Prayers, Good Thoughts, Energy Sent, Pings and Comments For Jen and AJ. (Long, but worth reading)

Prayers, Good Thoughts, Energy Sent, Pings and Comments For Jen and AJ. (Long, but worth reading), I Am Posting This For Jen As She Cannot Post)

AJ and Jen D have been going through some real trials of late.   First AJ, one of our newest members to Gather has been having heart problems called an atrial flutter.  He does not have a blockage or high blood pressure or cholesterol.  But for some reason he has a flutter that is causing his heart to not beat normally and could cause a stroke or heart attack.  He is taking medications and feeling much better, with more energy but still has to pace himself and avoid stress as much as possible.

However it seems life is not giving them this break.   About three and half years ago, a man purchased property adjacent to theirs.  AJ and Jen purchased their property 10 years ago and the property lines and fences at the time of the sale were based on the original surveys of 30 years ago, with an offset for when the house was built on another's property.    The former owners that Jen and AJ purchased their home and property from had fenced and cross fenced it and used it for their horses and other livestock.   AJ and Jen also used the property for their goats and getting firewood from, hiking, picnicing and gathering wildflowers, hunting and mushrooms.  They have 24 acres.

This man purchased, site unseen and did not seem to know where the property lines and boundaries were.   He alleged that the fences put up 19 years ago were on his property. However he told his attorney that AJ and Jen put them up a year after he purchased.   

AJ and Jen live on his fixed Social Security income in the summers and he substitute teachers during the school year 4-8 days a month to help supplement and pay for their needs. However things are very tight, one being Jen has no medical insurance and cannot afford it.  This man started cutting fences and trees. Of course they protested.  But they cannot afford a survey. The other man can, both he and his wife work as teachers and as coaches.  

Apparently when the former owners put up the fence about 1 acre of the other owners property was fenced,  unknown to AJ and Jen. The former owner of the adjacent property knew it and did not protest it for 13 years after it was fenced and apparently did not inform the new owner. This is the person the new owner should be suing not AJ and Jen, this is what the district court judge told him and so did a mediator counselor, but the guy is dense or something and is pursuing the law suit against AJ and Jen instead.  

Under the state law because the property has been fenced for over 18 years it is considered adversely possessed.  As a result you cannot just go in and tear down fences without a new survey and a court mandate, Attempts were made to settle things out of court but the new owner wants none of it. The man took the law into his own hands. He kept them under surveillance for several months with camera's. He would come to their home early in the morning and harass them and he followed them to their place of worship and harassed them there for 3 weeks in a row, he called the police when their son got a legal tagged buck during hunting season, this guy lives 25 miles away from them.   

He has lied to his attorney and is suing AJ and Jen for their allegedly causing him to lose not one but two potential buyers to his property ( he bought the property during the big real estate boom which has since gone bust, with the sole idea of re-selling to another unsuspecting buyer for even higher price.)   Basically the property adjoins the county road, but has no road into it and the county said as long as it sits along the county road, they won't grant any easement or right away across our property, but it is to steep and hydrolic with natural springs to punch in a road or build on.  

This man took AJ and Jen to district court 18 months ago to get a restraining order against them, so they could not repair the fences he kept taking down and cutting and he cut down timber on their place, healthy green trees. He claims that fence takes in 3.5 acres of his property. If this were true it would put them into the county road . He lied and the judge caught him in several lies.  He was the one harassing them.   

The short of it is they are being sued for $120,000 and the guy pretty much just wants their property, since his is not buildable by county laws and regulations,  Basically this guy bought a pig in a poke and wants AJ and Jen to pay for it.   

On top of this they have to get in 10 cords of firewood and have little help to do it. Their sons are either unable or unwilling to help, although they at times do get some help from their grandchildren ages 6-13 but they are not always able to help either.  Plus Jen has not been able to post on Gather for a month now and was getting near pay out and they can use every dime right now.   

There are other things that have cropped up that though minor add to the stress, steal time and money they just don't have such as need for dental care for broken teeth.   Jen has arthritis of hips, knees and feet and Fibromyalgia and AJ has had a back surgery, heart surgery and two hernia surgeries and now this heart problem.  They live on less than $20,000 per year.  

They can use some prayers for good things to come.  Jen has an aunt that passed away in March and may inherit enough to pay off their mortgage once the estate sells, but this is at least 8-12 months away and the aunt has relatives trying to claim the entire estate, though there was no will and the person trying to do this is not as near a relative as Jen and her siblings or cousins.  The aunt had no offspring or siblings and her parents are deceased, California state law said.  Jen and her siblings are the direct next in line to inherit and have a right to this above the other relative; a second cousin to their aunt.

Prayers for AJ's flutter to correct itself without surgery, prayers they win their court trial with the neighbor and help to get in winter fire wood. Winters where they live -- the last two were horrendous with 8 feet of snow and their plows both broke, leaving them to shovel snow by hand and to shovel off buildings 4 times. They want to sell and move but can't until this court thing is settled and if they lose they can never sell as the plaintiffs want to put a $120,000 lean on their property, so if they sell the plaintiffs would get the money based on total lies.

Jen babysits for her daughter 3-4 days a week and many nights the children are ages 15 months to 12 and they do help some, are but also demanding on time and it gets very tiring.  They also have a nephew who showed up recently with his own set of problems that they are having to contend with.   He is 34 but has ADHD and other disabilities, is out of work and very narcissic wanting attention all the time.  So they need prayers for stress relief and more rest, financial improvement, health and healing and to win their court case so they can list their home next spring and hopefully sell it and move to a better location not so stressful on their bodies and health. Their daughter and family will be moving with them to help them out and visa versa. 
But they can't sell if they lose their court case and pay off the mortgage, so need the inheritance from her  aunts estate to come through by spring as well.   AJ and Jen are Christians and believe in miracles and have had them before.  God is good.  He hears the prayers of his saints.   
thanks for love, prayers and good thoughts. 

**I am posting this for Jen and AJ, as she cannot post anything. If you don't believe in prayer, please send good thoughts, energy, anything - and keep these good folks in your heart. Please post comments on Jens' posts, photos or anything - this is done for her and she'd have posted it herself if she could have. Come on Gatherers, we all know what it's like to feel really down, a kind word, a prayer, a hug -- anything, give these good folks a hand. Pings, comments, should all go to Jen or AJ's pages as I'm just posting this, for them, not for myself. I did not write this, Jen did, I am only doing what any friend would do, posting it for her. I know what good Gather-folks can do when we all pull together, help them out, let them know you care. ~ Marilyn