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I cannot get over how beautiful that house is.


Aww - that's so sad that the father of the building company passed away - he looked so old and fragile

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I watched it. I thought the boys were all so sweet & loving to each other. Which shows GREAT parenting!! Tyson was great for giving them a year supply of chicken. Thats ALOT of chicken for 5 growing boys!

I wish I saw the 20/20 thing. My husband kept asking how the hell are they going to afford to live there? And I was expecting them to talk about a great security system. (if it's that bad of a neighborhood)

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I missed the first 10 minutes...can you give me the background story? I started watching just now...

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Mom walked out years ago, dad has raised the five boys, has had two heart attacks and can't work anymore, they live in Camden, which you know is dangerous and horribly poverty stricken - they don't have food some days and they don't have beds

Thanks. Is this the same family that was on 20/20 Friday night when they were doing a story about Camden, NJ?

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I cried too...ugh how touching!!

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i usually cry during that show but this episode was a tear jerker! that is such an amazing family soo loving and strong when the dad saw the chicken in the new fridge and started crying i lost it

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I was hysterical too!! I'm just worried about how they are going to afford it with the taxes and everything! I was hoping they would get money too!

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Whata touching family- but this show confuses me-
How are they going to pay taxes, electricity bills, oil, for that huge house and all those electronics?.
eta- I think sometimes they should scale down on the home and maybe set up an account for taxes, insurance, etc.

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I missed the first 10 minutes...can you give me the background story? I started watching just now...

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Mom walked out years ago, dad has raised the five boys, has had two heart attacks and can't work anymore, they live in Camden, which you know is dangerous and horribly poverty stricken - they don't have food some days and they don't have beds

Thanks. Is this the same family that was on 20/20 Friday night when they were doing a story about Camden, NJ?

I saw the 20/20 story Friday night. I was HYSTERICAL. It was so sad. I only watched the first story with the little boy i was crying so hard i had to turn it off.

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I was crying, too. The father did so much for others and his boys. What a wonderful human being!

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I don't know how the sale/resale of the house could effect the taxes going up? I mean... aren't taxes assessed by the amount of living space and property? If I improve my house and then sell it - the new owners are not going to be exempt from paying higher taxes because they didn't make the improvements.

I think I am confused.


I was wrong- the lease it- here is some info.....


Some (let’s be honest here - ALL) of the makeovers on “Extreme Makeover - Home Edition” cost big bucks to accomplish. Do the recipient families have to pay federal income taxes on these windfalls? —Jackie

A: Families who cried on camera when introduced to their newly renovated homes on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and similar shows might have been crying again last week, when federal income taxes were due. That’s because the renovations done to the house — and paid for by producers and sponsors — are taxable.

But don’t worry too much about the families, at least those who’ve participated in the two big renovation shows. The producers who changed their lives do their best to shield them from an unbearable tax burden. Variety reported last week that producers for “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” have “an innovative scheme” for getting around the tax burden. Basically, the show leases the house for two weeks. That makes all of the changes and improvements tax-exempt. That sounded sketchy to tax professionals who talked to Newsweek. But a year later, Endemol exec David Goldberg told Variety, “we haven’t had any issues with it.”

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But that's the taxes on the improvements, right?
Not the property taxes.
I just hope these families get to keep th ehouses that were given to them.

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