(NHR) EXTREME MAKOVER TONIGHT (NHR)

Tonight at 7 central is the version of the show that was done here outside of Rose Hill.

I always watch that show and Desperate Housewives and Greys Anatomy. LOL

Desperate you will NEVER BE

wow that house was awesome
huge

very nice house, but aren't they always.

They never have to pay taxes on this house unless they sell it

I wonder how much they'll get if they decide to sell their prime real estate they have downtown when the arena goes in. I think the paper said they make like 6 times as much as they bought it for.

The home in Rose Hill done by the Extreme Makeover crew was indeed lovely and quite contemporary.
Of course it doesn't quite compare to the 9-bedroom farm house left to my cousin Mose and I by my grandparents. Of course the extra bathrooms in the Extreme makeover home would be nice, we just have the one. It's under the porch.


That is all.
Dwight K. Schrute

DropThePuck wrote:

I wonder how much they'll get if they decide to sell their prime real estate they have downtown when the arena goes in. I think the paper said they make like 6 times as much as they bought it for.

really in need, huh? prime real estate yet can't afford house insurance!

actually they had house insurance, they used it to pay as much of the old house off i think they stilled owed like 20,000 after they paid all they could.

They just did a show in OKC also. It's amazing what they did with a bunch of cardboard box's. It's true a family lost their tin teepee the teepee got over loaded from all the fat asses that lived there and it finally collapsed.

DropThePuck wrote:

actually they had house insurance, they used it to pay as much of the old house off i think they stilled owed like 20,000 after they paid all they could.

not saying you are right or wrong I don't know but know people who worked on that NEW HOUSE and this is what was apparently told them at the site that they didn't have insurance. Think it was in the paper at the time of the explosion has well. Either way that show does good for those in dire need and deserving....but prime real estate downtown? deserving? questionable when that property could have been sold.

stoney wrote:

DropThePuck wrote: actually they had house insurance, they used it to pay as much of the old house off i think they stilled owed like 20,000 after they paid all they could. not saying you are right or wrong I don't know but know people who worked on that NEW HOUSE and this is what was apparently told them at the site that they didn't have insurance. Think it was in the paper at the time of the explosion has well. Either way that show does good for those in dire need and deserving....but prime real estate downtown? deserving? questionable when that property could have been sold.

I'm pretty sure reading in the paper about them having insurance but who really cares. If they had a loan out on the house they had to have insurance.


Yea that's what I thought about the real estate downtown the eagle ran an article on it awhile back and said that abc did know they had the property.

I guess it sits right across where the arena is going to go.

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'Makeover' family has other land
The Nutsches, who got a new house through a TV show, own investment property near the downtown arena site.
BY DION LEFLER
The Wichita Eagle

The site Sedgwick County chose last week for a new downtown arena could mean another windfall for the couple who got a new home and Wichita State University scholarships for their five daughters through the ABC-TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

In addition to their new home in Butler County, makeover recipients Kevin and Cathy Nutsch own what now is a prime Wichita investment property at the edge of Old Town, two blocks from the site the county chose Wednesday for its $184.5 million sports and entertainment complex.

The Nutsches' Wichita property has a current taxable value of $204,860, about $15,000 more than they paid for it in February, according to county records.

And a Wichita State University expert said it is likely to double in value in the next couple of years because of the massive public investment in the area.

The Nutsches have tried to sell the property in recent months. One prospective buyer said their asking price was $400,000.

Cathy Nutsch spoke only briefly to The Eagle about the property, saying she was limited in talking about it by the family's contract with ABC.

She said the property, at 130-134 N. St. Francis, was an investment she and her husband made months before they suffered the loss of their home in an Aug. 6 propane explosion.

She said it was an effort to get ahead economically after years of hard work.

"We don't own it, the bank owns it," she said. "It's a total loan."

County mortgage records show the Nutsches borrowed $190,000 from Rose Hill Bank, where Cathy Nutsch formerly worked, to finance the acquisition.

Tom Forman, executive producer of "Extreme Makeover," said he had reviewed the Nutsches' tax returns and knew about their downtown property before deciding to put the family on the show.

He said there's no doubt in his mind that the Nutsches are a deserving family who truly were devastated when their home blew up.

When the show interviewed the family, "This guy (Kevin Nutsch) is sleeping in a bus," he said. "His wife and his daughters are living in her father's basement."

Forman said he doesn't think the downtown property is relevant because the family had a low income from Kevin Nutsch's auto salvage business and the downtown property has only just now started generating income of about $300 a month.

"I can tell you they needed help badly," he said. "Our hearts went out to them and all they'd been through."

Scholarships questioned

During the show, the Nutsches received:

• A 3,800-square-foot home worth an estimated $300,000 to $400,000.

• A new Ford truck that was brought by helicopter onto their lawn during the dramatic "reveal" of the house.

• An unknown amount of cash from fundraiser accounts set up for their benefit.

• A promise from WSU for full scholarships for all five Nutsch daughters, who range in age from 8 to 16. Those scholarships are worth an estimated $150,000 to $200,000.

No one has publicly objected to the house, but there is community debate over whether Wichita State should have promised full-ride scholarships for the five Nutsch daughters.

"There are many more children in Kansas who have lost their mother or father who could use a full four-year scholarship and many children of working moms and dads trying to make ends meet and save for college," Phil and Karyl Peters of Belle Plaine wrote in a letter to The Eagle. "The facts are the Nutsch family received a $300,000 to $400,000 home fully furnished and a new vehicle for free. If any family members could save for their children's education, it's the Nutsches.

"Why can't WSU help the community without the TV show, and go out and find the families who really need help?"

WSU president Donald Beggs and vice president of student affairs Ron Kopita said they have seen some of the criticism in the newspaper but have personally heard nothing but praise for the scholarship offer.

Beggs said WSU works on community projects with many nonprofit organizations and corporations and saw working with "Extreme Makeover" in the same vein. He and Kopita both said they did not know about the Nutsches' downtown investment.

"No, I didn't know that," Beggs said. "But for us, it's more trying to deal with an organization trying to do right in our area."

In fact, the university officials didn't know who the recipients were going to be when they agreed to provide the scholarships, Kopita said.

"We were operating under the assumption that whomever they selected would be a family in distress," he said. "We wanted to reach out and help a community member."

Kopita said it is the first time he knows of that the university has made the kind of commitment it gave to "Extreme Makeover."

The most similar offering he could recall in was in 1970, when the university committed to providing free education to family members of football players and coaches killed when the team plane crashed.

A valuable property

The Nutsches bought their downtown Wichita property from Union Rescue Mission, which had owned it since 1961 and operated a homeless shelter there until moving the operation to North Hillside in 2003.

There are two attached buildings on the site, one 14,600 square feet and the other 6,000 square feet.

The larger building has a commercial kitchen and a walk-in freezer, although Marsha Stanyer, director of Union Rescue Mission, said the freezer wasn't working and much of the other equipment had been removed when the shelter moved.

Part of the building has been rented by a business called Y Knot, which is renovating it for music recording studios, a restaurant and a retail shop. The business owners say they plan to turn the building into "the Wal-Mart of music."

The Nutsches' property was in one of four areas county officials considered for the arena.

On Wednesday, they picked a site just south of the Nutsch property.

Although the Nutsches won't get the immediate windfall they would have if the government acquired their buildings, they're still likely to get an extreme makeover of their property values, said John Wong, an economist and professor with WSU's Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs.

Plans are already brewing to expand Old Town development on the west side of the downtown railroad corridor, toward where the new arena will be.

"I don't think it would be out of the question for property to double in value over the next couple of years in that particular area," he said.

Old Town developer David Burk confirmed that new development of the dining and entertainment district is headed that way.

And, he said, property there should also get a boost from the planned rebuilding of railroad crossings at First and Second streets, which will create wide walkways for foot traffic between commercial properties on the east and west sides of the tracks.

Wong said he's not surprised to learn that the Nutsches have assets that won't be highlighted on TV.

"It's only 'reality TV' in the most general sense of the term," he said.

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