Did TLC pay for the Duggar home?

Answer 1

TLC did not pay for the Duggar home. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar purchased a couple of commercial building kits, and worked with their family and friends to combine them into a single home. The children worked on various aspects of the home, to the point that Michelle once joked about each child getting power tools was a rite of passage.

As progress on the home slowed and some of the elements became more physically demanding, a friend of the Duggars pitched in with his crew to get push the home to completion. Some people might argue that the funds from the family reality television show "17 Kids and Counting" helped fund those efforts - but the Duggars paid for the home.