They could have bought a construction business with $450,000. Why invest it?
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Extreme Makeover house foreclosure
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 Strange Flute |
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Posts: 2826 (07/29/08 10:50 AM) Registered user |
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 Pahrump Mania |
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Posts: 1401 (07/29/08 10:53 AM) Registered user |
I'm willing to bet they invested in not working, traveling, and spending money on whatever crap caught their eye. Lottery winners have blown millions, so
this isn't anything new. It's still pathetic, but not new.
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ilikelissie |
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Posts: 13157 (07/29/08 10:54 AM) Registered user |
They probably built a $400,000 spec house and can't unload it.
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Strange Flute |
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Posts: 2827 (07/29/08 11:05 AM) Registered user |
Apparently they sent their kids to college with the college money they recieved and then tried to sell the EHM house for $900k because it was too much for
them. I think they were just bad financial planners. EHM should include financial advising in their contract.
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TexasBlues |
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Posts: 5091 (07/29/08 11:18 AM) Registered User |
"What's going to happen is instead of keep paying my mortgage, I'm going to take my money and not pay my mortgage because I'm being harassed," said Harper. I wonder if she considers it harassment when the bank asks her to make her payments? I'm thinking about trying that tactic - I'll just tell the bank to stop harassing me and keep my money. I'm going to tell the feds that when they ask for those pesky taxes too. |
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Atypical Male |
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Posts: 1508 (07/29/08 11:22 AM) |
For how long are these 'adults' supposed to be hand-held through their lives though, Flute?
Gup, you caught that same key line in the article which I did: ""What's going to happen is instead of keep paying my mortgage, I'm going to take my money and not pay my mortgage because I'm being harassed," said Harper." Yeah - it's 'harassment' to have someone trying to get payments out of your sorry ass on a loan which YOU ASKED THEM FOR, ignorant bitch. Re: the gub'mint bailout of the mortgage institutions... if they get taxpayer monies, the taxpayers (which'd be the gov't, in this case) should get some form of equity from the companies in return. Fuck this giving away of OUR money!! Eh - nothing new... Congress does so easily enough, already. ETA: Damn, Texas - you echoed my thought while I was typin'. 
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Strange Flute |
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Posts: 2828 (07/29/08 11:40 AM) Registered user |
This makes me think about the success of other makeover shows. I wonder how many Queer Eye/What Not To Wear makeovers failed?
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CFmomma |
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Posts: 3030 (07/29/08 12:11 PM) MESS member |
Strange Flute wrote: Not quite the same thing is it? The EHM show basically hands these people a huge chunk of equity, not cloths or a new "do". |
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Strange Flute |
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Posts: 2829 (07/29/08 12:46 PM) Registered user |
What about the plastic surgery shows? Woman gets new face, teeth, hair, clothes... what's the worse that could happen?
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Comrade Jerrifan |
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Posts: 279 (07/29/08 12:54 PM) Registered user |
I'd love to see a bank foreclose on some silicon
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Strange Flute |
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Posts: 2830 (07/29/08 1:02 PM) Registered user |
..and after Carlson Kressley made you wear pink socks and white loafers, what happened?
Well, I was beaten senseless on the street and my girlfriend left me. |
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superguppie |
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Posts: 23619 (07/29/08 2:12 PM) Registered user |
What about the plastic surgery shows? Woman gets new face, teeth, hair, clothes... what's the worse that could happen? |
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Gregoire |
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Posts: 28161 (07/29/08 2:14 PM) Registered user |
I want Ty Pennington to come in and sledgehammer that house to fine dust. Then lead a parade of past Extreme Makeover recipients -- all in their wheelchairs
and breathing machines with diseased children -- to laugh at them.
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iltwaaf |
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Posts: 7 (07/29/08 2:27 PM) |
Some people don't deserve anything although they feel they are entitled to everything. These morons probably bought brand new expensive cars and lived the
life of Riley. I bet they'll blame the show for not paying for a finance class. Some people keep making mistakes and blame everyone and everything but
themselves. Looks like welfare just got more clients.
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pinkdolphin |
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Posts: 7158 (07/29/08 2:53 PM) Registered User |
Strange Flute wrote: Two of them could meet on the show, then have a baby. It happened and I am sure that could possibly be the ugliest baby ever. The parents were hideous before the makeovers so the baby didn't have much of a chance at even being slightly normal. |
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TexasBlues |
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Posts: 5093 (07/29/08 3:58 PM) Registered User |
Plus, those people might look better than they did before, but they still look weird - almost alien.
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GlamsSlam |
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Posts: 2624 (07/29/08 4:05 PM) Registered User |
Guppie and to think people laughed at you when you stayed in your Manufactured Home (although we still call it a trailer on blocks) but at least its yours!!!
you go girl... and don't let the screen door hit you on your way in.. not that you can help that... maybe Ty could fix it with his down time...
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superguppie |
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Posts: 23620 (07/29/08 4:23 PM) Registered user |
Damn straight, Glam. Damn straight.
*throws PBR can into yard* |
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GlamsSlam |
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Posts: 2625 (07/29/08 5:07 PM) Registered User |
Classy as always... wow you have 23 million posts to my 2300... someone is a post whore and someone is just a whore...
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Angela in WI |
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Posts: 24450 (08/06/08 9:55 AM) Registered User |
Who the fuck tries to start a construction business in the middle of a housing slump?! Fucking idiots.
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