At the Thanksgiving Family Raffle, I Drew a $1.2 Million Mortgage

When I drew the raffle that stuck me with a $126,000 mortgage, my whole family laughed. My own brother even forced me to sign an agreement to pay it off. What they didn't know was that this would become the key step in getting the house back. Later, they knelt on the ground and begged me to forgive them just this once, for the sake of family. I said it calmly. "The moment you set me up, I stopped having a family."