The show gave the $400,000 home and office in Altamonte Springs, Fla., to Holmes in February 2006. Holmes, who runs a nonprofit called Sadie Holmes Help Services from the home, says she cannot afford to pay off the lien and keep current on her $6,000 a year in property taxes.
The violations began to accumulate after Holmes, a former drug addict and single mother of five children, moved into the home and received permission from Seminole county to run a volunteer organization from it. Sadie Holmes Help Services collects clothing, food and furniture and distributes them to people in need.
Running the organization from the property required that Holmes screen from view any materials stored outside, the paper said. By September 2007, the Sentinel reported, a code-enforcement officer began filing violations for overgrown grass and because such things as portable restrooms, an over-sized truck and abandoned vehicles were allegedly stored on it in full view Holmes said she began receiving visits from the officer as early as two months after she moved in.
Those violations have NOTHING to do with EM. That was HER fault for not abiding by the town's rules regarding running the business from herhome.
ps.
If your house is larger , bigger payments . That's common knowledge .
again... this is completely wrong.
The original mortgage stays.. the house's equity is what increases.
also... re: the Harpers.
It turns out that after such a tremendous bounty is showered upon grateful and lucky families such as the Harpers, these folks are sent along their merry way. They are on their own financially, after the show bestows upon them a gold mine that turns very quickly into a money pit.
ABC said in a statement that it advises each family to consult a financial planner after they get their new home. "Ultimately, financial matters are personal, and we work to respect the privacy of the families," the network said.
How could fortunes change so drastically in three years' time?
so again?....how is this the fault of EM?
and the writing of that is crap... a gold mine that turns into a money pit?...but they fail to say how so
it turns into a money pit b/c of POOR FINANCIAL choices by the owners.
