Harper Family 'Extreme Makeover' Home in Foreclosure

by Laura Gosselin  |  July 29th, 2008
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The Harper Extreme Makeover home is in foreclosure. (ABC Image)

The work of megaphone wielding Ty Pennington and his crew of teary designers, as well as 1,800 workers, most of whom had volunteered, was in vain apparently. An Extreme Makeover given to a Lake City, Ga. home is now up for auction after the Harper family put their home up for collateral in a failed construction business venture.

Three years ago, the ABC show bulldozed the Harper family’s decrepit home with an overflowing septic tank and replaced it with a stunning four-bedroom mini-mansion that towered over ranch and split-level homes in their Clayton County neighborhood. The Harper’s also received $250,000 for a home maintenance and scholarship fund for their three children from Extreme Makeover as well as the sponsor, Beazer Homes, who sponsored the build.

Lake City Mayor Willie Oswalt, who worked on the home as a volunteer, was annoyed by the Harper’s situation.

“Beazer gave them $100,000 cash, paid their mortgage off and they still can't make it,” Oswalt said. "It's aggravating. It just makes you mad. You do that much work, and they just squander it.”

The home is set to go to auction on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse Aug. 5, 2008.

 
 
 

 

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  1. Posted By Della Irvin
    July 29th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Comment *Well when you don't have to pay for it I guess it just doesn't matter when you blow it and don't pay it back. I think the show needs to check out who they are helping first before they spend all of that money and time on scammers.

  2. Posted By Sunny
    July 29th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    What a waste of time. How many people can say there house is paid off? Not many and when you get this kind of opportunity…what the hell are you doing taking out an additional $450,000 loan on a paid off house? How stupid can people be? Now someone else gets to prosper off someone else's stupidity. They have the rest of their lives to see how frigin dumb and greedy they were.

    It pisses me off. I would love to have this …this is what happens when people take everything in there life for granted….

  3. Posted By Mikko
    February 3rd, 2009 at 11:20 am

    I think this is the only way, they can change this gift to money and move to another place.