My family applied to be on the show. Because we lived 60 miles from the companies that supplied materials (home depot, sears) we were awarded a "runner up" consolation prize of $5000. We fit their "profile" perfectly. Years later, hearing the horror stories about increased bills, ect, I am thankful that we did NOT get a new home from them.
Easy to rip on the show and pile it on in the comments sections for many people here, but they handed you 5k for going nothing and got little or not publicity over it. It couldn't have been all bad.
I worked on this show as a construction worker and it was obvious afterwards that the network didn’t care about the family. The hosts would pull up in a limo wearing tools get filmed and get back in the limo. The family at the end would have drywall screws popping and doors not closing because we built it in 7 days.
I don’t understand why the community would be mad at the families. Nobody would be able to afford these extravagant houses when they were already struggling
While I agree, that approach wouldn’t have brought in the huge ratings that extreme makeover home edition did. Renovating a house isn’t as epic as literally destroying a house to the ground and building a mansion on top of in a week.
I remember being amazed as a kid at how the crews could get these houses built up in 1-2 weeks. As a construction worker now, I realize just how awful of a strategy that is. Each stage of the construction process, from foundation to framing to drywall and tile and so forth, needs time to settle under the new weights each material are subject to. A house built in this kind of timeframe is all but guaranteed to have at least tens of thousands of dollars in repairs in the future, as many materials will start to crack and fall apart under the house's own weight.
I think anyone would be amazed because it's not what we expect. LOL. But gracious, those home designers must have spent several sleepless nights brainstorming those designs.
I remember hearing stories on Reddit from people who worked on the houses, or knew people that did. They weren't done in a week or two and often was a month or more. They just edit it to be a week so it's more dramatic
Like how they slapped James Charles's house together? 😂 he isn't my favorite person but those contractors did him so wrong. He's young, rich, and doesn't know what actually goes into building a house and they definitely got over on him. Like you said the money he'll spend trying to repair that house? He could start completely over. He wanted it because it looked nice; till the shower started coming through his living room ceiling, his windows were breaking out of nowhere and he thought it was a prank, till he saw the concrete was cracked too. It rains and his garage gets flooded like I said they just slapped that sh!t together and sold it to him.....that's fxcked up 😂
Yeah I remember as a kid growing up in a bad neighborhood in a little shotgun house , extreme poverty and just basically the epitome of a white trash poor family. And I remember us watching this show and being mesmerized by it and dreaming about one day maybe , just maybe, me and my family will be lucky enough to be on this show. Eventually I grew up and became an adult and started paying my own bills and often wondered how the hell did these people who were already financially struggling able to pay for these luxuries homes? I’m 26 now, and after seeing everything that ive read over the years about this series, I thank god that my dream stayed a dream.
Seriously that makes me so mad. Just because a struggling family got a huge new house doesn't mean they aren't struggling anymore. That huge new house costs way more to maintain so that just adds to the struggles they already had.
“Why is nobody friendly with their neighbors anymore?” The neighbors: Humility is a lost art. So many people today don’t do acts of kindness out of kindness sake. But out of their own selfishness expecting some sort of gratification and acknowledgement. And when they don’t get it. Well they did the good deed it’s the other person who’s the bad person here! Unfortunately for these families, a lot of them found out just how rotten and a cesspool the communities they live in are. Especially the one with that mayor who hopefully was voted out of office.
We have a similar show in Poland called "my new home". They help with houses in very bad condition for people who really struggle and THEY DONT DEMOLISH THE BUILDING. They renovate the house, fix heating, get the water running, get rid of mold, etc. and then make nice, normal looking decor. My jaw absolutely dropped when I saw this show demolishing houses and then building literal mansions. Just wtf I don't really know the fate of the families on our show but there's no way it's worse than this
we have a similar show in the UK called "DIY SOS" where they have a similar setup to that, the biggest changes I've seen have been a few extensions to accommodate large families in smaller homes or for accessibility when a member of the family is disabled
That's exactly what a show like this should do! Carefully renovate and fix stuff, be sensible and actually helpful! Don't demolish whole houses and then quickly (and poorly) build goddamn mansions with maintenance costs shooting into the stratosphere. Like, Extreme Makeover aired in my country when I was a "dumb teenager" unaware of all ramifications but even back then I never liked it because it was "too loud" and felt pretentious but, as an adult and a home owner myself, I'm actually flabbergasted by this whole format. It's just stupid, wasteful, and doesn't actually care for these families and their future.
I was thinking the same thing! The money cost and time cost for such a young person...and as the animals start to die because he can't keep up with everything, it would cause unknown trauma. What terrible people to dump those responsibilities onto him.
@@izafanime Good point. My first pets were a couple of hamsters. When each one died, it was hurtful, due to my young age. Some kids just aren't sensitive to such things. I was. When they each got the illness that killed them, it was difficult watching them dying over several days. I called a vet, and was told they had wet tail. Common illness among caged rodents. Only treatment was a liquid product called Dry Tail. Gave them three drops a day of that stuff. Didn't work. Think I was just too young to take good care of pets.
@@stephensmith7293 Yeah often people keep pets (or just home animals, w / e) they have zero knowledge of or simply don't even care ... It's really disturbing to see. I cant help but tell ALWAYS do the research before you decide to keep an animal and use common sense, are you actually able to take care of these animals, are you living in a suitable area? etc. Plenty of books, local zoo to help you learn and decide what animal you want or can keep at home. But no many just adopt or buy and it dies on them or living in horrible conditions. Why people can't think and also explain to their children that fantasy isn't reality, everything in life is a huge responsibility and you have to build it up, you can't jump into random things day one. Knowledge and common sense is key.
@@stephensmith7293 thats definitely the case. i don't get why parents buy pets and expect the child will be able to do all the work. rodents, hamsters especially, are seen as a pet for kids when they're far from it. they're most active at night, pretty fragile, need a huge enclosure with a big wheel, lots of enrichment, etc. the reality is that there's no beginner pet
The weird entitlement people feel to judge these families. They aren’t helping paying their bills, them helping to paint a wall don’t give them the rights to anything
bro they don't just paint a wall they build them a new house that costs in the millions this whole video was complaining about getting free stuff that you can sell and make money off and traumatized families who don't make the best financial decisions.
@@mosuh6944The fact that they build homes that cost millions is exactly why they're screwing over these families. Did you even watch the video or are you just stupid?
While "they don't have the right to anything" is correct, I think that it's understandable how they might hold that viewpoint without additional context.
@@mosuh6944 So? they OFFERED to help them, they didn't have to. plus most of these families don't even ASK for this. you think an already struggling family of 5 with a dying mom with ALS is going to make enough money to manage this? insane take.
I watched one of these houses get built. Two workers were working on a dresser, or something similar. A camera crew told them to stop, which you could tell the workers didnt expect by their reactions. One of the hosts walked off of an RV glued to her phone. They filmed her pretending she was the one working on it. Then once they got their shot she went back to the RV and they gave the worker their tools back like 'here you go, now get back to work'. She was there for maybe a minute. I wasnt close enough to hear what was said, but the workers reactions said it all
This happens with every show like this. Mike Holmes from Holmes on Homes? He spends maybe 45 minutes a day on renovations. I've worked construction, every single host is too clean to have done any actual work that day.
yeah if property tax, electric bill, water bill all tripled basically overnight most of us wouldn't be able to afford. Kinda dumb for ABC not to even think about that.
I worked on s3 ep7 "The Teas Family" and it really opened my eyes, the show literally did nothing, all the materials and labor where donated, and everyone worked 24 hours a day for a week to get it done. The only thing the "Stars" did was what you saw them do on camera, they would walk in with the cameras, do their bit and then leave. The work was so shoddy, can you imagine literally 10-15 tradespeople in each room crawling all over each other to get this done? There is absolutely no way anyone could build those houses in a week and do good work. So many good people came to help that you couldn't find a hotel room up to two hours away. F that show, they couldve actually done so much good with all the people that it brought together, but they just used those people for ratings.
I feel like this show was a charity case where ABC help families who are struggling not to lend helping hand and actually help a fellow human being who struggling but to make themselves look good. I feel like a lot of people these day don’t help someone who is struggling out kindness but they have a agenda to want to make themselves look good and feel good about themselves
@@fazediscovery5 Yeah, I can't help but feel that way anytime I see a video where somebody gives a homeless person a meal, money, or cuts somebody's lawn for "free" etc. - my cynical side wonders whether they would have even entertained the idea of this "charity" if they couldn't monetize it via TH-cam etc.
When I watched this as a kid I always thought it was weird how far they went with the themed kids rooms. “My daughter likes horses” or “my son loves cars” means the room is going to look like your daughter/son is straight OBSESSED with one thing lol
I get the show’s generosity but the thing that I think was never realized was indeed the hardship created by having to pay significantly more for property taxes, utilities, and the like. 🤷🏻♂️
@@lynnsmith4 I thought the same, almost, I thought they could build a house half as fancy and big, which would still be pretty good, and then have enough money to do another one for another family
OMG I've told all my friends about this. There was a family on my street that had this done. Literally by the end of that year they were out. Broken/faulty piping and electrical issues were the least issues. But apparently, they couldn't afford the improvements and when trying to sell, the realtors wouldn't allow them to add the upgrades to the price. The family lost it to foreclosure before they had enough to get another place to live. I DESPISE this show and am ashamed my dad and I watched it near every week
I would’ve fired my realtor at least in my state that goes towards listing price. Any remodeling as long as it’s within a certain year. Still sad, this happen especially when the crew knew their situations before hand 😢
tbh, I was 12 and going off my dad's word. And we know that parents never lie to their kids. If not, we still had ~3 months of my friend complaining about being "unable to poop in my bathroom". Really strange dude
I used to think the same thing about “pimp my ride” I’m going did they really just make a homemade jewelry station in the back of this van because the chic mentioned in passing she likes to make jewelry as a hobby? That is the most ridiculous shit I’ve ever heard.
I had a friend and neighbor who got this done. On almost everything the contractors just did what was necessary for things to look good for the show then walked away. They left lights and appliances unwired, tile floors unfinished, molding and baseboards that were never fastened to the walls. Then, of course, the show was over, they had been paid and had no interest in coming back to complete the work. They also left a 50yd dumpster behind full of thousands of dollars of art supplies and tools mixed with trash and unused construction materials!
@marcusgray2799 Oh, yeah. Just spend thousands of dollars that you don't have to hire an electrician and contractor to finish the lighting, appliances, and flooring. Real piece of cake. It's not like these families had financial burdens, which is what allowed them to get on the show. Idiot.
@@marcusgray2799Until you have to pay taxes, utilities, and upkeep on it, and you can’t find anyone to sell it to, and you’re still paying your original mortgage.
There's one particular episode that has always stayed with me. It was a family that lived in a low income neighborhood on a street lined with modest bungalows. The EHM team built them a mansion with a European style fountain in the front yard. It was ridiculous and the house stuck out like a sore thumb. 🙄
In the UK you wouldn't even get planning permission for that, for that exact reason. We tried to have an extension with a bay window, and the extension was ok, but no other house in the area has a bay window so we weren't allowed one 😒 you wouldn't get away with building a mansion amongst bungalows
And if you're unlucky, a month later zoning enforcement shows up telling you that you have 2 months to demolish it. Because I'm willing to bet they never got permits sorted for this stuff.
@@blackenedsprite8542 So, what you're saying is that you guys basically don't have property so much as land and dwellings the government grants you permission to live in so long as you pay them rent in the form of property taxes? Good to know.
@@ryang2573 This seems to be commonplace around Europe. Here you can't build or renovate anything that would change the overall aesthetic of the neighborhood you live in. The inside of the house can be as colorful and different as you want, but if the outer walls of the other houses are red then you better be damn sure yours are too.
This is what happens when people don't understand all the factors that actually contribute to being "house poor." It's not just the mortgage. It's literally everything that comes with owning a house. Such a twisted thing to do to people who were already facing hardship!
what made it worse is they made the rooms too unique, so its nearly impossible to sell these houses because everything is extremely particular and it being built in a week is some extreme red flags for like everything.
My parents liked this show but it always bothered me. While some of the families did have specific needs that were addressed in the design of the new home, everything was so over the top extravagant that it overwhelmed common sense. Essentially, the family needed a few modifications, but instead they got a ridiculous supersized playhouse designed during a coke binge.
I mean. It's still a win win. You might not be able to sell the house for what it's worth, but probably can sell it for more than what it was prior to the renovation.
Extreme house flipper came to my little town and they built the castle for a family who lost their father and son. It was a huge thing for the town and the family as we are a tight community. But only a few years later the family couldn’t afford there house and had to go threw that struggle once again :/ it’s still so sad whenever it gets mentioned.
Not this show, but a UK version, I remember watching as a kid and being horrified. They destroyed this historical house with all original fixtures and fittings. The lady who owned the house, didn't know it was happening. The concept of the show was that it was a surprise, and they'd do all the renovations over a weekend, while the nominated person was distracted by friends and family by a weekend away. When she saw what they had done to her home, she burst into tears. They tried to play it off as happy tears, but she never said she was happy. She just looked horrified and cried. Worst part is, she was the one who got penalized by the council for unapproved changes to a historical building.
you mean 60 minute makeover? if so they rush everything like the painters don't do it properly and no effort or time put into it lmao, like if they did it to me I'm telling them to f*cking put it back how it was or I'm suing💀💀
big reason i'd NEVER agree to allow someone to remodel my home carte blanche - there are a ton of projects i'd love to do in the future but I also love my adorable old early 1900s house and would be mortified if someone came in and 'modernized it' - when we were looking to buy i was specifically looking to buy a cute & cozy OLD home, if i wanted a modern house i'd have bought one
Duuuude my family almost got on the show after our house got destroyed by a tornado. My aunt gave us an application but my dad (who's a builder) refused and built us a house himself. I was so sad because that was my favorite show to watch and i wanted to be on it lolol Now I'm kinda glad we dodged that bullet
@@BrendanishLeo you'd think so, especially with all the context I've given lol but nah. We got a lot poorer as the years went on, we would've gotten evicted lolol. Hell, we almost got evicted from the house he built. I was seven so I don't really know what happened or how my dad got the resources to build it, I assume since he was basically friends with half of our town, he got the help from them lol. (not to mention donations from our church and probably FEMA?)
I grew up on this show. I actually recently wondered what happened to it and why it shut down. I never knew or understood how any of this would affect the families. I am so ashamed of these people and feel terrible for the families that got screwed over.
Children aren't expected to understand the principals of real estate, home construction or the price people pay for preposterous home decor. Don't be hard on yourself. I was an adult when the show came on and saw clearly that they were saddling already burdened people with more problems and destroying any resale value the home may have had. You simply can't overbuild a neighborhood. A house is worth what the homes around it sell for....period.
I find it so interesting to examine these early 2000's reality shows. I watched these shows growing up and during my teen years, and it's crazy how normal it seemed back then, but on retrospect it's downright dystopian. I would love to see more videos covering the ethical issues of this era of exploitation in reality TV.
I feel you on this. I enjoyed all of these shows but now looking at it again it definitely gives a different vibe to the shows. It’s almost disgusting that they’d do some of this stuff and place more responsibilities on those who are struggling and looking to catch a break that you offered. Sucks to see, simplicity is always better and I agree there should be more shows about the exploitation of everything out there. It’s almost like that’s all entertainment is now a days, see how much bs you can do without ppl thinking you’re an asshole
pimp my ride was the same way. yeah the car got a new crazy paint job and T.V. screens everywhere. the cars still ran like hot trash Tavarish got hold of the Dodge minivan. think he got like 2 or 3 shopping carts of just parts.
I remember watching this show, thinking about the themed rooms and wondering how totally insane it would be as a child to have to _grow up_ in a room like that. Kids get over things. Not everything is a lifelong obsession. When a room is based on cars, or planes, or god help you that Reptile enclosure (imagine the smell!) - not only will you probably grow out of it, but nobody else will ever _grow into_ it. This show was a nightmare thought up by boardroom execs with no attachment to actual reality.
I used to love barbie, SpongeBob, anatomy, space, etc. I definitely would've hated to grow up in a singular themed room of one of those things though! The cardiology themed room for a toddler was ridiculous too lol
I used to have so many dreams of being a rockstar when I was 3-5 years old. This show would have killed me. Not only that, but like, in what alternate reality did the executives live in where children don't grow out of things?
@@kekelauren6251 Yes, I agree with you, the cardiology themed room for that small girl was way too much! I hope the child wasn't discouraged from becoming a doctor due to having such an ugly room and a terrible closet door!
@@eatatjoes6751 I agree with your point. When I was about 5 years old, I wanted to be a cowboy - or maybe cowgirl, but it was the cowboys on TV I wanted to be like. By the time I was a teenage girl, I would have hated having a cowboy-themed room that this show would probably have given me!!
We helped with one of these builds in Utah, mostly offsite. I didn't know about the stuff in this video, I watched for a couple hours onsite and I can tell you first hand that we all couldn't believe that the cities and counties had allowed this to be built like it had been. There were no inspections on almost anything. They were throwing walls up on concrete that was still being finished and hadn't even dried. They had drywall going up as the electric was being roughed in, and a lot of it didn't get stapled. There was tons of missing insulation, and everything was trying to dry as it was enclosed. They were painting over wet joint compound. We saw under engineered joists and had been told it was okay because they got approval. Most of the framing was built in sections offsite and moved into place for speed, but when assembled onsite people were using 2" nails in places that should have had 3-1/2" 16 penny nails. Plates weren't getting bolted to the concrete in places. People were using the wrong materials all over. There was missing flashing, and vapor barrier. Everything was going up crooked and half assed because everyone was stepping over each other. I actually felt bad for the recipients because they weren't aware that they were getting junk. I had a bad feeling about all of it. What horrible people those neighbors are to judge these families like that. People are so envious and selfish. Most the people getting houses didn't even ask for them, and were already in tough positions.
Yikes. I bet every realtor in America figured most of this out, which is why the families are screwed again when they try to sell. I used to volunteer to do some repair work and assist in construction. To this day I have safety and patience when dealing with materials drilled into my head, and the idea that everything would even be close to ready in 7 days is just nuts to me. I mean, how much of that stuff would still be wet? I can imagine folks walking in their new house trying not to gag on fresh paint fumes.
I have to agree with you. For me, I once thought of putting myself on the shows.So happy I didn't .For me a little house of four rooms with a bath and kitchen
This is why I think Habitat for Humanity is a much better alternative. Not only does HH assess what the family can and can't do financially with home ownership, those living in the house have to spend time actually helping to build the home so that ownership for them goes beyond just having the title.
I actually had an internship for Habitat back in 2020-21. Restored a house for this guy who is in the job that I’m currently working at. And helped build an apartment by the SVC. I have a helmet after I completed my internship.
I wanted to work with them years ago, and help build some homes. Looked into it, and didn't like the way it was organized. So I never did it. Maybe it's better now, since such things tend to change over time. It sounds different, because I don't recall the occupants needing to assist in the homes construction back then.
If they are unable to do construction, they can also do their sweat equity in the office or the ReStore (thrift store) if there's one in their area. Disabled Habitat clients often do it this way.
A local family was "gifted" one of these nightmares.They had to give tours of their home to pay the property taxes. In this case, some of the locals who helped ended up apologizing, saying they had no idea what it would do to their property taxes and utility bills.
The corporation should have been held to account. Looks like a con job that an individual would be in trouble for. but for whatever reason a corporate grift by a sociopathic rat is legal. we can’t keep letting corporations do this
I remember being a young teen and watching this just thinking “if they’re struggling to pay the bills as is, how can they afford the bills now for a big house like this?” As I got older I wondered about how they’d afford the taxes and those things, like they didn’t consider the family income at all. So sad for the families.
I actually asked my dad about that. I wasn't the brightest kid but I understood the concept of taxes. I knew a bigger house meant bigger taxes. So I was like aren't there taxes going to be more expensive? He promptly informed me that they were all probably screwed on taxes. Years later when I grew up I found out he was right. My dad the banker knew how bad people's finances were going to be messed up from this.
@@PapaThiccc It's the same when you win the lottery. You end up giving at least 40% back in taxes, maybe more depending on what state you're in. Of course, something is better than nothing but really up to a certain point there shouldn't be taxes on lotto winnings under a million.
As someone who lived down the street from a house they did it’s really sad what happened. The mom had cancer and passed away 2 years after the home was built. Then the father started to get ill as well the kids grew up and were off to college. That house ended having to sold because it was too expensive to live in. Across the street was a double wide the neighbor hood they built that house in wasnt that wealthy…
that is what I remember. They build these extremely nice homes in areas that had extremely cheap homes. Which basically meant it was impossible to sell the people who could afford it wouldn't want to live there.
I love that people volunteer their time and services to help their community that’s struggling… then when the family struggles harder and is forced to sell the community is mad that they “wasted”their time/money volunteering? Narcissistic Bastards. It’s like if you prayed for someone’s cancer to be cured, they die, and then you are mad at them because you wasted prayer on them.
This is classic human behavior. People enjoy feeling good about themselves when they volunteer to help someone but what will win in the end is envy. The person you help BETTER NOT end up seeming to be as good or, heaven forbid, better off that you. Some people are genuine givers but most are virtue signalers. Sad but true - face it.
I remember I started taking construction classes in school when this show was popular and I went from a fan to really worried for the families. These families were barely scraping by and now they're giving a home with higher maintenance and living costs. There was no way the construction was well done. I just started seeing all the faults in their builds and couldn't see why the show was still on.
It's still on because it's a construction show being sold to people who know nothing about construction. . That is the key to making money in our capitalistic system. Find a way to sell a product to uneducated consumers and they won't know the difference between quality and shit.
same here. ever since i took construction/carpentry, i see flaws in any building i'm in... the fact that the average construction workers in the US can absolutely get away with shoddy craftsmanship nowadays is already bad enough, to film a whole show around glorifying scrambling to construct a rushed build with the same type of shoddy craftsmanship is even worse.
Not this show, but an HGTV show, Love It, or List It, had similar issues. One North Carolina couple had their house renovated through the show to make it ready for future foster children. They ended up suing the construction company for things like unpainted surfaces, exposed concrete flooring, & some other issues.
I work in property management and most repairs/turnovers take about a week, I cannot fathom getting an entire remodel done in that time without cutting some serious corners
I used to make a lot of duct tape crafts and heat is not good. I made my brother a duct tape wallet once and from being in his pocket it basically melted and got all of his cards and money super sticky :( I hate to think what happened if that poor kid used that pillow....
I love that part at the end, about how the show got cancelled because they started making houses that weren't extreme enough for *reality* TV. Basically the houses had to be right out of a cartoon, to be "real".
EHM did one of these homes in my area. One of the contractors told me that things were slapped together so fast that the building/electrical inspectors barely had a chance to look at anything. Within a few weeks, the house starting having lots of problems. It caused so many problems that the couple ended up getting divorced and selling it.
Same thing happened to the family in Medford, Oregon. I was one of the volunteers on that house, and 5 years later the couple got divorced and the house was sold.
7 days is NOT a long time. Even working 24hrs a day it equals 168 hours... 168 hours. To demolish the old house, remove material, redo the foundation, then build. EVERYTHING. Basement, floors, supports, studs, drywall, electric, plumbing, gas, roof, windows, HVAC exterior, an ENTIRE bathroom, ENTIRE kitchen, ect. It's an absolutely monumental undertaking even with massive manpower.
It’s not just this show, it’s shows like trading spaces and these miracle makeover shows. My parents did three episodes in our house when I was a teen, tournament style where “America votes” to see who goes to the next round and the winner gets their mortgage paid off. They made it to the finals and lost because the other couple had a movie set builder who did outrageous stuff. Well looks good on camera but after a week of filming the stucco on the walls was falling, lights were taped on and not actually installed under kitchen cabinets etc… then the tax bill comes for all the “free stuff” you get. It was a joke… I don’t recommend anyone do these reality shows.
@@jrive075 The only work Ty did was what you saw him do on camera. So there would be ten people working hard to get this house finished on time and then the camera people and Ty would walk in and they would all have to stop work and get out of his way so he could let them film him doing what they where all just doing, then the lights would go down and he would go back to his trailer and the real working people would get back to work. He was just an actor like they all where, he knew nothing about construction.
I remember being so young watching this w my family in the early 2000’s and was really convinced that these families were the luckiest people in the world. It was much more entertaining when you were oblivious to the truth of what was going on
Precisely the same for me, I also tough the same about Pimp My Ride while in reality they even didn't fix significant issues with cars - like weak brakes, even worse it took months, and they put in so much ridiculous stuff!
This analysis makes an excellent point: People who have never owned a house are much less likely to understand the full economic impact of owning one; especially a gigantic, expensive one. They literally take advantage of people's desperation for ratings. Lesson: Whenever you experience a major life event, get professional financial and legal advice because, most people are blindsided by realities they never even considered. The entertainment industry is built on taking advantage of people. There is nothing "charitable" about any of this.
I completely forgot that they basically just went the Pimp My Ride route and completely designed the most tacky thing to match one little part of their personality. Guess that’s a repressed memory cause my whole family watched this show and loved the designs at the time 😂😂
a lot of the pimp my ride vehicles were absolute garbage from a reliability standpoint. They'd rarely service the engines or drivetrain. They'd often add so much electronics that it would burn up wires and blow fuses. You can find tons of youtube videos of folks finding these old cars.
😂😂😂Good comparison!! That was the part that i remembered. The just ridiculous things they did esp for kids rooms. That kid may like fairies or whatever today but two weeks from now they will be in to something else and at some point they are gonna hate that room. I couldn’t stand those themed kids rooms. It was way too much.One unique thing is fine but the whole damn room would be fairies. And like a jungle gym fairy bed with fairy curtains. It was too much plus your kid will grow so you want to get stuff that they can keep using and if you painted a perfectly good dresser or night stand with fairies , just why! And i’m not against weird stuff. it’s your house but if i decide to put in something weird I know it may mess with the selling price but i picked it and chose it. The did stuff where clearly that is gonna make it hard to sell and I hate it and wouldn’t have done it. I will mess up the reselling value of my house the way i want not with some tacky backyard go cart situation. God those themed rooms haunt my dreams. And they lacked warmth I thought. You can take fairies and instead of being a creep about it you can make a room that a fairy might like w colors and lights and cozy furniture but who the hell wants a bed spread made of duct tape. can you imagine the heat under that thing or wants a full pet store to deal with. ffs those are actual living things. one little beast is a lot of work. fish tanks are a lot of work. i like the dinosaur head tho. i’d take that from my kid and put it in the living room.
@@SunbeanCatReally, just curious were you younger when you watched it? cos i saw it as a young adult and I was usually horrified by the themes rooms. 😂 It was just too much for me. to much theme
Not only are these houses were incredibly impractical, and costly to maintain, they are very highly and flashy customised so very difficult to sell. Not to mention 1 week to build using so many volunteers, no matter how well meaning those volunteers may have been and how skilled they are, builds with such speed and that many ongoing work at once in same space inevitably have things that don't set right.
Even with experienced contractors, you can't build a good house in a week. Foundations have to cure, trades have to come in and work in sequence (plumbers and electricians before drywallers, drywallers before finish carpenters and painters), and stuff like drywall mud and spray texture has to dry before painting.
I watched this show as a kid and I would fantasize about what my dream bedroom would look like, but I was too young to even consider the ramifications of it all. I feel like everyone who grew up in the 2000s looks back at all these reality shows we were constantly exposed to as young children that were normal at the time, and most of the time they're just kind of stupid and it's all in good fun to go back and watch them, but hearing about what these families went through after the fact was the first time I got genuinely angry looking back.
The original edition they convinced women they were unattractive and gave them extreme plastic surgery before taking off the bandages and parading them out to a large balcony full of their loved ones who applauded how much "better" they looked. I only ever saw one episode, but even as a kid I knew it was messed up. The 2000s were messed up in those ways.
Same, I was poor living in apartment to apartment, I dreamed (still dreaming) of living in a big beautiful house with my dream room and maybe a couple of real horses. The show was glittered with sparkle dust and not showing the fact whats behind closed doors 💔
My aunt was on a show where they makeover a house to help them sell it. They decided to keep it because it was so nice. It really helped them. I wonder why they simply just do that.
@@alexshinra6722 "Hey, auntie, what was that show you were on like 13 years ago and do you have a link, because I want to make a 1 second comment but need sources and links for strangers to believe it" ahaha get real. I don't care if you believe it or not. Just a thought and I put it down.
The Marine (Dan) in the beginning of the video was my room mate when we worked together in the Corps. We were stationed at Camp Johnson in MotorT together, where he met his wife and mother of his kids. I got out of the Marines several months before he went overseas and was impacted by the IED that destroyed his Hummer. I lost touch with him over the years and didn't know he had fallen on hard times and was going to be on the show until I was traveling for work and saw him pop-up on a tv in the hotel lobby. He looked exactly the same as he did when we worked together, down to the hair cut. Bottom Line, Dan is an amazing guy and I hope he's doing well.
I met the Beach family. Great people. They couldn’t afford the taxes after the “extreme makeover” and when they sold it, all neighbors were angry at them and made them feel guilty. Crazy.
We had a disabled dads ( he had a terrible car accident) home done in my town and they actually did an amazing job redoing the house to make it accessible for him in his wheelchair. It was early on in the show, perhaps it got worse, but I've been in the home and it still looks ok and the dad is walking again!
@@pavy415 no he wasn't my dad lol I was already a mother when they did it. He was a neighbor (a few blocks away) and the production co had a lot of the older kids - iirc they were a group in the high school who did community project stuff)come help. One of my daughters was very involved at the time so we had a bit of an inside scoop at the time. I do see that dad and his wife around town still and he is walking and looks so much better! I'm not sure what chances they had given him to walk again but I remember it was slim. He had been on the way to the hospital for the birth of his third kid and got hit pretty bad. They really did help that family and it was very heartwarming. It was very early in the show, not sure if it got exponentially worse as they went on or not but this one time at least they changed an entire families lives.
Oh yes, of course it gets worse. You know what gets more ratings than building someone a house? Building someone _else_ an even _bigger_ even *_MORE_* ostentatious house. That they never had even a prayer of affording.
Wow the response of these community members and even leaders is shocking. So sad to put these families through these messed up highs and lows to make money off a reality show. It’s gross
@@21sabi_32 Why even try to argue that point, it's the entire reason celebrities liquidate their assets. Taxes aren't inherently obvious when you purchase huge swaths of things.
OMG! I remember watching this all the time with my family, it use to be one of the very few shows that we all watched together. But now learning of the overall backlash it's really sad that this show that was supposed to help families ended up creating more problems.
@@societiii Same. Absolutely loved it. When Ty was on The Oprah Winfrey Show, a young me saw that as a zenith moment depicting how great of a show it was.
I donated material and worked on the Beach family house in Kemah, TX. Most of the volunteers had no idea what they were doing and had never worked in construction. To build a huge house like that in a week was terrible. Everything was rushed and slapped together. They installed WAAAAY too much lighting to make everything look good on camera without bringing in TV lights. There were all kinds of problems with the house over the next few yars in addition to the huge cost of just living in it. The Beaches sold the house and now it is a drug treatment cener for "high net worth individuals."
It always blows my mind that you could buy your land, build a house from scratch, and then owe the government giant tax bills on it all after you've paid income tax, sales tax, SS etc. It's a serious racket and the fact that people can lose their homes because of taxes is just crazy.
It's such an idiotic system. We're all just slaves to the government. It literally was never supposed to be this way. _Years_ ago, one of my friends was a teacher, and at a gathering I mentioned this exact thing. This one absolute nitwit chick who couldn't find her ass with two hands and a map (I could though, aaaayyyyyyy) squawked out "𝚋𝚄𝚝 𝚑𝙾𝚠 𝚠𝙾𝚞𝙻𝚍 𝚝𝙴𝚊𝙲𝚑𝙴𝚛 𝚐𝚄𝚢 𝚐𝙴𝚝 𝚙𝙰𝚒𝙳!?" *YOU CHANGE THE STUPID SYSTEM, THAT'S HOW* Lord almighty that chick was an absolute government boot licking idiot.
It's really simple. You don't actually OWN anything. It's just an illusion. The government can and will take w.e they want from you including your life
Is it a racket? Property taxes where I’m at pay for schools, roads, dam maintenance, the police, firefighters and social programs. I like and need all these things and am willing to pay for it.
I knew this would happen, even when watching with my family as a teen. I always said, after every episode, that this family can't afford this sort of burden. ABC is the real disgrace here.
The families could have always sold the houses, Assuming the show took place before 2008. They would've made a profit, especially the houses being featured on television, which would have inflated the prices. Buy something cheaper, in the same neighborhood afterward.
@@sikderqais6151 tell the families that, not a guy commenting on a video made 14+ years after the fact. That's like me telling you that you would have made a great financial advisor in 2006. God damn.
In my home town a local family "won" one of these and their entire home was redone to assist with their child who was in a wheel chair, only for them to have to sell it a few years later. They had the same issue with property taxes. It was that moment in time, and eventually owning a home, that got me thinking "Why do property taxes INCREASE if you own the house, made changes, and paid for said changes? It'd be one thing to sell it and new owners have to handle the "new" property taxes from the upgrades. But forcing the current owners who made or paid for renovations to pay more for improving their own properties? That's insane." Property tax is just another "normalized" weird thing.
It’s because property taxes are regularly reassessed. If your property becomes more valuable, you pay more taxes on it. What’s worse is that if one house in the neighborhood sells for a lot more than expected, it can pull up all the neighbors’ property taxes, as well. High property values are great when you’re selling a home but bad when you’re paying taxes on it.
My dad was a tax lawyer who managed the taxes for one of the families who's house was redone on this show locally, and seeing how badly the family got hosed by ABC + how much in terms of tax expenses they were left holding the bag for, he stopped being a fan of the show. Evidently they absolutely trashed the home to make it look like an utter sty before they sent the family off on vacation too. Like came in with a truck full of garbage backs to scatter around the hallways
@USA-qm2bk How would you even find out anything about how the world worked if everyone keeps quiet?It is such a stupid rule. How are people even supposed to learn or held anyone accountable for wrongdoing?
considering this was all in TV anyway if it were me I’d personally shout it out to anyone listening and tell your Dad they can do the same so people are aware. ABC could likely afford to pay for everything w the money that came in from high viewership and ad revenue and have plenty left over.
The show came to our town and we were so excited. It wasn't until we talked to the family shortly after at a garage sale that we learned that all of their belongs that had been replaced with new stuff were just left on the front lawn! The family was left to figure out with what to do with it all.
That mayor who said the family "squandered" the home because they couldn't afford it and had their house foreclosed on needs to take a trip to the titanic in a submersible.
@@queen-of-wonderland-333 If the tv show paid off the house and they were only forced to now pay an extra $4k a year for property taxes on and $700 a month for utilities on average, that only equals $1000 a month total.. I’m positive their rent or mortgage was equal to or higher than that to begin with.
I used to watch this show when I was younger and even though I enjoyed it, I always wondered what happened afterwards. Now I know and my heart goes out to the families. What makes things even worse was that the peak of the show was before the Housing Bubble burst around 2008-2009. Even families that didn't have extreme makeovers were losing their homes due to mortgages being too high (mine included) which was devastating so I can't even begin to understand how the families felt when they had to leave their dream homes if you can even call them that. The examples Patrick gave in the video are the families that spoke out. I'm sure the rest of them went through hell but kept quiet to avoid the backlash other families got. It's just...reality TV is built on spectacle. It always has been so sometimes people forget that there are real people with consequences that happen to them when the cameras turn off. Extreme Home Makeover is another example of that.
I used to be a contractor. We always had trouble with the customers wanted a high quality job but it had to "be done fast". You cannot rush excellent finish work. That requires prep and prep is tedious and "appears " slow.
i just cant believe anyone would ever do this. all the best to those affected and hopefully people will stop taking advantage of well meaning families.
@@dagfinissocoolFrom my understanding Mr. Beast fully discloses future expenses, and offers a "cash instead" or "sell back" option for whatever he gives away.
We had an extreme makeover home built in my city back when this show was on the air. The family that received it definitely deserved it, but they couldn't afford the huge property tax increase after the new home was reappraised and the property taxes increased by a factor of 10. They had to sell their home and move out of it less than 2 years after receiving it. Many of the neighbors in that area also had to sell their homes because the extreme makeover house increased the value of the surrounding homes so much, the property tax amount skyrocketed for the entire neighborhood.
I used to watch it as a kid and even then , even though I loved the show I would still spend the whole episode wondering how the family was supposed to pay the bills when it’s all over . If even my 8 years old self could think about it, it makes me think the producers thought about it too , they just did not care
i was a young adult and just assumed they paid it all. bc Oprah had gotten heat for the car situation bc of property tax. so I assumed certainly they wouldn’t make that mistake again. and regardless what needed to be paid would be paid. clearly i was wrong. we had one in my city tho and remember our newspaper wrote an article about it maybe a year or so later and did go into the issues. property tax being one. And i think how out of place it looked where it was and just weird upkeep things bc they did weird stuff to those houses that made things impractical. both inside and out.
You would think a company like abc would be able to foreseen that some of these ideas were extremely obnoxious, dumb and unnecessary. Seems like they did not give a fuck from the beginning, targetting these particular families. It's sad.
@@waddle623 dont even think a massive corporation were doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. they knew exactly what they were doing. all these types of shows are all about viewership.
And all the families didnt sign the contract with a pistol to their head. Bigger house, Bigger expenses. CC said ABC even paid off their mortgage - how about using this newly available Money to... I don't know, pay off the difference between the expenses. Sucks to suck.
At least in home makeover they can actually live in the house. In pimp my ride, they couldn't even drive some of the cars because the upgrades they gave them were illegal or a nuisance to drive with.
Was thinking the exact same thing lol. Where you're just like "Jesus, but why?!?" haha. You mean, you don't want 3 42" TVs in your car with a pop out waffle maker in the trunk??
I knew one of the families that was on early on in the show. Their story was very challenging disabilities in 3 of the 4 family members, and their rebuild was almost entirely focused on accessibility, and the house wasn't too crazy since all but the able son's room was pretty normal just with added accommodations, and it was still there last time I checked. Shame it got too crazy.
I always had that thought in the back of my mind: what happens now that the house and bills are larger? My mother thought I was being ridiculous, but it's not that hard to see it all going poorly for struggling families who wind up with NO home in the end.
The idea of owning a giant house sounds great in theory. In practice the expenses from a giant house can destroy your wealth! Most of these families would have been far better off without a "gift" like this! Also how wasteful to tear down perfectly good homes.
I didn’t like the tearing down bc i just didn’t believe the quality of what they built in 7 days was the same as the house they tore down. That always concerned me but the never talked about it on the show. you just kinda knew that in a year or so this thing is going to have issues. And it is wasteful. Earth prob has that on her massively long list of why she is currently boiling us all alive now. which is fair bc we knew the consequences and chose to proceed with no caution.
Who would've thought that gifting someone that already had limited means something that would require more to maintain when their means haven't improved at all would be a bad idea?
I remember watching this show, and being amazed, being so touch by the stories and was just so happy!! Such a shame, that some of us really brought into the bs! Literally I couldn’t imagine how many families were into debt after and it makes me angry! Makes me angry that Ty still enjoying life now and has that new home makeover app game.
I always wondered how the families that were already struggling financialy were going to pay for the upkeep of those over the top houses. Now I know... I also wondered how good the construction and finish could be when building a house so fast and with several builinding crews working together that never worked together before. That is why I only watched a handful of episodes of this show because I had a feeling it was all about ratings and the new home owners weren't better off in the long run. They were probably super happy in the first few weeks or months... until the reality hit of how much it would cost to live in a mansion and when they started to realise how many corners were cut to build it so fast.
I remember watching this and shows like it as a kid were'd they'd go "your kid said they liked playing on the playground, so we made it so the only way to get into bed is by climbing over a jungle gym," and just thinking "wow, that would suck." Reality TV is a plague.
Back before I knew about the expenses of home ownership was, this was one of the only reality TV shows I liked to watch. I had no idea these families were just props for the network to boost viewership numbers. Utterly cruel acts of unkindness.
If it's on TV. It's there because it makes more money than whoever else was trying to get that spot on TV. There is not a single show on TV that is not in some way a scam to boost viewership.
After our house flooded in 2008 people were offering to apply us to the show. My dad said that we couldn't afford it (we also had the radio station generator to worry about as the place was originally a radio station). Lost the place in the end after trying to fix and rebuild ourselves. I can't imagine what they would have done to the property. It's sad that they couldn't just upgrade the home to be new materials, up to code etc only but then that wouldn't be good tv.
It could still be good TV, just on a home improvement channel. There are shows that deal with repairing the work of shoddy contractors. They could have done something like that.
@@evilsharkey8954 Yeah, I quite like those types of shows. Though the thing about those is that they don't pull as many viewers, but they can also be done on a much smaller budget. My mom is obsessed with this one show about finishing botched or stalled DIY projects. Usually they just fix the stuff that's broken, and spruce up a the interior of a couple of rooms. Everything usually ends up looking nice and ordinary. Most of the TV value comes from the host teaching the family, and by extent the viewers, how to do things properly and get shit done in a reasonable time.
i still remember when they gave a child a huge sand pool in her room because she liked beach (or just like the sand pool at the park, i don’t remember), they were even questioning the decision because it will cause a lot of a mess and they still did it because “this will make her happier”
I remember really liking this show as a kid, but even back then I remember hearing about how the houses weren’t actually just given to the families. Or they were left with massive bills
I knew that there was a dark side to this television show right from the start, but I didn't know what. It just seemed like this television show came in and invaded those people's lives without regard for what these families really wanted. Plus, the new houses were far beyond what the families needed to live.
I agree. The kids bedrooms always felt so impossible to enjoy longer than a month, and I always wondered what they did with all of their, idk, heirlooms and photos? It never looked like they put anything back.
The dark side is why it's called "home edition". You know what the original edition was? Think about how toxic early 2000s magazines got about weight and appearance.
I remember when "Extreme Makeover" first aired years ago and saying "Yes, it's a dream come true, but how will they be able to afford to maintain it if they're already financially struggling?" I had assumed "the dream home" these families ended up with would be mortgage free...if it wasn't, they certainly weren't doing that family any favors. Just goes to show you that nothing in this World is really "free"....there's always a catch...ALWAYS.
I don’t think that they paid off any of their existing mortgages, so they would still be responsible for paying that as well as all of the new expenses.
They still had to pay the mortgage on the previous home. If they were renting, they’d be hit with utility bills and property taxes bigger than their previous rent.
@@evilsharkey8954 Just refuse. Most of these families put in the request, it's bizarre ABC is being blamed when THEY should've been fully aware of what would happen.
@@JJokerMoreau You’re victim blaming. How are the families to know the new house will have shoddy construction, astronomical taxes and utilities, and no resale value? It’s not like low income families are experts in real estate and home construction.
@@evilsharkey8954 You're not a victim when it's your own fault. I've heard this idea of shoddy construction, but that's unverified pseudo-intellectual garbage. Until there is proof that these houses aren't built well, let's not, hm? We all know taxes increase when you refurnish your house. That's fairly easy to understand. As for resale value, they absolutely do. You just have to sell at the price of the homes in your area, not the actual value of the home (you didn't have to pay for). It should be an easy win-win if you're not stupid about it, though it does take leaving the house.
This is kind of a classic example of how many in Hollywood simply have no concept of how normal people live and what they need to find happiness in life.
The thing is, this type of show can be done in a way that doesn't drive prices through the roof. In the UK there is a similar program called DIY SOS which basically does the same thing as Extreme Home Makeover, only they just fix up parts of a house rather than tear it all down and start over.
A friend of mine was a hired as a freelance art director for a show like this, and I remember telling me how cheap the set was constructed. Yep, not a room, not a house, but a set.
The best moments were when Ty just started recording himself looking high af on cocaine, walking to a wall, and saying how much he hate THAT one wall in particular. Then pulling out a sledgehammer from god knows where before he starts smashing it like an abusive partner with anger issues.
I always wondered what would be the actual quality of materials and the build itself in a house made in 7 days. Same thing with Pimp my Ride and such. I always thought "There is no way that car would be legal to drive in the street" at the end of each episode, and turns out, a lot of them weren't.
I remember when tv show like this started airing in Poland. Everyone, me included was like "damn it's not even close to the one from the states" Then everybody realized that you need to pay the bills and it's actually a much better deal than getting a house similar to the one from the original show. Beside new house people would get new smartphones, insurance for the house etc. Seeing this show was always really fun
@@tallyp.7643 Beside that, the crew was also supported by the locals who appeared not only during the construction but also after the first showing of the house. It was always super wholesome, they are going to get a new host but I hope it continues it's work. They made a great job so far and even got back to some families during Christmas if I remember correctly. Most of them are doing much better right now
OMG this is so true!! I swear on everything I love I had two neighbors I wish I remembered their names that lived right across the street from me. It was around 2003 and the two girls were on this show but it was so weird because they had a nice house makeover on TV but they were literally living across from me in some apartments in the hood. I remember telling them on the bus that I saw them on TV and they said they didn't want to talk about it. I haven't thought about them in decades I hope they're doing well
I watched this show as a kid, of course being totally amazed by these tacky creations. As an adult, I started working for architects and engineering offices. It took months to get a new house permitted, let alone construction and the final inspection to get a CO. I wonder how much clout Disney needed to get these done so fast.
@@Breeanna-og3js looking back you see a lot of the families were sent to Disney World or Disneyland for the seven days it took for reconstructing their homes
@@Breeanna-og3js looking back you see a lot of the families were sent to Disney World or Disneyland for the seven days it took for reconstructing their homes
I rent my home, it’s beautiful, my landlord is kind and very understanding, great livable prices, I’m so lucky to be in that situation and the idea of someone buying this house, tearing it down, and then building something shitty and tasteless and leave me with the bills makes me want to hurl. I can’t imagine that kind of stress. G-d bless these families
I know about this first hand. I live outside a small town in the middle of kansas and several years ago a tornado came through and trashed half the town. There was a military family who's home got destroyed and they were put on this show. The problem wasn't that they didn't need the help it was the fact that there were other families who needed it too but this family was arrogant and not really liked by the community and they eventually sold the house and no one else could afford it so I think it ended up being torn down anyway
That was the Tutweilers (Chapman KS). I was on active duty at the time and our (Army) unit worked with the Show and on the house. :) In fairness, the Tutweilers were not the only ones getting assistance from the show. Other folks got limited assistance and the City Park got a new Shelter/office space from the show. The Tutweiler home is still up in Chapman, another family lives in it now.
There are a lot of nuances people don't understand. In order to gift a home to someone that is financially struggling, you have to have a minimum 5 year escrow setup in order to take care of expenses. Without that, the house is burden not a gift! The whole concept of this show feels like it was developed by a trust fund baby that has never had any real experience in the real world!
Went to school with the Nickless family @ holt high school. I remember going to see the house being unveiled , what a sad story and even more sad that all of these families had to rid of their homes shortly after getting them
I feel sorry for those people and the guilt they felt due to abandoning their homes. It's not their fault that they couldn't mantain it anymore, and I feel like someone should have informed all the people that helped, that it was just unmanageable to maintain.
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As someone from africa, i cant relate
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I had to sell my family for half a liter of water 😭
@@soidmoroc 🤣
My family applied to be on the show. Because we lived 60 miles from the companies that supplied materials (home depot, sears) we were awarded a "runner up" consolation prize of $5000. We fit their "profile" perfectly. Years later, hearing the horror stories about increased bills, ect, I am thankful that we did NOT get a new home from them.
You got $5k for doing nothing too
You dodged a bullet.
@@USA-qm2bkgood for them.
Easy to rip on the show and pile it on in the comments sections for many people here, but they handed you 5k for going nothing and got little or not publicity over it. It couldn't have been all bad.
@@rexbeavers6746 more like an artillery shell filled with napalm
I worked on this show as a construction worker and it was obvious afterwards that the network didn’t care about the family. The hosts would pull up in a limo wearing tools get filmed and get back in the limo. The family at the end would have drywall screws popping and doors not closing because we built it in 7 days.
The hosts wearing super clean tool belts was just hilarious 😂 like wtf are they gunna do
Shit like this is why I don't agree with him defending the show against the argument that they exploited people. They absolutely did exploit people.
Would you like a new house?
Yeah, who wouldn’t?
We’ll build it in 7 days!
Um, no thank you.
So the presenters and the television people are just totally vapid, selfish morons? I'm sitting here totally shocked.
Turns out if you’re going to build a family a big house you better build them a big worker cooperative too / we need socialism!
I don’t understand why the community would be mad at the families. Nobody would be able to afford these extravagant houses when they were already struggling
Exactly. It's weird.
No one held a gun to their heads and told them they had to do it
@@xaphan8581 exactly if you’re going to do it, do it because of the kindness of your heart not because you felt like the families owed it to you
@@waddle623 extremely weird, it’s the entitlement for me just because they put up a wall and slapped some paint
The taxes will go up for the neighborhood
This show was basically the "Pimp My Ride" of Home renovation shows.
Except WAY more damaging and costly. You can at least write off a vehicle and replace it with a cheap commuter. Not so much with a home…
Ah but come on, Pimp my ride was actually making cars nicer "for that time"
@@dj.j5099 that’s debatable to say the least
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@@dj.j5099no they were making undrivable trash. It's exactly the same thing with extreme home makeover.
All they really had to do was renovate the families current home. That’s literally it.
While I agree, that approach wouldn’t have brought in the huge ratings that extreme makeover home edition did. Renovating a house isn’t as epic as literally destroying a house to the ground and building a mansion on top of in a week.
Agree!
I thought they did at first but then they started knocking down and building new, mega homes.
That would fit the name "Extreme maker over" more. Like the original show it was as spin-off from.
That's what they did when they started out.
I remember being amazed as a kid at how the crews could get these houses built up in 1-2 weeks. As a construction worker now, I realize just how awful of a strategy that is.
Each stage of the construction process, from foundation to framing to drywall and tile and so forth, needs time to settle under the new weights each material are subject to. A house built in this kind of timeframe is all but guaranteed to have at least tens of thousands of dollars in repairs in the future, as many materials will start to crack and fall apart under the house's own weight.
I think anyone would be amazed because it's not what we expect. LOL.
But gracious, those home designers must have spent several sleepless nights brainstorming those designs.
I remember hearing stories on Reddit from people who worked on the houses, or knew people that did. They weren't done in a week or two and often was a month or more. They just edit it to be a week so it's more dramatic
Like how they slapped James Charles's house together? 😂 he isn't my favorite person but those contractors did him so wrong. He's young, rich, and doesn't know what actually goes into building a house and they definitely got over on him. Like you said the money he'll spend trying to repair that house? He could start completely over. He wanted it because it looked nice; till the shower started coming through his living room ceiling, his windows were breaking out of nowhere and he thought it was a prank, till he saw the concrete was cracked too. It rains and his garage gets flooded like I said they just slapped that sh!t together and sold it to him.....that's fxcked up 😂
Yeah I remember as a kid growing up in a bad neighborhood in a little shotgun house , extreme poverty and just basically the epitome of a white trash poor family. And I remember us watching this show and being mesmerized by it and dreaming about one day maybe , just maybe, me and my family will be lucky enough to be on this show. Eventually I grew up and became an adult and started paying my own bills and often wondered how the hell did these people who were already financially struggling able to pay for these luxuries homes? I’m 26 now, and after seeing everything that ive read over the years about this series, I thank god that my dream stayed a dream.
Clearly the insulation and so on wasn't there if utilities are 600+ a month... lol that's insane.
Gotta love the communities blaming the struggling people they volunteered to help.
Seriously that makes me so mad. Just because a struggling family got a huge new house doesn't mean they aren't struggling anymore. That huge new house costs way more to maintain so that just adds to the struggles they already had.
@@BenefitsYeah I never understood why they're mad. If you don't want the house to go on foreclosure. Why don't they help them pay?
Merica 🇺🇸 🙄
“Why is nobody friendly with their neighbors anymore?”
The neighbors:
Humility is a lost art. So many people today don’t do acts of kindness out of kindness sake. But out of their own selfishness expecting some sort of gratification and acknowledgement. And when they don’t get it. Well they did the good deed it’s the other person who’s the bad person here! Unfortunately for these families, a lot of them found out just how rotten and a cesspool the communities they live in are. Especially the one with that mayor who hopefully was voted out of office.
@@waddle623 You help your neighbors pay their mortgage bill? Thats awesome .
We have a similar show in Poland called "my new home". They help with houses in very bad condition for people who really struggle and THEY DONT DEMOLISH THE BUILDING. They renovate the house, fix heating, get the water running, get rid of mold, etc. and then make nice, normal looking decor.
My jaw absolutely dropped when I saw this show demolishing houses and then building literal mansions. Just wtf
I don't really know the fate of the families on our show but there's no way it's worse than this
we have a similar show in the UK called "DIY SOS" where they have a similar setup to that, the biggest changes I've seen have been a few extensions to accommodate large families in smaller homes or for accessibility when a member of the family is disabled
There was an episode where they built an elderly poor black woman a mansion in Watts, California LOL. Watts is the definition of crime and poverty.
Yeah, and they hand them some freebies, like smartphones, broadband, tablets, etc.
The Americans have many similar shows on hgtv, we also had a very popular one here in Canada called "Holmes makes it Right"
That's exactly what a show like this should do! Carefully renovate and fix stuff, be sensible and actually helpful! Don't demolish whole houses and then quickly (and poorly) build goddamn mansions with maintenance costs shooting into the stratosphere. Like, Extreme Makeover aired in my country when I was a "dumb teenager" unaware of all ramifications but even back then I never liked it because it was "too loud" and felt pretentious but, as an adult and a home owner myself, I'm actually flabbergasted by this whole format. It's just stupid, wasteful, and doesn't actually care for these families and their future.
Giving that kid a bunch of animals to take care of is just plain criminal smh
I was thinking the same thing! The money cost and time cost for such a young person...and as the animals start to die because he can't keep up with everything, it would cause unknown trauma. What terrible people to dump those responsibilities onto him.
@@izafanime Good point. My first pets were a couple of hamsters. When each one died, it was hurtful, due to my young age. Some kids just aren't sensitive to such things. I was. When they each got the illness that killed them, it was difficult watching them dying over several days. I called a vet, and was told they had wet tail. Common illness among caged rodents. Only treatment was a liquid product called Dry Tail. Gave them three drops a day of that stuff. Didn't work. Think I was just too young to take good care of pets.
@@stephensmith7293 Yeah often people keep pets (or just home animals, w / e) they have zero knowledge of or simply don't even care ... It's really disturbing to see. I cant help but tell ALWAYS do the research before you decide to keep an animal and use common sense, are you actually able to take care of these animals, are you living in a suitable area? etc.
Plenty of books, local zoo to help you learn and decide what animal you want or can keep at home. But no many just adopt or buy and it dies on them or living in horrible conditions. Why people can't think and also explain to their children that fantasy isn't reality, everything in life is a huge responsibility and you have to build it up, you can't jump into random things day one. Knowledge and common sense is key.
@@stephensmith7293 thats definitely the case. i don't get why parents buy pets and expect the child will be able to do all the work. rodents, hamsters especially, are seen as a pet for kids when they're far from it. they're most active at night, pretty fragile, need a huge enclosure with a big wheel, lots of enrichment, etc. the reality is that there's no beginner pet
@@onedirectioninfection5756 There's not beginner pet? How about a pet rock? 🤔
The weird entitlement people feel to judge these families. They aren’t helping paying their bills, them helping to paint a wall don’t give them the rights to anything
bro they don't just paint a wall they build them a new house that costs in the millions this whole video was complaining about getting free stuff that you can sell and make money off and traumatized families who don't make the best financial decisions.
@@mosuh6944The fact that they build homes that cost millions is exactly why they're screwing over these families. Did you even watch the video or are you just stupid?
While "they don't have the right to anything" is correct, I think that it's understandable how they might hold that viewpoint without additional context.
Lol you should rewatch the video
@@mosuh6944 So? they OFFERED to help them, they didn't have to. plus most of these families don't even ASK for this. you think an already struggling family of 5 with a dying mom with ALS is going to make enough money to manage this? insane take.
I watched one of these houses get built. Two workers were working on a dresser, or something similar. A camera crew told them to stop, which you could tell the workers didnt expect by their reactions. One of the hosts walked off of an RV glued to her phone. They filmed her pretending she was the one working on it. Then once they got their shot she went back to the RV and they gave the worker their tools back like 'here you go, now get back to work'. She was there for maybe a minute.
I wasnt close enough to hear what was said, but the workers reactions said it all
This happens with every show like this. Mike Holmes from Holmes on Homes? He spends maybe 45 minutes a day on renovations. I've worked construction, every single host is too clean to have done any actual work that day.
It's a similar story with almost every realty show.
Gordon Ramsey is only ever one set for like an hour.
@@planescapedwith ramsay tho he actually 'knows' what he's doing. He isn't a fraud- id love to have him teach me a few dishes
@@Carnage7209yeah cooking is a lot harder to fake too
@@planescaped The Bear Grylls ones are my favourite. Leaping over a deadly crevasse... or he could have walked another 10 metres and gone round it.
The people in the community who helped build the house should either help the families keep it or shut their mouths when they decide to sell it.
yeah if property tax, electric bill, water bill all tripled basically overnight most of us wouldn't be able to afford. Kinda dumb for ABC not to even think about that.
@Legendary-zh9hd oh I bet they were well aware of that. They just did not care.
I worked on s3 ep7 "The Teas Family" and it really opened my eyes, the show literally did nothing, all the materials and labor where donated, and everyone worked 24 hours a day for a week to get it done. The only thing the "Stars" did was what you saw them do on camera, they would walk in with the cameras, do their bit and then leave. The work was so shoddy, can you imagine literally 10-15 tradespeople in each room crawling all over each other to get this done? There is absolutely no way anyone could build those houses in a week and do good work. So many good people came to help that you couldn't find a hotel room up to two hours away. F that show, they couldve actually done so much good with all the people that it brought together, but they just used those people for ratings.
I feel like this show was a charity case where ABC help families who are struggling not to lend helping hand and actually help a fellow human being who struggling but to make themselves look good. I feel like a lot of people these day don’t help someone who is struggling out kindness but they have a agenda to want to make themselves look good and feel good about themselves
What makes me mad, the show’s on syndication.
Sounds like fun
@@fazediscovery5 Yeah, I can't help but feel that way anytime I see a video where somebody gives a homeless person a meal, money, or cuts somebody's lawn for "free" etc. - my cynical side wonders whether they would have even entertained the idea of this "charity" if they couldn't monetize it via TH-cam etc.
You make a good point they make generosity look bad. And there still people out who do want to do good out of kindness.
When I watched this as a kid I always thought it was weird how far they went with the themed kids rooms. “My daughter likes horses” or “my son loves cars” means the room is going to look like your daughter/son is straight OBSESSED with one thing lol
I get the show’s generosity but the thing that I think was never realized was indeed the hardship created by having to pay significantly more for property taxes, utilities, and the like. 🤷🏻♂️
I hated it because even as a kid I thought they could help 3 or 4 families if they built reasonable homes instead of these monstrosities.
@@lynnsmith4 Valid point ! They could have built 2 or 3 normal person’s homes in place of the monstrosity! 🤷🏻♂️
@@lynnsmith4 You were a very smart kid! Absolutely!
@@lynnsmith4 I thought the same, almost, I thought they could build a house half as fancy and big, which would still be pretty good, and then have enough money to do another one for another family
OMG I've told all my friends about this. There was a family on my street that had this done. Literally by the end of that year they were out. Broken/faulty piping and electrical issues were the least issues. But apparently, they couldn't afford the improvements and when trying to sell, the realtors wouldn't allow them to add the upgrades to the price. The family lost it to foreclosure before they had enough to get another place to live.
I DESPISE this show and am ashamed my dad and I watched it near every week
I would’ve fired my realtor at least in my state that goes towards listing price. Any remodeling as long as it’s within a certain year.
Still sad, this happen especially when the crew knew their situations before hand 😢
This, i was dreaming of having this shit done to our house, but feel kinda blessed that I wasn't born in the US.
"realtors wouldn't allow them to add the upgrades to the price" such a CAP. if true, look for another one man.
tbh, I was 12 and going off my dad's word. And we know that parents never lie to their kids. If not, we still had ~3 months of my friend complaining about being "unable to poop in my bathroom". Really strange dude
Why couldn’t they add the upgrades to the price? Shouldn’t a retailer allow that so the house can be worth more?
I remeber as a child watching the show thinking about how strange it was having your room completely based off of one aspect of your personality
"You like rainbows?!" - "Uh, sorta."
*"WE BUILT YOU A RAINBOW ROOM!!"*
The one where they made the room based off The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which is a book geared towards toddlers, was so idiotic.
Never forget the bagel kid
I used to think the same thing about “pimp my ride” I’m going did they really just make a homemade jewelry station in the back of this van because the chic mentioned in passing she likes to make jewelry as a hobby? That is the most ridiculous shit I’ve ever heard.
To bad nobody said Retrogames. Imagine a huge collection of NES Games
I had a friend and neighbor who got this done. On almost everything the contractors just did what was necessary for things to look good for the show then walked away. They left lights and appliances unwired, tile floors unfinished, molding and baseboards that were never fastened to the walls. Then, of course, the show was over, they had been paid and had no interest in coming back to complete the work. They also left a 50yd dumpster behind full of thousands of dollars of art supplies and tools mixed with trash and unused construction materials!
Finish the projects and clean the mess up. I will love to get almost a complete home that size for free. Move out I will move in
@marcusgray2799 Oh, yeah. Just spend thousands of dollars that you don't have to hire an electrician and contractor to finish the lighting, appliances, and flooring. Real piece of cake. It's not like these families had financial burdens, which is what allowed them to get on the show. Idiot.
@@marcusgray2799 Then you deserve all the incredibly expensive upkeep and maintenance that such a shoddily built home would entail.
I heard about one show where they laid sod over a paved driveway to make it look like a bigger yard.
@@marcusgray2799Until you have to pay taxes, utilities, and upkeep on it, and you can’t find anyone to sell it to, and you’re still paying your original mortgage.
There's one particular episode that has always stayed with me. It was a family that lived in a low income neighborhood on a street lined with modest bungalows. The EHM team built them a mansion with a European style fountain in the front yard. It was ridiculous and the house stuck out like a sore thumb. 🙄
In the UK you wouldn't even get planning permission for that, for that exact reason. We tried to have an extension with a bay window, and the extension was ok, but no other house in the area has a bay window so we weren't allowed one 😒 you wouldn't get away with building a mansion amongst bungalows
2 extremes. Both are wrong
And if you're unlucky, a month later zoning enforcement shows up telling you that you have 2 months to demolish it.
Because I'm willing to bet they never got permits sorted for this stuff.
@@blackenedsprite8542 So, what you're saying is that you guys basically don't have property so much as land and dwellings the government grants you permission to live in so long as you pay them rent in the form of property taxes? Good to know.
@@ryang2573 This seems to be commonplace around Europe. Here you can't build or renovate anything that would change the overall aesthetic of the neighborhood you live in. The inside of the house can be as colorful and different as you want, but if the outer walls of the other houses are red then you better be damn sure yours are too.
This is what happens when people don't understand all the factors that actually contribute to being "house poor." It's not just the mortgage. It's literally everything that comes with owning a house. Such a twisted thing to do to people who were already facing hardship!
what made it worse is they made the rooms too unique, so its nearly impossible to sell these houses because everything is extremely particular and it being built in a week is some extreme red flags for like everything.
My parents liked this show but it always bothered me. While some of the families did have specific needs that were addressed in the design of the new home, everything was so over the top extravagant that it overwhelmed common sense. Essentially, the family needed a few modifications, but instead they got a ridiculous supersized playhouse designed during a coke binge.
I mean. It's still a win win. You might not be able to sell the house for what it's worth, but probably can sell it for more than what it was prior to the renovation.
No, "twisted" is sitting on the sidelines bitching
Nobody really owns their home. You can pay off your mortgage and still get your house taken from you by the taxman for not paying your property taxes.
Extreme house flipper came to my little town and they built the castle for a family who lost their father and son. It was a huge thing for the town and the family as we are a tight community. But only a few years later the family couldn’t afford there house and had to go threw that struggle once again :/ it’s still so sad whenever it gets mentioned.
You always choose topics that are super niche and make it super interesting, apreaciate the work Pat!
appreciate*
Amazing video I love what Patrick does. Wish there more TH-cam videos like this from this week. Takes time though to create his videos.
I actually agree. His topic ideas normally don’t miss
@SubhanYT Thank you. I wouldn't have been able to figure it out without your help!
Study Break did something on this too a few months back, such wild stories
Not this show, but a UK version, I remember watching as a kid and being horrified. They destroyed this historical house with all original fixtures and fittings. The lady who owned the house, didn't know it was happening. The concept of the show was that it was a surprise, and they'd do all the renovations over a weekend, while the nominated person was distracted by friends and family by a weekend away.
When she saw what they had done to her home, she burst into tears. They tried to play it off as happy tears, but she never said she was happy. She just looked horrified and cried.
Worst part is, she was the one who got penalized by the council for unapproved changes to a historical building.
wow i feel bad for that lady what dicks lol
you mean 60 minute makeover? if so they rush everything like the painters don't do it properly and no effort or time put into it lmao, like if they did it to me I'm telling them to f*cking put it back how it was or I'm suing💀💀
Link?
big reason i'd NEVER agree to allow someone to remodel my home carte blanche - there are a ton of projects i'd love to do in the future but I also love my adorable old early 1900s house and would be mortified if someone came in and 'modernized it' - when we were looking to buy i was specifically looking to buy a cute & cozy OLD home, if i wanted a modern house i'd have bought one
That is so British 😢
Duuuude my family almost got on the show after our house got destroyed by a tornado. My aunt gave us an application but my dad (who's a builder) refused and built us a house himself. I was so sad because that was my favorite show to watch and i wanted to be on it lolol Now I'm kinda glad we dodged that bullet
Damn your dad is a chad
Ain't that the truth! God bless you and your family majorly and your Dad! :)
Youre Dad is a Wise Man who built his house on Bricks
If your parents were able to have enough money to literally build a home they probably would've been fine lol
@@BrendanishLeo you'd think so, especially with all the context I've given lol but nah. We got a lot poorer as the years went on, we would've gotten evicted lolol. Hell, we almost got evicted from the house he built. I was seven so I don't really know what happened or how my dad got the resources to build it, I assume since he was basically friends with half of our town, he got the help from them lol. (not to mention donations from our church and probably FEMA?)
I grew up on this show. I actually recently wondered what happened to it and why it shut down. I never knew or understood how any of this would affect the families. I am so ashamed of these people and feel terrible for the families that got screwed over.
Children aren't expected to understand the principals of real estate, home construction or the price people pay for preposterous home decor. Don't be hard on yourself. I was an adult when the show came on and saw clearly that they were saddling already burdened people with more problems and destroying any resale value the home may have had. You simply can't overbuild a neighborhood. A house is worth what the homes around it sell for....period.
I find it so interesting to examine these early 2000's reality shows. I watched these shows growing up and during my teen years, and it's crazy how normal it seemed back then, but on retrospect it's downright dystopian. I would love to see more videos covering the ethical issues of this era of exploitation in reality TV.
We need one for worlds stritcest parents !
The original Extreme Makeover and "The Swan" would flat out end the career of whoever greenlit them if they were produced today.
I feel you on this. I enjoyed all of these shows but now looking at it again it definitely gives a different vibe to the shows. It’s almost disgusting that they’d do some of this stuff and place more responsibilities on those who are struggling and looking to catch a break that you offered. Sucks to see, simplicity is always better and I agree there should be more shows about the exploitation of everything out there. It’s almost like that’s all entertainment is now a days, see how much bs you can do without ppl thinking you’re an asshole
Can’t forget Pimp My Ride adding crazy things to cars and never once fixing the engines
pimp my ride was the same way. yeah the car got a new crazy paint job and T.V. screens everywhere. the cars still ran like hot trash Tavarish got hold of the Dodge minivan. think he got like 2 or 3 shopping carts of just parts.
I remember watching this show, thinking about the themed rooms and wondering how totally insane it would be as a child to have to _grow up_ in a room like that. Kids get over things. Not everything is a lifelong obsession. When a room is based on cars, or planes, or god help you that Reptile enclosure (imagine the smell!) - not only will you probably grow out of it, but nobody else will ever _grow into_ it. This show was a nightmare thought up by boardroom execs with no attachment to actual reality.
Exactly
A theme room may seem like a good idea until the child or children change their likes!!
I used to love barbie, SpongeBob, anatomy, space, etc. I definitely would've hated to grow up in a singular themed room of one of those things though! The cardiology themed room for a toddler was ridiculous too lol
I used to have so many dreams of being a rockstar when I was 3-5 years old. This show would have killed me. Not only that, but like, in what alternate reality did the executives live in where children don't grow out of things?
@@kekelauren6251 Yes, I agree with you, the cardiology themed room for that small girl was way too much! I hope the child wasn't discouraged from becoming a doctor due to having such an ugly room and a terrible closet door!
@@eatatjoes6751 I agree with your point. When I was about 5 years old, I wanted to be a cowboy - or maybe cowgirl, but it was the cowboys on TV I wanted to be like. By the time I was a teenage girl, I would have hated having a cowboy-themed room that this show would probably have given me!!
We helped with one of these builds in Utah, mostly offsite. I didn't know about the stuff in this video, I watched for a couple hours onsite and I can tell you first hand that we all couldn't believe that the cities and counties had allowed this to be built like it had been. There were no inspections on almost anything. They were throwing walls up on concrete that was still being finished and hadn't even dried. They had drywall going up as the electric was being roughed in, and a lot of it didn't get stapled. There was tons of missing insulation, and everything was trying to dry as it was enclosed. They were painting over wet joint compound. We saw under engineered joists and had been told it was okay because they got approval. Most of the framing was built in sections offsite and moved into place for speed, but when assembled onsite people were using 2" nails in places that should have had 3-1/2" 16 penny nails. Plates weren't getting bolted to the concrete in places. People were using the wrong materials all over. There was missing flashing, and vapor barrier. Everything was going up crooked and half assed because everyone was stepping over each other. I actually felt bad for the recipients because they weren't aware that they were getting junk. I had a bad feeling about all of it. What horrible people those neighbors are to judge these families like that. People are so envious and selfish. Most the people getting houses didn't even ask for them, and were already in tough positions.
Yikes. I bet every realtor in America figured most of this out, which is why the families are screwed again when they try to sell. I used to volunteer to do some repair work and assist in construction. To this day I have safety and patience when dealing with materials drilled into my head, and the idea that everything would even be close to ready in 7 days is just nuts to me. I mean, how much of that stuff would still be wet? I can imagine folks walking in their new house trying not to gag on fresh paint fumes.
@@tallyp.7643 Good point. I am actually surprised all the owners/victims haven't sued over it.
@@matthewbattie1022 I wouldn't be surprised if the families had to sign contracts that indemnified ABC.
One of the best comments here!
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i remember this show. it looked nuts. the quirky rooms weren't practical or efficient. we watched mostly in horror! 😂
I have to agree with you. For me, I once thought of putting myself on the shows.So happy I didn't .For me a little house of four rooms with a bath and kitchen
I wonder what became of the houses on Monster House. Those were themed and cranked up to 11 across the whole home design
This is why I think Habitat for Humanity is a much better alternative. Not only does HH assess what the family can and can't do financially with home ownership, those living in the house have to spend time actually helping to build the home so that ownership for them goes beyond just having the title.
Yep
I actually had an internship for Habitat back in 2020-21. Restored a house for this guy who is in the job that I’m currently working at. And helped build an apartment by the SVC. I have a helmet after I completed my internship.
I wanted to work with them years ago, and help build some homes. Looked into it, and didn't like the way it was organized. So I never did it. Maybe it's better now, since such things tend to change over time. It sounds different, because I don't recall the occupants needing to assist in the homes construction back then.
If they are unable to do construction, they can also do their sweat equity in the office or the ReStore (thrift store) if there's one in their area. Disabled Habitat clients often do it this way.
Oh yeah, because people struggling with poverty need to work even harder if they want a very basic shelter. It's all money laundering.
A local family was "gifted" one of these nightmares.They had to give tours of their home to pay the property taxes. In this case, some of the locals who helped ended up apologizing, saying they had no idea what it would do to their property taxes and utility bills.
The corporation should have been held to account. Looks like a con job that an individual would be in trouble for. but for whatever reason a corporate grift by a sociopathic rat is legal. we can’t keep letting corporations do this
@@sarahfitzpatrick3402💯
I remember being a young teen and watching this just thinking “if they’re struggling to pay the bills as is, how can they afford the bills now for a big house like this?” As I got older I wondered about how they’d afford the taxes and those things, like they didn’t consider the family income at all. So sad for the families.
Amd now as a grown man I laugh at them knowing they got , got
I actually asked my dad about that. I wasn't the brightest kid but I understood the concept of taxes. I knew a bigger house meant bigger taxes. So I was like aren't there taxes going to be more expensive? He promptly informed me that they were all probably screwed on taxes.
Years later when I grew up I found out he was right. My dad the banker knew how bad people's finances were going to be messed up from this.
@@PapaThiccc It's the same when you win the lottery. You end up giving at least 40% back in taxes, maybe more depending on what state you're in. Of course, something is better than nothing but really up to a certain point there shouldn't be taxes on lotto winnings under a million.
So why aren’t we questioning why the government MUST tax a charitable, non-monetary gift like that?
@@drdr76 But that's a monetary win. In any case, you're just benefiting from getting money!
As someone who lived down the street from a house they did it’s really sad what happened. The mom had cancer and passed away 2 years after the home was built. Then the father started to get ill as well the kids grew up and were off to college. That house ended having to sold because it was too expensive to live in. Across the street was a double wide the neighbor hood they built that house in wasnt that wealthy…
that is what I remember. They build these extremely nice homes in areas that had extremely cheap homes. Which basically meant it was impossible to sell the people who could afford it wouldn't want to live there.
I love that people volunteer their time and services to help their community that’s struggling… then when the family struggles harder and is forced to sell the community is mad that they “wasted”their time/money volunteering? Narcissistic Bastards. It’s like if you prayed for someone’s cancer to be cured, they die, and then you are mad at them because you wasted prayer on them.
that behavior right there tells me that didn't actually care about the family, they only wanted to make themselves look good
What did you just say?
This is classic human behavior. People enjoy feeling good about themselves when they volunteer to help someone but what will win in the end is envy. The person you help BETTER NOT end up seeming to be as good or, heaven forbid, better off that you. Some people are genuine givers but most are virtue signalers. Sad but true - face it.
I remember I started taking construction classes in school when this show was popular and I went from a fan to really worried for the families. These families were barely scraping by and now they're giving a home with higher maintenance and living costs. There was no way the construction was well done. I just started seeing all the faults in their builds and couldn't see why the show was still on.
It's still on because it's a construction show being sold to people who know nothing about construction.
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That is the key to making money in our capitalistic system. Find a way to sell a product to uneducated consumers and they won't know the difference between quality and shit.
same here. ever since i took construction/carpentry, i see flaws in any building i'm in... the fact that the average construction workers in the US can absolutely get away with shoddy craftsmanship nowadays is already bad enough, to film a whole show around glorifying scrambling to construct a rushed build with the same type of shoddy craftsmanship is even worse.
Not this show, but an HGTV show, Love It, or List It, had similar issues.
One North Carolina couple had their house renovated through the show to make it ready for future foster children. They ended up suing the construction company for things like unpainted surfaces, exposed concrete flooring, & some other issues.
I work in property management and most repairs/turnovers take about a week, I cannot fathom getting an entire remodel done in that time without cutting some serious corners
They did that teenager so wrong 💀
Duct tape room??!
That bed must be uncomfortable and cold.
So stupid
@@waddle623just imagine a few nights of sleepin on it when the tape starts getting messed up
And the pillow gets messed up and rips out your hair
yea that was the most stupidest thing ive ever freaking seen , wtf lol
I used to make a lot of duct tape crafts and heat is not good. I made my brother a duct tape wallet once and from being in his pocket it basically melted and got all of his cards and money super sticky :( I hate to think what happened if that poor kid used that pillow....
I love that part at the end, about how the show got cancelled because they started making houses that weren't extreme enough for *reality* TV.
Basically the houses had to be right out of a cartoon, to be "real".
EHM did one of these homes in my area. One of the contractors told me that things were slapped together so fast that the building/electrical inspectors barely had a chance to look at anything. Within a few weeks, the house starting having lots of problems. It caused so many problems that the couple ended up getting divorced and selling it.
Same thing happened to the family in Medford, Oregon. I was one of the volunteers on that house, and 5 years later the couple got divorced and the house was sold.
7 days is NOT a long time. Even working 24hrs a day it equals 168 hours...
168 hours. To demolish the old house, remove material, redo the foundation, then build. EVERYTHING. Basement, floors, supports, studs, drywall, electric, plumbing, gas, roof, windows, HVAC exterior, an ENTIRE bathroom, ENTIRE kitchen, ect.
It's an absolutely monumental undertaking even with massive manpower.
Sounds like the couple had far worse problems than just a house if they divorced so easily.
@@richardpagel6959you’re being a dumbass all over the comments, aren’t you? 🙄
It’s not just this show, it’s shows like trading spaces and these miracle makeover shows. My parents did three episodes in our house when I was a teen, tournament style where “America votes” to see who goes to the next round and the winner gets their mortgage paid off. They made it to the finals and lost because the other couple had a movie set builder who did outrageous stuff. Well looks good on camera but after a week of filming the stucco on the walls was falling, lights were taped on and not actually installed under kitchen cabinets etc… then the tax bill comes for all the “free stuff” you get. It was a joke… I don’t recommend anyone do these reality shows.
Coincidently Ty was the carpenter on the show. Seemed like a chill fun guy when I met him. Sad to see people do crap work though for views
Avoid the mainstream entertainment industries in general.
Trading Spaces used a lot of the same construction techniques and materials as I did building theater sets in college.
@@jrive075 The only work Ty did was what you saw him do on camera. So there would be ten people working hard to get this house finished on time and then the camera people and Ty would walk in and they would all have to stop work and get out of his way so he could let them film him doing what they where all just doing, then the lights would go down and he would go back to his trailer and the real working people would get back to work. He was just an actor like they all where, he knew nothing about construction.
Wow, I’m so sorry you went through that :(
I remember being so young watching this w my family in the early 2000’s and was really convinced that these families were the luckiest people in the world. It was much more entertaining when you were oblivious to the truth of what was going on
Now THERE you've said a mouthful, 'cause that's true of just about everything we consume, from media to clothing to food ... everything!!!
Same!
Precisely the same for me, I also tough the same about Pimp My Ride while in reality they even didn't fix significant issues with cars - like weak brakes, even worse it took months, and they put in so much ridiculous stuff!
This analysis makes an excellent point: People who have never owned a house are much less likely to understand the full economic impact of owning one; especially a gigantic, expensive one. They literally take advantage of people's desperation for ratings. Lesson: Whenever you experience a major life event, get professional financial and legal advice because, most people are blindsided by realities they never even considered. The entertainment industry is built on taking advantage of people. There is nothing "charitable" about any of this.
I completely forgot that they basically just went the Pimp My Ride route and completely designed the most tacky thing to match one little part of their personality. Guess that’s a repressed memory cause my whole family watched this show and loved the designs at the time 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 since you mentioned pimp my ride if my memory serves me correct, they even had xzibit on an episode as a special guest.
I always dreamed of having one of the themed rooms. Themed bedroom are the best!
a lot of the pimp my ride vehicles were absolute garbage from a reliability standpoint. They'd rarely service the engines or drivetrain. They'd often add so much electronics that it would burn up wires and blow fuses. You can find tons of youtube videos of folks finding these old cars.
😂😂😂Good comparison!! That was the part that i remembered. The just ridiculous things they did esp for kids rooms. That kid may like fairies or whatever today but two weeks from now they will be in to something else and at some point they are gonna hate that room. I couldn’t stand those themed kids rooms. It was way too much.One unique thing is fine but the whole damn room would be fairies. And like a jungle gym fairy bed with fairy curtains. It was too much plus your kid will grow so you want to get stuff that they can keep using and if you painted a perfectly good dresser or night stand with fairies , just why! And i’m not against weird stuff. it’s your house but if i decide to put in something weird I know it may mess with the selling price but i picked it and chose it. The did stuff where clearly that is gonna make it hard to sell and I hate it and wouldn’t have done it. I will mess up the reselling value of my house the way i want not with some tacky backyard go cart situation. God those themed rooms haunt my dreams. And they lacked warmth I thought. You can take fairies and instead of being a creep about it you can make a room that a fairy might like w colors and lights and cozy furniture but who the hell wants a bed spread made of duct tape. can you imagine the heat under that thing or wants a full pet store to deal with. ffs those are actual living things. one little beast is a lot of work. fish tanks are a lot of work. i like the dinosaur head tho. i’d take that from my kid and put it in the living room.
@@SunbeanCatReally, just curious were you younger when you watched it? cos i saw it as a young adult and I was usually horrified by the themes rooms. 😂 It was just too much for me. to much theme
Not only are these houses were incredibly impractical, and costly to maintain, they are very highly and flashy customised so very difficult to sell. Not to mention 1 week to build using so many volunteers, no matter how well meaning those volunteers may have been and how skilled they are, builds with such speed and that many ongoing work at once in same space inevitably have things that don't set right.
Even with experienced contractors, you can't build a good house in a week. Foundations have to cure, trades have to come in and work in sequence (plumbers and electricians before drywallers, drywallers before finish carpenters and painters), and stuff like drywall mud and spray texture has to dry before painting.
I watched this show as a kid and I would fantasize about what my dream bedroom would look like, but I was too young to even consider the ramifications of it all. I feel like everyone who grew up in the 2000s looks back at all these reality shows we were constantly exposed to as young children that were normal at the time, and most of the time they're just kind of stupid and it's all in good fun to go back and watch them, but hearing about what these families went through after the fact was the first time I got genuinely angry looking back.
The original edition they convinced women they were unattractive and gave them extreme plastic surgery before taking off the bandages and parading them out to a large balcony full of their loved ones who applauded how much "better" they looked. I only ever saw one episode, but even as a kid I knew it was messed up. The 2000s were messed up in those ways.
Yeah, I remember the "being a traveller for a living" shows and it was my dream as a 13 y/o. Now I look at influencers doing it and it's so cringe.
Same, I was poor living in apartment to apartment, I dreamed (still dreaming) of living in a big beautiful house with my dream room and maybe a couple of real horses. The show was glittered with sparkle dust and not showing the fact whats behind closed doors 💔
@@practicalpen1990 what did you mean?
I always knew it was a sham he gave me weird vibes
My aunt was on a show where they makeover a house to help them sell it. They decided to keep it because it was so nice. It really helped them. I wonder why they simply just do that.
Makeing that up. You need sources and links if you want us to belive you.
@@alexshinra6722 "Hey, auntie, what was that show you were on like 13 years ago and do you have a link, because I want to make a 1 second comment but need sources and links for strangers to believe it" ahaha get real. I don't care if you believe it or not. Just a thought and I put it down.
@@johngiraltbedford mmm am sure.
That sounds like love it or list it. I love that show
The Marine (Dan) in the beginning of the video was my room mate when we worked together in the Corps. We were stationed at Camp Johnson in MotorT together, where he met his wife and mother of his kids. I got out of the Marines several months before he went overseas and was impacted by the IED that destroyed his Hummer. I lost touch with him over the years and didn't know he had fallen on hard times and was going to be on the show until I was traveling for work and saw him pop-up on a tv in the hotel lobby. He looked exactly the same as he did when we worked together, down to the hair cut. Bottom Line, Dan is an amazing guy and I hope he's doing well.
i hope so too
I met the Beach family. Great people. They couldn’t afford the taxes after the “extreme makeover” and when they sold it, all neighbors were angry at them and made them feel guilty.
Crazy.
They forget about the property taxes on the new appraisal.
We had a disabled dads ( he had a terrible car accident) home done in my town and they actually did an amazing job redoing the house to make it accessible for him in his wheelchair. It was early on in the show, perhaps it got worse, but I've been in the home and it still looks ok and the dad is walking again!
That's great to hear, glad he's doing well.
Thanks for this honest take, don’t believe the (anti) hype
That's great your father is back up glad it workout for you guys
@@pavy415 no he wasn't my dad lol I was already a mother when they did it. He was a neighbor (a few blocks away) and the production co had a lot of the older kids - iirc they were a group in the high school who did community project stuff)come help. One of my daughters was very involved at the time so we had a bit of an inside scoop at the time.
I do see that dad and his wife around town still and he is walking and looks so much better! I'm not sure what chances they had given him to walk again but I remember it was slim. He had been on the way to the hospital for the birth of his third kid and got hit pretty bad.
They really did help that family and it was very heartwarming.
It was very early in the show, not sure if it got exponentially worse as they went on or not but this one time at least they changed an entire families lives.
Oh yes, of course it gets worse. You know what gets more ratings than building someone a house? Building someone _else_ an even _bigger_ even *_MORE_* ostentatious house.
That they never had even a prayer of affording.
Wow the response of these community members and even leaders is shocking. So sad to put these families through these messed up highs and lows to make money off a reality show. It’s gross
They screwed a lot of families with the taxes alone.
true, taxes are the unexpected killer
“Unexpected “ 😂😂
@@21sabi_32 Why even try to argue that point, it's the entire reason celebrities liquidate their assets. Taxes aren't inherently obvious when you purchase huge swaths of things.
@@dylanherron3963yeah they are, it’s why it should be taught in school
@@zeektm1762 If it was taught in school, it would be inherently obvious. Your take is very ironic.
OMG! I remember watching this all the time with my family, it use to be one of the very few shows that we all watched together.
But now learning of the overall backlash it's really sad that this show that was supposed to help families ended up creating more problems.
Dude I'm distraught I used to fucking love this show my family would watch I didn't know anything about this it's sad
@@societiii Same. Absolutely loved it. When Ty was on The Oprah Winfrey Show, a young me saw that as a zenith moment depicting how great of a show it was.
Exactly. I used to watch this, too.
Watched this with my family as well....
I donated material and worked on the Beach family house in Kemah, TX. Most of the volunteers had no idea what they were doing and had never worked in construction.
To build a huge house like that in a week was terrible. Everything was rushed and slapped together. They installed WAAAAY too much lighting to make everything look good on camera without bringing in TV lights. There were all kinds of problems with the house over the next few yars in addition to the huge cost of just living in it.
The Beaches sold the house and now it is a drug treatment cener for "high net worth individuals."
Wow. Found the house on Google in 10 seconds. That is crazy how that transformation was able to work as a drug treatment center.
@@mida8261 they made something like eight bedrooms for all the foster kids. The house was way too big for the family.
It always blows my mind that you could buy your land, build a house from scratch, and then owe the government giant tax bills on it all after you've paid income tax, sales tax, SS etc. It's a serious racket and the fact that people can lose their homes because of taxes is just crazy.
It's such an idiotic system. We're all just slaves to the government. It literally was never supposed to be this way.
_Years_ ago, one of my friends was a teacher, and at a gathering I mentioned this exact thing. This one absolute nitwit chick who couldn't find her ass with two hands and a map (I could though, aaaayyyyyyy) squawked out "𝚋𝚄𝚝 𝚑𝙾𝚠 𝚠𝙾𝚞𝙻𝚍 𝚝𝙴𝚊𝙲𝚑𝙴𝚛 𝚐𝚄𝚢 𝚐𝙴𝚝 𝚙𝙰𝚒𝙳!?"
*YOU CHANGE THE STUPID SYSTEM, THAT'S HOW* Lord almighty that chick was an absolute government boot licking idiot.
The American Dream died when the banks took over.
Yup, you really don’t own shit
It's really simple. You don't actually OWN anything. It's just an illusion. The government can and will take w.e they want from you including your life
Is it a racket? Property taxes where I’m at pay for schools, roads, dam maintenance, the police, firefighters and social programs. I like and need all these things and am willing to pay for it.
I knew this would happen, even when watching with my family as a teen. I always said, after every episode, that this family can't afford this sort of burden. ABC is the real disgrace here.
The families could have always sold the houses, Assuming the show took place before 2008. They would've made a profit, especially the houses being featured on television, which would have inflated the prices. Buy something cheaper, in the same neighborhood afterward.
@@sikderqais6151 tell the families that, not a guy commenting on a video made 14+ years after the fact. That's like me telling you that you would have made a great financial advisor in 2006. God damn.
@@sikderqais6151The show ran from 2004-2012, unfortunately.
@@highandtight5544"Hey, I am a great financial advisor with the gift of hindsight"
@@sikderqais6151have you watched the video? He answered that no one wanted the houses. Especially before 2008.
In my home town a local family "won" one of these and their entire home was redone to assist with their child who was in a wheel chair, only for them to have to sell it a few years later. They had the same issue with property taxes.
It was that moment in time, and eventually owning a home, that got me thinking "Why do property taxes INCREASE if you own the house, made changes, and paid for said changes? It'd be one thing to sell it and new owners have to handle the "new" property taxes from the upgrades. But forcing the current owners who made or paid for renovations to pay more for improving their own properties? That's insane."
Property tax is just another "normalized" weird thing.
This is America.
You will pay 2 different income taxes, sales tax, and property tax all on the same dollar
All taxes are "normalized" theft.
The fact that all of these had to be sold well below the “market value” is probably a good indication that the property taxes were too high.
It’s because property taxes are regularly reassessed. If your property becomes more valuable, you pay more taxes on it. What’s worse is that if one house in the neighborhood sells for a lot more than expected, it can pull up all the neighbors’ property taxes, as well. High property values are great when you’re selling a home but bad when you’re paying taxes on it.
Legalised theft
My dad was a tax lawyer who managed the taxes for one of the families who's house was redone on this show locally, and seeing how badly the family got hosed by ABC + how much in terms of tax expenses they were left holding the bag for, he stopped being a fan of the show.
Evidently they absolutely trashed the home to make it look like an utter sty before they sent the family off on vacation too. Like came in with a truck full of garbage backs to scatter around the hallways
Your dad shouldn’t be talking about his client’s finances 📊
@@USA-qm2bk whats' the problem? there were no pertinent details shared in their post.
@USA-qm2bk How would you even find out anything about how the world worked if everyone keeps quiet?It is such a stupid rule. How are people even supposed to learn or held anyone accountable for wrongdoing?
@@user-ix5pi5nm5p I rather have accountability, not everything should be private
considering this was all in TV anyway if it were me I’d personally shout it out to anyone listening and tell your Dad they can do the same so people are aware. ABC could likely afford to pay for everything w the money that came in from high viewership and ad revenue and have plenty left over.
growing up homeless is crazy. I remember dreaming these people would build my family a home. RIP to me
The show came to our town and we were so excited. It wasn't until we talked to the family shortly after at a garage sale that we learned that all of their belongs that had been replaced with new stuff were just left on the front lawn! The family was left to figure out with what to do with it all.
That mayor who said the family "squandered" the home because they couldn't afford it and had their house foreclosed on needs to take a trip to the titanic in a submersible.
And you need to join them
@@spoonypoon7998 Nah, just you. Stay mad, kiddo
@@Espartanica I'm probably older than you.. And TH-cam censored your comment
Do the math, he was right
@@queen-of-wonderland-333 If the tv show paid off the house and they were only forced to now pay an extra $4k a year for property taxes on and $700 a month for utilities on average, that only equals $1000 a month total.. I’m positive their rent or mortgage was equal to or higher than that to begin with.
I used to watch this show when I was younger and even though I enjoyed it, I always wondered what happened afterwards. Now I know and my heart goes out to the families. What makes things even worse was that the peak of the show was before the Housing Bubble burst around 2008-2009. Even families that didn't have extreme makeovers were losing their homes due to mortgages being too high (mine included) which was devastating so I can't even begin to understand how the families felt when they had to leave their dream homes if you can even call them that. The examples Patrick gave in the video are the families that spoke out. I'm sure the rest of them went through hell but kept quiet to avoid the backlash other families got. It's just...reality TV is built on spectacle. It always has been so sometimes people forget that there are real people with consequences that happen to them when the cameras turn off. Extreme Home Makeover is another example of that.
I used to be a contractor. We always had trouble with the customers wanted a high quality job but it had to "be done fast". You cannot rush excellent finish work. That requires prep and prep is tedious and "appears " slow.
i just cant believe anyone would ever do this. all the best to those affected and hopefully people will stop taking advantage of well meaning families.
But Mr.Beast is still praised to the skies for doing basically the same thing?
@@dagfinissocoolFrom my understanding Mr. Beast fully discloses future expenses, and offers a "cash instead" or "sell back" option for whatever he gives away.
@@Mr_Buu He's still taking advantage of the fact people are poor and enriching himself instead of lobbying to stop inequality
We had an extreme makeover home built in my city back when this show was on the air. The family that received it definitely deserved it, but they couldn't afford the huge property tax increase after the new home was reappraised and the property taxes increased by a factor of 10. They had to sell their home and move out of it less than 2 years after receiving it. Many of the neighbors in that area also had to sell their homes because the extreme makeover house increased the value of the surrounding homes so much, the property tax amount skyrocketed for the entire neighborhood.
its flipping stupid states increase a entire area over 1 house. but they do it.
Wait, this is exactly what happened to the Pink Replica Simpsons house FOX planted in Nevada.
Extreme Gentrification, lol
I used to watch it as a kid and even then , even though I loved the show I would still spend the whole episode wondering how the family was supposed to pay the bills when it’s all over . If even my 8 years old self could think about it, it makes me think the producers thought about it too , they just did not care
Unfortunately 8-year-old you is smarter than quite a few adults
i was a young adult and just assumed they paid it all. bc Oprah had gotten heat for the car situation bc of property tax. so I assumed certainly they wouldn’t make that mistake again. and regardless what needed to be paid would be paid. clearly i was wrong. we had one in my city tho and remember our newspaper wrote an article about it maybe a year or so later and did go into the issues. property tax being one. And i think how out of place it looked where it was and just weird upkeep things bc they did weird stuff to those houses that made things impractical. both inside and out.
this is cap
Wow. This is mind boggling. How heartless do you have to be to do this to a struggling family
the fact that these were already hurt and struggling families makes this so much worse.
Maybe they had good intentions in the beginning, but it got corrupted by views.
You would think a company like abc would be able to foreseen that some of these ideas were extremely obnoxious, dumb and unnecessary.
Seems like they did not give a fuck from the beginning, targetting these particular families. It's sad.
@@waddle623 dont even think a massive corporation were doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. they knew exactly what they were doing. all these types of shows are all about viewership.
@@noodlesushi111 True
And all the families didnt sign the contract with a pistol to their head. Bigger house, Bigger expenses. CC said ABC even paid off their mortgage - how about using this newly available Money to... I don't know, pay off the difference between the expenses. Sucks to suck.
Extreme home makeover is the houses equivalent of Pimp my Ride and nobody can change my mind
wah
🙃
At least in home makeover they can actually live in the house. In pimp my ride, they couldn't even drive some of the cars because the upgrades they gave them were illegal or a nuisance to drive with.
Was thinking the exact same thing lol. Where you're just like "Jesus, but why?!?" haha. You mean, you don't want 3 42" TVs in your car with a pop out waffle maker in the trunk??
Yup! “We heard you like tv so we put a tv for your steering wheel and windshield!!”
Giving a 12 year old kid 20 different animals to take care of??? I feel sorry for that boy, that story looks interesting to hear
I knew one of the families that was on early on in the show. Their story was very challenging disabilities in 3 of the 4 family members, and their rebuild was almost entirely focused on accessibility, and the house wasn't too crazy since all but the able son's room was pretty normal just with added accommodations, and it was still there last time I checked. Shame it got too crazy.
I always had that thought in the back of my mind: what happens now that the house and bills are larger? My mother thought I was being ridiculous, but it's not that hard to see it all going poorly for struggling families who wind up with NO home in the end.
The idea of owning a giant house sounds great in theory. In practice the expenses from a giant house can destroy your wealth! Most of these families would have been far better off without a "gift" like this! Also how wasteful to tear down perfectly good homes.
I didn’t like the tearing down bc i just didn’t believe the quality of what they built in 7 days was the same as the house they tore down. That always concerned me but the never talked about it on the show. you just kinda knew that in a year or so this thing is going to have issues. And it is wasteful. Earth prob has that on her massively long list of why she is currently boiling us all alive now. which is fair bc we knew the consequences and chose to proceed with no caution.
Who would've thought that gifting someone that already had limited means something that would require more to maintain when their means haven't improved at all would be a bad idea?
I remember watching this show, and being amazed, being so touch by the stories and was just so happy!! Such a shame, that some of us really brought into the bs! Literally I couldn’t imagine how many families were into debt after and it makes me angry! Makes me angry that Ty still enjoying life now and has that new home makeover app game.
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Any feel good story that comes out of hollywood is a sham. They are master manipulators with people's emotions.
Destroying the old home was so aggravatingly stupid.
I always wondered how the families that were already struggling financialy were going to pay for the upkeep of those over the top houses. Now I know...
I also wondered how good the construction and finish could be when building a house so fast and with several builinding crews working together that never worked together before.
That is why I only watched a handful of episodes of this show because I had a feeling it was all about ratings and the new home owners weren't better off in the long run. They were probably super happy in the first few weeks or months... until the reality hit of how much it would cost to live in a mansion and when they started to realise how many corners were cut to build it so fast.
I remember watching this and shows like it as a kid were'd they'd go "your kid said they liked playing on the playground, so we made it so the only way to get into bed is by climbing over a jungle gym," and just thinking "wow, that would suck."
Reality TV is a plague.
The rich are the plague rats with ticks containing the plague of greed. The rich do not give a crap about the poor.
they needed a lawyer to go over every single line of fine print prior to this. smh this is disgusting
No way a kid that young can keep up with all those animals.
Back before I knew about the expenses of home ownership was, this was one of the only reality TV shows I liked to watch. I had no idea these families were just props for the network to boost viewership numbers. Utterly cruel acts of unkindness.
If it's on TV. It's there because it makes more money than whoever else was trying to get that spot on TV. There is not a single show on TV that is not in some way a scam to boost viewership.
After our house flooded in 2008 people were offering to apply us to the show. My dad said that we couldn't afford it (we also had the radio station generator to worry about as the place was originally a radio station). Lost the place in the end after trying to fix and rebuild ourselves. I can't imagine what they would have done to the property.
It's sad that they couldn't just upgrade the home to be new materials, up to code etc only but then that wouldn't be good tv.
It could still be good TV, just on a home improvement channel. There are shows that deal with repairing the work of shoddy contractors. They could have done something like that.
@@evilsharkey8954 Yeah, I quite like those types of shows. Though the thing about those is that they don't pull as many viewers, but they can also be done on a much smaller budget. My mom is obsessed with this one show about finishing botched or stalled DIY projects. Usually they just fix the stuff that's broken, and spruce up a the interior of a couple of rooms. Everything usually ends up looking nice and ordinary. Most of the TV value comes from the host teaching the family, and by extent the viewers, how to do things properly and get shit done in a reasonable time.
I'm old enough to remember This Old House with Bob Vila on PBS. Everybody used to know that show and Bob was a household name.
i still remember when they gave a child a huge sand pool in her room because she liked beach (or just like the sand pool at the park, i don’t remember), they were even questioning the decision because it will cause a lot of a mess and they still did it because “this will make her happier”
No, they did it because they asked a bunch of mothers who all said it was a good idea.
@@oggyyyy1 🤓
Hope they didn't have any cats.
I remember when 1 family immediately sold and got grief for it. But it was the right thing to do for them.
I remember really liking this show as a kid, but even back then I remember hearing about how the houses weren’t actually just given to the families. Or they were left with massive bills
I remember even as a kid watching this not understanding how a giant new home would help people in financially bad spots.
I knew that there was a dark side to this television show right from the start, but I didn't know what. It just seemed like this television show came in and invaded those people's lives without regard for what these families really wanted. Plus, the new houses were far beyond what the families needed to live.
I agree. The kids bedrooms always felt so impossible to enjoy longer than a month, and I always wondered what they did with all of their, idk, heirlooms and photos? It never looked like they put anything back.
The dark side is why it's called "home edition". You know what the original edition was? Think about how toxic early 2000s magazines got about weight and appearance.
the 00s were such a weird time for television, i forgot about alot of this stuff until i found your channel. thanks for the goods
I remember when "Extreme Makeover" first aired years ago and saying "Yes, it's a dream come true, but how will they be able to afford to maintain it if they're already financially struggling?" I had assumed "the dream home" these families ended up with would be mortgage free...if it wasn't, they certainly weren't doing that family any favors. Just goes to show you that nothing in this World is really "free"....there's always a catch...ALWAYS.
I don’t think that they paid off any of their existing mortgages, so they would still be responsible for paying that as well as all of the new expenses.
They still had to pay the mortgage on the previous home. If they were renting, they’d be hit with utility bills and property taxes bigger than their previous rent.
@@evilsharkey8954 Just refuse. Most of these families put in the request, it's bizarre ABC is being blamed when THEY should've been fully aware of what would happen.
@@JJokerMoreau You’re victim blaming. How are the families to know the new house will have shoddy construction, astronomical taxes and utilities, and no resale value? It’s not like low income families are experts in real estate and home construction.
@@evilsharkey8954 You're not a victim when it's your own fault.
I've heard this idea of shoddy construction, but that's unverified pseudo-intellectual garbage. Until there is proof that these houses aren't built well, let's not, hm?
We all know taxes increase when you refurnish your house. That's fairly easy to understand. As for resale value, they absolutely do. You just have to sell at the price of the homes in your area, not the actual value of the home (you didn't have to pay for). It should be an easy win-win if you're not stupid about it, though it does take leaving the house.
This is kind of a classic example of how many in Hollywood simply have no concept of how normal people live and what they need to find happiness in life.
Your comment make absolute zero sense
The thing is, this type of show can be done in a way that doesn't drive prices through the roof. In the UK there is a similar program called DIY SOS which basically does the same thing as Extreme Home Makeover, only they just fix up parts of a house rather than tear it all down and start over.
A friend of mine was a hired as a freelance art director for a show like this, and I remember telling me how cheap the set was constructed. Yep, not a room, not a house, but a set.
The best moments were when Ty just started recording himself looking high af on cocaine, walking to a wall, and saying how much he hate THAT one wall in particular. Then pulling out a sledgehammer from god knows where before he starts smashing it like an abusive partner with anger issues.
I always wondered what would be the actual quality of materials and the build itself in a house made in 7 days. Same thing with Pimp my Ride and such. I always thought "There is no way that car would be legal to drive in the street" at the end of each episode, and turns out, a lot of them weren't.
I remember when tv show like this started airing in Poland. Everyone, me included was like "damn it's not even close to the one from the states" Then everybody realized that you need to pay the bills and it's actually a much better deal than getting a house similar to the one from the original show. Beside new house people would get new smartphones, insurance for the house etc. Seeing this show was always really fun
Just shows you have much more sensible folks there who care for affordability and utility over flash and style.
@@tallyp.7643 Beside that, the crew was also supported by the locals who appeared not only during the construction but also after the first showing of the house. It was always super wholesome, they are going to get a new host but I hope it continues it's work. They made a great job so far and even got back to some families during Christmas if I remember correctly. Most of them are doing much better right now
"yeah i like chocolate"
"oh your son will like this, a room MADE OF CHOCOLATE"
This show was basically pimp my ride with extra steps 😂. Both shows left a huge burden to lots of families who were in the show.
The scandals that followed Pimp my Ride even destroyed Xhibit's music career.
OMG this is so true!! I swear on everything I love I had two neighbors I wish I remembered their names that lived right across the street from me. It was around 2003 and the two girls were on this show but it was so weird because they had a nice house makeover on TV but they were literally living across from me in some apartments in the hood. I remember telling them on the bus that I saw them on TV and they said they didn't want to talk about it. I haven't thought about them in decades I hope they're doing well
I watched this show as a kid, of course being totally amazed by these tacky creations. As an adult, I started working for architects and engineering offices. It took months to get a new house permitted, let alone construction and the final inspection to get a CO. I wonder how much clout Disney needed to get these done so fast.
ABC not Disney
@@Breeanna-og3js looking back you see a lot of the families were sent to Disney World or Disneyland for the seven days it took for reconstructing their homes
@@Breeanna-og3js looking back you see a lot of the families were sent to Disney World or Disneyland for the seven days it took for reconstructing their homes
@@Breeanna-og3jsabc is owned by Disney
@@Breeanna-og3js Did you really not know that? ABC's been owned by Disney for like, 25, 30 years.
I rent my home, it’s beautiful, my landlord is kind and very understanding, great livable prices, I’m so lucky to be in that situation and the idea of someone buying this house, tearing it down, and then building something shitty and tasteless and leave me with the bills makes me want to hurl. I can’t imagine that kind of stress. G-d bless these families
I know about this first hand. I live outside a small town in the middle of kansas and several years ago a tornado came through and trashed half the town. There was a military family who's home got destroyed and they were put on this show. The problem wasn't that they didn't need the help it was the fact that there were other families who needed it too but this family was arrogant and not really liked by the community and they eventually sold the house and no one else could afford it so I think it ended up being torn down anyway
That was the Tutweilers (Chapman KS). I was on active duty at the time and our (Army) unit worked with the Show and on the house. :) In fairness, the Tutweilers were not the only ones getting assistance from the show. Other folks got limited assistance and the City Park got a new Shelter/office space from the show. The Tutweiler home is still up in Chapman, another family lives in it now.
@@mikalnaylor thanks for clarifying
There are a lot of nuances people don't understand. In order to gift a home to someone that is financially struggling, you have to have a minimum 5 year escrow setup in order to take care of expenses. Without that, the house is burden not a gift! The whole concept of this show feels like it was developed by a trust fund baby that has never had any real experience in the real world!
@@tobybigham4196 I mean it IS Disney after all...they are not known for thinking things through.
@@animeangel1983 Excellent point! I totally forgot that this show was produced by ABC as well!
Went to school with the Nickless family @ holt high school. I remember going to see the house being unveiled , what a sad story and even more sad that all of these families had to rid of their homes shortly after getting them
I remember this. So unfair.
I feel sorry for those people and the guilt they felt due to abandoning their homes. It's not their fault that they couldn't mantain it anymore, and I feel like someone should have informed all the people that helped, that it was just unmanageable to maintain.