Yeah, I'm interested to learn what came of the property too.

Here's my favorite pic... link.

Note the fire extinguisher. Let's be honest... If you owned this house and a fire broke out, which would you reach for?

1. A fire extinguisher
2. Some type of accelerant

No There is no appeals process for past years taxes. I am behind 3 years and over $2000 they adjusted for 2007

Simmer - You should start a website soliciting donations and/or adtraffic that generates revenue.

Theme it part amusement / part heart-strings.
Use Youtube's free bandwidth to advertise & chronicle 'live' site footage, ie perhaps some police interviews.

Use www.savekaren.com as inspiration.

I bet you could whip that $2k owed into shape real quick. Use the FWF community to group-write the plot, background & storyboard! Perhaps you could create a affiliate site with links to Petco, reverse mortgage lenders, & health insurance companies with behavioral health/addiction medicine programs to generate additional income!

Basically shake (and profit from) both ends of the spectrum with info and enablement for those 'in it' (mom) and those 'trying to help them with it' (the kids).

www.SaveSimmer.com
www.300PersianKitties.com
www.HouseCat.com

zaxdude said:Addition to my previous post two up from this one....

There is a follow-up story today in case anyone is interested.

Yes, interesting story. Thanks for following up. Seems some peoples hearts are bigger then their reality about finances. It is hard to think that this is one story among many. But I think it is true. The person who took on the cats had the best of intentions, but didn't have the finances to keep up with it, and got overwhelmed. And had to escape, fight or flight, I don't think it was easy abandoning them.

So I want to pick up the mood with these two videos. Thinking most cats have nice lives doing their jobs (sleeping 20 hours a day, and making us happy by watching them sleep).

What a friend we have with kitty
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v229309n4wbJpMa

Bad Kitty Day
http://www.veoh.com/videos/e1096858fMPAJZX

WhiteGuy said:Do you have insurance that covers fire on the house?

What about having a local homeless person paid $100 to burn the house down and use the insurance money to get out of the mess?

I hope you are kidding. Didn't see smiles in your post. Maybe I read things to literaly. That is called fraud/stealing. Don't think this is the type of advice the Op was asking for.