Texas Woman Facing Foreclosure Auction Bailed Out By Total Stranger
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Texas Woman Facing Foreclosure Auction Bailed Out By Total Stranger
A Texas woman who was about to watch her home go on the auction block after foreclosure was bailed out by a total stranger who bought the house and gave it back to her.
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(October 29, 2008)--A Texas woman who went to an auction expecting strangers bid on her foreclosed home instead watched as another woman whom she did not know bid on the house and then gave it back to her.

Tracy Orr will remain in her Pottsboro home, making payments to the woman who unexpectedly and impulsively bought it for her.

She told Dallas TV station WFAA that Marilyn Mock's unexpected kindness "means so much to all of us."

Mock says she was acting on instinct when she decided to buy a house she had never seen for a woman she had never met.

Mock was at the foreclosure auction to help her 27-year-old son bid on a house when she struck up a conversation with Orr, who was crying about the loss of her home.

Orr bought the house for $80,000 in 2004 but fell behind on the payments.

Mock decided to buy it on the spot, ultimately bidding $30,000 to purchase the property.

Mock told a sobbing Orr she could stay in the house, and make payments to her instead of to a bank.

"Anybody else would have done the same thing,” Mock said.

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Posted by: dmg Location: waco on Oct 30, 2008 at 06:37 PM

It is nice to see a story with a happy ending.
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Posted by: anonymous Location: Austin on Oct 30, 2008 at 06:23 PM

There are angels amongst us. What a wonderful unselfish thing to do. God bless these women.
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Posted by: George Location: Temple on Oct 30, 2008 at 05:55 PM

I cant believe they let this story in the line up , it is full of good , not what you would expect from the media.. We need more like it
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