Louisiana Good-Will Raffle Crosses State Lines

Eighteen years ago, Dr. Donald G. Mack of Shreveport, LA, proposed a raffle to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The prize: a house. The idea seemed a bit far fetched, but the hospital board members were willing to give it a try and tentatively agreed to it. When it was a success, they continued with the raffle the next year and the year after that, garnering more and more attention with each drawing, until today when the raffle has stretched beyond citywide to nationwide.

Tickets for the 2008 drawing have been sold in Tennessee, New York and throughout the entire southern region of the United States. By the time the raffle ends, fund raisers expect to have accumulated more than $1.2 million dollars for St. Jude’s.

While much of the motivation is certainly based in goodwill, the house itself doesn’t hurt matters. At 42,000 square feet, it is twice the size of the home first raffled off in 1991. It has four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, a four-car garage and a value of $559,900. Built by Southern Serenity Homes, the house is located at Bristol Lane in Collierville's Wolf River Ranch subdivision. It is, to put it simply, a fabulous prefab house, and it’s being raffled for a mere $100 a ticket.

If you’re interested in participating in this amazing deal, you had better act fast. The drawing will be held on June 22 during a live TV special. That doesn’t leave you much time, so to make your name a possible winner, call 800-224-6681 or visit stjudedreamhome.org. Open houses will be held on Saturdays and Sundays until June 15. Don’t let this home or this chance to help children in need slip through your fingers. 

Pretty cool program for charity if you ask me.

Joe

Joe Cline works in Austin Texas Real Estate. If you are looking to buy, sell, or lease Austin Real Estate, it would be my pleasure to help. I also work selling Lakeway Real Estate.

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