Hey all! Never thought I’d be in a spot like this but here we are I guess. The past 6 months have been the hardest time of my life by such a long shot it actually feels like I’ve teleported myself into the twilight zone of straight up stress lol.
Prior to everything that’s currently going on my family was 7 strong; my mother and step father, then me and my 3 brothers and my cousin. Life was decent enough since my mom made good money before the pandemic and my step dad made decently good money as well. Though the pandemic came and struck my mothers business hard but she’s a stubborn woman and that stubbornness came back and bit her when she didn’t save properly. Didn’t help at all neither that my step father never paid for any bills so literally everything in the house fell on my moms shoulders.
My brother and I both worked for my mom but she would barely pay us as we were working just to have a roof over our heads. So barely any money saved between us.
Okay picture painted now I’ll speed things up cuz I’m not trying to take your whole day haha.
Queue February, my step dad decides to divorce my mom and he moves out right away AND at the very same time our landlord serves us an eviction notice. Now none of knew that my mom was backed up on rent so this came as a shock. We had no idea what to do and she was panicking to figure things out. She had no money and barely and semblance of an idea of what to do. We somehow scrounged up the money to get ourselves a lawyer and delay the process a couple months. I got a job in this time frame. Our lawyer totally folded in the process of all of this and never signed our agreement with the landlord, leaving us to have a court day where they still didn’t show up. We then negotiated on our own with the landlord a plan of paying 2 lump sums over a time span of a couple months and possibly staying in the house as we filed for rental assistance. My brother moved out with his fiancé at this point so it was just my mom and I now.
We paid the first lump sum of $6,600 with me taking out a loan of $10,000 and saving the rest. The landlord was being difficult to work with in this time frame as we needed more time with things and he was giving the rental assistance till May 28th to go through. (Which is ridiculous since it’s something we have no control over) He also delayed the process by being stubborn with giving documents over to the rental assistance program as he was skeptical of its legitimacy. As May 28th approached we got approved! Yet they made a great mistake! They approved it for the wrong amount and only cut a check for $4500 and not the $19,500 (which BTW IS NOT THE AMOUNT WE OWE he originally served us saying it was $13,200 but then once our lawyers came out of the picture he kept upping the numbers till he says we owe a staggering $39,900(!!!) we have to go off of his word and he says he’s willing to “eat his losses” of what we can’t pay.
With this mistake we had to call and they told us they’re sorry and will need to go through the process again! Though it should be faster because we were approved but it’ll still take time. We then had to make an agreement with our landlord that we can extend our May 28th deadline for 30 days but we had to pay a month and a half’s worth of rent ($4950) which was ridiculous but our backs were against the wall so there we did that.
Now came June 28th and the rental assistance is still being worked on and now our landlord doesn’t want to extend us and we have no idea what to do. We have barely any money between the two of us (me about $2000 and my mother less then $1000) and two kids to feed plus a divorce to handle PLUS a business to maintain…
I don’t have any pictures of bill and what not because well it’s past due rent lol, I have a ledger of the rent but I don’t have it on my phone and I’m laying in bed rn typing this up so if anyone needs that then I’ll update this post or provide proof as needed!
I know this was long but I hope I was able to paint the picture properly of how stressful this time has been and how much help is needed. Please if anyone can help I’m more then begging at this point, I’ve nothing to give but pleads and hope everyone that reads this is appreciative of the time they we living <3
Here’s my link: https://paypal.me/ZRHELP?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US