Former Participants On Home Makeover Shows Are Revealing What Their Houses Looked Like After The Cameras Left, And It's Shocking

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This person had another unfortunate Extreme Makeover tale:

"I work for one of the construction companies that were contracted to build the new house on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. This was like 10-plus years ago, when the show was at the height of its popularity. Anyways, it was a huge, nice house built for a widowed mother with several kids (father had recently died, hence why she was on the show). Even though the house was 'given' to her, she couldn't afford it after a year or so (property tax, electricity, water, upkeep, etc.) and put it on the market. Simply owning a home of that size is very expensive, and she couldn't afford it."

—u/dryproperty