Extreme Makeover Home In Foreclosure

I'm sure that most of us have caught ABC's hit show 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' at least once or twice and when you watched it, if you're human, you shed a tear or two after the unveiling right? Of course. But I bet if it were you getting the house and after three years, you had to turn it over to the bank because it was going into foreclosure, you'd cry your damn eyes out huh?

Well meet the Harpers. A Clayton County family who after being picked out of 15,000 applicants, got the ultimate surprise of their lives by receiving a 5,500 square foot home built especially for them.

Three years ago, the Lake City, GA couple gladly accepted the keys to a small castle, plus enough money to pay taxes on the home for the next 25 years. Now the couple is trying to figure out where did they go wrong. The Harpers used the house as collateral to get a $450,000 loan for a construction business that failed, Clayton County mortgage records show. Records at the law firm handling foreclosures for the lender, JPMorgan Chase Bank, say it is in foreclosure. The four-bedroom house with decorative rock walls and a three-car garage is scheduled for auction on the Clayton County Courthouse steps Aug. 5.

For the money that they got from the loan, they could have just bought a business. It's kind of sad when you think about it. You know how ABC does it. Each room for the kids had been specially designed with that childs likes in mind. How upsetting is that to the children? I pray that the family finds a home. How disappointing this is to the 1800 people who volunteered their time and money to putting this home together for the couple. I don't want to speculate on what the couple did to squander this beautiful home away, but I have a pretty good idea. It's what happens to most of us who don't know how to act when we finally get something that we've never had; We start living above and beyond our means. I'm just sayin!