oh okay so someone else had commented about refinancing but I didn’t fully think it out - but yeah, if her house was originally valued at like, $100,000, she had 30 left, the renovations bumped it to $200,000 value and she refinanced and withdrew $100,000 and added that to the loan... I could see how you get a big…

I’m getting confused just reading this lol but yeah if she refinanced and removed equity, I could see the price getting a lot higher, but that’s - yeah, a shortsighted financial decision rather than the show’s doing

yeah, I double checked the date of this just see (and because they used the word balloon lol) - always possible, but seemed more likely that the facts got mixed up. Even with a balloon mortgage you wouldn’t state it as... growing debt, would you? Like you still know it’s coming

 One woman’s home was foreclosed on nine years after her makeover when the mortgage ballooned from $30,000 to $113,000.

Yes and no;

is it possible to be both? 

I think it’s pretty common to be racist & still be around black people, hence the popular “I can’t be guilty of your accusation because I have a black ___” (friend, relative, whatever) argument. 

we are literally in the comments section...

lol so to say I “exaggerated his symptoms” you’re linking back to this article, on Jezebel, which constantly does biased reporting/leaves out details? That’s not how linking to a source works.

honestly enabling child abusers isn’t necessary to get the point across about affordable healthcare. There are plenty of examples out there.

agree- the conclusion of this article seemed at odds with the rest of it. Yes, they don’t just give her a cinder block to try and have fun with. No, that doesn’t make it a summer camp, a wellness retreat, or a spa.

getting tired of repeating this, but not being able to walk for weeks is a pretty big symptom.

I thought that was Pam from the Office

“I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem, but I do have a problem with people using that intentionally vague label to try and speak over other people who are talking about their own problems.”

Yeah, I get that this isn’t black and white. But we still need laws in place to protect kids who can’t manage their own healthcare choices, before anything else.

that ignores that he was the first person in their family that was LITERALLY DYING. His symptoms were clearly on a pathway to *death.*

It’s been widely reported that he couldn’t walk for weeks and was down to 67 pounds... is that retracted too? The tumor was so big it covered half his chest. Was that retracted? I get that cancer treatment is prohibitively expensive but if your kid is literally dying (but they didn't know he had cancer), and there are…

well an authentically lived life as a passing or light skinned PoC is inherently different from what this person did because race in America is cultural and social - not just a skin tone.

oh shit you’re right, sorry anyone I misled here >_< I even remember reading that and somehow forgot and defaulted to wife

so you’re saying they didn’t have internet even though the father was somehow able to access Facebook enough to post “COVID is made up” stuff....?