A Las Vegas couple is waging an intense legal battle with the former production
company of HGTV's Property Brothers after their home was allegedly left
in complete shambles.
Now, HGTV has many different shows.
A lot of them actually have home renovations as part of their programing,
and there have been a lot of stories in the news in recent years where people
who were chosen to have their homes remodeled as part of these shows, these
reality shows ended up with all sorts of construction issues to, to put it mildly.
And this couple is claiming the same.
So after they got married in 2018, Paul and Mindy King purchased a home
and entered into an agreement with Jonathan and Drew Scott.
Those are the hosts of the show Property Brothers,
to update and renovate their dream home.
Now the Kings paid them $200,000 up front to do this.
So I think there's also this thought process of, oh, since they're part of the
show, they get these home renovations for free, but that's not necessarily the case.
And it wasn't the case according to what the Kings are claiming here.
And from first glance, the renovations looked okay.
They look nice. You know, that looks totally fine.
But if you've ever been in a home that's been flipped, meaning an investor bought
it, spit on some tile and then like, put it on a wall, it might look good,
but then an hour after you move into your new home, everything starts falling apart.
So be careful when you're moving into a newly flipped home or a turnkey home.
Is it really turnkey? Is it now?
They claim that the beautiful looking home or interior was all a facade,
because underneath it all, that beauty is a disaster.
According to their lawsuit.
In the lawsuit filed in Clark County District Court, the Kings
claimed Cineflix, the production company the Scotts were working with at the time,
and Villa Construction delivered the exact opposite of a makeover.
Their home was left with a moldy dishwasher deemed a biohazard
by inspectors, sewage leaking into their cupboards, and a sink that collapsed
into their kitchen island, according to court documents.
So Jonathan and Drew Scott are not named as defendants in the lawsuit.
I want to be clear about that, but the Kings have stated that they
might add them as defendants later.
And here are some photos of the shoddy work the Kings have allegedly received.
They provided these images to a local news station, eight News Now, to be exact.
So in the first photo on the left, it's a pipe under the sink where sludge and
like stuff from the sewer was leaking out.
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It's yeah pretty bad. And it destroyed the the cabinet.
The second photo wrong size gas line slash pipe making their stove range unusable
for the past four years.
The third photo is their sink at their island bar which fell through the counter.
How does that even happen? That's amazing.
And then the fourth photo is a mold build up in their dishwasher
that was deemed a biohazard, resulting in the entire unit or resulting in
the entire dishwasher unit being removed.
And according to the lawsuit, they claim that Cineflix allegedly
wasn't licensed in the state of Nevada in order to perform this work.
That's what they're claiming.
Obviously, this will have to be proven in court, and Villa Construction
didn't have the necessary expertise to conduct this remodeling work.
The Kings believed that they are not liable for the defects and the production
company needs to pay up, especially when you look at the contract.
So the contractual agreement with Cineflix states that the Kings are
entitled to $5,000 each day if their deficiencies aren't corrected
past the agreed upon completion date.
That date was May of 2019, so there's more details to get.
It's bad.
There's more details to get into and look, without getting into details, because I
don't want to get anyone in trouble.
I personally know someone who was chosen to have their home remodeled
as one of these shows.
Not Property Brothers, to be sure, but one of these like it is HGTV, but one of the
HGTV shows, they they destroyed the house.
It was bad. I saw it, it was bad.
So it is not far fetched to claim that maybe they did shoddy work,
but it obviously would need to be proven in court.
What do you think, John?
Okay, I think first of all, I want you to text me the name because I
still have my fingers crossed the Jasmine Roth is gonna help me out at some point,
but, yeah, so not super surprised by it.
For two reasons.
First of all, the thing that makes you a compelling presence to host a show
or even to make choices that look good.
When you film something like an eye for colors and things like that,
that has nothing to do with the quality of the work.
Why would it like maybe, maybe they take their work seriously or do a good job?
First of all, most most of the people that are on TV, they're not the ones
doing the work anyway.
Like they might be making the choices and ideally they will.
And maybe they participate in Demo Day for a little bit.
But yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the work.
And also this has been kind of like a constant in reality shows.
I used to love American Chopper, where this family that would bicker
would make custom motorcycles.
People talked about how much trouble those motorcycles had,
and why would you be surprised by that?
You only have to film them for a couple of minutes.
People have to live with them for months or years and the same for a house.
And by the way, lots of people's contractors
have issues and stuff like that.
I guess maybe you expect more when it's being televised, when a network
is making money off of your house, when you're handing over so much money,
I think that you're allowed to have higher expectations.
And the pictures that we saw, that's $200,000.
You expect more than your sink falling through the top of your island.
You know, the one thing that I've learned as an American living in America who was
also raised in America is that, you get
what you pay for, unfortunately, right?
Like you do.
And nothing is like there are no real free lunches.
And even in this case, they did pay $200,000 up front, but they would have
been it would have been better for them to not go through this reality TV route.
And instead, $200,000 is a lot of money to remodel a house.
That's a lot of money to remodel a house.
Like, they could have hired a licensed general contractor to do the work,
and there would be a little more, I would think, accountability in that avenue.
But the other thing that I'll say is, you know, I think living in America,
you're used to having certain privileges and luxuries, right?
And so I think a lot of Americans kind of went in the white collar work route
and kind of forgot some of the handier things that people did
in generations before younger generations, like they would do a lot of the handy work
around the home themselves and so save money and try to learn to do
some of this if you like to be handy.
I know not everyone's like that, but there's a lot of satisfaction that
comes from learning how the electrical system works in your home, or how the
plumbing works like what can you actually do on your own without hiring a plumber?
Like, and there's so many resources out there at your disposal
because of the internet.
And so when we needed to replace our toilet, we did it.
We learned how to do it, and we did it.
Instead of hiring a plumber and paying him $500 to do it, you know,
so those options are available too.
Obviously, there's other very complicated things to upgrade.
Update your home, like let's say, replacing a bathtub
or retiling your shower.
There's a lot of waterproofing. You don't want to get that wrong.
But when it comes to handle.
Like the electrical and stuff, like I think beginner, I'm joking.
I'm totally joking. No, but you can.
You can change your light.
You can totally change your light fixtures.
Okay?
I'm talking about like, wiring or something.
No, don't do that. Don't do the wiring.
That's a bad idea.
And you do need to make sure you're working with someone who's licensed
because you could literally, like, start a fire in your home,
and that would be a disaster.
But yeah, I just think, you know.
If you're not, if especially if you're going to have
to pay for the renovations yourself, don't do it through a reality show.
Hire a general contractor, shop around, find the best person to do the job,
and don't get screwed over like this poor couple allegedly did.
So we'll see what ends up happening in this case,
but I thought it was a fascinating one.
Very sad to hear that the property brothers are involved in this suit.
Or at least their show is involved in the suit.
I happen to really like the show.
I'm actually a fan of HGTV, but, What do you mean?
- It's not. - One?
It's not one of the ones that I watch.
I did see that Two Chicks and a hammer, or were on the list of some other ones
that I watched, and I really like them.
I think that they're awesome. I'm.
I'm sure you do, John, but I'm sure you do.
- It's good. - Bones, please stop talking.
That's the name of the show. Two Chicks with a hammer.
Is their construction company Good bones, the show.
Get off my back. It's a good show.
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