More foreclosures coming from "Extreme Makeover"?

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It seems like we're going to see a lot more headlines like the one yesterday on one of the homes fixed up on Extreme Makeover ending up at a foreclosure auction (dramatically on the steps of the local courthouse in Georgia). Maybe it's only logical, given the mission of the show to fix up houses for those who can't afford to do so on their own. Many of these people are going to end up in further trouble, unable to afford their up-sized dreams.

Free Money Finance is hot on the trial of two more houses featured on the show that may be in trouble: one in Maryland and one in Oregon. In both cases, the families just had too much house to maintain and couldn't keep up. Being on the show may have actually exacerbated their problems. But isn't that the whole gist of the mortgage crisis right now? Banks extended pie-in-the-sky loans to people they know couldn't afford them, then jacked up the rates after they sucked the people into buying houses.


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