What Clayton County family is having their “Extreme Makeover” house foreclosed on?
Just 3 years after “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” constructed their new home in Lake City, records indicate that Milton and Patricia Harper are being foreclosed upon. The house was used as collateral for a $450,000 business loan which went bad and was never repaid. Sources: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/the-home-front/2008/07/29/extreme-makeover-home-in-foreclosure.
LAKE CITY, Ga. – 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. The house was built in January 2005, after Atlanta-based Beazer Homes USA and ABC’s “Extreme Makeover” demolished their old home and its faulty septic system. Within six days, construction crews and hoards of volunteers had completed work on the largest home that the television program had yet built. The finished product was a four-bedroom house with decorative rock walls and a three-ca
Extreme Makeover’ house faces foreclosure Mon Jul 28, 2:32 PM ET LAKE CITY, Ga. – 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. The house was built in January 2005, after Atlanta-based Beazer Homes USA and ABC’s “Extreme Makeover” demolished their old home and its faulty septic system. Within six days, construction crews and hoards of volunteers had completed work on the largest home that the television program had yet built. The finished product w
THEY TOOK OUT A $450,000 LOAN FOR TO START A BUSINESS THAT FAILED! CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — An Extreme Home Makeover may be going bust. The first metro family who got a new home is facing foreclosure. Channel 2 followed the progress as an army of volunteers swarmed a Clayton County neighborhood to build a new home for a deserving family on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” in 2005. When the show came to town, no one could have predicted what would happen less than four years later — foreclosure. A foreclosure notice appeared last Friday, a $450,000 second mortgage they took out less than 15 months ago was in default. Patricia Harper, the homeowner, told Channel 2 she and her husband had struck a deal with Chase Home Finance to rescue their “extreme” home. Chase said they couldn’t confirm that claim. “I didn’t really know what the circumstances were, I was kind of surprised. I was really surprised to read that,” said neighbor Doris Rhodenizer. Lake City mayor Willie Oswalt was among the 1
From rebuilt to foreclosed: A home featured on an episode of the ABC television show “Extreme Makeover” (pictured, left) in January 2005 is scheduled to be auctioned off at the Clayton County Courthouse on August 5, according to, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. The Harper family of Lake City, Ga., used the new home as collateral for a $450,000 loan to finance its own construction business, a venture that ultimately failed. The Harpers original house included a faulty septic system that backed sewage into the home when it rained. After tearing that structure down, “Extreme Makeover” and Beazer Homes USA, a home builder based in Atlanta, built the new four-bedroom home. More than 1,800 volunteers took part in the six-day project, which was the show’s largest one to date at the time. Complete with a three-car garage, four fireplaces, a music room and a solarium, as well as a fancy yard full of magnolia and cypress trees, the new home stood out in its neighborhood of ranch and sp
