A feel-good story out of Missoula, Montana, where dozens of mobile homes were about to be go to auction due to back taxes owed. One day before the auction, a kind stranger made a surprise visit to the county clerk's office and
paid up:
“A gentleman showed up at my office at 8:30 this morning and wanted to take care of it,” said Annie Cathey, the county’s delinquent tax clerk who’s in charge of the annual auction.
Cathey said the Missoula man, who requested anonymity, saw an article about the pending auction in Tuesday’s Missoulian. He paid some $9,600 of the back taxes, interest and fees owed on between 30 to 40 homes, she said.
And although the anonymous donor saved these homes this year, it won't be an annual thing:
The donor “did want to make it clear that this is just a one-time charitable contribution that he wanted to step in and take care of,” she said. “It’s not like something that will happen every year. The county’s only concern is we don’t want people to think this is something that would normally take place.”
Three cheers for the kind-hearted stranger who saved these homes!