The stress contributed to a deterioration in Go’s mental health until she ended up in hospital for six months, and her sister Wendy Lee, also a pseudonym, became her legal guardian.
“She’d been living without electricity for almost a year, the water was dripping because she couldn’t pay the water bills and there was nothing in the fridge. The only food I could see was one packet of on-sale chocolate cake mix,” Lee said.
“What was really distressing was the fact that [Karen] was paying whatever money she had left over from the little amount she was eating to make payments to strata, and it all just went to legal.”
Lee notified the strata management company about the hospitalisation and made a personal payment to bring the debt…
