Hi Honey, Sorry it's been so long. I just haven't been able to face much more than the immediate nightmare of having our life unravel. And I'm sure the market tanking hasn't made it any easier ... You couldn't have expressed it better. Mom's kind and generous life-long plan for our future was for me to rent her home in order to have a good income to live off of, she wanted there to be a wonderful, kind, fair, understanding, trustee to help me take care of all of the hardest of things, but when she realized how much the taxes were going to be and that we would have to sell the house she decided I wouldn't be able to afford one. Thank God she made me create paperwork documenting this. I never thought I would have to use it. I just thought we were all friends and would just work it out and my lawyer/friend would work with me, taking my wants and needs into consideration, and charge a fair fee for his time and effort. I felt safe for about a month, until I realized that I was doing all of the work, and then he quit and handed us over to a man my Mom would have flipped out if she had realized would have come in, paid himself first, and done nothing for us. He literally didn't have any documentation re. bills paid for the "estate" to provide us with for the money he took. He left me hanging in the wind. It was so awful honey, I can't even begin to describe it. Our money would come in and then he would take it and make us fight to get a small portion of it, certainly not enough to pay all of the bills, so I had to take out loans, the last thing Mom would have wanted me to do. This was right when the market crashed, Scott lost his house, and we had to clean out Mom's house to list it, and credit was impossible to get so I had to take interest only loans at a very high rate of interest -- hard money loans, that still took ages to get, and these, along with the tax burden, will eat up almost everything we get for the house we are just now listing for the second time. Please pray for us B. We so need it. We have been living beyond our means for so long, it's hard to learn how to life differently, but I know I can do it. Most of what I waste money on is stuff I buy for other people. I just love to make people happy but I need to put Beau and Scott, my family, first. I just have to keep focusing on this. We are about to sign contracts with brokers and even that is torturous, trying to figure out who the best broker is, who will fight the hardest for us, get us the fairest prices. Thank God for Scott. He has saved our lives here with his good advice and all of the hard work he has done for us. I hope you're happy and well. I've missed you and all of my other friends here. Poor Live Journal it seems like all of the other sites like My Space, Facebook, and now Twitter have just so completely eclipsed us. I wonder what Brad got for the sale. Okay me go. So much to do and all I've been able to respond to here so far have been three comments posted six months ago... so sad. love You, Jac
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