article_snippet: Robertson was recently able to move out of Robertson Detroit neighborhood to a suburb with the more than $360,000 in donations Robertson received in a crowdfunding campaign that started out as a means to purchase the 56-year-old a car.
article_snippet: Robertson used to walk eight hours to work every day, but now has a car, new home, and some money for retirement thanks to a kind crowd-funding campaign.
article_snippet: Pictured above on March 4, cleaning the 56-year-old a car .
article_snippet: Robertson pictured above cleaning at Robertson new home in Troy, Michigan on March 3 .
article_snippet: In this Tuesday March 3, 2015 photo, Robertson, left, shows Charlie Purtan Levenson, 13, how to properly swing a baseball bat while Robertson was visiting Robertson with Robertson mother and others at Robertson's new apartmen .
article_snippet: Robertson said Robertson was going to give me $50,000 to fix up the house,' Robertson told the Free-Press, adding: 'James was not a neat person; James got grease all over the wall' in the apartment James rented from James for 15 years.
article_snippet: The 56-year-old gained celebrity after the newspaper reported earlier this year that Robertson began walking to a job at an auto parts factory when Robertson car stopped working in 2005 and bus service was cut back.
article_snippet: Robertson pictured above hitting the pavement on Robertson old 21-mile walk to work .
article_snippet: a buy a new car led to $360,000 eventually being raised and Robertson receiving a new, $35,000 Ford Taurus from an auto dealership.
article_snippet: People have stepped up because Robertson is unselfish and deserving, Sorensen said. '
highlights_snippet: James Robertson, 56, used to walk eight hours to get to James Robertson $10.55/hour job .
  