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Originally Posted by isaidso
You also notice it in those real estate shows. People have a list of wants but don't have the money to pay for it. Who's fault is it? The designer or real estate agent!!! It couldn't possibly be because they don't have enough money. The entertainment value in those shows is often seeing how out to lunch the clients are.  |
"We want a 35,000 square foot authentic English Tudor manor home, transported brick by brick, of course, and it has to be on a dozen acres, but we want the home to be in a good neighbourhood that is close to downtown, maybe on the Danforth or Roncesvalles. It has to have an Olympic-sized outdoor pool, with a second equally-sized indoor wave pool with water slides, and a geothermal-powered hot tub grotto with a geode interior and fiber-optic lighting. We need a 5-star quality 2,000 square foot luxury tree house as a guesthouse and the tree needs to be high enough to see the lake and the downtown skyline but we don't want it to shadow the property. Everything must be off-the-grid solar power but we don't want to see the solar panels. We want a heliport that can accommodate a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor helicopter and we want the helicopter to come with it,
but don't make the heliport look ugly. We must have a thirteen-car garage stocked with matching his-and-hers German luxury SUVs and three Tesla Model S P85D with all the options. This is really important, we expect that the property will come with a private island in the Caribbean and, David, if there isn't a Gulfstream 650 on standby 24/7 for us to use at Billy Bishop Airport, we are going to lose it. We are absolutely dead-set on all of this, David, and we've made this easy for you by giving you $100,000 to spend. We could go as high as $120,000 if absolutely necessary, but that has to include top-to-bottom interior renovations and bespoke interior design throughout.
Nothing from a store, David, nothing. Okay, make it happen, David. You're the best. Impress us."
"... I'm at a loss for words. That is the most ludicrous-"
"Make it happen, DAVID."
"You two are absolutely out to lunch. I'd be hard pressed to get all that for you for $120 million, let alone the imbecilic budget you've come to me with. Where the hell are the show's producers? Is this a joke?"
"David, if you do your job you can make this happen. We believe in you. This is easy, just do your job."