Jurassic, I think the main concept I took away from your post is that just because the people on that show were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Yeah, people don’t always read the fine print and don’t always know that the balloon payment is coming. OR they expected to refinance when that happened and then they couldn’t, since the house didn’t have the equity. 

This was my guess as well. I mean it is sad, but it’s not any different than anyone else who has gotten into hot water with HELOCs. The fact that she had an equity infusion from a TV show is a totally separate issue from what she did with it.

lol, so true. That’s not even the major sin, though. This was on during the time when we were majorly renovating our home and because we were fuckassbroke, we had to do it all ourselves. Which meant learning. A lot. Not just how to do things, but I had to learn why they had to be done that way in order not to be…

You nailed it. It HAS to be a predatory loan company. I’m in the home business, and the only thing that can affect your monthly payment is a variable interest rate, and interest rates haven’t risen anywhere near the ballpark of 400%. That is ludacris. Property taxes is another beast all together, but if her actual…

Just from the scattered details in related news stories (and based on my experience as a real estate paralegal) it is my non-attorney opinion that a couple things happened. First, I think she had a loan modification prior to the makeover. That would explain this statement: State and banking officials were able to…

After watching that series for a season, I wouldn’t let those morons touch a Barbie dream home, much less my own home.

They don’t call it the Non-profit Industrial Complex for nothing.

I’ll pass this along so it can be recorded in the permanent record.

These were clearly designed for sexy vampires who hang out in sexy vampire nightclubs.

Please make “shitting into a leather diaper” the biggest fashion trend of 2021.

There is plenty of clothing that only looks good on certain types.

I...I don’t hate them...

She is mixed race, part African American and Latino. Sheila E. is he aunt.

What “Aunt Becky” did was request which prison to go to.

A reminder that this woman pled not guilty at first, then changed her plea to guilty when it was (A) clear she was, and (B) a move to avoid long prison terms and millions of dollars’ worth of defending herself in a federal criminal trial by jury.

Due respect to LeBron James and all the others voicing the issue of unfairness in treatment between white/rich and POC/poor individuals in the justice system - which is absolutely legit - but this is a bullshit take.

Is this you getting the vapors because you don’t understand how medium security prison works or do you know that and are just disingenuously feeding a dumb and pointless cycle of outrage?

She actually DID NOT get to choose her prison.  Her request was to have one close to home. Where she is being housed is actually the one closest to her residence.  I mean I hate what she did too, but a little journalistic integrity please.

Trans and non-binary are interconnected, but not equivalent. It’s kind of messy because since non-binary is outside the binary, it’s hard to make up a standard for what’s outside the binary “enough”. Not everyone is going to have experienced dysphoria.