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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Michelle England beat cancer in 2014, but the cancer returned a few years later. She wasn’t able to work while she underwent chemotherapy and struggled to pay all of her bills. She was able to pay her mortgage, and utilities, but wasn’t able to make the car payment, so the dealership repossessed her…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
Jim Ford was sent to repossess a 1998 Buick belonging to Patty Kipping, 70, and her 82-year-old husband, Stanford. Upon arriving at their home, he discovered the Kippings were mired in debt from medical expenses and had only $30 to last until their next Social Security check. Jim set up an online fundraiser…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 77 views
Though he makes his living repossessing other people’s cars, one Illinois repo man had a change of heart and surprised an elderly couple after he took their car. Jim Ford, co-owner of Illini Asset Recovery, said that after he took an elderly couple’s car, he thought about what it would have been like…
David Krueger • Illustration • • 53 views
There was a very poor man down in West Texas in the 1930s who barely made a living on a very poor sheep farm around Odessa and Midland. His name was E. L. Yates and he was so poor that he was contemplating bankruptcy and allowing the bank to repossess his farm. He was constantly worrying about how he…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
One pastor said he recently took a 45-minute drive in an old, beat-up van with a guy He barely knew. Along the way they ended up talking about Jesus and whether this man would give his life to Christ. His response laid out humanity's resistance to the gospel with striking clarity. He said, "My biggest…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
My first attempt at home ownership almost ended in disaster. I bought a repossessed house in LaVergne, Tennessee, only to find out that everyone’s water drained into my back yard. I had never known that I had actually purchased lake front property till the spring rains came and I had to wade through…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
I suppose that all of us can look back on things that happened to us in our lives and see how foolish we were. I sure can. I remember the early 80's. Kathy and I were newly married without a lot of income, but we were absolutely determined to own a home. Let me rephrase: She wasn’t that thrilled. It…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 26 views
HUMOR FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS): I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. Police were called to a day care where a 3-yr-old was resisting a rest. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round…