This show is another show in the long line from 'Bravo Reality' of folks who's jobs in real life really aren't that interesting - but because of some quirk makes entertaining television.
What makes Jeff, this real estate investor's life, interesting to Bravo is that he buys overpriced Southern California property and 'flips' it into more exceedingly over priced property. And as PT Banrum would paraphrase: "there's a sucker born every minute" and there will always be someone who buys Jeff's crown jewels, in which case allows Jeff to be more obnoxious and condescending as ever. This is what Bravo wants its audience to think 'success' is about.
Thing is - there's nothing wrong with any of that. It's the American way. Jeff found a niche and went with it, and for those that buy it - all the better for him, his partner and the other "hanger-ons". But what is the worst part of this show is Jeff's alleged obsessive compulsiveness that allows him to talk/treat folks like dogs and think he's 'king of the financial world.' This show can easily be retitled, "My Sweet 16 at 30/40 something and now I sell Real Estate!". Make no mistake, this is Jeff's coming-out party house after house. And Jeff is 'compulsive' about how he can 'flip' a property, sell it for twice - sometimes three times - it's worth, stock it with furniture you would get for 1/16th of the price at "Living Spaces" (A Southern California low priced furniture store) and make himself (And those investors that can take his flipping out)a lot of dough.
But does this make for entertaining TV? Do you care about the life of THIS picky, compulsive real estate investor? Do you care about the steps HE takes to refurbish homes? Do you care that he surrounds himself with walking stereotypes to make himself look competent? Not really. Not unless you find something entertaining in watching rich folks get their comeuppance when the escrow closes on Jeff's flippin' homes.
I can't believe this show for I think most of the home buying public normally wants to buy a home and put in their touches on it - not have Jeff's nervous compulsive vision forced down your throat...real estate investor/house flipper or not. But maybe an idea is to show that rich people can be stupid about investing their money too.
He "flips out" more than his creations. Maybe that's what Bravo found entertaining. I don't. Many times he made me wonder what IF 'Norman Bates' got out of prison. Jeff answers that question for me: He'd be a real estate investor in Southern California.
What makes Jeff, this real estate investor's life, interesting to Bravo is that he buys overpriced Southern California property and 'flips' it into more exceedingly over priced property. And as PT Banrum would paraphrase: "there's a sucker born every minute" and there will always be someone who buys Jeff's crown jewels, in which case allows Jeff to be more obnoxious and condescending as ever. This is what Bravo wants its audience to think 'success' is about.
Thing is - there's nothing wrong with any of that. It's the American way. Jeff found a niche and went with it, and for those that buy it - all the better for him, his partner and the other "hanger-ons". But what is the worst part of this show is Jeff's alleged obsessive compulsiveness that allows him to talk/treat folks like dogs and think he's 'king of the financial world.' This show can easily be retitled, "My Sweet 16 at 30/40 something and now I sell Real Estate!". Make no mistake, this is Jeff's coming-out party house after house. And Jeff is 'compulsive' about how he can 'flip' a property, sell it for twice - sometimes three times - it's worth, stock it with furniture you would get for 1/16th of the price at "Living Spaces" (A Southern California low priced furniture store) and make himself (And those investors that can take his flipping out)a lot of dough.
But does this make for entertaining TV? Do you care about the life of THIS picky, compulsive real estate investor? Do you care about the steps HE takes to refurbish homes? Do you care that he surrounds himself with walking stereotypes to make himself look competent? Not really. Not unless you find something entertaining in watching rich folks get their comeuppance when the escrow closes on Jeff's flippin' homes.
I can't believe this show for I think most of the home buying public normally wants to buy a home and put in their touches on it - not have Jeff's nervous compulsive vision forced down your throat...real estate investor/house flipper or not. But maybe an idea is to show that rich people can be stupid about investing their money too.
He "flips out" more than his creations. Maybe that's what Bravo found entertaining. I don't. Many times he made me wonder what IF 'Norman Bates' got out of prison. Jeff answers that question for me: He'd be a real estate investor in Southern California.