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Even though the show wrapped up in 2012, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition lives on in both reruns and the gorgeous homes they built during their nine-year run. Host Ty Pennington and his team created dream homes for some of the most deserving families you could ever meet. While the show was a positive light in the world of reality television — full of arguing housewives and drunken roommates — it had its fair share of scandals and heartbreaks, too. From dishonest contestants to shady tax practices, there was a lot more going on behind the scenes than we ever could’ve known. So allow us to “Move that bus!” and give you a sneak peek at the inner workings of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition…
When contestants lie | 0:36
No such thing as a free house | 1:30
Legal troubles | 2:36
Unhappy neighbors | 3:33
Not their first (or last) reality rodeo | 4:29
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As soon as the crew leaves I would call a real estate agent and get ready for a huge flip ?
Why put one really show good show down and make everyone on that sound some lier the not wright to me they sound like good people because I LOVE THIS SHOW
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How can it be untold when you tell it here?
Proof that property taxes are terrible
No good deed…
That was a great show live it it was a show you could share and identify with
My husband works his ass off and all we want to own is a trailer with 3 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bath ☹️
I really hope the revival of this show goes better then some of these bad endings
here after hearing extreme makeover might come back
My thing of this is on those who had to sell, you got a damn house for free. So waht you cant afford the upkeep? Sell it and downsize, you are still better off than before they built your damn house and at least now with the money you make off the house you sell you can invest in a property that may not be as luxurious but is much better than what you had before, unless your wasteful and don't use your money right.
This show is just like liberal polices giving free shit to people never works or helps them.
Miss this
Media bias at its worst.
The Beach family didn't lose the house because it was too much, they gave it up because they left the foster care program. Early in 2014, a full three years after they got the house, a toddler with severe chronic health problems died while in their care, and that upset them so much they decided to stop fostering. Now, in most states including Texas, the funds allotted to these families is defined by the IRS as 'non taxable income', and one of the allowable uses for those funds is housing expenses, which is why the family struggled only after they left the foster care program, and without those funds from the state, they couldn't afford the house. Therefore, this instance was merely the result of a change in income and was not because of the show
You can assume that that family lied, but going off what some practitioners said isn’t good enough. There’s a very big difference between good doctors in a bad doctors, and most are mediocre and simply follow the main stream rather than doing their own independent research. So I’ll just take that with a grain of salt.
i feel bad for those children who lost their parents and got adopted by monsters
Those people pretty much used those children too get that house
pitiful truly pitifulI do hope something bad happens too those so called "foster parents"
everyone did harm to show deserving that does dozer put down by people they a good thing for people no lies about I loved the show and miss this show Corinne Mattinen
so what is this event actually like? is it official and free? Is it true that participants in this event are asking for money? even though this is a page view, actually I like to see this program.
I wonder why 99% of the home recipients were black or none white/mixed while 60% of the population is white.
yep, I know of a spanish family lieing to CBS
This guy makes me want to puke
Funny how you can bash addicts in your video but not once mention that Tye Pennington has attended rehab himself for a cocaine addiction…pfft
You guys are lie
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Taxes should be based on the money that goes into the house, not the size of the house.
I can´t believe, Ty Pennington used to be a host of a food show of any type. In EHM, in one place, they fed the kids, brought over a pizza stall and some veggie trays, and he went like – brocolli? Blahhhhhh, Nooooo! And made kids booo with him. Then: Pizza? Yeeeees!!
Probably didn’t really use racia slurs. Always record conversations with black people they will Lie about racism at the drop of a hat
Their are some real pieces of work in this world. I suspect some who have put there homes up for sale could not afford them and the couple that lived in Kansas well they may have left because they could not afford it or the neighbors who help build it kept throwing in there faces that they got the house because they all built it for them acting like they owned the home too. Or the tornados that hit Kansas may have drove them out.
Ty pennington no thanks
4:00 Oh no, not people getting help for drugs! SMH
I often wondered how good a house could be when it was put up so fast.
Sometimes having Extreme Makeover help you doesn't really help at all if you can't afford to keep the house they just built for you. I also think when they do these special rooms for the little ones, once they grow up living in a princess castle isn't going to work anymore.
we would always watch this and talk about the taxes and insurance.
I remember the episode with the two girls. They said that they weren’t allowed to go to school due to the risk of catching a cold and not being able to fight it she was 7.
It's messed up yet hilarious that this upbeat music is being played in the background while the woman talks about cases of medical child abuse, foreclosures, and orphans being backstabbed by their foster parents.
One thing that kind of irked me about the show was when it came to little kids' rooms like if the kid loved firetrucks they would go so far out with that one thing, like a firetruck looking bed, walk art, toys, etc. But I would question…what happens when the kid gets older and grows out of that stuff? Now the family has to repaint remodel a whole bedroom to fit the now older kid.
Don't get me wrong I know it's a little kid's dream to have a room to their liking but at least make it fixable or changeable so when the kid does get older and probably out of that stuff it can easily be removed.
About the drug rehab home, this made me think: would the addicted (“sick”) people get better if the surrounding community would be supportive rather than anti?
I have a strong sense that YES they would!
People who get addicted normally become homeless due to being blacklisted/shunned out of society simply because they have a problem.
if we’d treat addicts more like we do with mentally ill people who are suffering from problems I believe the situation would be better than it is today.
However, most wont do this as “addiction” is a “choice” after all, and someone who “chooses” to go down that lane have only themselves to blame I guess.
It’s a hard thing to combat tbh
If only the uber rich 1% had to pay their property taxes…
So those 5 kids lost both of their parents and get kicked out of their house and are no homeless or whatever? Wtf that's seriously messed up
Shows like these are just dumb.
So this show basically makes poor people even poorer. No wonder it was cancelled.
The show came to our economically depressed area and solicited funds, services and volunteers.
Everyone was so happy and excited! Our local ABC affiliate promoted the heck out of it.
When the big day came, all the volunteers were picked up and driven OUT OF STATE, so “our” house could be built in a wealthy community.
I haven’t watched ABC since.
A Drug Rehab Center? Doesn't the local officials have to approve such things
everybody knows the houses are higher taxed and higher utilities. what you should have done is expose Ty and a few others taking credit for special rooms which they NEVER lifted a finger to design or build…. i was part of one of those episodes and Ty only came out of his trailer at the beginning and the reveal, other then that he was off limits to all and if you saw him he was rude and belligerent and were not allowed to even speak or look at him..
They also ransacked neighbors properties with no financial compensation whatsoever, noise all day and night.
and left garbage all over after it was done leaving the mess for neighbors to clean up after..
Sadly most of these houses were lost or sold becuase of the major spike in cost/upkeep
Idiotic concept, idiotic show. Building mansions for ppl who can’t even afford to pay their utilities ?
I love that show was so sad went it was over
I my country there is a TV show that in 5-7 days fixes and renovates houses for reaaaaaaaally poor people (poor poor (house falling apart, no electricity or water type) not this type of "poor"). But it does not make houses bigger or luxurious just normal places to live. Also they donate to families money, groceries and some house products.
That's so true
Those poor orphans