Hi there,

My name is Jennifer and I need some help. I didn't want to do this because my dad raised me to do things on my own and not rely on anyone, and that's how I've tried to live all 55 years of my life. But my son said that's the exact reason I should be here on GoFundMe asking for help from the community. That it's for when you've tried your best on your own and for whatever reasons, your best just didn't get you to the finish line. That is where I am at currently, thanks to several different situations that combined to make a perfect storm of me being in the great probability of losing the home that I not only grew up in and have lived my whole life in, but also had my time in this house as a loving family and as a single mother, raising my 2 kids in this same house.

I inherited this house when my father passed away back in 2014. I need $13,000 before Nov 30th at the latest, to get the tax lien off the house and pay the back property taxes that have accumulated over the past several years. I have become sicker and sicker and was finally declared disabled last year after applying for disability back 7 years ago. The government told me that I wasn't sick enough to qualify even though I have heart issues, pulmonary edema (that has me on oxygen), my vision keeps going in and out without explanation, lipo-lymphedema (which drastically affects my mobility so much so that I am now wheelchair-bound if I want to move more than 10 feet and then I have to use a walker to walk those 10 feet), severe arthritis in most of my major joints, as well as type 2 diabetes.

There are a few reasons that I got behind on my property taxes. The part-time job I was trying to work at home let me go in Jan 2022, and I had no luck trying to find work that I could do at home that could still be done around my disabilities. It would be another 2 years before I would be approved for Disability. I've tried to catch up on everything that all of this put me behind, but my credit score was destroyed by not working and the horrific delay by SSI, and so I am not able to get any kind of loan, even using my house's equity or as collateral.

I am on my own here in this house now, except for a caretaker that comes 3 days a week, since my daughter is out on her own at college and my son is doing his own schooling. I want to keep the house all their childhood memories are built on and so they have a place to come back to when they are on breaks from school and holidays. So I pray that you can find it in your heart to help me keep my house. Thank you!!

Much Gratitude,

Jennifer