
Many people are reluctant to give anything to strangers that isn't unwanted clothes or out of fashion furniture, but Marilyn Mock has gone above and beyond in dishing out Good Samaritan deeds. When Marilyn
purchased a foreclosed home for the stranger who was watching her home being auctioned by the bank, she surprised everyone but her husband, who is used to hearing about his wife's giving tendencies. His response to the news?

The current economy has most of us in search of a magical land unaffected by high gas prices and the credit crisis. Sadly, there is no magical land, but there are places were you can stretch your dollar a little further than others. Forbes has put together a
Best and Worst Bang For the Buck list that takes into account the rank of job-growth projections, inflation, median house price, and median household income, median income and cost of living index, and gas prices.

Anyone would be beyond thrilled to call a six-bedroom Mediterranean style home their own, and former drug addict turned community charity founder Sadie Holmes was especially grateful the
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team built her a home fitting that description. While they were at it, the team built an office for Sadie's charity adjacent to her home.
Sadie was all
moved into her Florida home by February 2006, and a month later she was cleared to run a volunteer organization from her home office.
Southern California may be known for its near-perfect weather, but there's nothing sunny about the rampant foreclosures in the region. Lisa Ling and
SoCal Connected took a look at the process of getting a foreclosed home ready for the market after the family has abandoned it. She spoke with the owner of a business that removes all of a family's possessions from their home and observed what he calls a "trash out."