“I’m a pretty typical person. In my career, I was a paramedic. Before that I was working in hospitals. I was on disability for a while. Now I live on Social Security in subsidized housing.
There was an unreasonable cleaning charge from my landlord for almost $4,000. I had been paying on it for two years. I just did what I was told to do without thinking anything about it.
The payments affected my budget to the extent that I couldn’t eat. I asked management to cut me some slack and they were totally unsympathetic. I thought I didn’t have a chance of obtaining any justice.
One day I got fed up and I called the Northwest Justice Project senior services help line. The attorney understood my predicament right away and was empathetic.
NJP negotiated my bill down to $400 and eventually it was waived completely. It was a huge relief, a big weight off of me.”
