Have you seen this news story??? Talk about being nice!!
From the Associated Press:
Texas Samaritan buys woman her house at auction
DALLAS (AP) — A woman distraught over losing her house showed up to watch it auctioned off, but that wasn't the end of the story. Tracy Orr will return home after a stranger bought the house back for her Saturday.
"It means so much to all of us," Orr said. "It's not just a house."
Marilyn Mock said she decided on the spot to buy the house after striking up a conversation with a sobbing Orr at the auction Saturday. Mock was there to help her 27-year-old son bid on a house.
Mock successfully bid $30,000 for Orr's house in Pottsboro. Orr will make payments to her once the deal is finalized.
"She needed help. That was it," Mock said. "I just happened to be there, and anybody else would have done the same thing."
Orr bought the house for $80,000 in 2004 but lost her job a month after taking out the loan. She fell behind on her payments and lost the house this year — an increasingly common story across the nation.
"She didn't even know if I had a job or was a nut case," Orr said in the Wednesday online edition of The Dallas Morning News. "She didn't even see a picture of the house."
The two are waiting on final approval from mortgage giant Fannie Mae before visiting the home. Mock's son also bought a house at the auction.
Friday, October 31, 2008
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5 comments:
I saw this on CNN - such a great story! Makes me wish I had an extra $30,000 around to do the same!
I have to keep reminding myself of a quote attributed to Mother Teresa - "We cannot all do great things, but we can all do small things with great love"... or something like that ;-)
I love that people can do "big" things, but I also try to remember to keep a couple of spare bucks for the street people that are always at the exit of our Wal-Mart.
I have to keep reminding myself of a quote attributed to Mother Teresa - "We cannot all do great things, but we can all do small things with great love"... or something like that ;-)
I love that people can do "big" things, but I also try to remember to keep a couple of spare bucks for the street people that are always at the exit of our Wal-Mart.
That's a good one! I love this story, and I hope I can do stuff like this for people some day...
I wish there were more people like Marilyn around. Wouldn't the world be a much nicer place?
I am wondering if I would do a thing like that. In all honesty - probably not. But I wish I would. I hope I would - could!, when confronted with such a situation.
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