With "Extreme Makeover" Homes, Some Get Foreclosure Instead of ...

Who would want these houses anyway? McMansions, all of them.

It also says in the paperwork that these people sign that they could meet with a financial planner to guide them. I am not understanding that if your current mortgage is paid off and you own nothing on the home that extreme makeover gifted to them -- except increase utility bills.. Why do they lose the home. If I had no mortgage and paid just utilities on a 4000 sq foot home they would run 1000 month plus food which would be great.

my family is under foreclosure but we don't own our home. we have to leave our home in a matter of 6 months and we haven't found a home to live in. Any suggestions

Free anything is rarely a blessing. If you work for it, it has value
and you respect it and usually tend to be more responcible. If its given to you it has no value therefore it is easy to gamble with it. The only money that ever helped me and my struggling family came from the sweet of my brow.Give em fish, cripple them and their children for life by teaching dependancy. Don't give them a pole but teach them how to make one and you will endow them and their children with the most valuable gift you can give your children, The ability to be SELF SUFFICENT. Free stuff is poison. You gotta give more than you take or you'll always want more, never have enough, and never be satisfied. Eternally thirsty.

I think it is sad to think that in one moment of happiness they lost a home thinking they gain a new one only to be hit in the face with all the little red tape bills later . If it was up front and in writing then we can't blame no one then themselves for if they knew about the rules and the bills to come and did it then same on them for taking something they knew they couldn't afford but if it wasn't known to them they hey lets get behind them and help a fellow family out and say keep your house and let Hollywood and the big boys we helped out help us out and give those a house that need a home to survive and who gave all they have to give to make love work in America that my view of it.

Out of all the homes that the show has built in the six season, the show has been on, only a handful of them are losing their homes. It seems that the other families are doing fine with paying for their homes and the expenses. Sometimes there are people that are not good with money, or have good common sence.