What I’m Watching - Hope for your Home
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
I love this show. It’s so timely and pertinent for so many homeowners who are faced with the possibility of losing their home due to value depreciation and rising living and mortgage expenses.
From the show’s website…
Hope for Your Home is a new half-hour series that takes on the tough circumstances so many homeowners in this country are facing today. Hosted by real estate expert Kirsten Kemp Becker (TLC’s Property Ladder), Hope for Your Home lends a hand to homeowners in financial need, by giving them critical resources to make improvements to their property. The goal is to add enough value to their home so they can either refinance their mortgage or make the best possible sale. Kirsten advises the homeowners on what improvements will actually increase a home’s value, while a contractor ensures that all projects are done properly and safely. Once the improvements are complete, a real estate agent and a mortgage broker tour the home, examine the upgrades, and determine a market value. In the end, the homeowners are empowered to decide if they should stay in their newly-renovated home, or sell their home and find something more affordable for their family.
I think there are so many families who could benefit from the examples set by the situations on this show. Even if TLC doesn’t come in and hand them 10 grand to make improvements on their place, anyone can declutter, paint, and clean up their home in an effort to recapture its value - if they can then either refinance and lower their monthly mortgage payment or sell without a short, they can also salvage their future, their credit, and their lives.
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I, too, agree that the concept for this show is great. However, I just watched the episode with the Andrus’s. It angers me that she doesn’t work, yet all the kids are school age. Give a WORKING family the funds, not a family that chooses to have the wife stay home all day while the kids are at school, then cry that they need help because they can’t afford their mortgage! Also, to spend some of the money for a NEW BED is not utilizing the money as it is intended. It bothers me that they spent the money to make themselves a huge room, while the three girls are crammed into a tiny room! Pick DESERVING families!!