Help after Costly Move
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The complex my family was living in formerly sent out a general eviction notice in the middle of July - the entire complex needed to be cleared out by the end of September. As of such, even if we were looking for a new place before, we were no longer provided the luxury of choice or preparation. The last month has been spent in a general haze of panic, and we finally moved yesterday... and promptly proceeded to get bled dry, financially.
Ignoring the increase in rent at the new place (which was planned for), the moving company that had worked with us proceeded to overcharge us (assumedly? We can't find a receipt. It's being investigated now but this is a more immediate issue) and, more importantly, we lost a great deal of furniture in the move due to being utterly infested with bedbugs. Fortunately, many of those items were covered by insurance, but not all of them were. More importantly, combined with the first issue, we have basically no money left.
Normally I would let it roll off my back for now - our family's food stamps hit on the 5th and I'm used to living on the cheap - but our pantries are bare, we still need to get items to help prevent future bedbug reinfestations (on order of the new complex, which, let's be honest, I can't blame them), we don't have the money to pay mid-month bills, and on top of everything else, the telephone company is screwing us around with installing the phone and internet at the new apartment, which would not normally be a problem except my wife (a stay-at-home caregiver) needs a land-line in order to clock in for her job. Which is to say, in order to get paid for her work.
I need help. Any and all help, from any and all sources. I'm not sure how much we'll need - $400 seems like it would help get us by, but we also need to replace things that were broken, infested, or we just didn't have before now. As of such I'm going to set the bar at $750 - any above that will go towards settling lingering debts (such as with our old phone company, whom we now owe last month's payment), sending all of our cloth items (like my daughter's stuffed animals) through industrial-strength driers to kill any possible infestations in them, buying bedbug-killing supplies (diatomaceous earth, bedbug traps, and the tools needed to clean up) and setting up a budget that we can work with so as to not need help again.
Ignoring the increase in rent at the new place (which was planned for), the moving company that had worked with us proceeded to overcharge us (assumedly? We can't find a receipt. It's being investigated now but this is a more immediate issue) and, more importantly, we lost a great deal of furniture in the move due to being utterly infested with bedbugs. Fortunately, many of those items were covered by insurance, but not all of them were. More importantly, combined with the first issue, we have basically no money left.
Normally I would let it roll off my back for now - our family's food stamps hit on the 5th and I'm used to living on the cheap - but our pantries are bare, we still need to get items to help prevent future bedbug reinfestations (on order of the new complex, which, let's be honest, I can't blame them), we don't have the money to pay mid-month bills, and on top of everything else, the telephone company is screwing us around with installing the phone and internet at the new apartment, which would not normally be a problem except my wife (a stay-at-home caregiver) needs a land-line in order to clock in for her job. Which is to say, in order to get paid for her work.
I need help. Any and all help, from any and all sources. I'm not sure how much we'll need - $400 seems like it would help get us by, but we also need to replace things that were broken, infested, or we just didn't have before now. As of such I'm going to set the bar at $750 - any above that will go towards settling lingering debts (such as with our old phone company, whom we now owe last month's payment), sending all of our cloth items (like my daughter's stuffed animals) through industrial-strength driers to kill any possible infestations in them, buying bedbug-killing supplies (diatomaceous earth, bedbug traps, and the tools needed to clean up) and setting up a budget that we can work with so as to not need help again.
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Brian Porbansky
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Dallas, TX