I like to think I can juggle with the best, but sometimes the deadlines just stack up the wrong way. I can’t see any loopholes to slide through this time, so I need to ask the community for some stopgap help.
I joined Daily Kos eight years ago. Had zero interest in the hair-on-fire I/P & rox/sux diaries, but Morning Feature was a draw and a safe, fascinating intro to the good side of blogging on The Great Orange Satan and I became a regular Krew member for, what three years & change? Fun times.
Some of you know that I’ve been fighting the unlawful seizure of my horses & other animals for five years, (background here- www.dailykos.com/....). We won part of my appeal last month, (the four mares who were taken from properties without warrants were supposed to come home, but Lincoln County is fighting that, too, damn their eyes). The other part has been submitted to the Oregon Supreme Court. Which would be another year or more, if they decide to accept it, (my attorney thinks they will).
The owners of the animal rescue that rented the barns after my horses were stolen have had a series of significant health & financial issues and were scrambling to keep their animals fed, so they fell way behind on rent and we ended up losing that section of the farm to foreclosure in May, (the 6 month buffer ends next month).
It had been seriously underwater since 2008, I’d wrestled with the loan servicer & held them off for two years because they’d ignored the procedures they were supposed to use for Freddy Mac loans and just flat skipped serving the notice of foreclosure. But eventually I had to let it go because there are only 24 hours in a day and while I consider myself pretty tough, I can’t do all of my work and all of my stepmother’s as well, even I have limits. ::sigh::
So now we have to move over to the undeveloped side of the farm, which has no mortgage, but also has no potable water source, (or buildings aside from one cattle barn) and a property tax bill of about $3,200 that’s due by the 20th. We have most of that, we’re less than $1,200 short to clear it, (county says it can’t be broken into payments, it’s a lump sum only). I have an RV that I’ll probably park in a senior park nearby for my step mother, her dog
& a cat or two. There’s another that I’ll put on the property and stay in myself to keep an eye on things, (stuff disappears, otherwise). The other pooties will have to get used to smaller quarters, but we will be a very warm lump!
But there’s the problem of where to store everything from the house & other barns, (the Oregon coast is very hard on anything left outside). Rental storage for the furniture, what few antiques are left plus tools & equipment would be prohibitive, ($450-650/month), what people around here generally do is buy used cargo containers and set them on gravel or concrete, above standing water. The best bid I found, delivered, is just under $3K, ($2872), (which would be rental storage for 5-6 months, so the payback’s pretty quick).
Haven’t gotten the bid for the gravel yet, and there’s a time issue for that, if the ground is already soggy it takes about 3x as much rock as it does if it’s laid while the ground is still firm, (it is so far, we’ve had some rain, but it’s not saturated, yet). And I need to put one culvert in the driveway that crosses to the woods so the spring there doesn’t flood it out all winter, (never mattered before).
So what I’m humbly requesting from the community is assistance in clearing the property tax by the 20th, (hopefully with a couple of days’ buffer), the gravel for the container foundation, (soon, before the rain sets in for real), and $2872 for the cargo container, (the company allows inspection before the sale, so I can pick from their stock & they can deliver within a week, anytime).
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