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Extreme Makeover:Home Edition
Extreme Makeover, the fantastically popular reality program hosted by Ty Pennington is looking for families and communities for their next round of fantastic renovations! In just seven short days you and your family or community could be enjoying a completely remolded home, school or community center.
Does your family have a compelling and heartwarming story? Does your school or community center need a re-haul ? You could be featured in an upcoming episode! Millions of people watch this touching program every week and now they could be watching you. Auditions and casting calls will be going on soon for the all new season of Extreme Makeover so submit yourself or someone you knwo today.Here is the application information: a.abc.com/media/primetime/xtremehome/apply/EMHEApplicationS7.pdf Be sure to leave a comment below and stay tuned for all of the exciting updates.
Every family and community has a story, this is your chance to share it with the world.
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hi my name is marcela im from colombia, im single mother, i m english teacher in my country and id really like to apply for your program, please let me tell you my story. i tried to download the application form but the link didnt work, what can i do?
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hi umm tera here i ask my mom and dad can we rebuild my papa house.his house has holes in it his trampilone is kinda broken and inside has no air condtioning my mom is afaird that he might have a heat stroke and i just cant sleep hes in the hospital now when everytime it rains hes bed get wet so we have to cover it up for him he has four room but three of is all right and one of them is a mess is has junk in there and his floor feels like its ready to break and his wife died to so its pretty depressing if i dont get it i understand god bless you all email me any questions and i'm 10
My boyfriend has had neck surgery and has medical bills and student loans to pay for and he needs to fix his house but does not have the money to. it is a old house and the foundation is cracked and everything is falling apart. the ceiling is falling down the bathroom leaks the floors are uneven due to the foundation moving. he is a nice guy and everybody loves him. he would give the shirt off his back to anybody at any time for any reason. he works so hard for everything and yet nothing good ever happens to him. the house needs to be modernized and he cant afford it. he takes care of his grandparents also he is that nice of a guy. please help him and give him the chance he deserves.
Hi, I wanted to know just plain and simple on how to get on Extreme HOme Makeover?
I care for my disabled son, Carlos. I care of my father that is 86 yrs old. Now I am caring for my baby she turns 21 months old..
It was a favor at first but now it is serious. I have a rare and small Tavern. Needs lots of work..Very cold in the winter and very hot during the summer… Let's do it .. Let's renovate and get this going
My story is a lot different than most.
I'm 21 years old raising 3 children, my younger siblings. I've had legal custody of them since I was 19. I've practically been raising them since I was 17. I have other brothers and sisters spread cross my city because I simply can't afford them. They live with aunts and such. We have different fathers and none of our fathers are really there nor do they help support financially. I had to move out of our home becaused it was being foreclosed on. I then rented from a terrible landlord and the house bills ended up throwing me in debt. The reason I have custody is because my mother was convicted of federal wire fraud and sentenced to 100 months in prison. There was no one else to step up and so I did. My brothers are star students and athletes even though one has adhd and is bi-polar and my sister works hard in school even though she is mildly autistic. All I want is a safe home in a safe neighborhood for them to grow up in. A place all 5 younger children can be at home as a family. My story is so much deeper than this. We went without water, gas, food. We've persevered to maintain but there is no definite. If you can find it in your hearts to include us on your show we would all be greatly appreciative. If not then I hope a family as or more deserving and in need gets it. Please consider us!
Thanks,
Justin
Contact me via email if you'd like to know more.
Yesterday my family lost our home to a fire. In the home lived my little sister who is 21 months old, my mother and my great grandmother who is 84 years old. I am currently in college, but when I come home for breaks the house is where I would return to. The house is still standing, but the damages within the house are devastating. The house was built by my great grandmother's husband who was a WWII veteran over 60 years ago. Practically everyone in our family has lived in the house at some point their lives and the house means so much to every member of our family. It was our family home and to lose it was like losing a family member. We do not have much, so any help that we could get would be very appreciated. Thank you!
Hello, my name is Derrek I think that my mom and her boyfriend should get their house made over because about a month ago my mom had a anurism and a bleeding stroke and she is staying with my grandma right now the basement is full of mold its really out dated and it needs som eletrcal work my doge chewed up a couple of things in the house and i think they really need it right now thank you!
Hello,
I come to Extreme Make Over with a story about my wonderful mother who I like to think of as a super woman because regardless of what the circumstances are she has done a remarkable job of raising me and my two brothers on her own. My mother has always looked out for other people financially and barely had enough money to make ends meet within our household. When relatives were unable to take care of themseleves or their children everyone knew to come to my mother's home because she has never been the type to turn anyone away. Even when it was hard and didn't want to take on the responsibilty of taking folks in she did anyways. Most of them took advantage never paid their ways or their children's ways but my mother didn't complain because she is such a loving and giving person. A little more about my mother, she's worked hard all her life for the past 26 years at her 1st job and held down her 2nd job 9 years in counting. Both job's she takes care of people with special needs. I think it takes a very dedicated loving indivisual such as her to work in this sort of profession and I admire her so much. We have all relied on my mother many of times to help us out in past situations and with no hesitation she's been there for us. Recently my mother was injured while caring for one her clients…All the straining and lifting of people from wheel chairs to bed bathtubs or whatever the case may be cause her to tear a muscle in her head which has caused her to have massive headaches. To make matters worst she's been out of work for a couple of weeks now only to have to be admitted back in the hospital this past week for excruciating stomach pains which we learned is cancer. This has devestated my family and I. I couldn't imagine my life without her she's helped me and inspired me her only daughter to want to do so much more for myself and my children. She even took in my oldest child full time in order for me to do my best at being a remarkable woman foe and my two children. Life has been extremely difficult for my family. My mother and I haven't always had such a loving relationship mainly because i was a out of control teen and couldn't see how much my mother truely loved me unconditionally. I just want to show her much I love and appreciate her and everything's she done for me and my brother's and our children. She's owned her home since 199 and along the way she's tried to do some home improvement. With money issues it's been difficult to make her dream home complete. Taking chances on people who were paid and did half ass (excuse my language) jobs and trying to watch home improvement jobs to fix things on her own. She's done a great job but she still has a long way to go. With everything going on she may never get to finish the one thing she's set out to do. Finished making over a home she bought for my brothers and I to way back when we were younger. I hope Ty Pennington and everyone at extreme home make overs takes my mother's home in to consideration because she deserves this happiness just as well as the other families who've submitted stories. Thanks for your time and hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely,
S.Simmons
my name is karla and i been living in this house for 13 year since i was born this house is really really old.9 or less people live in this house theres only 1 bathroom and 3 rooms i want the best for my family because i never had my own room neither my 2 sister wendy and my brother isaac my grandpa has diabetes my uncle has to use a wheelchair cause when he was little he got shot in the back i think but yeah my grandma lives here to but she goes to mexico every year so she cant take care of my grandpa my mom does. well we rent the house and its really 2 houses together where AptA and there are AptB our house is really damage when ever it rains my older sister room drops water from the ceiling i just want you guys to come over and make us a new home please home Home Edition come to our house
We are not writing in for ourselves, but our neighbors. They have opened their hearts and home to children. They have a foster care liscence, which they just opened back up, because their oldest is going to college in the fall. They have adopted 5 children, and have 3 they gave birth to. Their home is a 4 bedroom home, and they desire to help more children. Is there any way you can help?
I think i should be apart of the extreme make over home edition because me and my family suffers alot.My kids worry our house is to small for all of my kids. In our house we have all types of bugs and rats,and my kids are worried. We have no money to move. Infact we dont have a house at all and we is living with someone and we have to get out their way. Me and my kids deserves an better home. And my kids crowed up in a bed. I have 11 kids and we dont like to be split up in differnt homes. Were we cant see each other. We love each other very much. I struggles each and everyday to make sure me and my kids have a better live. We cant because theres lots of things wrong with what we have and live in. We need an much bigger place for everybody to fit,we have no money at all,we have lots of things thats messed up,and last we need to be a big happy family. We need all the help we can get.
I'm 15 years old and Im casting for this in hope you guys give my grandma a extreme makeover . She is loving, caring, and gives advice whenever its needed. She extraordinary. The reason I think she needs a makeover is because grandma is currently fostering two boys becaue there mother is not able to take care of them. Her house is full of rodents as in cock roaches and I don't think that's heathy living. I want her to have this makeover because if she doesn't deserve anything she deserves this . Please consider this .
My son served in the Iraci freedom movement. he turned 21 in the field there.My son didnt come home,someone else did.He has been so troubled…On a Monday morning at 3 am I got a call he had run his car off the road ,burst two tires..the next morning I took him to the VA they admitted him he stayed a week,he goes to counseling .He has PTSD..this is a mild comment due to space I would love to go further and tell mywhole story…please help lanette stevens
Hi Extreme home makeover team,
May God bless you for all the people you have helped over the years, and I hope the team have the funding to help many more.
My name is Jasmine, I am writing on behalf of my family and I. We recently lost our house in a flood after the rain fall in Minnesota. We can no longer live in our home with the floors all bubbled up from water damage and the walls being all warped. We lost alot of main things in our home. My mom, dad, sister, brother, my son (2 years old) and I all lived in there. My dad wants to go back to the house but my mom doesnt. she doesnt want all of us to get sick from all the damage that has been done. She is scared that everything is gonna mold and we are all going to get sick from that. We are currently staying with my aunt in her small 2 bedroom appartment. We all cant stay here comfortably. If you could please help us. That would be great. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Sincerely,
Jasmine Lanhart
Hello ABC ~ My Husband & I are PROUD parents of a two & a half yr old SHAKEN BABY SURVIVOR:)Our story started Oct.14th 2009 when my Great Nephew Gavin was born,he was a perfect bouncing baby boy born to my Nephew & his EX-girlfriend.On Dec 21st 2009 our lives would never be the same,I recieved a phone call I never wanted to get,it was Gavins Mother saying Gavin was on his way to the hospital with no pulse & not breathing ~ How could this be he was 9 wks old & perfect so we thought.they had to give Gavin 2 shots of epanephrin on the way to the hospital,the hospital in our hometown didnt have the equiptment for an MRI so Gavin was flown to a hospital an hr a way.At our hometown hospital they had told us that Gavin had been dropped,hit or shaken.Doctors came out to give us the results of Gavins MRI & it changed our lives forever,Gavin had been a victim of SBS he had been shaken violently & hit up against something.The Doctors were preparing us for the worst,Gavin had two seizers within a 48 hr priod & had a resparator breathing for him.The folling wk Gavin had his Trach & G-Tube put in,5 days after Gavin was shaken my Nephew of 18 yrs old was lost his life to an auto accident~Our family was devistated,but we started seeing changes in Gavin – he was fighting & getting stronger soon after he was breathing on his own but we would find out that Gavin had severe brain damage on both sides of his brain.Gavin was at Roanoke Memorial for a month & then transfered to Klugee Rehabilitation Center about 2 hrs from us were he spent a month there going thru all sorts of Therapy & thats where the family found out that Dec 21st was NOT the only time Gavin had been SHAKEN there were 2 previous times,around 3wks & 5wks of age.Due to the investigation Gavin was not to be returned to the Mother or Father & thats where myself & my husband stepped foward to care for Gavin so Feb 12th 2010 Gavin came HOME to a safe place where he would get nothing but UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
we had to become Foster Parents in order to keep Gavin but in Nov of 2010 Gavin became OUR SON thru adoption.Gavin is on alot of medications for his injuries & was left with Cerebral Palsey,TBI,G-Tube for feeding & still has his Trach Gavin receives 16hrs a day 7 days a wk Nursing care due to his injuries.Gavin can not stand or sit on his own & he has alot of equiptment & is why we are contacting you ~ We live in a 3 bedroom mobil home in a mobil home park & at the time when Gavin came home we had to set his crib & equiptment up in our living room because we had our Daughter here with our new born Grandson & we had no room,well he now has his own room but it is very tiny & with his equiptment is crowded.Gavin is growing at a pretty fast pace & we've had to move most of our stuff to our sheds for more equiptment & medical supplies,Gavin needs more equiptment such as a lift,wheelchair & a hospital bed amoung others but we have no room & do NOT have the funds to move into a place that is handicap accecable.Gavin is our world & we just want to be able to get the equiptment needed for him to grow stronger,so please consider our story & Thanks for all you do ~
my name is kimberly glass, i am posting this because, my boyfriend cousins are 18 and 20 i believe they lost their mom last year and their dad wants nothing to do wit them. they have a home but they have mold every where no eletricty and no money to have it fixed. they need help bad, they are 2 kids facing a hard time and they need the help bad. its so sad to see them like that. and the youngest boy has medical problems so they cant live in the house they own
I am 11 years old and my mother has rheumatoid arthritis and our house needs a lot of repairs that she can't do are afford. First of all she needs to climb a bunch of stairs just to get up to our house, which needs a new roof because on the inside there is a crack. Our kitchen cupboard doors are falling off, our dishwasher is pretty much sitting in a whole in the counter, our bathroom downstairs leaks, the floors in our all of the bedrooms are missing lots of tiles,and much more. We hire someone to mow our lawn because we live on a slanted hill and my mom can't get a grip on the lawn mower any more. My father passed away 2 years ago, and so she is a single mother raising 2 children and supporting my older sister who is off in college. Please Please come help us we really need it.
Bad marriages and worse divorces nearly destroyed Lenny and I, but finding and marrying each other saved us. Now our home is determined to destroy us. Both of us were nearly bankrupt after our respective divorces, but we worked hard and restored our credit ratings over the last 7 years, now it's in danger again. This house has become a money pit and we have only been able to band-aid things till now. We have one bathroom that is completely torn apart, the other is ready to FALL apart. The kitchen is older than I am, including appliances (circa 1950)and we just found out that the whole first floor is in danger of collapsing. We are at our wits end! After finding one another we thought we could face anything, but after losing my job and bad luck after more bad luck, it's beginning to wear on us. I hurt my back 2 years ago and even though I went back to school, I can't find work because I have to be so particular about the job I get. We are living on credit and it's only growing by the day. Our fear is that the house is so far gone that it won't wait until we are back on our feet. We need help desperately. Most people who drive by our home think it should be condemned. Please, I am begging, help us!
Almost 2 years ago I met my Romeo after 20 years of beleiving I would grow old alone. At 18 I married my ex husband who turned out to be a monster. I lived for 10 years being abused, cheated on repeatedly, and in fear of his threats to take our 3 children to his country of El Salavador if I tried to leave. Finally almost 10 years ago I was set free, however then met a new challenge as a single mom who honestly beleived I would never meet a single man I could trust. Almost 20 years of struggles have lead to my meeting my Romeo only to learn he has had a even harder battle of happiness in his life. Living through an abusive biological father, then adding in a verbally abusive step-father my fiance decided to leave his country of Czech Republic at 21 and come to the US to run from his child-hood of hurts. He met a woman and married due to her becoming pregnant which rapidly ended in divorce. This man has stayed in this country earning not only american citizenship but also his Bachelor Degree in English as a second language in International Business with honors as a graduate. His daughter is 10 and he has continued to live in the US despite the lonliness of missing his mother, brothers, and country because of his dedication to his daughter. Meeting 2 years ago has led us both from living alone, as single parents, renting small apartments doing the best we could to support our children. We are both very smart people and I beleive despite the trials and hardships we both have endured were guided to each other to heal and love unconditionally something neither of us have become accustomed to outside our children. My reason for asking for help is we recently purchased a home that was a foreclosure. We put every last dollar in savings into getting into this home knowing it would provide our children security as well as finally give us a "real" home together. We both work very hard, however with the economy the way it is do live on a average income as most do. Now we have this house that though we love needs work. As a female I would like to think I am rather handy, I do allot of the work myself as he was not blessed with a father figure such as I was. However being we both are still raising children (I have 1 at home full time, he has 1 part time) we have to do repairs as our finances allow. I got to thinking of all the nights I watched this show and was in tears at how you helped change peoples lives. I am not asking for a new house, I would just like some help getting it done so I can look my Romeo in the eyes and tell him that YES god does love him, and YES he has accomplished allot in life by not being selfish and putting his daughter first. I want him to come home from work and see the dream he never thought he would have, actually come true. I know I can do it myself also, but both of our vehichles need to be replaced and he is such a responsible man that he refuses to finance a car so it will be once savings accrues again, we also would like to have a child together knowing we would be making that choice out of being in love, a experience neither of us have every had. If I had help with the house I could save faster to get those vehicles we need, I could pay to have another child, we could breathe and enjoy what god has blessed us with. This man has been god sent for my 14 year old son who years ago when his father was still in the picture had no goals, he didn't care if he graduated school, he didn't want to go to college. Now my 14 year old wants to graduate early, has discovered his artistic talents and wants to continue to college to utilize that talent and… He credits it all to my meeting the man of my dreams, someone who loves us for us, treats us good, and is a good example. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I am wrighting to you to hope that you could make our families dream come true. We have a very large family. My mom and dad adopted all of us, including mysef at the age of 15, from various places throughout the world. Six out of the seven of us kids are special needs. My family has sruggled for years following my fathers mulltiple strokes, and Cardiomyopithy that led to his early resignation from the Kingston Pennetentiary. My parents are truly amazing and have been given awards for their commpation from our community. Our families sruggles started with the death of one of our sisters from heart and lung diesease at the age of four. My parents continued to adopt other children from Rommania to give them a chance at a better life. I recently was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and my husband suffered from a brain bleed following a seizure. We have a new baby and are concerned about our future, being on disability and unable to hold long term employment. Our dream would be to move back home and help each other through these hard times. We tried to remorgage the family home to build an edition so that my family could move in to help care for each other. We were denied, and again our hopes for the future were dashed. We just don't have the money to follow through, but we will not give up! If anyone deserves a chance at a bright future its my family. We know great days are yet to come. We have faith in humanity and know are turn is soon to arrive.
I have been looking everywhere to submit an application for extreme home makeover. I have multiple sclerosis. I was diagnosed at the age of 14 and throughout my life I haven't let it get in the way till now. I moved from NY to California with my husband and 3 kids to help my mother in law. The weather however affected my ability to walk and hear. I try to do stuff on my own but I cannot get through the doors with the wheelchair I feel like I am confined to the house and the only time I get out is when I go to the doctors. I just wanted to see if there was any way to get help so I can go outside to play with my kids again and have a more enjoyable environment.
Dear Extreme Makeover,
My name is Kristine I am a 23 Year old mother to a beautiful 1 year old baby girl my boyfriend and I both live with my mom & stepfather because we cannot afford to live on our own. We have no choice but to stay at my parents house and it's unfortunate for the health of my baby girl. We have 3 dogs that stay downstairs. They use the restroom all over the house which is an extreme health hazard. There is so much clutter and mess everywhere that my daughter can't even crawl around safely. The carpets are disgusting and stained with dog urine, the upstairs bathroom where she has to take a bath has no walls just plastic tarp covering the insulation. The toilet is also not even anchored securly to the floor. There is black mold growing in the air vents. The cost of everything that needs to be done to the house is too much that we
Can afford. My mom is a very hard worker & suffers from depression. She has been sleeping on the couch for over 5 years because there is just so much clutter in my stepdd's bedroom. She really deserves a room of her own with her own space to share withher husband. I would love for my daughter to live in a happy healthy house. Please consider my application it would be a great blessing for my family.
Thank you
Hello, Extreme home makeover…
My name is Patience; I am 19 and a daughter of a semi-loving family. Dad, retired military from 30 years of service, a loving mother, a wonderful supporting grandma, 7 awesome loving siblings. 2 of my older sisters are college students, Special & Kindness, then me Patience, then my 3 younger sisters Sincerity, Charity, and Precious, and last my two youngest and only brothers Chosen and Pure. We all had our ups and downs. Never in my life would I imagine we'd not have a home to live in. I've always taken it for granted, and was never grateful for the previous homes we lived in. However, in 2010 Nov, that's when we lost everything in Texas, so we moved to NC, to live in our uncles’ home which passed away. The family that lived there all their life greeted us with love, but as months went by things changed. Our mom got locked in jail, because previously before we moved to NC she tried her best to make sure we had a home and all the things we needed. She went to jail because she wanted to make sure we wouldn't have to live on the streets. And when that happened they didn't want us to live there anymore. When the residents of nearby NC heard about that they treated us like crap. The schools my siblings and I went to they all treated us like crap. No one liked us. We were bullied, and centered out. My grandma is a diabetic; I give her shots every day. And it's a big responsibility to do so. I have a mind of a 14 year old and a heart of a puppy. So knowing that no one is there for us hurts me. It was worse when my sister was being bullied, and no one would help me help her. No one would listen. So I took things into my own hands, and it turned bad. I sadly got arrested for the first time trying to protect the person I love so dearly. I got expelled but I was so smart because of how my mother raised me, they couldn't see me not graduate because of my high level of education. So they decided to let me graduate. So years went by and our mom got out of jail. Everything was starting to look good because God had answered my prayer of letting her come back home. However, when she got home things didn't seem to change with our other family living beside us. Weeks after she got back someone stabbed our dog, King. One of which we had for 2 years. He’s also our family, and I was devastated, thanks to God he didn't die, but it was terrible what things they did to hurt us mentally. Months before and later I got saved and baptized. I felt as if that if I couldn't do anything to help my family, maybe God could. More months went by now June; the kids finished school year for the summer. And my oldest sister Kindness was leaving back to Texas. I asked to go along so that I could get a job and help get my family away from NC and back to our birthplace Texas. However, the first week away not knowing the difficulties of getting a job I soon started to realize, that maybe I wasn't cut out for this job thing due to my mental capabilities. It was never easy for me to talk to random people. I've had an issue with it since birth. That's why I was switched to a special Ed class till tenth grade. However, I can't go on seeing my family suffer like this. So I'm currently still looking for a job, I'll learn to speak to people even if it hurts me because it's for my family. In two months from now I'll be attending college to become a movie director and make millions to help my family and millions of others doing the things I know I love most. To become more like you guys by helping people succeed in life and move forward with their dreams and goals. But its 85,000 thousand dollars, and since my family isn't financially fit at the moment I might have to hold on another year or so to attend. But right now the first thing on my mind is getting them a house in Texas so I could move them back where they desperately want to be. Right now we’re all separated from each other. 5 of my siblings are in NC with my grandma and dad, my mom is currently staying with countless numbers of family members that may or may not like or care for her trying to find a way to get them down here a well. And me, I'm staying with my sister and her friend at her parents’ house. Which kind of do not want me here, for what reasons I have no idea? It's just I don't want to move my family from NC down here without them having a home to live in, because then we'd all get separated. The remaining siblings would get placed in foster homes and I will not allow that by no means at all because I love them with all my heart. And no one is allowed to take them from me but God. It is my job to protect them and make sure they have everything they need before God himself decides to bring me back home with him. And I know this story is long, and maybe seem unnecessary, but what I'm trying to say is, my family has been through a lot. As I read all the comments and stories below, I feel as if my minor problems as I may see them don't compare. I also know by watching your show that you pick the very brightest well deserved families and that being said, I will find another method into getting my family of 9 a home, by any means. I'm not asking for you guys to help me and my family. I'm just asking for you all to pray for us that God helps us make it through. Because I don't know how long we can last.
Send your prayers
Please send me what I need to fill out and I will submit my comments then on why I need to have a make-over….
I am a disabled combat veteran. I bought a used unhabitable mobile home 2 years ago. On my limited disability income, I cant afford to continue remodeling my home. I am 100% disable with Arthrithis on my knees and hip. I also suffer from sever PTSD related to war. All orginizations I have contacted put me on a long waiting list or have exhausted their budget.
My family and I live in Colorado – we are a stable family with no known diseases – just trying to survive in today's economy. I served in the Air Force for 20+ years and am now considered a disabled vet. I am retired, and am now doing what I feel God has called me to be – being a home mom of 6 children, and a wife of 17 years. We returned from a tour in Germany to an economy that doesn't allow for average people to make a living without being swallowed up in debt. My husband has a Bachelor's degree in Project Management and has yet to find a job. We are barely making ends meet. My husband's mom died this past year, and we spent most of our money traveling to see her before she slipped away from us for good. We are now in a situation where we have been renting our house for almost 3-years with the intention of buying, but we fell behind on our rent and are now being evicted. We are now a family of 8 with no place to go…
For the past 10 years I have known the Colon-Vasquez family, which consists of Mom, Dad, and Milagros. I am Milagros' physical therapist. Milagros is now 16 years old, attends school as a homebound student, loves her family, communicates through vocalizations, sits up by herself, and needs 2 adults to help her move out of her bed to a bathchair, stairglide, school chair, or adapted tricycle. Her home is filled with love and concern. All of Milagros' emotional needs are met by her parents, but due to their own physical limitations, they can not provide Milagros with all the physical assistance she needs. The parents are unable to lift Milagros out of her bed. One of the biggest challenges for the Colon-Vasquez family is overcoming the physical barriers created by their current home. The family lives in a typical Philadelphia rowhouse with about 10 steps to enter and 2 stories on the inside. The bedrooms and one bath are upstairs. All rooms are too small for the use of a mechanical lift. Milagros is often restricted to her own bed despite the fact the family has a stair glide between floors and a mechanical lift on the outside. The family needs a larger space so they can utilize appropriate equipment to move Milagros safely out of bed and in to other appropriate therapeutic equipment. Ideally, the Colon-Vasquez family should live on one floor, so that Milagros' daily physical needs could be met and so Milagros could be easily and quickly evacuated in case of emergency. Please consider this loving and hard-working family for an Extreme Home Makeover.
Everyone thinks their grandpa is the best but I truly have a remarkable grandfather. The past couple years have been struggle after struggle for this man, stroke, back surgery, knee replacements, etc… Then on June 16th 2012 his life changed dramatically. While home alone and tending to his garden my grandfather turned the tractor on to lift the bucket and did not realize it was in gear, turning the key kicked it into gear and the tractor ran his body over.. if that was not enough the rake on the back of the tractor managed to grab him and drag him through the garden. The tractor made a loud crash and the the neighbor hear him yell "Oh God, please someone help me" He was taken to a hospital 30 minutes away and quickly taken by helicopter to Chicago trauma center because his injuries were too much for the local hospital. I thank God that he is alive today. My grandparents have an old farm house that is way too big and old for them to go home to. Right now my grandfather has been in the hospital recovery for over a month. My grandmother has no idea what to do. Every day he begs to come home but it is not possible with their home. She has talked about tearing down the farm house and putting up a prefab but the medical bills are going to take up their savings. My grandfather will never be able to come home without having a handicap accessible house. He broke ribs, punctured his lung, back gractures, broken pelvis and more but he is alize and fighting. He is starting to give up the fight by being in a hospital. My aunt has offered a room in her home for my grandparents to live and help take care of him through the recovery. It is very obvious to all of us that my grandfather will never be the same. Every day he mouths "I want to go home" with tears in his eyes. It breaks my heart to see him like this. My grandfather has never asked for anything in his life, he has worked hard for everything and been a man among men. My grandparents have taken in children that needed guidance growing up and helped all of us in many ways. THEY ARE THE ROCKS IN OUR FAMILY!!!! All of us would do anything to help them. The past few days he has been talking about suicide, he is not capable of getting out of bed or moving much at all for that matter. He has been stuck in a hospital bed with no movement for over a month…I truly believe that his being home would help with his recovery. It is not possible to bring him home to his current home. He is going to be in a wheel chair eventually after he gets well enough to move from the hospital bed. Although this may be a long road of recovery I am very greatful he has a road. I just do not want him to give up the fight because he is laying in a hospital bed becoming depressed and cannot ever go home. We have not even told him that once he leaves this hospital he will need to go to a nursing home. He would give up now. My family has been through a lot with this and we are all very blessed and thankful for his life. We want to bring him home to somewhere that is safe for him and he can relax and keep his hope. It is heart breaking to see him like this and I pray that one day he can come home again and be happy about his life. I would not ask for help but this seems to be a case where help is needed and we have done everything we can to help him as much as we can and now it is up to God to send help. My grandfather clearly has Angels around him or he would not be with us today. Nurses still gasp at the fact he is alive after being ran over by a tractor. Our love is not enough to keep him happy anymore he needs to come home to gain the strength to survive and recover.
My daughter is 22, blind and mentally delayed. I met a man, who bought property in the country close to a lake. I currently live in an appartment, and would like to move in with him after we marry…the problem is the house is 80 years old, and i would love to torch it…there is no garage, and all his stuff is inside the house! we are struggling because of finances to get the money upfront to do repairs and build a garage..he owns 14 acres and is going to sell trees to make money to build a garage….can you help us? we want to be together as a family, and just need the house in a livable way, and also a garage for all our stuff…..HELP !!!
I am a recovering addict… 5 1/2 years sober now, my mom had my oldest 2 children for 3 1/2 years, I received custody of them back in April of 09 and have since had 2 more little boys with a wonderful man who is daddy to all 4 since my ex-husband has nothing to do with his children. We also have 3 dogs one of which is suppose to be my foster dog but I want to keep him!! We are a low income family who just switched houses with my mom and dad so that we could have a bigger house, we are trying to buy the 2 houses and land from my parents and have a lot of work to do, with my boyfriend having a full time job cooking at a retirement home and me working a part time job bartending/serving in a very large restaurant, finding the time is difficult!! We were in a car accident in December of 2011 while trying to get the kids a puppy for christmas and it has left me with what seems to be permanent damage to my right knee making running up and down the stairs in a 3 story restaurant difficult, which is one reason why I do not work full-time but also we can not afford the daycare expense to send our 3 year old and 3month old, so my boyfriend works 11:30am – 8:00pm and I work 5:00pm – 1:00am, my mom watches the kids during the overlap in times!! I have baby blues setting in and the meds are making me very tired and dizzy right now…. I need help and a break to enjoy life for just a little. We work our jobs, raise our kids, and work around the house and it just seems to never end, my emotions are getting to me and my relationship with my children, boyfriend and parents is distant right now!! Please Ty help us!!
Dear Extreme Homes,
My name is Catherean and I am seeking help for my grandmother. She is a very loving and heartfelt person. She is always volunteering to help other people and I think its time for somebody to help her. She currently lives in a two bedroom trailer that is a becoming a death trap. Only half the lights work in the house due to electricity problems within the home. She cant keep to many sockets active at one time because they start to get to hot. She doesnt have central air so during the summer months the trailer becomes to hot to even sit inside. My grandmother loves to cook and during the holidays all the family comes to her house. It is not enough room for us to get together and enjoy ourselves. She is a hardworking woman and has been working for 40 years. She has always kept a roof over our head, it might not have been the best house but it was all she could afford. She has been taking care of her ADHD grandson for 11 years and at times it can get stressful. She also took in her newphew about a year ago to help her niece out for a while. My grandfather has been in and out the hospital for the last year with different health issues. He is the one that usually fixes things around the house for my grandmother but it is coming to a point where is unable to do things for himself. Im not asking for you to build her a mansion. I just want her to have a proper, functioning home to make life a little easier for her.
I never thought about doing this until recently when times have become very tough. I've spent 43 months in Iraq as an Infantryman in the U.S. Army. My wife and I have 2 children and one on the way as well as taking care of my step son from a previous marriage. My father also passed away this last January and due to this situation my mother began living with my sister. My sister is not the best of people and kicked my mom out and within one day my wife worked on making sure she arrived here. My mom also has severe seizures and fibromyalgia and is extremely hard to take care of. On top of this I bought a home in April; the previous seller was the one that offered to get the home inspection and I foolishly believed him when he said everything checked out. Well it did not, not even close and having grown up with not much I was able to get into the position to where I was able to provide for my family. Our home is now falling apart; the kitchen floor is caving in, the central air does not work downstairs, the plumbing is messed up, the tankless water heater does not work properly and is not up to code, the electrical was not put in properly and so on and so forth. We really can't afford to sue the previous seller even though we have been told it's a contractual open and shut case. My wife is 25 weeks pregnant and is taking care of 4 other people while I am currently in a position in the Army where I work on average about 90 hours a week. I constantly stress about the welfare of my family. I don't like putting my business on here, but it's not about me anymore and that's why I thought I'd give this a shot. Sincerely, Justin Brown
Im writing to you in the hopes that you might be able to help me and my 2 children. In 1993, one month after our wedding anniversary, and with a 7 month old baby, my husband chose to put a .357 revolver with hollow points into his mouth and pull the trigger, in our bedroom while I was at work. When I got home from work that day I found his body. It ended life as I knew it. And due to PTSD it has still been a struggle after all these years. I chose to move to PA where my sister lived and tried to start over, as my husbands family was telling everyone that their son was dead because of me. They shunned me and our 7 month old daughter.to say I was devastated is an understatement. When we moved to PA I put myself thru a trade school to become a Medical assistant/phlebotomist and I graduated at the top of my class. Since I spent all of my time studying, I really had no one and no reason to stay so I decided to move back to Kansas. While packing our apartment, I severely over packed a box. When I attempted to push it across the floor out of the middle of the room, I felt and heard a "pop" in my low back. Within 3 hours I was unable to walk or stand. My parents flew to PA, finished packing us and drove the moving truck home to Wichita. This began a long and painful road for me. I have had 7 major back surgeries not to mention painful procedures and shots in my spine to no avail. I currently have titanium where my disc used to be. During all of the invasive ness and attempts to get some relief I now have an implanted spinal chord stimulator, permanent nerve damage in my legs, and have a progressive incurable condition called Adhesive Arachnoiditis. I will never work again and will only get worse with time.
Me, my 18 yr old daughter, and my 10 year old son share a 2 bedroom apartment on the 2nd floor. I can't tell you how many times I have fallen which scares me to death.
What also scares me is that we will never have a home to call our own. I have the worlds best kids who deserve their own space. My son can't even have a friend spend the night and it's so unfair to him. I would give my legs to have a small home where everyone has their own space finally…a fenced in backyard for our two small dogs, and a place I could plant flowers and relax in a hammock. I don't want or need a huge spread, but I feel like we have been thru so very much together that being able to have our own home would make it all worth while
It is my life's dream to have a home we can call our own but I'm unable to do this on my own. We live on my social security disability and child support so I have literally nothing to set aside as savings. Even if I did, I have tons of medical bills that would keep me from getting a mortgage of any kind.
I'm in the middle of writing a book about my experiences so that maybe one person can find a bit of hope they were lacking and can go on, but over the past few months I've found it difficult to write due to my level of pain. The stairs to my apartment might as well be a mountain everyday. I feel like this is my last hope. My daughter is 18 and my son is 10, and we've never been on a family vacation together…something I have promised every year….it tears me up inside to have to live this way. My nightmare is that my 10 year old will never know the feeling of his own room in our very own home. Any little bit of extra money I might get always goes towards new tires on my car or simply keeping it running. I'm beginning to believe that life just doesn't have my/our dreams in the cards….but I pray I'm wrong.
I know you are inundated with requests for help, and probably folks in worse shape than we are, but I hope in my heart of hearts you can be the heroes we desperately need. Please consider us for the life changing dreams you make a reality. We've had so much bad in our lives, I dream every night for something equally good to happen. Please help us.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration, no matter what the outcome. Bless you all.
Amy Johnson
Wichita, Kansas
Due to lack of money and my mom is disable , my father is working still at 64years old they are able to remodle the home to assest the needs of my mom. Now I am going thur a divorce and have back home with my three kids.I have always want to write the show for my parents, but my father pride would not allow me to do so..Its hard for my mom to take of herself like should could cause of the bathroom is not big enouht for her to get into the tub and cause she have a lot of falls she dont use the tub anymore. The top all the house is invested with roaches.. that have been there since i was a little girl they are uncontrolable. But they do the best they can…I just hope that extreme can reach to us due to will live in columbia,sc… we need you help very bad!!!! my father is a great man to his children and grandchildren…he is retired navy pride man who dont want hand outs…but he needs help for once in his life ..he is the oldest of 11 siblings…and often worry about them and not himself.. please please help us to provide a clean safe enviroment for parents and my kids….
My family &I have been homeless since July7,2011. Our house of3yrs had a housefire my children were saved by their father,they woke up in middle of the night to flames&smoke. Our pet dog didnt get out, she was trapped in the bathroom. My children always ask when can we all live together again. My husband lives in a camper next to our house &my children &I stay@a shelter for women n children. We are struggling with finances from the house. We had a contract for deed we were halfway paid when happened we didnt get the insurance$ because the realitor is tryning to take all he can.we are awaiting court to try&settle. There is fire damage,smoke&water damage. My childeen are6wks,4,6,7,& 8yrs old. We have stayed in motels,friends,shelters&with family. this isnt are1st time bieng homeless.we were before we bought our house.we were same position we found a free trailor house in newspaper was a summercabin not built for winter we lived in for3yrs.the city bought out the trailor park we used the$as down payment towards the house.It is very stressfull Ive wanted to give up but my children keep me strong. At first after the fire we had lots of help from my childrens school,family &friends. Now its a huge struggle.we are looking for temporary housing. We havent been able to find because,we have high debt. Bills from house. Not able to find a rental property. We owned our own business A Trans City we had for3yrs we got into debt there sold it got3grand for a $150,000 business. The guy we sold it to really screwed us over. Myhusband works 12hr shifrs hes self employed. Doesnt get paid what he should. We been robbed multiple times. Belongings from the busines to start another business,vehicles,&my kids atvs. My children are survivors i call them my troopers because no matter what they dont dread everyday they are thankful to be alive. We just want are house back.&to beable to live with my husband again. My children pray everyday. I am praying for a miracle…thank you for the time to read my post.please help.
Extreme Makeover Home Edition,
My name is Autumn Rodriquez and I would love for you to help my grandmother. She has always been there for me and my siblings, and I love her dearly. She is 64 years old and works her heart out as an LPN at the hospital. You see, the hospital only cares about the RNs on her floor and so they are working the LPNs to the point they quit. My grandma cannot afford to quit because of her age and health, not to mention the financial issues. This house only adds to her anxiety and depression. It’s a roof over our head, and I am grateful for that, but I wish that she could have more than that. It is embarrassing to have people over because most of them just say wow, this place is bad. We try to make it nice and it doesn’t seem to work. You walk in and the first thing you notice is the plywood flooring. We had to pull up the carpets because of my allergies and asthma, so all that is left is what was underneath it. That is how we found out about the hole in the floor. The sliding glass door leaks in when it rains so over the years, it eroded the floor there. There is also water damage throughout the house because of the rain and wind. The wind is so rough and strong that the shingles get ripped off like they were taped down. It also began leaking around our microwave onto our stove a couple years back. We’ve had multiple people come out to look at it, but none ever fix it right. On top of all that, we have a cockroach infestation that is literally killing us, and we can’t afford to get rid of them. So often, I see clusters of them gathered along the tops of the walls in my younger sister’s room. She is nine years old. I don’t want to have to worry about whether or not a roach is going to crawl across her as she sleeps. I don’t want to have to worry about this house making us sick. My grandmother is always sick and it takes so long for her to get over, so I have no idea how bad it could get or what could happen. If she was hospitalized, what would happen? Would I be taking care of my younger sister or what, you know? I am constantly thinking about hospital bills for my grandmother because she has been hospitalized for her breathing, blood sugar and other things. She’s has multiple heart appointments and I’m just afraid that one day her heart will give out from all of her stress. And I wouldn’t know what to do . . . I’m only eighteen. I know it isn’t something extremely tragic or even something that most people would care about, but I care about her, and she deserves a nice home that she wouldn’t have to worry too much about. Maybe just the water and electric bills and perhaps the garbage man, but that should be it. If I get a job, I can even help support my grandma and sister. I just want them to have a home, not just a house that’s falling apart. . .
Thank you.
Hi, my name is Maria Petrone. I am the oldest out of 5 children. I live in a house of 6 people. My sister had recently got married and moved out. The reason I am writing is because 8 years ago, after my parents bought our house and started renovating it, my dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He had to have brain surgery to remove it, so he was out of work for almost 2 years. My mother worked overtime everyday to support our household. I also helped by working part time to help with the smaller bills. Because of there only being 1 full time income, my parents got behind on the mortgage and could not afford to finish the house. So, it is literally "falling apart". Five days ago, my mother was rushed to the hospital from work, only to find out she had a Subarachnoid hemorrhage (stroke). They also found an aneurysm. We do not know if she will be able to go back to work, because she works in a nursing home as a CNA, which means a lot of heavy lifting and a stressful environment. It would be a dream come true for her to finally see our house "finished". Thank you for considering my family.
I am writing this hoping help will come soon for the Jacksonville Rescue Squad in Jacksonville North Carolina. I am a new volunteer here however the building and living quarters are literally falling apart. We have been helping the community in the same building since 1958, and we get NO funding from the city, and the squad members not only volunteer every free minute they have but also money from their own pockets to maintain the building, trucks, and supplies. We offer a vital service to this large military community by providing life saving equipment and skills at car accident scenes, water rescue, and EMS services. We have a volunteer crew 24 hrs a day 365 days a year, so many sleep here, eat here, and live here. We have approximately 25 members with only 1 working bathroom, and the building is condemned with mold. We all risk our health be able to make a difference in saving others lives. The building has also been through many hurricanes, and the walls are crumbling. We desperately need help getting a new building as this one is falling out from beneath us. If you can help, this new squad house would be helping an entire military community that already makes the ultimate sacrifice.
hello i was just wondering if there is any way possibe to recieve some help getting my sisters house fixed it is a very old home that needs lots of work we just got the stuff to put a metal roof on it but it was much worse than we ever imagined i dont know how the roof was even holding up. and to make matters worse it rained this morning and flooded the whole house and now the sheet rock has fallen in throughout the home. she has three little girls and i cant bare to see them in those conditions. im not asking for a huge makeover i just want it to be safe and livable for them. PLEASE HELP!!
I am writing this hoping help will come soon for the Jacksonville Rescue Squad in Jacksonville North Carolina. I am a new volunteer here however the building and living quarters are literally falling apart. We get NO funding from the city, and the squad members not only volunteer every free minute they have but also money from their own pockets to maintain the building, trucks, and supplies. We offer a vital service to this large military community by providing life saving equipment and skills at car accident scenes, water rescue, and EMS services. We have a volunteer crew 24 hrs a day 365 days a year, so many sleep here, eat here, and live here. We have approximately 25 members with only 1 working bathroom, and the building is condemned with mold. We all risk our health be able to make a difference in saving others lives. The building has also been through many hurricanes, and the walls are crumbling. We desperately need help getting a new building as this one is falling out from beneath us. If you can help, this new squad house would be helping an entire military community that already makes the ultimate sacrifice.
Hello, my name is Mikaylee and I am 15 years old. I haven’t filled out the application because my dad doesn’t know I am trying to do this. My family lives in an ok house, I would never complain. The only problem is, is that me and 2 of my brothers live in an unfinished basement. We have “Paper shades” and curtains for walls. We live down here because the other 2 bedroom that we could be in that are finished are about the size of a bathroom and my little brother and sister live in them, and their rooms are just barely big enough for them. We have carpet scraps on the floor so that it can be a little warmer. I have about 8 blankets on my bed to keep me warm. We do have the option of moving upstairs at any time, but it isn’t much better living upstairs than it is downstairs because of crowding. My dad is raising us singly right now. My mom is still alive but she is far from stable and able to provide and care for us. On March 21 of this year we thought she had committed suicide. She hasn’t been home much since then. On April 29th after church my mom was rushed in an ambulance to the hospital because she was unresponsive. She hasn’t been home at all since then. She is in a facility called Center for Change. She hasn’t improved much, and she has been there for months. According to our insurance she only has 60 days to get better, and the way she is now it doesn’t seem likely. To have a sick and mentally unstable mom at home is hard, just as hard as having her gone. Going to bed in a cold unfinished room with no electricity at all just makes it harder. Having a home that we don’t have to stress over daily would be a huge burden lifted off of our shoulders. With my mom gone, my brother having kidney disease, and my dad trying to raise us right, it is one less thing we need to worry about and you can make it happen. Please help us. We need it! I would rather not go to sleep in a cold basement tonight, please. YOU CAN BE OUR DIFFERENCE.
Hi my name is Mikaylee Gray and I am 15 years old. I don't think I have a heart throbbing story, and I know I am much more fortunate than most others, but it is worth a shot. Neither of my parents know I am submitting this because,well I currently don't have a mother. She is in a hospital facility called Center for Change, and she hasnt improved much. Our lives fell apart on March 21 when we thought she had committed suicide. She had checked herself into UNI a facility here to help. She has been gone on and off ever since. On April 29 she was taken out of my house by ambulance she was unresponsive. She hasnt come home since then. We visit her and it is scary. She is extreemly skinny and not exactly mentally stable. My dad is being both the mother and the father of this family and it is very hard on us. He probably wouldn't ever think of doing this especially when his marriage that has lasted 18 years may be falling apart. We live in a nice house I must say. It is no shack and I almost comfortable living here. I have 4 other siblings with only 3 finished bedrooms including the master suite. These rooms are about the size of a bathroom without all of the pluming and such. So yes they are very tiny. We used to be split up by girls in one room boys in the other, but me, my younger, and older brother wanted space of our own. So we moved into an unfinished basement. We have carpet scraps on the floor because it gets too cold to walk on. Yes it was our choice to move down there, but if we have the chance to finish it and have the house we want then I will take it. Maybe if my mom comes home to her perfect home she will be happy and eat. No our family isn't going to die if we don't get accepted, but it would lift a heavy burden off our family if we were able to live in a finished home. With my mom being gone and very unhealthy, my brother with kidney disease, and my dad occasionally just breaking down in tears, we really need this. Please, please consider our situation carefully. As of right now we have 1$ in our saving account, until my dad gets paid.Please help us. Please
Sonshine Troche is opening the Worthy Women recovery home in LaPorte Indiana. She bought and old run down building and has been doing a great job getting this place ready. But it still needs so much. She is such a great, caring, dedicated person. She has been touched by God to help women getting out of prison have a place to go to get their lives back on target. Most of what she does is volunteer because there isn't money to pay her and pay for the supplies needed to fix the building. She has an ambitious date of October to open the home. This will be a place that can make a huge difference in this county. Also, Sonshine is a huge advocate for children and women in this county. If she could get help from your show, it would be so wonderful.
My 79-year-old mother is going blind. She's an avid gardener and wants to spend her final sighted days being able to see her garden and all the work that she's done landscaping (all done by her) in a house that she is happy and comfortable in. She loves her yard, but her house is ugly and makes her sad. It's dark and dreary. Please help my mom spend her final days in a happy place.
Both my husband and I have returned home from the war in Afghanistan. We had plans of trying to fix our home with the money saved from there. It is one thing after another with this house and now we have no money left to try to fix it. The house still has very old wiring and asbestos still. There are two rooms torn apart that are probably never going to be finished. We can't sell the house in this condition. My husband is having a difficult time adjusting back to being here in the states. He says it was so much easier over there for him. If there was anything I could do for my husband, it would be to give him the home he deserves.
Hi my name is brook constable. I am writing you because my fiance Darren is a wounded warrior. He was injured in Afghanistan Feb 26 2012. He was awarded the purple heart by the secretary of the army. He also recieved his combat medic badge. Darren and i currently stay at the hospital in Maryland. We should be discharged from the hospital June 22 HOPEFULLY!! Darren was hit by a greneade on his head. The grenade landed less than 5 ft away from him which is within the killing radius of a grenade. He was knocked unconscious and did not have a pulse. He was one of the first men to be flewn out of his combat operations base because they thought he was never going to make it home. He was flewn to the nearest hospital in afghanistan where he had a life saving surgery a craniotomy. Then was flewn to Germany to have another emergency craniotomy and was put into a medically induced coma for a few days. 7 days after being hit he was finally back in the states and was an inpatient at Walter Reed National Naval Medical Center. We are currently on outpatient status and should be going home soon. But once we get home we will not have a place of our own. We will be staying in a trailer with my brother and my mother. Darren has three children that wont be able to live with us because of our living situtaions. He has full time custody of his oldest son which will reside with his parents in south carolina until we are able to get a place of our own. We really need a place to stay a place to call our own a place to call home where we can all stay under one roof. the last few months have been had a extreme impact on our whole family. And most people would say they cant wait to go home but we have no place to call home. Darren is a combat medic in the united states army SGT E-5. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please and thank you.
Hi, my name is whitney i live in florida and my fiance' and myself and his mother and one of his 3 sons live together in a small 3 bedroom home i also have a daughter who is three , but i do not get to have her here all the time due to what is taking place, to start back in 2008 shawn my fiance; was in a car accedent, causeing him to be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, although he has come to accept its a on going battel. He broke his back in just the right spot that cost him his life and 2 of his kids. he has three sons 2 of them live wt their mother out of state and he cant stand being away but due to him being n a wheel chair for life he isnt able to see them, his oldest son kaine. his mother got custody of because he is unable to take care of the needs his sons needs. so we all live together so he can be in his oldest kids life as much as possable, he has also more medical issues thta came with the crash, that cause alot of pain. i myself have child who is 3 her name is kaydance,she stays wt her dad more then with me due to everything thats going on im unable to work due to having to sale my car for money to pay for everything shawn needs the money he gets every month just doesnt cover all our cost. it kills me being away from my daughter so much. and to top it off 3 months ago shawn had a tramdic thing happen he colapised in his room where his son kaine found him due to him having CANCER we did not know he had. so now he has kemo everyday always in and out of the hospital and he just killing us all ,. but we have no choice but to keep fighting everyday and hope one day somthing good will happen. we applyed for our own home but after this got denyed due to not making enough in a year. and we choice to stay living here wt his mother because her kids grew up in this home and now his oldest has too who shawns mother has had custody of sence he was a small child. and now her unimployment has ran out and we are trying to help her so she does not loose the house so shawns son has a strong home to grow up in we used our tax money trying to fix up the houses issues but with shawns chair its so hard for him to get arounf in such a small house. and there isnt enough room for my daughter here as all. we tryed putting her toddler bed in our room but only to see then it took space from shawn being able to get around with his chair. so she has no place to call hers when she is here, it kills me to not have a room or a place for her to play, i worrie she will feel as if mommy doesnt care after a while. but i know im doing everything i can to try and keep us all as a family strong.i am writting to hope you hear my story, . as for myself i ma trying to get back in school so i can get a good job to keep things alive and get more room for kaydance. my daughter, but unable to right now and had to push that aside untill i can come up with the money to get a car or fix the house so we all dont loose it. i hope i hear back from you iv watched the show and everytime the people i see their storys touch my heart and help keep me postive in beleaveing one day we will have somone touch our heart and home with a blessing as you all do for so many people.
Kim is a friend. She is a married mother, who with her husband, have blended their families, and now with their own, have 5 children. Kim is a cancer survivor, and both parents passed away before she was 35. Husband Brian is serving his country in Afghanistan. He has also seeved in Iraq. Since he has been in Afghanistan, water problems that were not fixed properly caused black mold, which made the entire family sick the entire 2011-2012 winter season. Now they have had to vacate the home and it is so bad they had to throw away just about everything and the house will either have to be torn down or gutted to the studs. The mold is even on the concrete that make up the basement. She and the kids are temporarily staying with her sister and her family. The insurance will not cover this, and she has applied for grants through the military, but it takes awhile. Please consider Kim and her family as candidates for Extreme Home Makeover!!
Hello,
i am a 19 year old college student at Ball State University. my mother is a very hard working person as a special education teacher at our local elementary. as most people know teachers are not paid very much and she is still supporting my younger brother and i. she also tries to help my older sister with some financial hardships she has as well. we live paycheck to paycheck and have very little savings. she is paying for most of my college education and will also do so for my brother when it comes his time. she tries very hard to have nice things and tries to have a nice place for us to live but it is hard when you have no extra money. our house is around 100 years old and hasn't been redone since we moved here 18 years ago so you can imagine what it looks like. she is doing all of this on her own because of my father's loss to lung cancer in 2007. she is a strong kind hearted woman who would love nothing more than to see the house she bought with her grandparents' inheritance, look nice and be nice for us. she's not one to ask for help so i thought i would do it for her. she deserves nothing less than to have a refurbished home. please consider our home for your show. thank you very much!
- Shelby