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Ivan, there must be a neighborhood association or a group of irate citizens you could join. In addition to this there are usually lawyers who will accept these cases. Even court appointed lawyers do not want to lose this type of case. I live in Texas and therefore do not know much about the inner workings of Maine, but somewhere, somehow there are methods to fight this. Someone there should help you look for them. Texas has its troubles but not without some kind of solution or method of fighting back. Do you have a neighborhood association. If this foolishness has been fought and the case lost i don't know how much more effort a neighbor association would put into it, but there has to be something that can be done. Good Luck , Nita Ivan M Suzman wrote: > Dear friends, > > How unimaginably strange that on Martin Luther King Day, a single PWP > who is a former MLK Holiday Committee Chairman is being threatened by > foreclosure and loss of his PD-adapted home, because of his current > insufficient income. That former MLK Chairperson (1985-1986) is me . > > I am fighting the corporation lawyers of the City of Portland,Maine. I am > trying to be recognized as eligible for a poverty abatement of my > property taxes and my sewer " availability " fees. (The sewer line was > put in on my road 7 years ago, but I meanwhile am one of 111 homeowners > with a nearly new septic system which pre-dates the sewer line back to > 1983, and which works perfectly).I pay to maintain my septic, but the > City in 1995 started charging us non-users for the sewer's potential > availability. I can't afford this unnecessary bill. > > The Maine poverty abatement law recognizes "infirmity" as a basis for > abatement (lowering the amount due) of both taxes and sewer. > > Any comments would be appreciated. The City of Portland has scheduled > dispossession of my home on Feb 18. > > I have been trying to get an attorney who will listen to me for 18 > months, still unsuccessfully. > > Not one wants to take on City Hall. > > Thank you for your comments, > > I AM STRESSED! > Ivan Suzman 49/39/36