Extreme Home Makeover is the worst.

I think it's going to be pretty awesome. A friend of mine is among the people chosen to get a house. She's been through some horrific crap due to the tornado. It's nice that this is happening to her. She's the type of person who is always helping others it's great to see that she's geting this after such a horrible tragedy in her life.

It sounds like they're using modular homes from she's saying, or at least using them to start the project.

http://www.joinextreme.com/joplinmofamily/thefamilies

my beef for extreme home makeover is they could rebuild the entire trailor park for the cost of the one double wide they are building

We visited the home makeover site tonight. Amazing...all 7 homes look pretty much complete from the outside.
My wife and I had volunteered, but didn't get selected. Which is pretty amazing, since they were looking for 8,000 volunteers.
I also noticed that they're doing some big projects up the road at Cunningham park.

Yea they are rebuilding the park as well.

I am not a huge fan of the show but anyone willing to build 7 houses and rebuild the park is good in my book.

They don't have to do it and people will benefit. Bashing it in any way is just dumb.

Oh yea, and the Xtreme Home Makover Band is playing in town tonight and tommorow. LMAO.

I hope your friend can pay the taxes on the ridiculous, gaudy house that the show is going to build for her.

These aren't the normal "gaudy" houses that the show builds. These are nice 1,500 square foot homes that you would see in a new middle income neighborhood.
Taxes in this area are cheap. If they have a job, they should be able to handle these homes pretty easily.

So that's your problem!

They should only build gray, state-approved communal housing, not those bourgeois, decadent structures, right, comrade?

We spent a day helping with the cleanup about a month after the tornado hit. Our "crew chief" led our group from random house to house to put debris in designated piles next to the road that wasn't setting on the foundation. IMO... There were far too many people driving around in the large trucks picking up bulk debris and far too few people on the ground doing the grunt work. Looking around at the destruction, I felt like an ant in the middle of an 100 acre farm. I can't imagine how they managed to get all the debris piled by the curb before the government stopped picking up the tab.

That's good to know.

No, they should build a home that people can afford. Multiple recipients of Extreme Home Makeovers had to move out of their special house because they couldn't afford to stay in it. That show doesn't care about people so much as it cares about exploiting their stories.

Not an accountant, but pretty sure you have to report the value of the gift then pay whatever tax bracket that puts you in. A $100,000 house would rack up a $35,000 obligation (less whatever deductions they have).

You wouldn't get taxed if you tore your house down and built a new one.

So if the labor and materials are donated, don't see how that is any different.

Property taxes is all they have to worry about.

Six months ago today.

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This.
I have volunteered a few times and I saw the same hillbilly toothless guys driving around in pickups taking the scrap metal to sell it. I suppose that it still helps the clean up process though because it was quite a bit of metal, but it was kind of ironic that they were making a profit off a disaster and the sweat of volunteers.

The Extreme Makeover Joplin show is on tonight at 7pm.