God knows our wonderful troops need the emphasis and spotlight for all they give and suffer. God bless and protect him and comfort the families of those who gave all.
God knows our wonderful troops need the emphasis and spotlight for all they give and suffer. God bless and protect him and comfort the families of those who gave all.
Left with more than $100,000 to pay off on their mortgage, and an increase in property taxes and utility bills, the Hassalls have decided that the stress of the home is more than they can take. Although some in the community are angry with the decision, most seem to be sympathetic to the Hassalls’ situation.
Background: Other “Extreme Makeover” homes go on the market
Eric Hebert put his “Extreme Makeover” house up for sale last year, saying that he couldn’t afford the maintenance on the home, according to the Associated Press. Hebert, of Sandpoint, Idaho, then took out a loan against the house. In February, the bank foreclosed on the house when Hebert became unable to make payments.
Victor Marrero moved into his “Extreme Makeover” home in August 2007, and then in May 2008, he put the New Jersey home on the market for nearly $500,000. According to MyCentralJersey.com, Marrero said the home “was too costly to maintain” and that the money he’d been given by the show was not enough to pay all of his debts. One day after he listed the property, however, Marrero removed the listing.
In Atlanta, one “Extreme Makeover” family has had nothing but financial trouble since moving into their new home. Milton and Patricia Harper received their home in January 2005. The family used the house as collateral for a $450,000 loan to start a construction business. When the business failed, the house went into foreclosure in July 2008, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Extreme Fakeover: Home Perdition?
The article relates the experience of Dineh Georgia Yazzie and her family, who live at Piñon, Arizona, and their gift of a new house built by the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” TV program that airs on ABC network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. The house was built in May 2007, and the program aired on 28 October 2007.
In the article, the author tells of a host of problems with the new house that began to show up even before the program aired, and the non-response of the show’s producers and the network, even though the house was under a one-year warranty.
When SENAA International contacted writer Cindy Yurth to ask about the present status of the house, her response was that ABC had done very little to repair the house; and the repairs still aren’t finished.
After more than a year, Georgia and her family are still having a hard winter because of ABC, Disney, and Lock & Key Productions’ failure to respond to Georgia’s pleas for help. In fact ABC’s primary response was to send a representative to Georgia Yazzie’s house to get her to sign a release form that would release ABC and the show’s producers from any responsibility or obligation to honor the warranty. When she refused to sign the release, the ABC representative became abusive, saying that Georgia was ungrateful and talking to her as if the shoddy workmanship and ABC’s failure to honor its own warranty were her fault.
When SENAA asked Georgia Yazzie, in a phone conversation about the incident, she said that she understood his being upset, because he had come to her house to get her signature on the release form and was upset because he had to go back to the network empty handed.
http://www.senaahq.bravehost.com/ExtremeMakeover-HomeEdition/HelpTheYazzieFamily.htm
One of the more popular shows on television is once again receiving some harsh criticisms. The ABC’s hit television show Extreme Makeover Home Edition is under fire for the recent rash of foreclosures that their homes have gone through. In the show families in need apply for the Extreme Makeover crew to come to their town and build them a brand new home in an effort to increase the family’s quality of life.
In recent months, with the slumping economy, up to six families that have appeared on the show have already found themselves unable to afford the higher property taxes, utility and maintenance bills. Because of these higher costs associated with their new homes these families have been forced to foreclose on their new dream homes and this is what has drawn some harsh criticism from the general public.
http://www.loansafe.org/extreme-makeover-home-edition-foreclosures