A pair of anonymous good Samaritans write checks to cover two elderly Tampa men’s property insurance rate increases. A pair of elderly Tampa residents were featured on local news earlier this month talking about their property insurance premiums going up $2-thousand a year. “I can’t afford this,” one of the men, Lonnie Brown tells the reporter. “We barely get by with bills anyway and this comes up. We do not have the money to do that.” The men were in danger of losing their homes over the price increases.
Viewers were moved by the story and the station was inundated with messages supporting Brown and the other elderly homeowner, Tad Buel. But two viewers in particular were so moved that they felt they needed to do something to help the men.
Earlier this week, the station’s investigative reporter Mahsa Saeid met up with the men at their respective homes. She presented each of them with a check to cover the increases in their insurance premiums. The grateful men were moved to tears. “I am without words,” Buel says. “This dropping on my lap is overwhelming and I thank you, and I thank them.”
Source: WFLA