I am desperately seeking assistance. I have been staying with a friend since early December. I have been paying her for the room and am paid until February. I have known her for over a year, and there has been nothing but platonic friends. I have been paying her a sum of 425 a month. After paying this month a day or so later, she started acting weird. She talked about these spirits around the apartment and that they were out to get her. It progressively got worse until she started saying that the spirits were attached to me. She called the police on me on the 4th of January. During the commotion, I went downstairs to get some paperwork from an officer to call for assistance in getting into a place. She had then locked me out of the apartment. I had to call officers back out to the apartment to let me back in. While on the phone with dispatch, she came back to the residence, and I went to follow her in the apartment where she proceeded to close the door on me and, as officers were pulling up, hit me in the head with the door.
Because of how the second batch of officers wrote up the report, I have been a victim of domestic violence even though we aren’t a couple. However, I need two incidents to file a motion for an order of protection against domestic abuse. Plus, I am not trying to get her removed from her apartment. I need to leave the situation ASAP! Since the incident on the fourth, I have been staying locked in my room, making calls all day. I have tried calling any and every place to get out of my situation.
I am a landscaper and lawn, maintenance foreman. However, we close down for the growing season in January and February. I have been unable to find work because of the holidays and the fact that she never gave me a key to the apartment which means if I leave, she can lock me out and does not have to let me back in from the second batch of officers said. Every domestic violence shelter that accepts men from here to Fort Meyers is full. Homeless shelters are at full capacity too.
Due to the new Omnicron Variant of COVID-19, facilities have been hesitant to let people in anywhere. She told me she filled some paperwork that would force me out this week. I have called law offices, and they all say if she gives me an eviction order, I have three days to vacate. Well, that is proving to be impossible, and the fact I do not want or need an eviction on my record because will make it harder for me to get into a place in the long run. When calling a facility, I have been put on a waiting list to get emergency funding for a home, but that will take a month. What I need at the bare minimum is like 5000 for a place. I’m going high ball because of the market lately with everything rising. The 5000 would be for first last and security and deposit and first month for water and electric. I have tried everything. If you cant help out financially, maybe you can help with anything I haven’t been able to think of or see yet.
Hello,