Roommate abandon need apt deposits
Donation protected
My partner and I have been together 6 years now. I've been on disability for 7, so we've struggled financially for a long time. We're used to pinching pennies and keeping a tight budget, but we've coped.
Last year a drug cartel moved into our neighborhood. We were witness to several large cash exchanges almost daily, and at one point had to climb over someone cooking heroine on our stairs at 1pm on a Sunday. When a friend offered us a place to stay it seemed stupid not to take him up on it. We didn't expect to find out he had a drug problem... after trying to get him help over the course of 6 months, handling his hallucinations and constant blackouts, he abandoned the apartment in the middle of the night. We tried to help him, and I feel like doing the"right thing" cost us our own security, but I like to believe I would do it again.
My partner has gotten a new full time position, and I have gotten my BA and managed to file in my ticket-to-work and acquire an on-call position at DESC, a homeless shelter. We're fully self-sufficient at this point, and I've even qualified for housing authority AND come up on the section 8! Everything would be looking up, if not for one small detail. We're being evicted.
Us, and our adopted cats, are looking at the very real prospect of becoming homeless. We have until Tuesday before that goes on our permanent record. Every apartment we ever apply for will see that we've been evicted, and it may even make me ineligible for housing assistance.
The dozens of apartments we have contacted don't have a move in until mid-May... but we will be on the streets on the 28th. I have no family in the area to stay with, and the only one that I could is a 3 hour commute away, and would only let me live with them and not my partner. I cannot abandon her.
I just need one more month. Heck, I just need a few more weeks...! We could move in as soon as the 10th and be rid of this place if we just had enough to pay this 10-day notice and cease the eviction process.
Anything will help us get out of this situation. Just a few dollars... if we don't meet the monetary amount perhaps we could make enough to fund our stay in a cheap hotel for a temporary period of time.
Thank you for reading. I really hate to ask for this much money, but at this point I have no idea what to do to avoid getting this eviction on our record. Even enough to leave and go to a hotel would be great, as we don’t get any paychecks til the end of next week.
Last year a drug cartel moved into our neighborhood. We were witness to several large cash exchanges almost daily, and at one point had to climb over someone cooking heroine on our stairs at 1pm on a Sunday. When a friend offered us a place to stay it seemed stupid not to take him up on it. We didn't expect to find out he had a drug problem... after trying to get him help over the course of 6 months, handling his hallucinations and constant blackouts, he abandoned the apartment in the middle of the night. We tried to help him, and I feel like doing the"right thing" cost us our own security, but I like to believe I would do it again.
My partner has gotten a new full time position, and I have gotten my BA and managed to file in my ticket-to-work and acquire an on-call position at DESC, a homeless shelter. We're fully self-sufficient at this point, and I've even qualified for housing authority AND come up on the section 8! Everything would be looking up, if not for one small detail. We're being evicted.
Us, and our adopted cats, are looking at the very real prospect of becoming homeless. We have until Tuesday before that goes on our permanent record. Every apartment we ever apply for will see that we've been evicted, and it may even make me ineligible for housing assistance.
The dozens of apartments we have contacted don't have a move in until mid-May... but we will be on the streets on the 28th. I have no family in the area to stay with, and the only one that I could is a 3 hour commute away, and would only let me live with them and not my partner. I cannot abandon her.
I just need one more month. Heck, I just need a few more weeks...! We could move in as soon as the 10th and be rid of this place if we just had enough to pay this 10-day notice and cease the eviction process.
Anything will help us get out of this situation. Just a few dollars... if we don't meet the monetary amount perhaps we could make enough to fund our stay in a cheap hotel for a temporary period of time.
Thank you for reading. I really hate to ask for this much money, but at this point I have no idea what to do to avoid getting this eviction on our record. Even enough to leave and go to a hotel would be great, as we don’t get any paychecks til the end of next week.
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Juliann Clark
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Seattle, WA