A third family is sharing their experience with Andrew and Candis Meredith, the designers behind the show "Home Work," which Magnolia Network pulled Thursday.
before speaking with TODAY on Saturday. She alleged that she and her husband paid the Merediths $50,000 as a down payment for a 2019 renovation that never began. To this day, they say they have not recouped the funds. The Merediths confirmed the Goates' story to TODAY in a phone call Friday. The Merediths confirmed to TODAY that they had embarked on the project with the Goates family. Two other homeowners featured on the show spoke to TODAY saying the Merediths similarly promised low budgets and fast turnaround times. Vienna and Robert said they were wary.
By the end of March 2020, work still had not begun and the couple says it was difficult to reach Candis. Her occasional texts, Robert said, were"not enough to calm fears that we were being forgotten." That spring, the main concern the family had was the interest accruing on the loan they had taken out to fund the project, but in early April, Candis sent a payment that covered some of that interest.
In November, the Goates hired an attorney, who sent the Merediths a letter requesting the repayment of their deposit. The Goates said that the Merediths told them they would be able to pay $21,000 upfront and then requested to be put on a payment plan for the remaining amount. Their attorney determined a “rigid” payment plan, but to this day, the Goates family has only received about $14,000 back of their initial $50,000 payment, Robert and Vienna said.
Vienna said that she still feels “guilty” about deciding to work with the Merediths, and expressed regret about responding to the casting call instead of continuing with the plan they had in place.
What’s that old saying “If it seems too good to be true, then it PROBABLY IS,”
Interesting..The Today Show has had exclusive rights to everything Chip & Jo for years - all their announcements and interviews. The week that Chip & Jo show up on Good Morning America, stories like this start getting reported by NBC..hmmm?
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