I like this show (guilty pleasure) There was just a new episode aired tonight about a couple moving to the Esmereldas. Their budget was $300. Interesting episode and some unusually down-to-earth people.
http://www.hgtv.com/house-hunters-inter … index.html
Here's another HHI Ecuador episode that never was:
Why We Didnt Accept "House Hunters International" Feature Offer
"Last week House Hunters International asked Frank and me if we would like to be featured on one of their shows doing an episode about house hunting for rentals here in Cuenca. This version of HHI is just another spinoff of the house hunters show. It was pretty exciting to be asked to do one of their shows and we gave it some careful thought.
We believe that if we were to go on this show it would inflate rental prices even more and that is something we are not willing to do. We cannot stop others from hyping up Cuenca with high priced rentals and real estate prices, but for us it is not an option. We love being the Frugal blog about Cuenca and we love being able to tell our readers about how not to be a gringo target and how to find good rental deals.
We live in a pretty nice rental now for only $250 a month and we know there are other rentals out there in the local rental market as well. If we were to go on the show we would be asked to look at high priced rentals that are actually out of our price range and that is not who we are. "
More here: http://www.discovercuencaecuador.com/20 … nters.html