Hi kind & generous people of the world!!!
In advance may I say, I have never used this site or similar before.
I am truly humbled, to be pleading here, but it’s the eleventh hour and my false pride is quickly turning to panic!
If you are still reading, I will do my utmost to let you know everything I can imagine you would like to know about me and my current situation.
I am a 60yr old grandmother of the most gorgeous, 5 year old twin granddaughters.
They live in Adelaide, South Australia with my daughter, her husband, his brother & their other grandparents… all on the one block, although in separate dwellings.
I, on the other hand, live on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia.
So we’re separated by 1,000’s of miles, myself north-east & my girls, smack back in the centre, bottom of Australia.
In March 2020, we lost my nephew, who I’d raised as my own. My daughter & nephew were as close & jealous as brother and sister.
A few months later, my daughter went into premature labour and was raced to surgery on her recently passed, cousin’s birthday 😢 His birthday is now shared with our twin girls!
My granddaughters are my miracles & help me bear with my grief that is inexplicable. They keep me on this Earth, despite my multiple mental & physical health issues, making it a struggle at times.
I fell behind in quite a few bills, but the most outstanding is a AUD $14,000 Strata Bill. I live in a gated community, and if you’re not familiar, each quarter we are charged Strata Fees that include the Administration & Management by a seperate entity & the other is a Sinking Fund which is there to pay for everything & anything related to the ‘Common Property/Areas,’ of the complex.
The one question I asked when I bought this property was the amount of these fees, which were $60 a week. I could afford that on my pension.
Some time after moving in, it was revealed that 3 of the townhouses were sinking and we had to raise, $700,000. My Strata Levies have quadrupled.
I have 12 hours to come up with the outstanding levies or the Strata Management’s solicitor is going to claim my home, by court order.
I have the emails & letters containing the correct terminology/references/legal jargon!
I have prayed, begged and asked my nephew & grandmother who have passed, to PLEASE HELP ME GET THROUGH THIS!!!
I am really looking for a miracle, I know, with the clock ticking away.
Throughout my life and despite the adversity sent my way, I have always managed to plough ahead, or if I lost my footing, it wouldn’t be long before I’d dust myself off and get straight back into it.
I’ve had to. I’m the eldest of three children, and I’ve had to look after them and my mother as well. We came from Ireland when I was six, and that’s just what you do when you’re the eldest.
I survived horrific abuse that I shared at the Royal Commission into Childhood abuse. Sadly, my sister never recovered from what we endured, developing schizophrenia, which is why I ended up raising her gorgeous son.
I don’t know how she keeps going, I’ve not met another person survive so much tragedy, God bless her!
That’s another beautiful thing about my twin granddaughters, they are the spitting image of my sister & I at a time when life was all about faeries and Santa was still real. What is still real is the deep love we have for each other?
I have tried my absolute not to sink, but to swimm againsttge tide and tread water.
I have finally secured a fantastic flatmate, after a bit of herroundous learning curve.
I am also studying interior design to better myself and my property as I wish to help with my granddaughters lives, education & milestones. And I desperately want to leave what I’ve created, as in my home, and whatever I can add to it, to my daughter & twin granddaughters.
I do have other outstanding bills that I am working on, but if there is anyone or any group of people that could possibly help me, I will use every penny to fight on and save my home.
Please consider me, I do not have any other family or friends to turn to.
I still have much to offer. I haven’t finished giving back to the world.
I know I survived some horrific abuse very young, that was meant to break me, but it didn’t. And I know is I have to get my act together to advocate for the vulnerable, who are suffering this very day.
I pleadge that whatever help that comes my way, WILL BE PAID FORWARDTO MY UTMOST ABILITY.
Please have faith in me. I am a survivor and have beaten Cancer twice.
If I have touched your heart in anyway, please, I beg you, consider my plight.
May your day be blessed and joy fill your heart.
All my love, Julz
Should you wish to assist, please go to, PayPal.me@JulietDouglasNow