Plot Synopsis

RUSTIC REHAB, originally known as FLIPPING PARADISE, is a half-hour reality series that follows married real-estate experts David and Chenoa Rivera, as these full-time parents and renovators work against the clock to buy, flip and sell homes in the aptly named sellers' market of Paradise, California. On Thursday, December 15, 2016 at Noon ET/PT, HGTV premiered the pilot episode of FLIPPING PARADISE, but the cable channel had no other episodes on its schedule at that time. In the pilot, David and Chenoa get a lead on a former vacation house that's for sale, but the bank-owned property is in need of some massive updating and repairs. It's priced to sell quickly, so they act fast to buy the dilapidated home. Even though the home has a potential to pay off big time, they'll need to make quick decisions and smart moves to renovate and get this latest flip back on the market in record time, without breaking the bank. But as they dig deeper into the house, they find hidden issues that stop them in their tracks. Will they be able to get the flip done in time and on budget or will outside forces ruin their plans of flipping this mountain home into a woodsy retreat? Twenty months later, this program returned for its official series premiere on Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 8pm ET/PT on HGTV with a new title: RUSTIC REHAB. In the series opener, "Different Level of Renovations," David and Chenoa take a chance on a Paradise, CA, house they bought sight unseen. Despite the home's neglected state and strange interior design, they feel they can get it back on the market and turn a quick profit. However, as soon as they start working on the space, the renovations come to a screeching halt.