Train Wrecks
"Home Improvement" Star's House -- A Real S**thole

Once you get past the smell of s**t and piss, and cryptic messages spray-painted everywhere and massive holes smashed into the walls, Taran Noah Smith's former home isn't really that bad ......yeah, right.

TMZ got video of the house today -- the place Smith called home until the bank foreclosed on the property 10 days ago. The 4 bedroom/4 bath house is located in the L.A. suburb of Sherman Oaks. The wreckage inside is breathtaking.

The words "Please view this lesson in finality" were scrawled on one of the walls. Bitter, party of one! The real estate tear-sheet on the house reads, "Absolutely the worst house in a prime location," offered for a cool $1.149 mil!
Taran Smith
Smith recently divorced his wife, who is sixteen years his senior. Smith's lawyer told TMZ he doesn't think his client did all the damage, adding, "You can thank his golddigging ex-wife for the debacle he's in."

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31. The house is cool in some ways. A lot more damage could have been done! I hope that he gets help going on with his life. It isn't easy being raised like he was.

Posted at 2:02PM on Jul 18th 2007 by Nicole

32. i totally agree with #6, listen to mommy and daddy who love u kiddies!:


6. I saw a story on ET or somewhere way back in which his parents were trying to block his assets so the gold-digging skank who he was about to marry wouldn;t get all of his cash. The dude was obviously stoned or drugged out of his mind and defied his parents warnings and concerns. And lo and behold, look what's happened! The skank gold-digger got the gold. And what's the moral in all of this, kids? Don't diss your own damn parents or it'll snap ya in the ass eventually. Hooray for Hollywood!

Posted at 9:30PM on Jul 17th 2007 by omg ew.....

33. So, the dumbass gets married to a gold-digger (against his parents advice, by the way) who'd 16 years his senior. Then, he divorces her (probably giving her everything in the divorce) and then trashes his house, which is then foreclosed on? Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. He'll be working at Mcdonalds next, as the fry guy. What's next, a reality TV series for this mental midget?

Posted at 5:11PM on Jul 17th 2007 by GEEZ-ZUS...

34. Tim Allen has his work cut out on this house.

Posted at 5:12PM on Jul 17th 2007 by Robo Bro

35. #27 (Elle)... AMEN!!!!!

Posted at 5:25PM on Jul 17th 2007 by RP

36. This is what typically happens when someone loses their home to foreclosure.....they destroy it. My father used to buy foreclosed homes, fix them up and sell them.

That's why you're not allowed to look inside foreclosed properties before you buy them. This is nothing new.

Posted at 5:30PM on Jul 17th 2007 by Bella

37. Which one is Taran and which one is the wife?

Posted at 5:32PM on Jul 17th 2007 by Sean Poonce

38. This is going to make for a true hollywood story
on E. Stay tuned....

Posted at 5:40PM on Jul 17th 2007 by mommy knows best

39. For whatever reason, this story fascinates me, haha. What would drive people to do such things? I actually saw that ET special...hysterical how things turned out.

Posted at 5:38PM on Jul 17th 2007 by Afterwards Deified

40. todd not all of us actors in the 80s did drugs still have a beautiful home and wife and 2 children as for your judgemental ass r u on drugs i hope so because if not please go back to school u need it.

Posted at 5:39PM on Jul 17th 2007 by jaker

41. The writing on the wall is obviously a woman's. No self-respecting guy would use little circles to dot their i's.

Posted at 5:41PM on Jul 17th 2007 by Tara

42. same goes to all of you y do u judge r your lives so boring to make fun of this poog guy u dont even have a clue to why he did what he did i would love to have your lifes under the gun 24 -7

Posted at 5:43PM on Jul 17th 2007 by jaker

43. But I feel bad that his ex is the cause if she is the gold digger.

Posted at 5:52PM on Jul 17th 2007 by Another reason children should not be in this business

44. And you know his parents who were opposed to the marriage in the first place are saying:

I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 6:05PM on Jul 17th 2007 by liz

45. Why is it only in America where kid TV stars lose it? I mean, I don't see any of the kids from CBCs "Avonlea" out there being crazy!

Posted at 5:56PM on Jul 17th 2007 by Maple leaf forever

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