'Extreme Makeover' house faces foreclosure!

[Ken785]

Mon Jul 28, 11:32 AM PDT

More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom mini-mansion in 2005.

Three years later, the reality TV show's most ambitious project at the time has become the latest victim of the foreclosure crisis.

After the Harper family used the two-story home as collateral for a $450,000 loan, it's set to go to auction on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse Aug. 5. The couple did not return phone calls Monday, but told WSB-TV they received the loan for a construction business that failed.

The house was built in January 2005, after Atlanta-based Beazer Homes USA and ABC's "Extreme Makeover" demolished their old home and its faulty septic system. Within six days, construction crews and hoards of volunteers had completed work on the largest home that the television program had yet built.

The finished product was a four-bedroom house with decorative rock walls and a three-car garage that towered over ranch and split-level homes in their Clayton County neighborhood. The home's door opened into a lobby that featured four fireplaces, a solarium, a music room and a plush new office.

Materials and labor were donated for the home, which would have cost about $450,000 to build. Beazer Homes' employees and company partners also raised $250,000 in contributions for the family, including scholarships for the couple's three children and a home maintenance fund.

ABC said in a statement that it advises each family to consult a financial planner after they get their new home. "Ultimately, financial matters are personal, and we work to respect the privacy of the families," the network said.

Some of the volunteers who helped build the home were less than thrilled about the family's financial decisions.

"It's aggravating. It just makes you mad. You do that much work, and they just squander it," Lake City Mayor Willie Oswalt, who helped vault a massive beam into place in the Harper's living room, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Talk about a dumb and ungrateful family!!
Discuss...

 

[Desdinova]

I'm torn between what to think about this. They ventured out to start their own business which I don't have a problem with. It's also their house and they can do whatever the fvck they want with it, regardless of who built it or how they inherited it.

But after getting a nice home upgrade for free, I'm not sure why they would want or need to improve their financial situation.

 

[LoneSilver]

Some people think they can live high on the hog but then after awhile their hog comes home skinny and the pork chops they expected are all bones....

It's my hunch someone brainwashed them into investing in a construction business told them everything they needed to hear that it would be successful and they bought into it gettting the big head and put their home up for the loan.

I would have never ever, ever done a stupid ignorant thing like that after having a new home build free like that...Some people think out the crack of their butts..I just hope the kids still have their scholarships..

Anyway, I like Habitat For Humanity better at least the future home owner gets in there and helps build the house if they are able with everyone else some families deserve all the help they can get and are grateful.

LoneSilver