WOODSTOCK, Ga. — A family in Woodstock, who just lost their home of 20 years to foreclosure and are preparing to move out, lost even more on Wednesday.
And it was because of what they triggered when they posted a craigslist ad Tuesday night.
Their online post was just a well-meaning ad for a giveaway in their driveway outside the small house, a giveaway scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
But big crowds showed up and ended up taking practically everything inside the house, too.
Wednesday night, Michael Vercher walked 11Alive’s Jon Shirek through his family’s almost empty soon-to-be former home.
“Well, when we got to the house, I mean, pretty much — this,” he said as he stepped from the foyer into the living room.
Their home — ransacked, ravaged, raked over.
Almost everything inside — gone.
He spoke of how they took family keepsakes, all their clothes and shoes — everything but a few books left scattered across the carpet.
Vercher’s fiancee, Dana Lamanac, said they took her guitars, which were gifts from her father.
“There’s two guitars that really mean a lot to me,” Lamanac said. “They were my dad’s, and that’s irreplaceable to me. That’s really the only thing I want back. I hope somebody has enough courage and respect for other people to bring the stuff back. I mean it’s like the only thing he gave to me. It really means a lot to me.”
About all he has, now, is a request — a request of those who were inside:
“Lived in this house for 20 years, my whole life,” he said. “It’s our family home. We have to get out because of the foreclosure. We don’t have much and now we have even less. You’d like to think there’s good people. I mean, I hope they would have a good enough heart to bring our stuff back. We don’t hold any grudges against them, we just want our stuff back. I mean, some of that stuff is irreplaceable.”
No questions asked, he said.
The family will also be looking at online ads to see if anyone is now trying to sell their keepsakes.
Vercher, his sister, their mother, and his fiancee have to be out of the house by Nov. 6. They are moving temporarily into the basement of his grandmother’s house in Woodstock.
Vercher said that anyone who would like to contact the family about their belongings can email him at
mr.mykul@gmail.com.
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