BY LINDSEY DAVIES

March 5, 2008

EUGENE, Ore.  --  An Oregon family gained national attention when it was featured in the ABC hit show Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Since then, the family of Janessa "Boey" Byers has been dealt a tough hand.

Ty Pennington and his team built boey a new home to help her during her fight with cancer in October. Boey passed away in late December and now, the family is struggling to pay for the expensive new home.

The Extreme Home Makeover Crews demolished the Byers old house, but the old mortgage still stands. There's still $250,000 dollars left on the old mortgage that they have to pay, plus they're paying property taxes for the value of the new home because it's worth more than the old home was. On top of that, utility bills now cost anywhere from $500 to $700 dollars a month.

Compounding the problem, family friends say Boey's dad, recently lost a major client through his cleaning business. For a family that just lost a daughter, a sister, a warrior like Boey, it's hard to imagine the situation getting any worse.

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