MORE HOME MAKEOVER MESSINESS

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Could doing good cause a negative affect?

Yet another house built by ABC's Extreme Make over: Home Edition is in jeopardy of being foreclosed on.

This is the third house in the last few months that is facing financial problems, the others are in Atlanta and South Jersey.

A 7,000 sq ft home was built in Seminole County, Florida, back in 2006 for Sadie Holmes. The upgrade left the community activist Holmes with a beautiful six-bedroom home.

Holmes is a former drug addict who - after turning her life - around began a charity to distribute food, clothes and furniture to needy neighbors.

But Holmes says she's now struggling. The amount of debt she has built up might cost her her $400,000 house, which she also uses for her charity.

Holmes says, "I'm grateful for this building, but it's causing me too much stress and too much problems."

It seems Seminole County has filed liens against the property for unpaid code violations that total almost $30,000.

Holmes says, ”This is not the Taj Mahal. This is a run-down community. The way the economy is now, we're getting three times the amount of calls for help.”

Back in 2007, a county code-enforcement officer began filing violation reports against the property.

The reports cited portable restrooms, abandoned vehicles, an oversized truck, and overgrown grass as violations.

Though after being cited, Holmes moved the 3 ton truck and other vehicles to a storage warehouse and cleaned up the mess.

As of today, Holmes has addressed all her violations but hasn't paid the fines.

What do U think? Should she be fined all that money if she complied and cleaned up the property?

[Image via Orlando Sentinel]

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