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"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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76. MOM AND DAD R NEVER RIGHT.

Posted at 11:28PM on Jul 17th 2007 by todd lissner anti adult anti wholesomeness activist(kadintodd2@aol.com)

77. I believe if memory serves me correctly his parents attempted to prevent this sad ending a long time ago. Taran went to court as a minor and asked to be emancipated so he could
1 control his own money and 2 shack up with an way older women.
So he got everything he asked for.

Posted at 12:49AM on Jul 18th 2007 by GloryB

78. Too ironic! From Home Improvement to Home Deprovement!

Posted at 1:55AM on Jul 18th 2007 by Belle

79. That house can be fixed easily....It just needs MORE POWER!

Posted at 2:05AM on Jul 18th 2007 by Tim Taylor

80. I know where the house is. I live near it.

I thought it was strange a few years ago when he put in a 15 foot high jungle gym in the front yard.

According to Zillow the house sold for $1,096,270 on 02/13/2007 and is now worth $1,776,644.

Posted at 3:05AM on Jul 18th 2007 by Sherman Oaks

81. I'm actually a friend of Taran's and was there when he was packing up his stuff to move. I saw his house and it is beautiful. You could not believe the custom artwork designed in his house. He is a great guy, and to put him down is unnecessary. TMZ needs to find better things to talk about than my friend. So you find a bad picture of Taran and Paris Hilton has nothing to talk about. It's pathetic that you come to Sherman Oaks and go through someone's home. TMZ is truly pathetic to go through someone's property. You should be ashamed.

Posted at 3:17AM on Jul 18th 2007 by cessa

82. He looks crazy enough to be Britney's next baby daddy!

Posted at 9:35AM on Jul 19th 2007 by redhed

83. in seriously got a nasty email with regards 2 my posts on this article saying"please stop butchering me"and insulting my writing.baring in mind how many comments on this post tahgt r favorable 2 taran r from 'freinds of taran"or "people who visited the house"i think they may be all from TARAN HIMSELF including the nasty email i got,well guess wat who ever sent me it wat i said was true 80S ACTORS HAD NO TALENT!!! GET OVER IT!

Posted at 10:00AM on Jul 18th 2007 by todd lissner anti adult anti wholesomeness activist(kadintodd2@aol.com)

84. Nothing like a bitch scorned....... He's lucky to be alive from the looks of it.

Posted at 5:01PM on Jul 18th 2007 by blacklab

85. What goes around, always WILL and DOES come around -- I hope he gets that now.
Usher needs to be paying attention to this...

Posted at 10:07AM on Jul 18th 2007 by Chillib

86. no way that house is worth a million even if it wasn't trashed. And i doubt he really cares what happens to the house if he didn't even care 2 pay the mortgage. Nice guy or not- loser 4 letting that happen to any kind of home.

Posted at 10:30AM on Jul 18th 2007 by felixluv

87. The house is worth a million because that's what someone paid for it in the foreclosure auction last February.

As for TMZ going through Taran's property: they didn't. After you lose your home to foreclosure it is no longer your property.

I'm sure all the neighbors are happy that there won't be all those vegan freaks around any more.

Posted at 4:31PM on Jul 18th 2007 by Sherman Oaks

88. I really feel sorry for him. No matter what he did in the past, I hope he`ll get all the help he needs at the moment. I am praying for him, just as my bitch Britney told me to do.

Posted at 6:52AM on Jul 19th 2007 by ohyeahbaby

89. This house was so beautiful before he bought it. It was one of the nices houses I had ever been in, four bed rooms, three large family rooms, a guest house and an in door hot tub, a perfectly landscaped yard with small fruit trees and tall statues around the pool. This is disgusting! Why isn't this a crime? This breaks my heart.

Posted at 2:49PM on Jul 18th 2007 by mom

90. Guess he should have listened to his parents, who warned him against marrying.

Posted at 3:17PM on Jul 18th 2007 by Vicky

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