Fired Up? Ready to Win?
Good day, bloggers,
I love to see the intense debates going on right now. I particularly appreciate how well-mannered and poised you are as an online community. Your passion for this home certainly shines through. I will be traveling back to HGTV Dream Home 2010 soon, so post more questions I can investigate during my trip. Hurry – my flight leaves soon!
Here are responses to recent posts:
• Brooke and Dawnzz: You can mail in entries as often as you like. However, Web entries will be accepted only once per day. If you enter multiple times per day, only your first entry will count. (The second, third and fourth will not count against you, though.)
• Susan Carol: I try to respond to your questions as quickly as possible in my weekly blog entries. I also address queries in vlogs. Welcome to the HGTV Dream Home blog – please stay awhile. (Thanks, Coop!)
• To everyone (too many to name) who asked about a water feature/pool: If you want to use some of your $500,000 prize to put in a pool, you must surround it with a wall, according to the community design guidelines.
• DebbieFlorida: Give me a little more time to find the answers to your house mechanics questions. I am on it! I can tell you that my parents opted for a swamp cooler for their Colorado house and it works beautifully.
Your Super Fan,
Gail
Please clarify rules for postcard entries. Must they be enclosed in an envelope?
This is truly the dream home that I had in mind , in the country with a view to die for . I would not change a thing , indoors or outside . This one would be a keeper , not to sell after winning and buy some where else.
Not having won anything ever in my life , this would be a gift from heaven , "well , I can dream , can't I ?! "
Even though I am faithfully entering each day, this whole thing actually seems rather cruel. Oh sure, to win and sell immediately would be fine. Goodness knows I could use the money. Even with the initial tax and the capital gains tax it would still be way more than I will ever earn, but to be honest, I *really* like the house. There's just no way that I, or any other mere mortal, would actually be able to afford it. If the tax on the winnings disappeared, then it would be possible…but apparently at least one family of ordinary means tried to live in a dream home and then failed after a year. Granted, they ended up a little better off than they were before…but not as well as if they had sold right away.
I can only imagine how difficult it would be to step into your dream home…knowing that you can't stay. It's just a shame that there isn't some sort of provision for that *massive* tax that would be due the following april. Even if I got a job in the area that paid twice as much as I make now, I still wouldn't be able to make the payments on the necessary loan to cover the tax *and* actually buy food.
when is the tour of the dream home going to be open to the public?
I have to say that this home speaks to me in a way that I have never felt. It would be a dream come true to win it. The sunsets are just spectacular. I pray that I win!
I feel exactly the same way about the home speaking to you with a little twist… I lived in Albuquerque as a child. It was our first home. There are certain growing up years that we find ourselves talking about more than all the others. My time there is one I often reflect upon. I can attest to those magnificent sunsets being more than just a photo op.That beautiful house would make a spectacular home for anyone. It's been my dream to go back one day for many years. Good Luck to you too.
im wondering if there is a point to entering every day?
I got an email today from HGTVpro.com about viewing the HGTV Dreamhome's exterior & landscape features. These photos are wonderful! Amy Cohen and crew did a great job! How breath taking!
~Teresa~
Most who enter the Dream Home contests and all who've won can't afford to keep the houses. Now, we don't want HGTV to build a less expensive and therefore less than a "dream" home, but, many of us wish we could win and keep the home.
So, here's an idea for HGTV. Why not increase the cash portion of the prize in exchange for filming the happy winner living in the house after, say, one year?
I would love to win this home,it would be a prayer anwsered and a dream come true. Gail,how is it determined who wins this home?
I would just like to say I think the house is beautiful amazing and breathtaking , the landscape is really a land of pure enchantment. thank you HGTV for inspiring us all to dream .
How come no solar? New Mexico has 300 days of sunshine.
There is solar power according to earlier posts. There are so many interesting technology features about this home. I wish the HGTV articles had made that more obvious.
There are solar electric panels on the roof, go to hgtv pro dot com for more details.
Again, WOW!!! What a HOME! I cannot stop thinking about it. Yet scared to think that I might not win it. This home has everything my husband and I have been looking for. We love wildlife, the Native American way of interacting with our planet, the mountains and the cactus! My tortoises would also love to call this home!
HGTV has outdone themselves again. What a beautiful home and beautiful location. Love the mountains some day will actually make the move and be surrounded by beautiful, breathtaking views. A dream come true home to anyone who loves nature, clean fresh air and pure untouched beauty. Good luck to everyone. It would be a dream come to for anyone who loves this kind of environment. Love the show, can't wait to see what HGTV has in store for 2011 Dream Home, maybe that will be a lucky year for me.
Hi Gail I would like to say hats off to everyone involved in the design and construcrion of the 2010 dream home because that is what it truley is. I"m a huge fan of HGTV I watch everyday keep up the good work. I would love to visit New Mexico someday but I"d rather be living there in that beautiful dream home.
i"d rather
looking at some picture early wheh the house is being build you showed the house when it snow, is it easy to keep the house warm with the big windows in the great room ,does it have cover when the heat of the day?,,
don't get me wrong i love the house my husband say if i don't win this house he going to have admitted in to a nut house LOL
This is the home that is going to be my healing home. My BFF was in the hoSpital and had no computer and wanted me to do entries for her until she came home. On Jan 17, 2010 I lost my BFF since we were five in 1969. I will continue to make entries for this beautiful, peaceful house. if I win I will definetly have a room dedicated to her. This year out of all the other DREAM HOMES means more to me.
I am dying to live in this dream home. My kids only play outside and will have so much fun chasing lizards and seeing some coyotes at night. I wonder what creatures do come out at night. We will watch them as we are sitting in our hot tub enjoying the outdoors.
Hi super fan Gail got a question for you . What are the estimated yearly taxes on this home ? Hope there affordable in this economic crisis . Could you find out and let us know ? Thanks so much your fan ,Caryn.
O.K. So, I have been telling myself from the start that this is a fun dream "But, I'm much too sensible to get fired up. The odds have to be phenomenal". That is not an honest self debate. I'm so fired up I can hardly contain it anymore. Originally I did not tell anyone in my family because I thought they would think me foolish. Now I everyone knows.
To think of returning so near my first childhood home in such a manner has been a dream of mine some 40 years in the making. I could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw the location this time.
The home my husband and I had built here did not go well. Our builder made so many mistakes we have had to make repairs ourselves from the beginning and every year of our 18 years here. This network has been my daily TV show(s) so that I might make better decisions the next time. Then, I saw this house. Oh..there is not a single thing I would change! The only thing my daughter requests is that I add a soccer field.
Both my daughter and I practice different forms of art here in Michigan. The possibilities of inspiration from this location have our creative juices flowing already.
I do wish all good luck. But, I hope you don't mind how very much I wish such luck for myself and my family.
I dream about this home every day and sometimes I think I am getting my hopes way too high to win. This is the perfect home for me and being a full time artist / painter, I could really use this home to it's full potential and also have contact with the great ARTS COMMUNITY of Santa Fe. My painting called " Eagle Feathers" was just displayed at the Chalk Farm Gallery in Santa FE NM this year. I am so excited to have a chance to win this fantastic and wonderful home…A DREAM WORTH DREAMING…..
How does it work to enter my name every day; is it once a day? or enter as many times as I like in a day?
It's hard to tell if the kitchen/great room have a flat screen television anywhere. I like to watch tv when preparing dinner. Can you tell us if there is a tv anywhere in this area? Thanks.
Hi,Gail and Everybody
My name is Barbara. I want to participate in the name contest for the steel sculpture outside of the house,I'm calling :"My Extreme Makeover Dream HGTV House". You have to see my "Dog House" in Florida.It is very small a thing!. So I'm "drooling" everyday on my computer keyboard and steering on a screen, watching HGTV.com. The Steel Sculpture. It is reminse me myself! waiting every day on Winning Results Day.I named it "BarbWier Dream Katcher".
I'm dancing with the stars and wolves during sunrise and sunset time in New Mexico/HGTV 2010.
I'll be back…..
i am so upset–i have tried repeatedly to enter the home giveaway but the entry form will kick out my phone number every time.does anyone know why.my computer server does not know why.can anyone from where you are fix the problem.
I am so ready to win this beautiful home. I will only have to pack my clothes. My grandson loves Toy story and God knows he deserves it as he lost his dad in the Iraq war. We will have to put up a flag and replant my sons tree and it will be home. We are believing God….thank you to everyone who is so generous to give their time and money for this..
Do you know how everyone has been getting around the Tax issues whenever they win? Think about this for a while. You win a 2mil dollar home. That means you are going to be taxed almost $500k. Do you have that sort of money? I can't image where I'd get that cash before the gov't takes it out of my hide. I mean, I already have a $600K home today, but couldn't sell it and move to that house on a bet! So what will I do? I know that this time they are throwing in an extra $500k. But, lest we forget, YOU WILL BE TAXED ON THAT TOO. So what does HGTV do to help out their winners?
I haven't seen info anywhere as to how the combine the mailed in entries with online entries. Anybody know? Also I'm wondering if horses are allowed.
Its quite easy to combine mailed in entries with online entries. Just assign a unique consecutive numeric ID to each mailed in entry as it is received, and physically store them in manageable sorted bundles, until the drawing. Then all you'd need to do is put that numeric ID range into the random selection process, as if they were electronic entries, so physical properties like envelope size, color, shape, texture, fragrance can't affect the results of your random drawing. If your selection process comes up with a mailed in entry, you retrieve the physical bundle its in, if its electronic, you pull up the database entry and get all the info for the winner.
The development the dream home is in does not support horses, there are local places to board them, and the developer has another development not too far away that supports horses, if you decided to sell the dream home and still move to the area.