cheryl I love HGTV and happened to tune into Masters of Flip for the first time. Right from the get go there was arguing between the couple with the wife making a suggestion and the husband giving her a disparaging retort. Upon entering a potential house to flip the husband then hits the wife in the back of the head as she's walking away, first with a football and then a second time (!!!) with a basketball, and not by accident but on purpose! Who on earth would enjoy watching this kind of abuse??? And the wife just takes it! So not cool. This show but is seriously sexist / misogynistic and therefore offensive.

hermankitching Hi, I am enjoying this show tremendously!! I feel Kortney and Dave is a wonderful couple. I wish I could stay in one of their houses as I feel that they put a lot of love and enthusiasm into every project.I enjoy seeing the difference between the start of the project to the wonderful outcome. Please do not stop being so enthusiastic!Unfortunately in South Africa our houses are inside out build with bricks so it is not so easy to make the changes you can. I still find lots of creative ideas I can follow. I have already ventured out of my comfort zone with color. Wish you can come and visit us in South Africa and show how to flip these brick houses.Regards Claudia

Connecticut These two hosts are obnoxious.The wife, Kourtney (add hair flip here), acts like she's an "America's Top Model" wannabe instead of a "designer", and the minute I saw the husband with that hat on all the time, I knew he must be bald.The Masters of Flip duo seem to be much more interested in their profit rather than in creating a home. Their know-it-all attitude is the clincher. This show is impossible to watch.Skip this show and watch Flip or Flop or Fixer Upper instead, where the hosts are much more palatable.

Special K I think this just might be my favourite of the reno shows when everything is considered. The finished houses are all different, style wise, and they don't always stick to the "neutral" notion that everyone else seem obsessed by. They do things like painting the internal trim a colour other than white (oh no, they wouldn't, the design lemmings scream aghast). They don't always paint everything in "neutral tones", inside or outside. They actually incorporate televisions into the design. They paint front doors orange or turquoise (more screams of protest ensue). They take chances in their designs, their finished houses have character and are often quirky, and I for one like that! I would even want to buy one of their flips and not want to change, repaint everything within a month. Not to dismiss shows like Fixer Upper, Income Property, or the Property Bros, (and others) which I do like, but hey, how much beige and grey and white can one person take.The discussion on the renovations themselves, are pretty good also. Choices, problems are explained. And they seem to try to keep the extreme fake drama (take that; love it or list it) down to a minimum. What does come up, for the most part, seems viable. The need for certain changes, and building codes are explained with it getting too top heavy (that's what Mike Holmes is for, lol). Sometimes when I watch these reno shows, I have to think the people in charge of inspecting the house had to be idiots that the problems found after demo were a surprise. Especially when it's in the basement or foundation - that should be the first place inspected when first viewing the house and definitely before buying one. I also like that they show the need to go around and take photos near the end of the reno of the bits and pieces that aren't done -- a realistic part of any reno.Someone mentioned that this show was somehow less because the final staging factored strongly in the final sale price point, but that would be the same with all of these shows. I think this speaks more (negatively) about the potential buyers and their personal lack of imagination, than of the show. It has been shown repeatedly that buyers, that people, are really only interested in the final vision, the pretty picture. They don't really care about what's behind the pretty facade. That behind the nicely finished basement walls or floors, is a crumbling foundation allowing water and earth and critters in, causing untold damage. Let's face it, what's behind the walls isn't sexy (okay, it is to me, but that's another story).My one huge criticism of this and pretty much all of these reno shows is the unwarranted waste and garbage they create on "demo" day, by their complete destruction of all of the existing cabinets and such. Yeah, maybe it's fun to smash stuff, but c'mon, most of that stuff could be reused, repurposed, by many other people who don't have tens of thousands of dollars to just buy the kitchen or bathroom of their dreams. Or even donate the building materials to places like the habitate for humanity type places. Just trashing all of these potentially reusable materials and creating even more landfill is not cool at all!