Due to many devastating unforseen circumstances, I have found myself living in a mobile home that we can literally see the ground below us in many places. I’m not one to ask for help outright but rather, I’m asking for help with obtaining my real estate license. I’m currently working but not making nearly enough to be barely pay our electric bill. I have been going to food banks for the first time in my life for months now.
Our story is riddled with many tragedies over the last few years but the one that put us in our current situation began with Covid 99 shut downs in the bar and restaurant industry. I have worked in this industry for over 30 years. During the shutdowns, we began getting behind on bills and particularly the mortgage. While there were many banks willing to work with their customers and also some government programs helping people, the bank holding our mortgage wasn’t one of them. And with our mortgage not being thru FHA or a program backed by the government, we didn’t have any helpful options available to us. Skip forward at exactly, 3 months behind, as if they were waiting to pounce on the opportunity, the bank served us foreclosure papers. By then, my credit score that has been over 600 have plummeted and it was below 400. Unable to afford a lawyer, we lost our home. Fortunately, I had a small piece of land inherited from my daddy that had recently passed away. And also the mobile home we currently are staying in that has been sitting for years unknown by me to have been falling apart. Termites have eaten much of the walls that I’m surprised are still standing. The insulation is almost non existent and in addition the floors have holes in them making it cold in the winter and hot in the summer.
On a brighter note, my 22 year old daughter that was extremely strung out on very serious drugs, found out about a year ago she was pregnant while I the emergency room for side pain. I had already taken out life insurance on her because I knew that it wasn’t a matter of if I would get that phone call of her being found dead somewhere but only a matter of when. Thank God, for that ER visit and the day she was told she was 5 months pregnant. She called me from the ER crying saying “Mama, I need you to come get me. I need to come home. Are you ready to be a grandmother?”
I’m so very proud to say that she instantly stopped doing drugs of any kind and we welcomed my first grandchild by her into our overwhelmingly changed lives back in November. LillyAnna is a very healthy and happy babygirl that has really changed my daughter’s life in such miraculous way. And she brings us a lot of happiness no matter our current living situation. She’s a miracle baby that despite the 5 months my daughter didn’t know she was pregnant and was shooting serious amounts of drugs daily, entered this world absolutely healthy as can be. God surely, had a hand in that, no doubt.
And yes, we believe in God as we have only been able to endure the tragedies we have suffered with His help. My girls father was murdered when they were 8 and 10 years old. That being said, we also believe in Angels. We have experienced help thru such people at the very moments we needed it that could have only been sent to us by Him.
I’m not asking for help in buying us a house. I’m very capable of working and happy to work hard to get us where we need to be. I also did very well in school and think a change of careers is most appropriate at my age having just turned 50. I have decided that my best option is to obtain my real estate license, due to the short amount of time it should take me to earn them. If I do well, work hard, and fast track the classes. It should take me around 4 months. Real estate agents where we live earn not less than $80,000 to $100,000 a year. I can’t imagine how much different our lives can be. I wish I had checked into this alot sooner many years ago after their dad died and I was struggling being a single mom to support us.
So if your reading this and can help me with the tuition cost for classes and obtaining my real estate license, just know that you will be helping us majorly change our lives for the rest of our lives. And in doing so, helping me help ourselves in a long lasting way that will sustain us more comfortably than we have ever experienced. I have dreamed many times of owning a real house. Not that I’m ungrateful for our mobile home. But until now, I thought actually owning a house could never be possible for us. Now I know that it can with a little help and getting my real estate license. I’m determined to get them even if I have to save up for the cost of tuition while struggling. It could just happen for us so much sooner with a little help. If you chose to help us, thank you. Thank you for helping us make our lives better and giving me an education to better provide for my family. And may God multiply your blessings infinitely for chosing to help us by reading our story amongst so many others that also need help.
I’m reminded of an old saying that “if you give a hungry man a fish, he can eat for a day. But, if you teach him how to fish, he can eat for a lifetime.”
I wish to receive donations via Cash App please. My tuition, along with state testing, and license should cost around $2000.
My cashtag is $ChristianDawn