Extreme Makeover Foreclosure

At least two homes built by ABC's reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have either been foreclosed on, or are in danger of foreclosure. A six-bedroom home built for Seminole County, Florida, community activist Sadie Holmes was reportedly in jeopardy after Holmes was hit with liens for nearly $30,000 in unpaid code violations.¹

A four-bedroom home with a three-car garage built for the Harper family of Lake City, Georgia, on a 2005 episode of the reality series went into foreclosure in July 2008 and was expected to be auctioned off in August 2008.²

Fast Facts

1. Homeowners in foreclosure: Milton and Patricia Harper and Sadie Holmes³
2. Harper family's home built: January 2005³
3. Value of home: $450,000²
4. Home used as collateral for business loan²
5. Sadie Holmes' Florida home built in 2006; 7,000 square feet, six-bedrooms¹
6. $400,000 home was in danger of foreclosure; reports said liens for unpaid code violations totaled almost $30,000¹
7. Reports said a third Extreme Makeover homeowner in New Jersey was forced to sell in 2008 because of financial troubles¹

The Foreclosures

Milton and Patricia Harper received a home as a gift from ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition show, which aims to provide needy families with comfortable housing. The Harpers decided to use the house as collateral for a loan for a construction business that failed.²

Community activist Sadie Holmes is a former drug addict whose house was built by Extreme Makeover in 2006. Holmes, who said she pays well over $6000 in property taxes on the home annually, claims she is under a "mountain of debt."¹

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | Harper Family Extreme Makeover | Sadie Holmes | Subprime Mortgage Crisis | 2008 Recession | Bear Market 2008

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