The Home Front

'Extreme Makeover' Home in Foreclosure

By Luke Mullins

Posted: July 29, 2008

You know that show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, where needy families get luxurious new homes from ABC's enthusiastic team of do-gooders?

Turns out things don't always end up happily ever after...

From accessAtlanta, via the Real Estate Bloggers:

Things couldn't look better three years ago for Milton and Patricia Harper of Lake City, who giddily accepted the keys to a small castle, plus enough money to pay taxes on it for 25 years.

Now, the Clayton County house that "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" built is a two-story, turreted example of how things can go wrong. It's in foreclosure.

The Harpers used the house at 5489 Ahyoka Drive as collateral for a $450,000 loan, Clayton County mortgage records show. Records at the law firm handling foreclosures for the lender, JPMorgan Chase Bank, say it is in foreclosure. The four-bedroom house with decorative rock walls and a three-car garage is scheduled for auction on the Clayton County Courthouse steps Aug. 5.

The Harpers, who declined interview requests when reporters knocked on their door Friday, told WSB-TV they got the loan for a construction business that failed.

practice what you preach Mary Aynik

Yea you should know about getting stuff given to you and being a greedy bastard...explain what you did to YOUR kids. It was all about YOU all the time while you bought high price crap for yourself and let your kids run around with holes in their clothes. Did you enjoy using their support money for your new car and college? Yea I thought so.

Carrie of OH @ Nov 18, 2009 22:09:58 PM

stuggling father from texas

They squondered a gift of love and i hate to sound mean but they deserve everything they get just because u get a lavish gift doesnt mean u stop living ur humble life and try to live out of ur means

C R of TX @ Nov 02, 2009 15:23:40 PM

Values

Free money is rarely a blessing. If you work for it, it has value

and you respect it and usually tend to be more responcible. If its given to you it has no value therefore it is easy to gamble with it. The only money that ever helped me and my struggling family came from the sweet of my brow.

Give em fish, cripple them and their children for life by teaching dependancy. Don't give them a pole but teach them how to make one and you will endow them and their children with the most valuable gift you can give your children, The ability to be SELF SUFFICENT. Free stuff is poison. You gotta give more than you take or you'll always want more, never have enough, and never be satisfied. Eternally thirsty.

BillO of OK @ Oct 25, 2009 21:14:53 PM

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