As the saying goes, home is where the heart is. But, it’s also where the money is, as a house is likely to be the most expensive thing that a person will buy during their lifetime. Getting yourself into a home that’s just right can be a massive task, which is why so many of us love to dive into one (or more) of the many popular real estate and home renovation shows on HGTV (like the supposedly fake House Hunters ).
Unfortunately, a former network star has now been given jail time for real estate and financial fraud, and we know how he used his show for the crimes. If you watch a lot of HGTV then you know that while the network is populated with massive hits like Home Town with Ben and Erin Napier, any show from the Property Brothers , Drew and Jonathan Scott , and the many series of former Flip or Flop star Christina Hall . We love to watch pretty much all of them, but among all of that buying, renovating and selling, sometimes the hosts get into a bit of trouble .
Though the most notable example of this is probably everything that went down with the many lawsuits filed against the hosts of Windy City Rehab , Charles “Todd” Hill, a star of the one-season renovation competition, Flip It to Win It , was just sentenced to four years in jail. The District Attorney’s office for the county of Santa Clara, California (which includes the area known as Silicon Valley), revealed in April 2024 that Hill was given his jail time (along with being ordered to pay restitution to th.
