
But the idiocy of the hunters on House Hunters is amazing. YOU CAN PAINT A FUCKING WALL, IDIOTS!
is in Ann Arbor?!?!?!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Don't watch any of those shows.
This isn't a show, it's just a sweepstakes.
*No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. May not be available in all fifty states. For contest rules, please visit HGTV.com/UrbanOasisSweepstakes
I read that as HTTV
Also "urban" to me means, ya know....needless to say I was confused.
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This is an every day event in Columbus.
Bad form posting this. I was hoping it wouldn't be posted so it would reduce the number of people entering the contest, therefore increasing my chances. Thanks, buddy.
My wife just said the same thing. "Now all your internet friends are going to enter!"
The house is on Spring Street. Was a bad part of town when I was a kid, now pretty much gentrified.
some sort of weird Urban Meyer retreat.
I like home improvement shows more than house flipping/buying shows. Holmes on Homes, Trading Spaces, Christopher Lowell Show (oddly all shows that weren't on HGTV) were some of my favorite shows because they gave ideas on how to improve my house or fix it up.
My other issue is that they focus too much on the people and not the house. Property Brothers is boring because I think the brothers are too much a part of the show. Same for Love It or List It.
I can't believe I've turned into a "Get off my lawn" person in regards to home improvement shows.
I like this Old House when they are actually doing work and not looking at the kitchen designs of the wallpaper choice. Bob Viila had a show after TOH that I liked. I like any Holmes show. Hate the hell out of the yard crashers, kitchen crashers. I want to see how it's done.
I hate House Hunters. More to the point, I hate the house hunters themselves. Especially House Hunters International:
1. Americans looking for 3,500sqft mcmansions in Czech Republic.
2. They always want extra space to allow family/friends to visit. As if people will visit them in the Czech Republic.
3. One of the couple always wants to be near SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS. The other wants PRIVACY AND SOLITUDE.
4. The uncomfortable and fake scene after they move into their new home and the fake neighbors come over for wine and tiramasu.
etc
A couple years ago the house in Grosse Pointe that my wife grew up in was on House Hunters. The guy who was looking at it was a total douche. So, of course he winds up buying it.
Think I just might have to win that house. Might be my excuse to move the family to A2.
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Before we moved a couple of years ago we looked really hard in Ann Arbor and couldnt find a place for our price in an area we liked and the areas we liked were hella overpriced.
It's apparently in the water hill neighborhood
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It's on Spring St. There was an mlive article that listed the exact address.