Wednesday, July 30, 2008

They were not victims of home foreclosure, it was greed

I stopped watching Extreme Home Makeover, because it became too frustrating to watch families who had homes, albeit bad ones, receive an overload of help when the reality is there are families who are homeless and/or renting in situations where the American Dream is never going to be theirs. It seemed as if with the money being spent on these Make Overs that many families could be helped instead of just one.

Reading the news that the Harper Family had decided rather than to appreciate a rent free home and money given to them to help keep them in their home that they would mortgage it to start up a construction business, which failed. Now the home that the many volunteers built will end up on the auction block.

So, it wasn't the home foreclosure crisis that hit the Harper's, it was their own greed...

Imagine how many families could have been helped with the money wasted on the Harper's....
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Robin said...

I wondered how a Extreme Home Makeover show house could have gone into foreclosure. Usually on top of building an insane mini-mansion they usually end up paying off the mortgage completely and the property taxes for a couple years.

Although... it seems as though the family was trying to do the right thing by opening a business of their own. Tragically, they didn't seem to realize that construction isn't a booming business, these days.

I stopped watching that show, a couple years back. It was great, in the beginning. When it seemed like the goal was to actually help people, by builing a decent house. But, I think they are now having some kind of contest to see how extravagant a house they can build. It's beyond sickening.

I can't imagine how much the property tax ends up being on most of these homes after the TV cameras leave and the show has aired and these people actually have to go on with their lives.

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