That's right, the house featured in the Tom Hanks / Shelly Long movie "The Money Pit" has actually come to life for a Chicago couple who thought they really hit the jackpot when they won a sweepstakes with a dream home as the grand prize. Turns out, just like the old adage proclaims:
"In this life you get nothing for nothing"......ps (I just love rags to riches to rags stories...lol)
"In this life you get nothing for nothing"......ps (I just love rags to riches to rags stories...lol)
The winners of a TV dream home have seen their giant fantasy house become a financial nightmare. By Stephen Gandel, MONEY Magazine senior writer
NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) -- Don Cruz had always assumed that the only time he would ride in a stretch would be to his own funeral.
Instead, his heart was definitely beating, maybe a little too fast, as he and his son Donald, 10, stood like guys at a bachelor party with their heads out of the sunroof of a 30-foot Cadillac on the way to see their new house for the first time.
Only "house" doesn't adequately describe what awaited them at their destination on that spring day last year.
Don and his wife Shelly had just been awarded the grand prize in HGTV's annual Dream Home Sweepstakes, winning $250,000, a GMC Denali SUV and a gigantic, fully furnished, barn-inspired mansion on an acre of lakefront property in the East Texas town of Tyler.
As the Cruzes toured the 6,000-square-foot, three-story structure - more than seven times the size of their modest home outside Chicago - each feature seemed more fantastic than the one before: story continues and turns to nightmare
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