Featured as the biggest project on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” the Harpers’ Lake City (Atlanta), Ga., four-bedroom, three-car garage dream house is slated to be auctioned off, due to foreclosure.
“… 1,800 volunteers spent a week to demolish the house with the overflowing septic tank that belonged to Milton and Patricia Harper of Lake City, Ga., and then entirely rebuild a new, larger house, while the Harpers and their three children went away to Disneyland. When they returned, they had the biggest house on Ahyoka Drive, with all the appliances and furnishings, plus enough money to pay taxes on it for decades, plus a fund to send their children to college.
The house will be auctioned off, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse.
The Harpers had used their home as collateral on a $450,000 loan from JPMorgan Chase and fell in arrears, the newspaper reported. He ran a home security business; she mommed at home. Happy to be on television back then, they declined to be interviewed last week, when a news crew showed up from local station WSB, wanting to know what happened.
The mayor of Lake City, Willie Oswalt, who said he’d helped lift a beam into place in the Harpers living room, told the press that “it’s aggravating. It just makes you mad. You do that much work, and they just squander it.”
How do you lose a house that someone gave you as a gift on national television?
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