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Extreme Home Foreclosure
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_en_tv/tv_extreme_makeover_foreclosure
Interesting. I would if any others are in the same boat.
Re: Extreme Home Foreclosure
That agrivates the heck out of me!! The concept of the show is great, but its not realistic. These people obviously don't have the money to afford these huge houses, and if they did don't you think they would of fixed their old home first before going through all of this!? How can ABC actually think that they are doing these families a favor? What really irritates me about that article is one of the contractors saying how upset he is that they spend all that time, energy and money into building that house and the family just threw it all away. You are setting these families up to fail even before they step foot inside the house!
This show bugs me too. The whole concept of this show is to set these deserving families up so that they can have a better life. But it does just set them up for failure. What they should do, is build modest homes that look like they go with the neighborhood, not these goddy monstrosities that they usually build. I mean, come on, look at the house in Manchester, it looks ridiculous! I wonder how that family is doing.
Maybe ABC is doing some sort of mean experiment and setting these families up on purpose. This isn't the first family to have this happen. The other one wasn't there fault, it was that they couldn't afford the house. These people sound like they are morons anyway, but don't give them the false hope that everything is going to be alright just because they have a new house.
This makes me angry. Thousands of people pulled together and went above and beyond for them, to give them a second chance in life that most people don't get... and they go and use it for collateral? They were given plenty of money to help with upkeep & taxes, they never should have touched the equity that was given to them.
I saved my comments until you guys responded- LOL. I thought I would be in the minority being annoyed about this!
I don't know that ABC necessarily sets them up to fail though. These people seem rather ungrateful. They were given a second chnce to have a nice life. We all work hard for what we have. They were GIVEN this. They should have more of an appreciation for it.
Seeing this is the first of the 100 or so houses that ABC has built for these families that has gone into foreclosure, I hardly think ABC is to blame for setting the people up. They were given a house, money to upkeep the house and money for their kids for college. I blame the family for spending the $$ and then taking a loan. Maybe the family should have invested the funds they were given.
People that are irresponsible with money will not change their spots. ABC even suggests that these families meet with a financial planner so this type of thing doesn't occur.
Yes, the people in GA are morons and deserve it.
But this is not the first time this has happened. There was an Oregon family whose daughter was sick and then died only a few months later (I think) and the family has been struggling to survive. The didn't do anything stupid financially, it's because ABC never paid off their existing mortgage on the house they demolished and then gave them a new house and new more expensive mortgage. So yes, ABC is to blame for some of these.
And if the people in Manchester are having a hard time too, how many other families are having the same problems?