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A happy holiday group gathers on the front porch of the 2016 List n' Sell Realty holiday giveaway home.
The TruthAbout “Home for the Holidays” Giveaways IS A HOUSE REALLY THE ULTIMATE STOCKING STUFFER, AND FOR WHOM?
by Carole VanSickle Ellis
he Christmas season is filled with “feel-good” moments and, thanks to social media, we all share in just a few more of them than we used to with the onslaught of viral and would-be viral videos that hit our newsfeeds starting in mid-October and holding strong and steady until the New Year's fireworks fade. Perhaps among the most heart- warming images that has come online recently and in increasing number is that of a brand-new homeowner receiving the keys to their brand-new home, courte- sy of a local housing advocacy group, church raffle, or, increasingly often, a warm-hearted real estate investor. “We did it for the first time in 2016 because we just felt like it was a great thing to do,” explained Toledo, Ohio, in- T
now, put it, is better for everyone. The same individual told a local publication that the opportunity to give away a new home is “truly a miracle” and, “We’re all crying when it happens because it’s just a beautiful thing.” In other cases, the raffle route is the way to go. For example, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital has par- ticipated in the KTBS3/St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway since 1991, when the program’s first “dream home” was constructed in Shreveport, Louisiana
vestor Engelo Rumora, whose company, List n’ Sell Realty, coordinated efforts among local professionals to obtain, renovate, furnish, and eventually give away a north Toledo property. “We had no hidden agenda, and we didn’t have a raffle, either,” Rumora added. Some organizations use the prize of a new home as an incentive to help fundraise for other goals, but most of the groups who repeat the process more than one or two years seem to find that evalu- ating applicants and awarding a “deserv- ing family,” as an executive administrator for Virginia company Nexus Services, a family of companies dedicated to provid- ing legal services and advocacy for com- munities in crisis and which has given away a home for three consecutive years
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Carole VanSickle Ellis is the editor of Think Realty Magazine. She can be reached at cellis@thinkrealty.com.
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