Thanks to many of your donations that help me to get through these vast court costs, attorney costs, fees out the wazoo, I was able to get this particular court demand paid off in full.  But make no mistake, more are coming.  

I was able to pay for the attorney initially for the magistrate hearing however, I still need to somehow raise $2,500 more to keep him as my attorney during the appeal process.  

But because of good-hearted, giving and compassionate people out there, I'm able to fill in some of these debt potholes on this road - a road that has caused me so much duress and stress that there's times I don't know how to get through the next hour, or minute, or even breath.

Thank you again for all who've helped financially and with the many prayers.  I am forever thankful.  -Dale

Had my cancer thyroid surgery yesterday.  

But now told by my attorney I have back 'fines" to pay to the management company here before they'll allow an appeal to move forward.  This is costing me a small fortune I don't even have - all in the name of truth, justice and rising up against those with disabilities who have been utterly discriminated against over and over and were "fined" for it.

So by 'fining me" they stuck that onto the rent.  Each month, I paid my rent and utilities but I did not pay for these $100.00 after $100.00 fines that they pushed into the rent saying I wasn't paying my rent.  No, I was not paying for ridiculous fines!

How does anyone get $100.00 fine for calling the police on people who are making noises at times of night they shouldn't be?  I got one for doing just that.  The police chief I spoke to for a good hour, said I'm not wrong in calling them but I'm also in a position where I have to deal with it or call them and get penalized.  

And what do the instigators above me keep doing?  And what does the manager here keep doing?  Pushing it to keep it going to ensure my eviction.  They have no idea of how much documented evidence I have come appeal time, I hope my side rips them wide open because after that appeal is done, then I am suing every single person involved in this, from those tenants, to the manager to the real estate owners. 

Be ready.   I'm coming at your hard in the future!  Not out of revenge or out of spite.  But out of doing what's right by truth, facts and again, fighting for the disabled like myself who feel beaten down by a system that was never meant to help us to begin with.  

So, I got this in the mail today. From the magistrate.  You know, the corrupt judge who sided with the rental property side because someone's in bed with someone obviously - so in order to fight this and attorney fees and all that comes with it, I have to keep asking for help.  I never realized that by standing up for what's right, would put you into debt this way.  I had no idea justice, if it's even out there anymore, makes it impossible for those who seek it.

I am adding this update because it came today.  I want my day in appellate court.  I want an army of support behind me.  This real estate company is nothing but crooked and I am praying my time there, by telling the truth, and being allowed to explain my disabilities can reveal just how corrupt this company is - and the workers they hire there.

I'm asking for your help - whatever you can give - because it's mounting up and I just do not have it based on a SSDI fixed income.  Help me to win.  Help me to be heard and be able to tell my story backed by the audio, video and photo proof I have to back things up.

Thank you.  Every little bit helps me to climb out of this legal battle a bit more, but thanks to donors who want to help.  I can't reach justice without your help.   Thanks and God bless you.   -Dale 

As if things couldn't get any worse for me, today brings yet another boulder of not-so-great news  

I have come to find out that I have one spot of cancer on my left kidney and 2 spots on my right kidney.  As a type 2 diabetic, that frightens me to death.  The doctor almost fought with me about removing them and I quickly informed her not only am I a diabetic, that my right kidney is working overtime, that a recent blood test showed my creatine is incredibly high and my RBC and hemoglobin are low, that it all points to the kidney function(s).

I said everyone in my family who has passed (sans Sean) has died of cancer of one kind or another.  I demanded them to be removed.  So she's going to do a CT in 3 months from now and she'll do the operation after that reading.  

Thyroid cancer.  Getting evicted.  Kidney cancer.  I really can't take much more.  I am tired.  I'm tired of trying to survive day by day at this point, plus having to go through all of this alone.  That's the hardest part of all.  But I keep knowing that when God brings me to it, God gets me through it.  Though the hard part or me personally is saying, "God's will be done".  Because it doesn't always mean what you prayed for gets answered by God.  But I know He's leading the way and I am following.

Today's hearing with a corrupt magistrate sided with a corrupt and greedy and unlawful company and they have decided to move on with their eviction.  Me.  That's lived here 17 years without any problems until difficult tenants and a manager who's got a chip on her shoulder came in.  Then hell began for me.

So, my lawyer wants to appeal this decision because we were so unjustly treated in that room that it will give us a bigger platform to tell our side this time.  But I need to somehow raise the money to pay the attorney and the fees and such - but I also have to be honest - I am not well off nor come from a family who was.

Everything has always been a struggle and still is.  I'm not appealing as an act of revenge (that's the Lord's doing not mine) or retaliation.  I want an entourage of people who are skilled in their trades (all of my health care team), the ADA, every affiliation out there who has dealt with this type of thing before. 

I want to fight and fight hard and be heard.  It's hard to be my own advocate, because I'm so used to doing it for others (especially my mamasan) but I'm learning how to and I also want to advocate for others in similar situations too, but make their voices heard because a greedy company only cares about money instead of your mental or physical health.  

Stand I must.   Fight, I will.   But I need your help.

Thank you.  -Dale

Gearing up for Thursday.  Got the new court decree.  Finally will have a lawyer to represent me and at the moment, we agreed to pay half now, half later, as this campaign isn't going as quickly as I hoped it would - but regardless, I know God's got me and God's got this.  

Thank you for current donors and past donors - your thoughts and your prayers.  I am indebted to you.

Lord, I know revenge is yours to make and yours alone.  I only want justice and truth to shine through on Thursday and that all of the forces against me, fall at your might, power and grace that day.  

In the name of Jesus, King of Kings, Emmanuel, I pray, AMEN!

Had my hearing before the magistrate.  I with my mental health counselor Sean and the manager here (I have more colorful words to use for her....) and the company's lawyer, who kept giving me the side-eye.  I think they thought it was in the bag, because it was just me there without legal representation.

I had asked for a continuance of the session but the judge denied it.  The attorney who will be representing me faxed/emailed the magistrate his official request for a continuance and the judge granted it.  I was praising God.

So now, my lawyer and I will be in court again at the end of the month to do this fairly and with my right to have counsel for me.  So this is where helping out can come a long way.  I'll be able to have funds to pay him his fee so I'm not stuck on my own.

Additionally, as if God ordained it, a rental, top floor type of apartment which is perfect for me in every way possible, has been moving forward.  My township police team social worker, who has helped me many times lately agreed to meet me there to view the rental. 

I'm praying she can nudge the guy into letting me have it.  It's not 'here' and that's all I am after.  Away from this nightmare and into an environment that is more healthy for me (mentally, emotionally and physically).  

So as I often say, is if prayer is all you can do, I welcome it because I believe prayer works and I thank you for them.  But if you are inclined to donate, let me pre thank you for it because as things get down to the wire, my neurological issues ramp up more and more.

Let me show you what the outside looks like of where I want to go.  It's perfect - for me.  

I just wanted to say thank you for the few who have helped me in this time of need.  It brings back the spirit of true humanity in the world that often seems so cold and so self-centered that we all often forget as children of God, we are called upon to help people when we are able to, and it is in that spirit, I say thank you.  So much.

God bless you.

Rather than ask for a specific goal to reach, I just wanted it to be open with the hopes I can move ahead with things as it happens.  

If you are someone who can help, God bless you.  My entire life feels like it's crumbling.