Click here to support Mother-in-laws Tax bill organized by Stephen Ford

Good afternoon, my friends. I learned this afternoon, that it made sense to update the GoFundMe I initiated to help my 96-year-old mother-in-law pay her real estate tax bill.

The picture is on my mother-in-law at her husband's funeral in June 2014. She was deep in grief at that point and has no memory of the funeral.

I learned today that the real estate bill is approximately $3,200 per year. In the summer she received a bill for just under $1,600 for the first time since she moved with her husband in 2000 from Florida to Virginia. We have been talking with the county about it and confirmed today that the tax bill is divided in half each year.

I have contributed to GoFundMe campaigns before. This is my first experience.
I learned a few things the hard way :-)

1st I did not realize the steps that I should have taken when starting the campaign. Apparently one of the key steps is setting up a distribution schedule. This is after you register and set up a bank account to have funds placed into.
Money was taken away for the account after a month. I expect that is because I had not initiated the distribution process in the initial month.

2nd notification of people is an important step. Getting the word out tends to be by word of mouth and more effectively by electronic notifications.