Scott McGillivray Quotes

A fixer-upper is good for your business if you are the guy who fixes it up.

We really find that most houses we look at - that are really rough around the edges - most of those are actually diamonds in the rough. They could be beautiful, and it just takes a little creativity and having the right people on board.

The Eubanks are very different. If you look at the promotional videos they've done it's a bit 'Homes Under the Hammer.'

I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

We became amazed with Property Brothers at how many kids watch and love the show. We'll even have 4- and 5-year-olds walk up on the street and say, 'Mom and Dad, look: it's the Property Brothers.'

I've always admired the kind of guy who moves into a place and restores it. Thanks to my efforts, the guy who moves into mine will have a chance to do just that.

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.

I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.

I like people to really get a feel for the house before they do anything to it.

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

I love to watch 'Property Brothers.'

I find home renovations almost traumatic. But people can create something great.

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

That series, 'Property Brothers at Home,' broke HGTV viewing records.

The biggest mistake that I see homeowners make all too often is not doing a proper inspection of the home and falling into a project that is a lot bigger than they probably anticipated or budgeted for.

Real estate funded our first creative endeavors as teenagers and we were doing what we do long before the show 'Property Brothers' was pitched.