Meet the Harper family. Three years ago, “Extreme Makeover” transformed their shabby house into a beautiful mini-mansion. Now, thanks to the foreclosure crisis and a loan-gone-wrong, that house will be up for auction on August 5th.
So…do you think the show will come back and makeover their lives? I guess we’ll see.
Here’s more, from TransWorldNews:
- ABC’s “Extreme Makeover” aided the Harper family by demolishing their decrepit house and building them a four-bedroom mini-mansion in Georgia. The feat took 1,800 people, becoming the most ambitious project in the hit show’s history. The house was built three years ago in 2005.
- The Harper family placed the home as collateral to secure a $450,000 loan, which failed, causing the house to go on auction in a Clayton County courthouse on Aug. 5.
Read the full story here.
Rebecca 4 months ago
Why would they make these decisions in today’s economic climate???
joe 4 months ago
the Harper family is greedy!!! its obvious they didnt appreciate what Extreme Makeover did for them. They USED the television show’s generosity. Sponsors paid off the entire balance of their hous and they received 100k on top of that. Those greedy Harpers deserve to loose everything!!!
warren 4 months ago
I think extreme makeover should do more research on the people they choose this is a testament to why they were probably in the situation to begin with. Bad choices. Lightning never strikes in the same place so they won’t get extreme makeover lucky but they have to live with there decisions
Tom Troutman 3 months ago
Good for ya!
Wendy Walker 3 months ago
The Harper’s had a second-chance handed to them. I truly don’t feel they should have obtained money from the hard work and materials provided by everyone involved in the Harper Family - Extreme Home Makeover project. The fact that the Harper family made bad business decisions with the loan they obtained against their new “free” house, is no fault but their own. The truly unfortunate thing is that their children have to live with the results as well.
skc 3 months ago
Yep. I dont feel sorry one bit for them. I find it ironic that they just re-aired this show tonight. Maybe not so much ironic as completely intentional. The other part of this is is that these folks also got cash on top of a free new home, a new family vehicle, utility vouchers, and three college scholarships for the children in their “oh so close family” no one has mentioned that amid all the foreclosure talk. The president is having to pass housing bills to help all the folks in foreclosure in this ‘beautiful’ country of ours and these folks should have set up shop in that house and never let go because they got a free ride to heaven that millions right now (more deserving and hard working i might add) dont and will never get. I find the show a joke anyhow. There are plenty of families with a sick child or an injured parent and theres really nothing admirable in handing a bunch of freeloaders 500+K when its their own fault that they lived in a diseased home. I think its evident that they’re too lazy to get out into something else for the sake of their kids. plain and simple. Instead, try spreading that near million dollars around to 400 families that dont need a fucking mansion just to “feel like a family again”. Its laughable. Most struggling families just want to eat and not end up out on the street. The show needs to be canceled. It’s a different time these days.
screwtheharpers 3 months ago
typical…heard about the story, looked up to see the race of the family…no surprises there…typical bullshit and its such a shame that they wasted all that money and generousity. They will get their day in hell for what they’ve done!!! All that work wasted on the wrong people…fuck them, they get whatever shit comes their way and I hope they all get thereselves another disease ridden house….course wherever they move into no matter how nice it was will be disease ridden within a few weeks….
rose 3 months ago
Leave race out of it! White trash wouldn’t do any better.