Headline Of The Week Weak
"Woman wins house in raffle after husband laid off"
Because we all need some good news like this these days! CLICK HERE to read the article accompanying this headline.
Woman wins house in raffle after husband laid off
Susan Wells was thrilled to learn she'd won a $2 million house in a raffle days after her husband had been laid off from his job. "I'm floored," said Wells, who bought the ticket as a surprise to celebrate the couple's 16th anniversary. "I can't believe this has happened. Needless to say, my husband is very surprised."
The house is in upscale Marin County, just north of San Francisco. The couple already own a home in Danville, a suburb south of San Francisco, and if they don't want to move they have the option of $1.2 million in cash.
They're still deciding what do, but Brad Wells, who had been a sales executive for a Silicon Valley high-tech company, said the winnings are definitely a boost.
"I got laid off on Wednesday and the company went bankrupt on Friday," he said. The couple got word of their win on Saturday. "It's been a really rough ride for the last year. This gives us an unbelievable lift."
The raffle was held by Community Action Marin, which netted about $1.3 million, down from $2 million last year, the first time the event was held.
"In this economy, we're still very pleased," said Russ Hamel, director of development for the group, a private social services organization.
There were 29,000 tickets sold and prizes in addition to the dream house included $200,000 in cash.
Susan Wells said the couple is celebrating by having dinner with their neighbors.
"We're bringing a very good bottle of champagne," she said.
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Headline of the week? Dude, you're FUCKING old with reporting this shit. This was reported on Yahoo! exactly 1 week ago.
Good for them!
…and then she let that oddity with the 8 babies move in. 'Goodbye To Love'.
who cares
I hop, after moving into a $2 million neighborhood, they decorate their yard with pink flamingos, gnomes and gazing yard balls.
aww
Wall of text!
Not reading.
Nice/Next!
Good for them….What good luck she had.
WOOPTEE DOO………
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I THOUGHT THIS SITE WAS FOR "CELBRITY NEWS ~ NOT FROM CONCENTRATE".
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THIS WAS A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME EVEN CLINKING THIS LINK…
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OOPS… I MEANT "CELEBRITY".
DAMN FAKE FINGERNAILS…
The funny thing is that a $2 million dollar house isn't that big or that nice there. The median house prices there are around $1 million.
Here is Headline of the Weak - Perez accepts money to advertise The Hills as the background on his homepage today - but continues to rip into Lauren every chance he gets. Maybe you should remember that next time you send you rent check in…. Dumbass hypocrite.
octomom is jealous.
This is SO old.
That's what you need to do - possibly take possession of a $2 million home that you have to pay a ton of taxes on after your husband gets laid off. TAKE THE MONEY!
awww thats sweet
so perez, you are happy to hear well-off people are winning raffle and be able to keep their fancy homes?! this couple has 2 homes in the bay area.. marin and danville….! i'm sure they can still survive this financial tsunami w/o the raffle since they have TWO homes.
i lost my job. lost my home. lost my stock portfolio. and didn't win the raffle. but i move on. i don't think this story would make to the headline of the week for it's a "happy" news. i think this only shows how the rich is getting richer and poor is getting poorer.
wow! what a blessing!
Re: asuka_eva02 –
Thats bitter grapes if I ever heard it. Ill join your pity party.
My mom was laid off and so was my dad my brother and I are now supporting them. And my dad is diabetic so things cost even more…medications etc
and we are both in college. The difference is we both now have two part time jobs. Posting on this BS gossip site is the only solace I have from worrying about supporting my own parents at the age of 21.
Since you lost your job you have plenty of time to be on Perez Hilton and practice your grammar. On the plus side I mean.
…because they can't get a job and actually pay for their house themselves like the rest of us have to.
Well. . Danville is a VERY wealthy part of the East Bay, I love it!. . So im sure they are well off. . they should give it to someone less fortunate. . bt we all know thats not going to happen!
So AWESOME! I loved reading that! Thank you Perez for sharing it!
8D
Perez this was on AOL last week. And the article has been recycled about 5 times since then. Sad when AOL beats you to a story!
That's wonderful! Good for them.
That's good news.
It might be old news, but I'm onto the next Raffle and gonna knock it out. $2mil YOW in NoCal also! Same thing goes at sacramentoraffledotcom. Me and perez'll be sippin' latte's together. Did you guys see the odds?