Hi, my name is Andrew. I’m a 33 year old male in desperate need of a little financial help and I’ll begin explaining the story now. Two years ago, I found myself in a great relationship, great enough that we discussed living together, and mutually agreeing after much self thought on my part, that it made more sense for me to move in with her and her 3 boys, rather than uproot the kids and herself, 3 boys all sports involved in school and also herself a successful registered nurse. I am a career long Auto and Diesel mechanic. In 2019 I left my job and began advertising my services as an independent mobile repair business. My business has always been good, I do good work and when I work I make good money. After a year goes by or so, we grew close enough that I felt safe enough to not worry about bills that had all been in her name anyways since I was the one moving into her home. I also thought it wasn’t proper to maintain some sort of private hidden savings account for myself to get my own place if things didn’t work out. I knew I wanted to marry this woman, we discussed our future, and feelings for one another very often, nothing ever triggered myself to think I needed to be weary of my future. Fast forward 2022. We decide to do a few things, mainly remodel the home that she owned, give it a facelift, new siding, new trim, new paint. Tape and texture the dated batton walls and other updates to the home. Given her modest income, and my work flexibility. It was decided mutually that I could reduce my workload short term almost to none, and devote my time and finances would be covered by her with her understanding of how much money was saved by not hiring a company to do work that I had the tools and knowledge to do. Fast forward June 2022. Things had been a little rocky for a few months, she had some family issues, and some personal issues with her job, just in general very stressed out but nothing other than that was going on as far as I knew. One day, about 3 weeks ago, we get into a minor verbal argument less than 10 minutes after hearing an I Love You and returning it back, I am put out on the street with whatever I could grab and fit in my work truck, doors locked, she left the property for the day and I whatever I didn’t grab I wasn’t going to get to without destroying a door or window. I didn’t think it was a serious gesture either so I comply and leave. I return that evening to her mother blocking my entry to the property and telling me I am trespassing. Little did I know but the entire time her mother was sole owner on the property, her daughter a tenant without any lease that I knew of, but left myself to be merely a “guest” of the “tenant”, which in Arizona gave her the right to call the police then and there who would honor her request to trespass me. I decide to leave peacefully, driving 4 hours away to Tucson where I used to live and work. My work truck is diesel, it uses a lot of fuel, fuel is $6 a gallon. I left with $400 and only that and long story short, she was serious. I spent $180 in fuel, the rest on a room. I have a property here in tucson that we just rented out starting in March. My tenant has not paid rent and I find out they will not be paying rent at all, they have trashed the property to the point it’s unlivable, and have pitched some “random” friend to make me an offer on the property that fits the condition of it. I believe I’m being scammed there, but the point is although I know my rights as a landlord, and will be getting them out, it takes time in Arizona to do so, even under those circumstances. While I’m dealing with this issue, I learn my now EX is not taking me back, in fact she loaded all my belongings into a 26ft enclosed trailer I own and parked there, and uses the date she kicked me out as grounds for “5 days” since I left, and a sheriff is telling me over the phone she can legally declare anything on the property I left as abandon. She had the trailer towed, she had my other 08 Ford F150 towed. It cost me $2400.00 to get my trailer and truck out, by means of selling my truck to a friend for $2400.00, when it was valued at $7000.00 due to the rising storage costs and risk that the tow company can take ownership on the property declared abandon, giving me X amount of days to remove it from their property as well. I’ve been getting screwed on all sides, I live in Tucson AZ where it’s above 100 degrees, I have no property for at least the next 30 days then I can unload my belongings and actually utilize my work truck to get jobs and make some money. As of now I can’t afford a room to sleep in, fuel to transport my trailer (it’s parked on a street out front of a friends which isn’t really legal but hasn’t been messed with yet) and sleeping in my truck. I obtained SNAP food benefits and thankfully now have the ability to eat healthy and keep my energy and hydration levels up.
I really need enough help to get into a short term rental, and hopefully put enough away to complete the initial stage of cleanup on a destroyed house which I’ve been warned foreclosure on already due to missed mortgage that I paid from rental income which is not there.I at the time did not have a cushion because I was not working at the request of my partner. I have no doubt due to the way things happened that she planned to do this to me in this manner, her mom was involved, and everything that I needed to do my job cost me my personal vehicle being sold to gain possession of my specialty tools, family belongings and everything else she fit in that trailer of mine. She must’ve been doing something I didn’t know about that made her find herself secretly out of love with me, and has no emotional connection or care to how she left me almost going beyond what was necessary to hurt my future ability to provide for myself. I cannot sustain myself as a mechanic living out of my truck, it’s a dirty job, however one that demands a worker look professional and clean upon arrival, one that is rested and healthy when meeting with new clients. Most importantly, one that has their lives together and can easily show that by presenting with a clean truck, clean clothes, hair and face, with documentation printed, or provided when necessary. It’s hard to do invoicing, parts ordering, research etc from a single cab pickup.
Please know that if I receive help to get me into a better situation, I’ll immediately be able to gain my ground, and obtain enough work within a month to continually sustain myself in my own home, if it is still standing when the deadbeat tenants depart. I could use whatever the kind souls out there can give and anything and everything is going to a roof over my head, fuel in my truck, and hopefully soon if there was anything left, it’d go to dump fees or other necessary remedations to my home, to make it safely livable. I vow to pay it forward by means of this site, or at the direction of a donor, to keep trends like this, which really show the capability of how far a little compassion goes to help the life of another. The world needs more of it and when I have, I do give. One doesn’t have to appear homeless, or appear to look the part of “in need”. I will give to any cause that demonstrates the need of a little help because I was raised that way. Now I have no one in my life that I can get the help I so badly need from. I’ve never been so beat down emotionally and physically. A mechanics belongings are very heavy, having to constantly move things around has injured nerves in my arms. I need desperately to be in a safe and cool environment if I’m going to heal, stay focused on the tenant removal and get myself back into my place to begin a new life. Thank You and God Bless. Andrew