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Paul i suggested the same thing about three weeks ago, and sent a post to the list but I don't know if it ever got there. You can count me in, just let me know where to send it. Phyllis http://www.outa-sight.com At 08:44 PM 11/22/1999 -0500, you wrote: >Dear list: Ivan responded on 11/22 @ 12:35:07 AM to a question asking for >specifics of his problem. If you did not delete before reading, you noted >that his problem is even deeper than he has been discussing because the tax >bill which is the subject of his foreclosure is the 1997-98 tax bill and if >he solves that he faces a similar problem next December with his 1998-99 tax >bill ad infinitum ad nauseum. There have been a number of posts with >solutions which could have merit. Suggestions have included bankruptcy, >equity mortgage, reverse mortgage, obtaining a pro bono attorney to fight for >him from one of the groups (ethnic, sexual preference) of which he is a >member. No one has suggested that he take in a boarder to augment his income >but perhaps that is also possible. While a number these might be possible, >none seem particularly probable in the time remaining. So, I propose the >following: that among 1800 members of this list there is more than enough >financial muscle and presumably more than enough sympathy and perhaps even >empathy to solve the problem for the short term, meaning for this year. That >would give Ivan an entire year to solve next year's problem utilizing one of >the extant suggestions or some other solution. If 145 of us sent $10, that >would do it. I will start by contributing $25 and I would like to ask Barb or >Janet by means of this e-mail if either of them would be willing to be the >"collection agent" who receives the checks and mails them to Ivan once the >drive is complete. I understand fully that I am probably violating some tenet >of the list with this proposal and I don't plan to ever make a similar one >again. I have, however, over time developed a certain comfort level with many >people on the list and I feel reasonably certain that there are enough people >who won't let ceremony or even some sense of outraged propriety stand in the >way of assisting a fellow pwp who obviously needs the assistance. There but >for the grace..... > >Paul H. Lauer >