Personally, I hope this story hits all the papers and some nice philanthropist bids up the price of this issue and the family gets $500,000 for their comic, or maybe the bank can buy it.
I know that’s Pollyanna-ish, but these folks needed a little miracle. A priest once told me to pray for little miracles because God likes to hear from us. It works. He said to pray for parking spaces — you’d be surprised how often that works.
Last Christmas I had no money for my property taxes and I really didn’t know what I was going to do. I was looking around for things to sell, and an unexpected check came in the mail that was exactly enough to cover the 1st installment. Also, for another miracle, the 2nd installment showwed up on time too.
If these folks had their house since the 1950s, the original mortgage would have been long since paid off.
Home equity loans are literally “betting the house”.