Jim McElwain Did a Really Nice Thing
That was a whale of a gesture, by Mackerelwain.
Just because I remember watching Rob Lytle and Chuck Heater play.....
That seal's it. Comment of the day!
Now get off my lawn
I'll like him even more when he calls a game winning TD in the face of a third and long blitz.
and avoids calling a running play to the TE who hasn't taken a handoff all season long
It's nice that he did this & everything, but the story makes it out like this was a huge charity case. I'm not saying the condition these kids suffer from is easy or anything, but the family has the means to spend $1.4m on a massive home. That a converted eight car garage is a "starter" apartment is kinda a joke considering it's probably larger than most people's homes.
Glad things are working out for them, but there are many people out there worse off who don't have the means to buy a place like this in the first place. What are they doing? Making it anyway.
I'm not trying to be a dick & rain on their parade, but this article came off to me as if it should have been in Rich People Magazine, where the top 1% can look at it the same as an amazing case of charity.
Yeah the tone was a little odd. They kind of just slid it past you that they were still buying a $1.4M "bargain" house, and this somehow changed their lives.
If $1.4M was all they could "scrape up", they would have still gotten a palace in Gainesville, FL with or without McElwain's help.
I had deleted 4 times saying about the same thing. The house was 1.4 Million Dollars! Lets not make this out to be more then it is. He had to get rid of a house, and took a bath on it, and it happened to be someone with a child that could use the features that were in the house. Sounds like a good deal for buyers, and McElwain got rid of a house and didn't have to keep paying taxes/insurance/payments.
Yep. Have to think that those who are complaining "But the house was $1.4M..." are petty, biased, or inexperienced with money. I could be wrong, of course, but that'd be my first guess.
This was a really generous and kind thing that the McElwains did.
McElwain and his wife gave up $400k (or something like that) to make two disabled people's lives better.
Yeah, I get that. But it was $1.8M vs. $1.4M "better". Not Mother Theresa saving a family from poverty better.
I'm not big on telling other people how they should spend their money. $400K is $400K. He found a well-off family that he liked that has non-financial challenges, and he decided to help them out. Good on him. It's his money.
But he didn't "save" that family or anything. The article is maybe a little too over the top in the tone it takes.
Shark ramps.
Being charitable =/= taking a hit.
Wealthy Person Makes Small Sacrifice So Other Wealthy Person Can Have Slightly Larger Mansion. Story at 11.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend that has prospered.
What I assume is that you're a little man with huge envy.
Tossing $400k into the wind in an act of kindness is not a small sacrifice.
you are assuming he had offers that were higher. Houses in that bracket tend to sit on the market awhile. Sometimes when money isn't really an issue for you, you take what you can get.
My last place I accepted an offer for $20,000 less than the initial listing, which was nearly 25%. Housing markets can be tricky. (I had two buyers not make it to closing.) Today's market seems a bit inflated with regard to how fast prices have gone up over the last few years. If I were selling today & received an offer in any sort of ballpark I would take it instead of holding out for the perfect price, as all it takes is one burst bubble for it to suddenly be worth less than that offer.
Unless you're a billionaire (which McElwain is not) $400k is not a "small sacrifice".
McElwain's salary this year is $300k.
Wrong. He got a $7.5M buyout from Florida (http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/11/florida_paying_jim_mcelwain_…) only 3.75M of which was payable this year, and that's before taxes (the house was bought after taxes), and his Florida contract is likely his high water mark as a coach. He's just fallen several rungs down the coaching ladder, and may or may not ever work his way back up there again. In any event, not trying to argue McElwain is a poor man, but I just don't understand the impulse to make light of what looks like a genuine act of kindness and generosity on his part. $400k is a lot of money, even to Jim McElwain.
Very nice gesture by Jim, but lets not feel too badly here. The kids' father is CEO of a medical company and bought a mansion for $1.4 million and have all the treatment and access they could ever hope for.
Dude just needs to show up to a press conference in an “I ❤️ Sharks” t-shirt and own it. He’d be my hero at that point.