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I didn't win the HGTV Dream Home

by Anna Johns, posted Apr 27th 2006 5:24PM

hgtv dream homeI wasn't really sure whether a move to North Carolina was a good idea anyway, but I would have liked the dilemma. HGTV is giving away its latest Dream Home in a live special this Saturday at 8 pm. I know this because I received an e-mail telling me to watch. This should tell you two things: 1) I entered the contest, and 2) I didn't win. If I did win, I'd be one of these people. This year, HGTV is taking a different approach to announcing the winner. It will fly three final contestants to this home for the live broadcast, where two people will learn that they won $100,000 while the other person wins the home. I guess $100,000 is a nice consolation prize.

Sigh. I really didn't need that much living space, anyway. I'd probably lose my cats and my husband somewhere in the 5,000 square foot home.

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Gene

Oh, boy. I'd much rather have the $100K, even after taxes that would be a nice boost to pay for my CURRENT mortgage.
The dream house giveaway is such a boondoggle -- it's always a beautiful house, but worth so much money that none of the winners can ever afford to live in it -- the taxes on the winnings alone are unaffordable, so they must sell the house immediately.

April 27 2006 at 8:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tammy

I visited Lake Lure last year and when I saw that was where this house was... I was entering the sweepstakes every day! I had read how almost every dream house winner in the past had to sell the house in order to pay the taxes on it. So I begged my husband that if we won, we would have to come up with the taxes somehow! Oh well, guess I can go back to dreaming about the lottery... oh yeah, I have to buy a ticket to win. Oops!

April 27 2006 at 7:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DJ

I must admit, I got the same email and I was really disappointed that, even though it was a remote chance, I was already out of the running! I had hoped that the live TV show would be the announcement- and we could still dream until then! I'm not so sure I want to see it now. (I was ready to move!)

April 27 2006 at 6:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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