So I was going to enter HGTV's Dream Home give away...

[WCGreen]

It's a beautiful home, located in the mountains surrounding Asheville, NC...

Truly a dream home...

I was getting all set to enter until I read these dreadful words...

"Located in a staunchly republican congressional distrcit"...

WTF....

How could that be a dream home...

[djeseru]

1. Last year's was here in Texas.

So it doesn't sound as though they're improving. :shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Well, now ain't that the worst?

I guess it would be a dream home for a repub......:shrug:

[Wcross]

3. Im entering the contest. I will sell it if I win. n/t

[Fleshdancer]

4. With a house like that....

I don't care if the district is staunchly republican, that house is incredible. The outdoor living room is a very nice touch.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. There was an article recently about the taxes the winner last

year owed on the house $650,000. More of a nightmare if you ask me.

[WCGreen]

7. Yikes!!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. See my post #9

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. That was my first thought...

And it'd be even worse if I couldn't sell the house.

Cash contests are the way to go...

[In_The_Wind]

6. Darned!

Keep on lookin' ...

Your dream is out there.

[WCGreen]

8. Man, never start a thread when a bed is calling your name...

[In_The_Wind]

14. I've done that a time or two myself.

Rest ...

You'll need all your strength for the Fiesta Bowl!

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. I have a friend who won the dream home about 5 years ago

It was in Maine on the Atlantic coast. It was really neat they way they told her; she is a teacher and they came to school and surprised her in class with the news and brought her a new car too. She was on the news and made the front page of the paper. They also filmed some commercials for HGTV with the kids at her school.

She spent a whole week in her dream home. The yearly property taxes were more than her yearly salary. So she had to sell it; but she is pretty much set for life now. She was really excited that she would be able to send her kid to college anywhere he wanted to go.

on edit: here's a link with pics to the home she won
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/rm_architecture_other/article/0,1797,HGTV_3663_1395380,00.html

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. I think I heard somewhere that so far ALL the winners

have had to sell because they couldn't afford the taxes

Property Taxes
Prize winning taxes..and that is a HUGH!!1!! amount!

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Hugh and series

LOL

Well my friend at least got a cool new car out of the deal.

[fortyfeetunder]

11. The taxes to keep that house

2005's winners have a 600G tax bill. They tried to create a B&B or something and the locals nixed it.

If I won it, I'd sell it.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. This year, Lending Tree is giving the winner $250,000 to help with

the taxes.

So you might be looking at a $400,000 mortgage on a $1.5million house. Not a bad deal at all.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. That won't go very far in a high tax area

Most people would have to sell the house if they won.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. This would go for the IRS tax on the winnings.

I don't know of many areas where you pay $250,000 a year in property tax.

[DS1]

18. Why would they even write that?

I don't get it.

[GirlinContempt]

19. I had the same thought

pretty bizzaro

[WCGreen]

20. It struck me as very odd that they would bring this up.....

[GirlinContempt]

21. Yeah

I mean, what possible reason could they have to say something like that?

[bmbmd]

28. To keep you and me from entering!

Thus improving their own odds. Don't take the bait.

[ornotna]

24. I guess to show the contrast to the area

"Asheville is a tough one to figure out. It is, on the one hand, a relatively isolated and still small county seat of only 70,000 in the Southern Appalachians. It's the population center of a staunchly Republican congressional district. Its old industries, like furniture and textiles, have faded.

But get out of your car in downtown Asheville on a fall Friday afternoon. There are people out, hundreds of them: mostly young adults, yuppies, hippies, gays and bohemians of every stripe. Scores of offbeat restaurants and outdoor-gear shops and colorfully unpredictable art galleries are open."

[merh]

22. Good, win it and sale it to a rich neo-con

Use the profits to improve your life and the lives of others.

Where is that link -- I could use a new house.

[girl gone mad]

25. That's what I would do.

Actually, I would have to because there's no way we could afford the taxes.

I would probably be too embarassed to keep it, anyhow. It just seems like too much for one person to win. I wish HGTV would give away ten really nice small dream houses instead of one giant one.

[merh]

26. That would be a better use of the money.

And while they are at it, they ought to give homes to Hurricane surivors.

:hi:

[xchrom]

27. infiltrate and subvert!

[LaraMN]

29. Oh, endless possibilities!

If you win, I will send you a crappy plastic kiddie pool which you can place in the front yard and fill with dirt to make a flower bed.

I will acquire at least two late-model trucks which you can sink up to their axles in the yard, as well.

You can paint the house red-white-and-blue to share your patriotic sentiment.

You can set up a secret laboratory in the basement wherein you clone farm animals which you then release into the neighborhood (because animals shouldn't be kept in cages.)

You can open a "prostitute ranch." You might want to contact Heidi Fleiss for tips. It would probably get alot of business in a heavily red area.

Sign up! I'm rooting for you!