
More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom mini-mansion in 2005.
Three years later, the reality TV show's most ambitious project at the time has become the latest victim of the foreclosure crisis.
After the Harper family used the two-story home as collateral for a $450,000 loan, it's set to go to auction on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse Aug. 5. The couple did not return phone calls Monday, but told WSB-TV they received the loan for a construction business that failed.
"It's aggravating. It just makes you mad. You do that much work, and they just squander it," Lake City Mayor Willie Oswalt, who helped vault a massive beam into place in the Harper's living room, told a local paper.
It's so sad that you can't build good sense with a hammer and nails. />Do they ever do "Where Are They Now?" episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? I often wonder what happens to those people after they suddenly go from lower-middle class to gigantic, fancy home ownership. Some of them, it turns out, have the good sense to put their entire home up as collateral for a $450,000 loan and then default on it.
More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom m...