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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, October 08, 2004 - 7:11 pm
It was actually the dullest show of the series if ya ask me...
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Friday, October 08, 2004 - 7:19 pm
Steve and Nicole won for Unit #1. It sold for 1.2 million and they received $317,250. Seems like it was very marketable because it was the top unit. Barney and Rose and Dave and Anna's sold for $950,000. I think Scotty and Sam's sold for $925,000.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, October 08, 2004 - 7:25 pm
Ack, Rslover, many people didn't see it yet. (Debates knocked it to a different time/day.) Hope they didn't see the result if they didn't want too. Typically you should type "spoiler ahead" (or something like that) and then type the spoiler in white or put a lot of spaces in before the spoiler.
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Friday, October 08, 2004 - 8:40 pm
Considering there are about a handful of us who watch this show, I wouldn't worry about it. Anyway, if someone doesn't want to know the ending then they shouldn't come to the thread. That's what I do when I don't want to be spoiled. I notice people usually come to a thread because they missed a show and do want to find out what happened.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, October 08, 2004 - 8:45 pm
You are right, they should stay clear away if they don't wanna know. But I am thinking they might come here to find out if this show was even on tonight, cuz in some parts the debates knocked it off. Know what I mean? Usually we try not to spoil til next day anyways. Next day though, all bets are off!
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Mssilhouette
Member
07-11-2001
| Friday, October 08, 2004 - 10:41 pm
So I watched the finale and there was too much room for planted bidders. C'mon now everyone else's sells for about 900K and the obviously the one sells for 1.2 Mil? Which just happens to belong to what we now know is the "All American" team? I thought that the apart that used to belong to Brad and Lou(I think that's right) was worth because they had a better craftmanship. And one lady was bidding on TWO apartments. Sheesh And the prize money!? I thought they said the winner takes home the profit from all 4 apartments not a percentage of the total sale of all 4. So basically in the end out of 45 days of work they get $317,250 And after taxes what's that going to be around 200K or so. Meanwhile the real estate co gets what nearly 4 million dollars. If i got my math right the winners only got roughly 7.95% of the total sale of the apartments. What a ripoff considering all that hard work they put in. On the positive note, I'm sure they'll have a nice wedding with that money.
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Willwillbee
Member
09-20-2001
| Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 12:03 am
If their condo sold for what the other condos did, they would have only gotten $67,000 (& I thought that $300,000 was a rip). Sounds like some creative bookkeeping that (I bet) didn't account for the revenue from the program (commercials - Sears probably paid big bucks to be included & donated monies used) Is a million bucks for a condo a bargain?? They got all this free labor in an incredible turn around time. I bet someone profited big time on this deal.
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Chieko
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 11:35 pm
I thought that the way it worked was that the winners got the net profit which would be the selling price minus the original cost of the condominium minus the cost of renovation materials and furnishings. I think also that condo 1 was just a more desirable unit because it was at the top, the most privacy, the closest to the street and parking and no upstairs neighbors, in essense the penthouse.
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 9:35 am
Chieko, That's how I saw it. They really did get slave labor. To do all that work for 7 weeks and not get anything in return.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 4:28 am
All through the series, every time I saw people trudging up and down the steps with heavy furniture I thought what a pain it would be to live all the way at the bottom. As many trips as I have to make into the house from the car after a simple grocery store trip for a family of four, I'd either die of a heart attack living in Unit #4 of The Complex: Malibu--or I'd lose a lot of weight!!
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Tallen
Member
04-22-2004
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 3:46 pm
First time poster - peeking out of lurkdom. At the very end of the program, they had a quick screen that stated the "profit" was any amount above and beyond what each apartment was appraised at by a real estate professional (at least that’s my interpretation). That being said, you know the owners made a pretty penny on this project.
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Aus10
Member
09-28-2000
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 8:15 pm
What school teaches that profit is derived from appraised value instead of actual cost? Cracker Jack U? That being said...I enjoyed the show but found the whole last episode to be a letdown and felt that the winners got shafted big time.....
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 11:41 pm
I totally agree Aus. The last episode was a total letdown.
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Sunday, October 17, 2004 - 10:22 am
I so agree: it ended kinda dry. It started off ok then slid...what can I say it left no impression on me.
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Xena
Member
10-14-2004
| Thursday, October 21, 2004 - 2:17 pm
I was not impressed. They didn't win enough money first of all,second they get credit for alot of other peoples work in the apartment. I'm glad its over with. I did like alot of the designs though.
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