When realtor Michelle McLean recently listed a University Place house, she met the family of renters who would have to move out. They were single mother Casmin Savare and her four sons, aged 11-18. The Savares were planning on spending nights sleeping in their car in the Walmart parking lot. Instead McLean offered the family her daughter's unused RV.
When the Savares finally found an affordable apartment near the Tacoma Mall, they figured they'd be moving into empty rooms and sleeping on the floor. But McLean used the power of social media to get 600 people to help decorate each room, fill the refrigerator and freezer with food, and even provide gift cards and driving school lessons for the older boys.
"It's amazing," said Mclean. "I don't even know some of these people".
Savare says the surprise has restored her faith in humanity.
"When you think there is no way, there is still a way," she said.
