Family Gets Mortgage Paid for a Year

November 9, 2010  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on November 10, 2010

Winning the National Home Furnishings Month Mortage Sweepstakes will help a family transplanted to Texas for three years keep their Louisiana home until they return.

Nancy Tassin won the grand prize in the National Home Furnishings Month sweepstakes--a year's worth of mortgage payments--sponsored by World Market Center Las Vegas. She was randomly selected from 106,192 entries in the sweepstakes, which ran Sept. 1-30.

When her husband, Bill Tassin, was transferred to Austin, Texas, from Lafayette, La., he and his family knew they would return to their hometown in three years. While they did not want to sell their Pelican State dream home, the family wondered how they would keep up mortgage payments while living out of state.

"Times have been tough for us and winning the sweepstakes will definitely help alleviate some of our financial pressures," Nancy Tassin said. "My family moved to Austin when my husband was transferred for work to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Ike and it has been a difficult transition. We have three daughters, one of whom is a senior in high school who had to leave childhood friends behind and I have not been able to find a job."

In addition to entering the sweepstakes online, participants had the opportunity to enter through more than 700 participating retailers nationwide, which included 178 Ashley Home Stores. Austin-based retailer, Gage Furniture Co. Inc. was an active retailer in this year's campaign with the highest amount of consumers entering the sweepstakes through their store's on-line page.

"We would like to extend our congratulations to Nancy and her family as we are incredibly excited to be able to offer a year's worth of mortgage payments," said World Market Center President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Maricich. "We hope this prize will give her the financial freedom to pursue the dreams she has always had for her home."

Also as part of the "Is It Home Yet" National Home Furnishings Month campaign, Facebook fans had the opportunity to win prizes by sharing their stories about their personal home design projects. Three winners were chosen based on their story and won a digital picture frame courtesy of World Market Center Las Vegas.