Comments on: Katrina Donation Flipped For Profit

'Take It Up With God!' Says Recipient Of Free House Donated By Church

[themooniac]

What classy people, scaming a church. How pitiful, the lowest of the low.

I feel bad for those that donated for that house. I do not feel bad that they made such a big deal out of donating it and it blew up in their faces.

[ms38654ob]

Two takes on this story.

1. From their side, if everything they said is true, I don't blame them a bit for not wanting to move into that neighborhood in Memphis, especially if they have teenage children. It's very high crime and loaded with gang activity. Best to sell out, take the money and go back to where they came from.

2. From a non-member of their church: The church got exactly what they deserved. No good deed goes unpunished. They didn't do their homework and got screwed for their efforts. Too bad so sad.

Next time, be more careful. Idiots, the lot.

[sueneely]

The Lord knows the way of the righteous...the way of the ungodly is not fun to think about.
Let the Lord rule on this but let's just say" I wouldn't want to be in their..um..house".

[kozanne]

"If it's the issue of a profit being made, the gift was given, once the gift is given, it's at the hands of the one who has the gift now in hand to do with it, what they want!"

That's right, they can do whatever they want, even if it was NOT the right thing to do. Jesus talked about that in the Gospels, too.

I know what I would have done, and it would not have been what they did. But that's okay, let's see if anyone can find out where these folks ended up a year from now. They will reap what they have sown.

[cantshutup]

lol...sounds like karma for all christians!

so if I sell my christmas gifts is everyone of you going to get mad and call it illegal?

[bigreddog222]

My question is did they live in FEMA provided housing while they owned the home that they could have moved into? Isn't that breaking the law?

If their story was true then the house was theirs to do with what they wanted.

If they lied, they deserve to be convicted!

[emortimer]

ketch65 has it right.

My question is this... who's to say they are bad guys? Why criticize them? Who's to say they weren't homeless, or weren't in need?

Even if they were, why MUST they live there? What if there were strings attached? Did church members make them their "special project"? Did they drop by every other day checking in on them, asking them to come to church etc?

Even if not, even if it was a really nice place, nice church, etc, who's to say the family's calling to go HOME, is bad? And, shouldn't the church be happy? Perhaps that $75,000 home, sold for more, will now enable that family to rebuild their own home or buy a new home AT HOME, where family is, where heart is. The money isn't necessarily wasted... perhaps now the value of that money has doubled by allowing them the grace to go home without struggle.

[karateman39]

The chruch should have done a more thorough check on who they were giving the house to. I don't know if they did this or not but if they didn't that's their own fault. In this day and age it's sad that a chrusch would need to do sucha thing.

As far as the woman flipping hte house, it's her perogative. The story doesn't go into much detail but if, after living in the house for a few months, she/they found it wasn't to their liking it is perfectly within their right to sell.

This all assumes the house was obtained in good fiath in the first place.