US | foreclosures Extreme Makeover Home Goes Into Foreclosure Atlanta family unable to pay back bank loan By Elizabeth Harmon Posted Jul 29, 2008 8:41 PM CDT Copied Fairmont, WV resident Richard Turner, center, and his family pose for a photo with contractors outside their home Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. ABC's "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" built them a new house. (AP Photo/Dale Sparks) A house constructed for ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is up for auction after the owners lost the building to foreclosure. The Atlanta home, the biggest built on the show, was collateral for a now-overdue $450,000 loan. The foreclosure represents a comeuppance not only for its owners but for the country as a whole, writes Hank Stuever in the Washington Post. "One thing we'll always remember about this decade was the constant home do-over fetish, in real life and in the reality of reality TV," writes Stuever, who goes on to urge the owners to submit to a makeover of their finances. "The schadenfreude potential is everywhere now in these newly sobered times." Read These Next New Fox star, 23, misses first day after car troubles. Man accused of killing his daughters might be dead. Iran's supreme leader makes first public comments since ceasefire. White House rolls with Trump's 'daddy' nickname. Report an error