To those with the ability to help,

I am a father of two teenage boys (16/15) desperately in need of help. My oldest son, 16, is clinically diagnosed with Aspergers. He is the sweetest child you would ever meet, but has problems connecting with his peers socially. He had a problem being bullied his last year of middle school, so my wife and I decided home school might be the best option for him moving forward. His only friend was/is my youngest son, who is 15.

I am a veteran of the US Army and for the time being….married. For the past three years, I have had to travel for work Monday thru Friday managing the installation of large indoor cellular systems throughout the southeastern United States. During this three year period and without my knowledge, my wife secretly obtained a pain pill addiction. She took care of the finances/household so I could focus on work, which usually consisted of 12 hour days. All I ever wanted to do was relax once coming home and enjoy the short time I had with my family before having to leave again.

I was never a husband that constantly looked at our joint account. I was always trusting, because she always made it seem like things were handled. Little did I know, things were about as worse as they could get. About three weeks ago, I received a call from her brother while out of town asking about his sister’s/my wife’s welfare.

I was a bit stunned with the question as she never gave any signals of anything being bad while I was home. He stated that she had been speaking to other family members about suicide.  He asked about our marriage and how things were going. I told him we had spats every now and then, because she slept most of the time I was home on the weekends, but thought it was because she was tired from taking care of the duties of the house and our children during the week.

I would come home and there would be stacks of laundry and the house would be a mess. Most of my Saturday mornings consisted of doing laundry and cleaning and at times, I would get frustrated. He asked if we were having money problems and I responded by saying, “Last I knew or what she had claimed to me, we had several thousands of dollars in the bank.” He asked if he could come to the house that weekend, approximately 4 weeks ago to check on her and I said, “Sure”.

I called my work immediately and requested a few days off. I came home and immediately started digging into our finances. To my surprise, not only did we not have several thousands of dollars, our account was in the negatives several hundreds of dollars and I had just been paid a few days earlier. We had an overdraft option with our bank, so I never knew when I was out of town making purchases. I never pulled any cash out and usually only ate once a day, so I could try and make a little extra off the per diem I was receiving.

Her brother arrived the next day and we all sat down for a talk. She admitted she had a pain pill addiction and could not function without them. She was taking a high dose several times a day and would get very sick without them. She was Cash Apping herself several hundreds of dollars a day to support this habit from our joint account. Not only had she wiped us clean financially, we were several months behind on all of our bills (about to be evicted), and she had taken several payday loans out all over town.

I immediately called to get her into an in-patient treatment facility, where she has been the last 2 weeks and will be for the next 60-90 days. Her brother has tried to help financially, but can only do so much. Now, I am left with a ton of bills that I am trying to figure out how to pay so my two sons and I do not get put out on the street. I am desperately in need of atleast 5,000 dollars to pay back rent before we get evicted. Every time I turn around, it seems someone different is asking for money.

I have gone to just about every place I can to receive help and am desperate at this point. Any help from someone with the ability, would be greatly appreciated. At this point, I am just trying to maintain a roof over my two boys head and food for them to eat.  I am a hard working individual who has served his country and has always strived to provide for his family. This is completely degrading for me to have to do, but I am running out of options for help.  If I can ever get back to a place to help someone in need down the road, just know I would willingly and gladly for the opportunity someone with the ability gave me during my time in need.

Attached is what I am currently behind on. My utilities are included with the place I rent. I get paid next Friday and can only afford around 2,000 dollars of this while still being able to feed my children for the next two weeks after that.

Hello. My name is Arinn and I am 28 years old. I could explain my entire life story and how I got here, but what’s important to know is I have worked hard my whole entire life. I’ve been working 2 jobs for the last 7 years, about 50 or more hours a week. My boyfriend works at ups as a loader. We have lived in a house an acquaintance of ours rents us and we have been here for 5 years. There was recently a basement leak which I told her about, she said she would be out to take a look in 3-4 weeks, as she lives in Colorado. When she got here she realized the leak was from the fridge and had to rip up the whole sub floor and all. She tried to charge us $5,000 even though it wasn’t our fault. So she decided to stop trying to take the money from us, but gave us 30 days notice to move out.

So my boyfriend and I felt it was time to buy a house. It’s as much if not lesser than renting right now. We found a house we like and are trying to close on it. We’ll, we were able to take the down payment from his small 401k he has. We tried to pull out the extra $2,000 in it but ups declined it and only gave us the down payment amount. We don’t have the $500 in ernesr money. On top of that, my cleaning job which was my 2nd job for the last 3 years let me go on August 1st because they are expanding and we’re able to afford professionals, even though there was never a problem with my work. She also gave me 0 warning.

Our bank account is -$900 right now and we just had several bills try to pull and bounce back- the most important being my car. We also have not had groceries in weeks and are living off of water, bread, hotdogs, and grilled cheese and Ramen. Neither family is willing to/ able to help us. Both of our dads took their own lives a few years ago and we both suffer from PTSD. I am still working 45 hours a week right now but it just isn’t enough. I’ve been applying places but nothing is working out due to my real job schedule. I feel like I’m drowning. I feel like the only way out is just to disappear. I need furniture, food, if I don’t get the Ernest money asap we won’t even get the house and will be homeless. Our landlord is evicting us on the 31st which should also be the day we get the keys. We also have no way to pay for a moving truck or anything. It’s been a horrible 2 months. My landlord has broken me, my job has broken me, and my family has broken me. I just don’t know what to do at this point.

In total, I need at the very minimum $500 for the Ernest check so we can secure the house. Realistically, we probably need something close to $5k to 10k with the furniture we need and some things that need fixing and food and now I need to try and pay back some of these bounced bills as well.

https://www.paypal.me/arinndennis

Hi, we are a family of 4 in desperate need of help!  We need help coming up with a lot of money in a short amount of time, so that we can keep a roof over our heads and not wind up on the streets.  There has been a culmination of things that happened to get us to this point, but it all comes down to; we thought we had time to get caught up and back on track (we even had a plan), but now it seems that time has become our enemy and I just don’t know what we are going to do!  Let me explain:

Approximately 3 months ago, my 13 year old teenage daughter decided she was going to kill herself.  Thank God, I found out about her plan and I immediately went into action to get her help!  I first called my job and alerted my manager of what was going on and let them know that I would not be logging in for work (I work from home), because I needed to see about my daughter.  Then, I called the behavioral emergency number provided to me for our area and wound up taking my daughter that very same morning to a local emergency room for help (our local hospital, Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital, has a mental health program and behavioral unit for children in crisis).  They admitted her that day into the emergency room, and we commenced to wait for a spot to open up in the Behavioral Unit for my daughter to receive treatment.

The hospital was so overloaded with children in crisis, that we wound up waiting 2 weeks just in an emergency holding room, before they were able to get her at least admitted to a regular medical room in the hospital, because there was a waiting list for the Behavioral Unit. It was 2 weeks of just my daughter and I, in a room with no windows, just waiting (there was no treatment at this time, until they could actually get her admitted to the hospital).  I had kept in constant contact with my Job during this time, and they were very understanding, but I was not paid during this time out of work, because I had no PTO or vacation time available.  My husband, thank goodness was working.  He had just started a new Security job.

After 2 weeks they were finally able to admit her to the hospital, and after another week, She was finally able to be admitted to the Behavioral Unit, and then I finally went home and back to work.  This was the beginning of our falling behind with the rent.  As I was out of work for practically a month with no pay, and my husband had to work 2 weeks “in the hole”, since he had just started his job, before he got a pay check.  Then, all of a sudden our old van (our only means of transportation we have) started having mechanical problems.  The next couple of weeks my husband put whatever money we had available, into trying to keep the van running, because he needed to get back and forth to work.  Until finally on his way to work one evening, my husband heard a loud “BOOM” and the van ceased to move.  To make a long story short, the engine blew in the van, and NO MORE VAN!!!  We needed a new vehicle, so my husband was able to go to a local car lot and buy a used car.  Of course, he had to put down a deposit, and that was just about the rest of the money we had.

During all of this, I had been in contact with our Landlord and explained to him what was going on.  He had been gracious and patient with us, and we were doing all we could to keep working and try to get caught up.  It has been a struggle, but we were working and paying little by little what we could.  My daughter was finally released from the hospital and is doing better, but I have been having to take a lot of time off of work without pay, to get her back and forth every week to appointments with a therapist, Case worker, Psychiatrist and Psychologist. Thank God for Medicaid, otherwise, I would not be able to afford her treatments.  In any case, for the most part my husband, has been holding us down with his job, but he does not make nearly enough to not only get us caught up, but also keep us afloat with all of the monthly bills.  We have been doing the best we can.

At the beginning of July, our Landlord gave us a Notification letter letting us know how much we were behind and how much we owed (attached).   He has always given us these notices as a way to keep track of what we owe.   Then, out of nowhere at nearly the end of the month we received a 30 day notice stuck to our door(also attached), and the information on the notice wasn’t even from our Landlord.  It appears he may have sold the property to someone else.  We had no clue!  Now, we are really in a scramble to try and get completely caught up, so that we won’t be put out on the street.  I am so completely mentally and physically exhausted, with everything we were already facing and trying to handle, and now this!  I truly don’t know how much more I can take!  We’re not bad people.  We have just had a really rough time of it the past 5 months.  All I am asking is for help raising the money we are past due on our rent, $3,850.00.  We’re almost out of time.  Please, help us if you can.

Hello my name is Brian Villalta…. Two days ago I received a 3 day notice to pay 2000 by the end of this week…..I am back up on my rent for like 5 months due to lost of hours and minimal day of work like 2 or 3 days of work in one week little of bit money….so i got so back up on rent and other bills like my light bills and car payment….I am the only who is working rite now in my family is just me,my gf who goes to school and a 2 and 6 year old…I have try family and friend to lend me money that fail….I try all payday loans to little bit of money…I have try everything and nothing working for me rite now….so am reaching for some help from the community….I never beg I work so hard but this year has put me down to shame hopefully anything helps me out thank you……

here my PayPal link @Succesinlife Brian Villalta may call me at (209) 283- 6217.

Hello – my name is Emily and I am in dire need of assistance. Thank you for taking the time to visit my page.

I relocated to California in 2020 during the beginning of the pandemic, not knowing that the pandemic would wreak havoc on the whole world and destroy so many families’ finances. Well, I was not infected with COVID thankfully, but that did not leave me immune to the rest of the consequences of the pandemic.

I have struggled to maintain employment due to the required stay-at-home order and intense anxiety. I know that I need a traditional work environment in order to thrive professionally. As a result of job loss, my situation has drastically suffered: I am behind on rent and facing eviction, my credit is horribly ruined and I am behind on credit card payments, I live across the country away from the rest of my family, and my job history doesn’t look favorable to employers. After being fired from multiple good opportunities, I have developed extreme anxiety and insecurity and experience frequent panic attacks when I need to perform my professional duties. Further, I have been supplementing my income with gig work and my car insurance has lapsed, so I cannot continue to provide for myself without driving illegally, which I refuse to do. I also volunteer with a local organization, but lately I haven’t been able to fulfill that commitment because I use all my time trying to get ahead.

I have no where else to turn. My family is unable to help as they also severely struggle financially. I have spent countless hours contacting charitable agencies and resources to get some aid, but so many others are in the same situation as myself and there is no way to get timely/urgent help. Because I relocated during the pandemic, I haven’t been able to make any local friends or acquaintances, so I cannot turn to anyone for help. I am all alone.

As I mentioned, I am also facing eviction. I am struggling to find a new apartment, as I have a poor work history, horrible credit, and no local references. I have added myself to several waiting lists for Section 8 and public and affordable housing, but the waiting times for these lists are YEARS. One city told me the waiting list was 10 YEARS. Unbelievable.

I grew up in extreme poverty. I saw my mother struggle so much, and I promised myself that would do all I could to not live like that when I grew up. She lost houses, cars, jobs, had food insecurity, alcoholism… you name it, she suffered it. Well, sadly, here I am, despite being the first in my family to graduate college and trying so hard to get ahead. Poverty really is a generational trauma. Unfortunately, my mom passed away several years ago, only at age 42.

If you are able, please help. I promise to pay it forward when I am able. I am struggling so much and am so saddened and depressed to be in this situation I’m in. I want to contribute to society. I want to get back to who I used to be: productive, active, intelligent, confident. I do not resemble who I used to be at all.

Please help me in any way. Even words of encouragement would make me feel hugely better, as I have no one to talk to and am all alone.

Thank you so much for reading my story, as well as for your time and consideration. I wish you all the best. Thank you.

PP link: https://paypal.me/Boomie3347?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Hello my name is Brian Villalta,I am the man of the house who pay bills and everything for me and my family. My family consist of me, my girlfriend and my 6 and 2 year old kids…..To explain my situation it goes back to April 2022….I was working about 40 plus he a week was making decent money. but unfortunately my job cut my hours in half I began to work about 22-30 hours a week….was bearly making 600-800 a week…my rent is 980 a month and I started to begin to fall back on all my payments…I got my car repossessed….all my bills starting to pile up on me….my money was bearly making it by for food clothes and smaller bills especially for my kids….so now 4 months later I have an eviction notice from my landlord I am behind 5,000 dollars and he is giving me till the end of the month to pay him all the rent if not we’ll be quick to the street….I am still working barely getting back to working more hours but am so behind and stressing….I have tried loans they denied…I have try my family but they all denied me…I have tried hard to obtain the money but no luck till I found this website I hope someone can help me with this goal anything helps at this point i only have save 500 dollars that’s all I have am doing this for my kids not me for them.

Hello Good Samaritans. I’ve never asked for money online before and I’ve never seen a site like this. What a godsend it would be if anything became of this so here goes.

I am a disabled Army vet. I can provide DD-214 honorable discharge paperwork and full disability proof from the VA upon request. I receive a total of roughly $1800 in monthly benefits. I can provide paperwork on this too. Anything I represent I can prove if necessary. At this exact moment, that is my only income. I am 52 years old and live with one cat, Teddy-cat, a tuxedo domestic shorthair who is approx 7 years old (I’m not the original fur-parent).

In late 2019 I was happily although ignorantly married to a woman with multiple sclerosis. We met on Tinder.
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Her boyfriend had left her. He didn’t want to push a wheelchair around.. MS attacks in roughly two year cycles, targeting the myelin sheaths that protect neurons in the brain. An attack could manifest as a permanent loss of balance, paralysis, cognitive dysfunction, anything the brain controls which is everything.

I paid her car current two weeks. I had been praying to God for a woman with a good heart and I didn’t care if she was 500 lbs Not 500 lbs but being with her likely DID mean pushing a whechair at some point, or a zillion other things. Would I step up?

I decided I would do it. She was a sweetheart, a gift from God. I had been selfish in past relationships, I admitted to myself, and it’s time to be unselfish. Once I’d crossed that mental bridge, I was all in.

Stephanie had been denied Social Security disability on her first attempt. The state doctor said she was faking it. This enraged me.

I did all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, dishes, everything for the next two years. We eveb took a trip to Washington DC, she’d never been there. At the National Archives, she took a picture of the Declaration of Independence despite a sign saying it was a crime to do so. The look on her face was so mischievous. I loved her even more.

Stephanie was denied on her appeal in mid-November 2019. The judge thought she was faking too.

The mask came off right afterwards. Her voice lost the girlish tone it had, becoming sharp and caustic. She looked at me with disdain. I was pathetic to her.

I left immediately and left her everything I couldn’t fit into my SUV. I rented a room out of a house. My side biz went from $3k/mo profit to almost zero due to COVID. Cell phone stores were closing and those were my bread and butter. I sold my inventory off at a steep loss just to be able to eat and buy gas.

$1000/mo was too much to have to share a bathroom with three other people and without the business income I was priced out of that area. I wanted a fresh start anyway. .

I moved to Albuquerque and rented a one bedroom apartment for $725/month on July 2, 2020. I paid rent on time and in full in August, September and October of 2020.

In September of 2020, I found out that 1) California had canceled my ~$800 in monthly benefits for food and medical, and 2) that New Mexico had denied me for them. I had been receiving $191 in CalFresh food benefits monthly, along with medi-Cal benefits which paid my Medicare premium of $205, my 20% co-pay for Medicare labs and office visits, and lost all prescription drug coverage which had been 100%, adding $354 between the two in monthly out of pocket. The amount I lost exceeded my entire rent.

I applied for COVID benefits which covered my rent for 15 months. My landlord also tried some dirty trick constructive eviction techniques like turning off my utilities for months on end, and I was able to get a few months of rent abated but not the actual number of months it was off.

I was not able to save any money by not paying rent for 15 months due to the fact that the rent coverage did not equal the amount I lost due to the benefit loss. I don’t make enough to do both without the help I was getting in California.

I have an eviction proceeding for Writ of Restitution this week. My GMC Envoy had all four tires slashed when I was at the laundromat about a year ago. I have no idea who did it or why. I tried to drive it but it was impossible. I didn’t have money to tow or fix it so I put a note in the window to please not tow. It was towed anyway and I couldn’t afford to get it out. I haven’t had a vehicle in over a year.

It’s just me and Teddy-cat who is a sweet, loving animal that doesn’t deserve what’s about to happen. By August 1st and possibly by Wednesday, August 27th (depending on if Judge issues Writ same day or grants a few more) there will be a Writ of Restitution for premises. I have no way to get the furniture into storage, to rent a U-Haul to get it there if I had somewhere to take it, and no money for deposits or prepaid rents. Everything I owned that was sellable on Craigslist or eBay has been sold off. I have no computer, no tablet, no wifi, no TV anymore.

If I am still here when the Writ is issued, I will be removed and have to leave my belongings behind. Teddy will be in a cat carrier with nowhere to carry him.

This is the pending certainty that now draws frighteningly close and prompts my request.

I am not a victim. This is my fault. I’ve known this was coming and I have failed to come up with a solution. I kept putting it off because the stress hurt my head and the fear paralyzed me. I feel ashamed. This is hard.

I am asking for help getting back to California where I can reapply for benefits and begin rebuilding my life. I receive $1648 on August 3rd. I have no money at all this very moment.

I would ideally like to get enough to buy a cheap $2500 vehicle so that if worse comes to worst, we won’t be on the street when the eviction hits. Anything beyond that would help get gas, insurance, registration, storage unit, and motel until the 3rd. Come the 3rd, I’ll have enough to rent a room again in California where I can file a new application with social services.

If anything at all is provided to assist me and my cat, I promise to repay it or pay it forward via the same mechanism, at the Good Samaritan’s option.

Thanks for reading. If any corroboration in the form of documentation for a single representation I’ve made here today is desired, just ask and I’ll be happy to post it.

God bless all of you Good Samaritans, I didn’t know people really did this on any kind of scale. You are the counterbalances to an increasingly unfriendly world.

D. Brian Smith

Teddy J. Kat

Hi, we are a family of 4 in desperate need of help!  We need help coming up with a lot of money in a short amount of time, so that we can keep a roof over our heads and not wind up on the streets.  There has been a culmination of things that happened to get us to this point, but it all comes down to; we thought we had time to get caught up and back on track (we even had a plan), but now it seems that time has become our enemy and I just don’t know what we are going to do!  Let me explain:

Approximately 3 months ago, my 13 year old teenage daughter decided she was going to kill herself.  Thank God, I found out about her plan and I immediately went into action to get her help!  I first called my job and alerted my manager of what was going on and let them know that I would not be logging in for work (I work from home), because I needed to see about my daughter.  Then, I called the behavioral emergency number provided to me for our area and wound up taking my daughter that very same morning to a local emergency room for help (our local hospital, Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital, has a mental health program and behavioral unit for children in crisis).  They admitted her that day into the emergency room, and we commenced to wait for a spot to open up in the Behavioral Unit for my daughter to receive treatment.

The hospital was so overloaded with children in crisis, that we wound up waiting 2 weeks just in an emergency holding room, before they were able to get her at least admitted to a regular medical room in the hospital, because there was a waiting list for the Behavioral Unit. It was 2 weeks of just my daughter and I, in a room with no windows, just waiting (there was no treatment at this time, until they could actually get her admitted to the hospital).  I had kept in constant contact with my Job during this time, and they were very understanding, but I was not paid during this time out of work, because I had no PTO or vacation time available.  My husband, thank goodness was working.  He had just started a new Security job.

After 2 weeks they were finally able to admit her to the hospital, and after another week, She was finally able to be admitted to the Behavioral Unit, and then I finally went home and back to work.  This was the beginning of our falling behind with the rent.  As I was out of work for practically a month with no pay, and my husband had to work 2 weeks “in the hole”, since he had just started his job, before he got a pay check.  Then, all of a sudden our old van (our only means of transportation we have) started having mechanical problems.  The next couple of weeks my husband put whatever money we had available, into trying to keep the van running, because he needed to get back and forth to work.  Until finally on his way to work one evening, my husband heard a loud “BOOM” and the van ceased to move.  To make a long story short, the engine blew in the van, and NO MORE VAN!!!  We needed a new vehicle, so my husband was able to go to a local car lot and buy a used car.  Of course, he had to put down a deposit, and that was just about the rest of the money we had.

During all of this, I had been in contact with our Landlord and explained to him what was going on.  He had been gracious and patient with us, and we were doing all we could to keep working and try to get caught up.  It has been a struggle, but we were working and paying little by little what we could.  My daughter was finally released from the hospital and is doing better, but I have been having to take a lot of time off of work without pay, to get her back and forth every week to appointments with a therapist, Case worker, Psychiatrist and Psychologist. Thank God for Medicaid, otherwise, I would not be able to afford her treatments.  In any case, for the most part my husband, has been holding us down with his job, but he does not make nearly enough to not only get us caught up, but also keep us afloat with all of the monthly bills.  We have been doing the best we can.

At the beginning of July, our Landlord gave us a Notification letter letting us know how much we were behind and how much we owed (attached).   He has always given us these notices as a way to keep track of what we owe.   Then, out of nowhere at nearly the end of the month we received a 30 day notice stuck to our door(also attached), and the information on the notice wasn’t even from our Landlord.  It appears he may have sold the property to someone else.  We had no clue!  Now, we are really in a scramble to try and get completely caught up, so that we won’t be put out on the street.  I am so completely mentally and physically exhausted, with everything we were already facing and trying to handle, and now this!  I truly don’t know how much more I can take!  We’re not bad people.  We have just had a really rough time of it the past 5 months.  All I am asking is for help raising the money we are past due on our rent, $3,850.00.  We’re almost out of time.  Please, help us if you can.  Any amount would be appreciated.

Donate at:   paypal.me/SimplyAury

Please help, just received a three (3) day notice to pay or quit. I lost my job last year during covid.  I’m a single mom working at a part time job. Have been trying to find a full time job, but to no avail have not succeeded.  At my age, 55, its not easy finding a full time job.  My part time job is not enough to pay the rent, its enough for food and pay only the important bills.  I thought I was only two (2) months behind but its almost four (4) months. My rent is $1090.00 a month. The total amount is $4090.00.  I’m in the process in getting a second evening part time job.  The support I get is enough to pay for my car payment.  I can’t lose my car, need it to get to work.  I drive a couple of workers to our place of employment and I get $50 for gas money.  I’ve been paying small amounts of rent monthly but I guess its just not enough anymore.  I haven’t shared my dilemma with anyone due to my embarrassment.  I have tried asking my friends and family for some help but it seems everyone has there own issues.  Especially at times like these. My anxiety and depression is getting worse.   I just don’t know what to do but ask some kind people for help.  I would be grateful to receive any help possible.  As soon as I’m financially stable I will pay back any money received.

Thank you for taking the time in reading my desperate request.

paypal.me/GloriaH1966

Please take the time and read this, I am in at the end of my rope of hope and faith and i pray that I can get help. I am a parent of 3 children and I am in need of help to save my home. I was a business owner until the pandemic hit and it all went south for our family. I didn’t want to take any government help when they were handing out money so I tried to make it through depleting my own personal money as well as trashing my personal credit. My business since has failed and I now have a mountain of debt and can not get any help to get out of it. My credit score is 400s and I’m unable to refi to save my home. I have done all I can do to raise money, garage sales, work small paying jobs, I’ve sold items on Facebook Marketplace just to get by. But now, with the high inflation and rising cost of living I am in desperate need. I have less than two weeks to raise money to save my home. With school soon to be starting back up I don’t have the means to buy my kids the things that they need to start. I am so ashamed because I was a person that would look to help others during these times and now I am literally begging someone that is blessed financially to help my family. Please help my family. This is out of character for me, because I am a person that does everything for my kids and family through god, but this is a time that god has lead me to this place to seek help from good humans. Faithful believers that are willing to help an honest person that you may not know. If your are in a position that is blessed financially, please help me. God has sent you to this page to help. God brought you here to help restore my faith in life and offer my hope when I feel hopeless. If you can help me please do.

PayPal.Me/takingdonations2022

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

Hello I am seeking assistance for rental payments and court cost. My daughter and I relocated to Texas in May. I took a work from home position from a company called Violet Cart because of the convenience it provided with us moving and being able to get settled in our apartment. I found out that the job was actually a scam on the day I was suppose to be paid. As a result of not being paid I have fallen behind on my rent for the month of July. I am seeking assistance because I have no where else to go. No one is able to help with my situation. A writ was filed on me today and I have no idea which way to turn. I reached out to rental assistance agencies in my area but the apartment complex is not accepting the assistance because it stops the eviction process. My daughter and I are about to be out on the streets and I honestly don’t know what to do. I won’t qualify for another apartment if this goes on my credit. I need help immediately.

https://paypal.me/laniyahsmom?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US