Jumpin Jersey Mike’s Very Personal Blog Part 2

[symple_spacing size=”80″]To update everyone the first deadline to pay the property taxes has passed and unless I can come up with the money before the Delinquent Property Tax Sale, December 2nd, I will have to sell my house before then. Which is not the end of the world although it might be that I can not keep my dog, Joey. He is a Dalmatian and weighs about 50 pounds, a bit too big for an apartment. He is my muse and helps me cope with all that is happening. It will break my heart if I can not keep him.

Another problem is that I do not have any savings left at all. I used what I had to pay my bills until I nothing left. My philosophy is to pay my bills in full and now that I can not it kind of makes me feel bad. While I do sell items on Ebay and make a small amount of money doing that, it is not always enough to pay the bills. I have had two part time jobs in the last three years, both during the holidays. It seems to me that there are very few jobs open to me that I can do.

I have chondromalacia of the patella (in both knees) which limits what jobs I can take. The knee cartilage is damaged and looks like crab meat. And with the job market the way it is most of the jobs are part time and are low paying. Oh well, I am not the only one who has problems. Many others have worse problems, yet I feel like the odd man out. This is because I am a single male without children I seem to fall between the cracks of a government system that is really designed for those who have a spouse and/or children. I have had to fight to get help paying my gas and electric bill, even though I should have gotten it because I was on SNAP (Food Stamps). And I did not go on SNAP until about 18 months ago. It is not something I wanted to do until I was forced to.

With the way things are I will no money to pay for the security deposit for an apartment nor be able to put a down payment on a house. Right now I am seriously considering moving to Delaware. Their property taxes are about one third that of what I am paying and the price of houses are very low for what you get. I really would like to stay here in New Jersey, in this house if at all possible somehow, but unless a miracle happens I will more than likely have to move to Delaware. With no savings it will be next to impossible until I receive the money from the sale of my house and pay the delinquent property taxes along with any other bills that I have not paid.

Not paying is not in my blood and it does make me feel very low. Even taking the little help that I get from the government is hard for me. The system is screwed up and needs to be fixed. What is needed is a nonprofit agency that knows the ins and outs of the system to help people get the help they need.

Please if any one knows of a program that helps people like me with paying property taxes, leave me a message via the comments. No one else will see what you wrote to me unless you say that is OK. I have looked all over and there is nothing, yet in New York they will suspend the property tax in special cases. Isn’t New Jersey wonderful that way!

I could say to all of you reading this that please donate money to me to help me stay in my family home, it was built for my parents. Instead of that please reach out and help those who you know need help and give your time or money or both to a non profit agency that is helping people like me. Let those who can help; help. And those who don’t, well it could be you in this situation.

That is my opinion – Jumpin Jersey Mike
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