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laken1 · Hermes

Save Dustin Diamond's House?

bex · Chanel

i heard him "pimping" (great word laken!) this on the Howard Stern show a couple weeks ago too.

I thought it sounded weird but listening to him explain it- it totally made sense. apparently he had no credit and couldn't get a house the traditional way and ended up land contracting through the "friend of a friend" person.

halleybird · Hermes

I've heard of this too.

How about "get a real job" so you don't have to capitalize on the nostalgia of other '80s children? There's a reason you can't get a house when you have shitty credit. It's called YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY FOR IT.

I do think it's pretty funny, though.

Metric · Gucci

its kind of sad though b/c I head that his parent blew all of his Saved By The Bell money. And when he came of age there was almost nothing left of it.

bex · Chanel

Metric wrote:

its kind of sad though b/c I head that his parent blew all of his Saved By The Bell money. And when he came of age there was almost nothing left of it.

yup- thats what happened. there is a bill now for child actors and their parents/guardians taking their money but apparently there wasn't then and so he has squat now.

i guess he is a stand up comic now halleybird. one of the guys on Stern gave him a job opening for him for $2K when he was on the show.

laken1 · Hermes

Well, I'm surely not taking up for Screech - I think he should get a "real job" too - but he said he is doing pretty well as a stand up comedian, but not $250,000 a month well - which is how much he needs to stop the foreclosure (quickly).

And actually it's not terribly uncommon for people with unsteady / not "regular paycheck" type income to have a hard time getting a traditional mortgage so his option was probably a pretty good one for him. Though he didn't mention anything about shotty credit on The View - he just said it was his unstable income that was the issue at the time.

I just keep running the scenario through my mind & wonder how long it took him to swallow his pride & put all this out here - what prompts a person to do that? I guess if you are semi-famous & are about to lose your house & think people will fork over money????

erin · Chanel

i feel for the guy and everything, but there is such a thing as humility and scaling down...

JoceyBaby23 · Gucci

halleybird wrote:

I've heard of this too. How about "get a real job" so you don't have to capitalize on the nostalgia of other '80s children? There's a reason you can't get a house when you have shitty credit. It's called YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY FOR IT. I do think it's pretty funny, though.

LMAO!

I feel bad for him and all.. But I can't imagine who is sending him money.