RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.
Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, in a record 17-day “blitz” organised by the charity Habitat for Humanity.
Eight years later it is better known for cockroaches, mildew and mysterious skin rashes.
Some residents dismiss their neighbours’ worries. Diennal Fields, 51, said people did not know how to look after their homes: “It’s simple stuff: if there is mildew, don’t get a lawyer, get a bottle of bleach.”
In the first place the people have to turn off the TV get off the couch and clean the dirt out once in awhile! Thats the problem with helping people by giving and giving to them. Many people don’t want to work and expect the country to give them whatever they need in life. I have seen new homes with the windows broken out, doors half off and junk piled in the yard after only five years or less and those people then complain about the free home! Sick lazy no good couch potatoes!
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lukemcgook // January 5, 2009 at 7:30 AM
Eight years later it is better known for cockroaches, mildew and mysterious skin rashes.
Shoot, just sounds like anywhere else in Florida to me.
Just kidding. I kid.
goodtimepolitics // January 5, 2009 at 7:35 AM
Just to add, why does these people try to live in the high living cost states when they can not afford to?
cockroaches, mildew and mysterious skin rashes, yep that the south for you unless you clean and spray once in awhile. LOL
diogenes // January 5, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Of course, you realize that Habitat for Humanity omes don’t go to coach potatos, right? That each recipient HAS to work on other peoples’ homes FIRST, for a significant number of hours, before they qualify to recieve a HFH home. And most continue working on other HFH homes once they’ve received theirs.
But yeah, some people never get it. There was a big story last year about one of the families that received a house from ABC’s Extreme Makeovers. The builders chipped in to pay off their mortgage. So what did they do? They ran to the bank, took out a mortgage on the new home, put it into a family business which they ran into bankruptcy. So they lost the house that they received, gratis.
goodtimepolitics // January 5, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Yep! give to these couch potatoes and welfare people and then they complain about the giver! I don’t care for Carter or the Hollywood bunch but the feebie getters are out for what ever they can get from the government! Obama is their man!
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