Two Las Vegas Extreme Makeover Homes on Market

13 Comments so far

1. San Diego Realtor on November 13, 2009 9:10 am

   That is an awesome house!

2. beth on November 13, 2009 9:47 am

   That house is awesome. Myself and my sister spent 18 hours a day for 7 days working on that house. The family is so precious, especially their children Maddie and Molly. The house sits empty (they already moved out)

3. Susan on November 13, 2009 12:09 pm

   beautiful house.Hope they get a good deal

4. Barry Lynn Miller -REMAX on November 13, 2009 3:50 pm

   I feel like that show drastically over builds for the areas the properties are located in. Therefore I hope they can get want they want. But in my opinion a half a million dollar home in a 100k subdivision will be hard to move.

5. C. Lee on November 13, 2009 3:53 pm

   I thought a family would have to commit to not selling the property for a certain period of time. does anyone know how the Extreme Makeover contracts work?

6. Chuck Staples on November 13, 2009 6:16 pm

   Although these recipients are clearly deserving, the homes are so over-built and over-improved for the neighborhoods. When one can barely keep a modest home from falling into itself, how does one afford something several times larger? The utility bills are drastically bigger, the house still needs to be cleaned and kept up. In many ways, these homes are new, gilt, albatrosses. And if you to sell, the house is out of character for the neighborhood - good luck getting a decent price. If you run a charity, do the folk who visit your soup-kitchen, food pantry, etc., now have a different mindset towards you. It would be an interesting sociological study. I think these new homes should be something that rewards the families for years, and not makes them props for advertisements for Sears, builders, KraftMaid, etc.

7. msouth on November 14, 2009 7:50 am

   While it is true that these houses are overbuilt for the neighborhoods they are in, consider the following:

   If it’s too much to heat they can live in one half of it, shutting the other off. They are still in a better position than they were before–no mold, no allergens.

   While there’s no way that they will get the same price for this that they would in a neighborhood where the home would “belong”, they are still surely going to get a lot more than they would for the one with the mold and allergens.

   Many times they pay off the old mortgage. The average mortgage payment is way more than the utility bills would be, even bills for a house this big.

   Extreme Home Makeover is a television show. You are not going to get millions of dollars in sponsorship to just go in and do mold abatement. What they are doing is entertaining to viewers, and that makes it worthwhile for companies to get involved.

   In the time slot they have EHM in, they could just put in another pointless reality show. Would that be an improvement?

   Yes, it only helps a few people, and perhaps the ideal situation would be to take all the money that got spent on one of these houses and built five or ten houses. But that’s not why the money is there–the money is there because they are doing these over the top renovations.

   I just don’t see the point in criticizing these people for doing a good thing. Are they draining money and volunteers from Habitat for Humanity? I don’t think so. I say, if you can have a successful commercial television show about helping people, that’s incredibly fantastic, well done, keep up the good work. One less time slot taken up by something like “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!”.

   Instead of spending your time tearing these people down, surely there’s some local volunteer work you could be doing?

8. C. Lee on November 14, 2009 8:56 pm

   I got sent a response meant for C.. Staples to my email box. I would never begrudge the reciepients of such a makeover; however,I never got an answer to my question about “contractual agreements” as relates to having your home done by Extreme Makeovers.

9. Laura Larrett on November 15, 2009 3:16 am

   I also think these houses are very overbuilt. How do they pay the taxes and the utilities. And the rooms are so “creative” how would a normal buyer even use them. Unless these shows and advertisers are willing to pay the extra taxes and utilities, I don’t know how they can keep them up. It’s really an ad for the builders and the appliances and furniture. Maybe they could do them half the size and still come out with something worthwhile.

   Good Luck

10. Cherry Creek Realty Services on November 16, 2009 3:45 pm

    I am wondering the same thing. Can they sell the house after 5 months of it being built by extreme makeover? Sometimes the show builds houses that are far too much for families and they can’t either afford them or exactly, are way out of the price range for the area.

    What I want to know is- what are other homes in the same neighborhood priced at? Anyone know the answers??

11. Diane Tuman on November 16, 2009 3:52 pm

    You can see how homes compare to this one via this link, which shows recently sold prices, other homes for sale, plus Zillow’s Zestimates:
    http://www.zillow.com/homes/map/5760-Royal-Castle-Ln—-Las-Vegas–NV-89130–_rb/#/homes/for_sale/map/0-14000000_price/pricea_sort/36.268213,-115.245998,36.265981,-115.250686_rect/17_zm/0_mmm/1_rs/

    You’ll see the 500K is WAY above all other values.

12. Bill Hernandez on November 16, 2009 7:24 pm

    This house is extremely awesome! Lucky buyer quite a bargain

13. shelton on November 16, 2009 8:39 pm

    I used to own a home in that neighborhood. Beautiful home….great intentions….not practical. Homes in that community are averaging ~75/sqft….. I don’t see anyone paying over 250k for that home on Royal Castle.