To Whomever can help us,
I am writing this request with the hope that someone can truly help my family and I. We are facing the very real and dark reality of an eviction as of Monday, October 16th. I am a proud man of faith. I was raised with the belief of working hard to get what you have and want. To have ask for help is nothing I take pride in, but for my family, I will do what I need to.
This situation we are in has occurred for a number of reasons including health reasons, and plain bad luck. To say “when it rains, it pours”, would describe the last 6 months for us. To be in this position is truly a very humbling experience. My wife and I both work, We don’t go out much, and we live a fairly modest life. We have a 16 y/o daughter who has type 1 diabetes, and I battle type 2 diabetes. Our medical expenses alone consume a decent amount of our income, but we have been able to keep our head above water for the most part. About 4 months ago, We had an issue being able to pay the rent on time. Our Landlord is a company and there is no help when it comes to paying on time. So we began getting hit with late fees. The complex would not accept partial payments for the rent without the late fees of $10 a day. Before we knew it, we were now facing an extra $300 towards the rent. Then my wife’s car started breaking down on top of this. One of the cylinders in her car needed to be replaced. My wife has a warranty, so we were thinking that wouldn’t be a problem until we found out the item that needed to be repaired had stipulations that didn’t allow it under the plan. And, she fell behind on the payments too. I had been working from home for the ladt 3 years, and was blessed to start a new job. This job required me to go into the office. Because of this, I had to purchase a car due to now having to drive a total of 60 miles to work each day. This created an extra expense for not only having to pay the car note of $550 a month plus spending $100 a week for gas, plus insurance for another vehicle. Thank goodness I have the car, but now due to the excess wear and tear, my car needs to be serviced. My car is the only means we have, and we can’t afford to have it go down too. I even took out a loan with my credit union for $1000. We were able to stave off an eviction at that point. But we were soon right back in the same position and now with more debt to pay back. To cover some of these basic expenses, my wife and I both started taking out payday loans. The impact of all of these loans caused the rent to fall behind again. Before we realized it, this quickly became an overwhelming cycle of debt that has now come to not being able to get caught up. We are facing eviction as of this coming monday October 16th. The keys have to be turned in by that date. We are $6000p behind in rent, $2000 in repairs and getting my wife’s car payments back on track, and having to pay for movers to help us get our stuff out of this apartment and into storage. I have been blessed to find a new location for us, but we need $2000 just to move in. Which we don’t have. We don’t even have decent furniture to move except for our beds. I will have to take time away from my job to get us situated, which places me in a burden. We have asked family and friends for assistance. Some have been able to help a little, but we are running out of time. I don’t want us to become homeless. We need an extreme financial blessing from someone in the amount of $10K. Any help to assist us would be greatly and graciously appreciated.
Thank you in advance for reading my request.
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