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Extreme Makeover: Foreclosure Edition

dante

Unabomber
Feb 13, 2004
8,807
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looking for classic NE singletrack

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
19,180
17
TN
People are so stupid.

They could've just sold the place and downgraded to a smaller house and still had plenty of cash on hand if they really needed to go on a 'tarding spree.
What goes through your mind while you're blowing your kids' college fund?
 

valve bouncer

Master Dildoist
Feb 11, 2002
7,843
114
Japan
People are so stupid.

They could've just sold the place and downgraded to a smaller house and still had plenty of cash on hand if they really needed to go on a 'tarding spree.
What goes through your mind while you're blowing your kids' college fund?
Money belongs to the rich, the sooner the poor, white trash realise this the better off we'll all be.
 

builder666

Monkey
Dec 13, 2002
212
0
Construction in Subterfuge
'Makeover' now family feud (Extreme Home Makeover, LA style)
LA Times ^ | 8/11/05 | Scott Collins

Downey family has sued ABC and the producers of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," claiming that there is a tale of greed and deception behind the scenes of the heartstring-tugging reality hit.

In a suit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Charles Higgins II, 22, and his four younger siblings say that the producers took advantage of the family's hard-luck story and promised them new cars and other prizes to persuade them to participate in the program, first broadcast on Easter Sunday, March 27.

The Higgins children say that after both parents died within weeks of one another in 2004, they were taken in by Firipeli and Lokilani Leomiti of Santa Fe Springs. The suit claims that the Leomitis used the children to increase their chances of being selected for the program. In February, a construction team working on behalf of the producers tore down the Leomitis' existing 1,300-square-foot home and erected a new nine-bedroom residence in its place. The project was then featured on "Home Edition."

The suit claims that shortly after production wrapped, the Leomitis began working to evict the Higgins children — who are black and at the time ranged in age from 14 to 21 — through physical abuse and name-calling, including repeatedly using a racial epithet. None of the Higgins children lives in the house any longer, the suit says.


(Excerpt) Read more at calendarlive.com ...
 

ire

Turbo Monkey
Aug 6, 2007
6,196
4
They should start a new show, Forclosure Makeover, where they go follow rich people around as they evict, and then turn, the realestate. The heartbreak of the family getting the boot would make great TV
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,547
13,674
Portland, OR
They should start a new show, Forclosure Makeover, where they go follow rich people around as they evict, and then turn, the realestate. The heartbreak of the family getting the boot would make great TV
"Flip this Makeover!"
 

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
14,591
6
anyone else have the jeffersons theme in their head?

maybe xibit could pimp this out