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Hello. About a month ago, I started noticing mold in a couple places around the house, so I cleaned it. Then I started noticing more and MORE mold, until it seemed like I was starting to see it everywhere! We quickly realized we wouldn't be able to deal with it all by ourselves, and we notified our landlord. In the meantime, my daughter is having more and more trouble breathing. She has always had some pretty intense asthma, even needing to be hospitalized a couple times for it when she was a kid. She was getting to the point where soon she would need to go to the hospital, so I decided we just needed to get out of the house! Luckily for us, we were able to get a great friends and family deal at a hotel in town, but it's still almost $2000 a month, which really sucks as we were already paid at our house through February. Meanwhile, we finally heard back from our landlord only to find out that he was dealing with the swift decline of his wife, who had recently been diagnosed with brain cancer. Understandably, he's not doing so hot, and has vacillated wildly from saying he was going to sell all his properties, because he doesn't know what else to do, to we gotta do what we gotta do (in response to us having to stay in a hotel and needing to be compensated, getting the mold professionally cleaned and tested, etc.) to, he has nothing, he can't help us, etc. I haven't heard from him in 5 days.
I have already contacted a lawyer, but in the meantime, we're homeless! And comparative rentals are literally twice what we've been paying, and we were barely hanging on then! There are lots of options we're looking into, like buying an older mobile home, yurt, rv, tiny home, whatever, but that is just as daunting! It's all just too much! As most of you know, I recently became disabled with long-term covid since October of last year, and was already suffering greatly with multiple health issues as a result, and my energy levels are most highly impacted. So dealing with all of this is a LOT! However, I do believe that all of that has been improving greatly since leaving the house! We went back the other day to gather some things, weren't there even an hour, and I was wheezing, and my daughter had a terrible headache. The mold is getting so bad, that all our clean clothes that were on the couch, smelled greatly of mold, and when we tried to wear some of them later, my daughter broke out in a rash. (Her doctor had her tested for mold allergies recently, and she is extremely allergic!) Technically, we have months to move, but I'm afraid the longer all of our stuff is in there, the more likely it is to all be destroyed by the mold. I don't really know how this even happened, other than the fact that the roof has been leaking for the entire 6 years we've lived here, and the landlord has known about it the entire time. The amount of things that we need to deal with right now seems insurmountable, and I'm finally just sucking it up and reaching out for help. I'm hoping to raise enough money for a down-payment on something, or to cover the insane move-in costs for a new rental. I'm also going to be reaching out for help with packing and moving, loading and unloading trucks, etc. So, if you can't help financially (please share!) and still do want to help, there are a million things we could use help with! Maybe most importantly really, is help in finding somewhere to live!!! If I didn't already know pretty intimately how much of a housing crisis we were in by working at a shelter, I am now getting a much more in-depth experience! Any of my old co-workers wanna help by being my personal caseworker, wouldn't be turned down! ;)
I'm seriously heart-broken about leaving our gorgeous forest retreat... We put so much work into that yard, and will have SO many plants to dig up and put into pots, until we know where we're going to go! Several raised beds I want to keep! Two poultry enclosures we just put up this year! Lots of native plants we added to the space... A gorgeous creek in the back yard... lots of local trails we frequented.. But something is pushing us out! I think this may the longest I've ever lived anywhere, including when I was growing up. I finally put roots down somewhere, and now we're pulling them back up again... Sigh! It is what it is, I guess! And I'm grateful for what we do have! Supportive friends and family, that I know won't let us literally be homeless, like in our cars, or anything. Easily adaptable animals. Resiliency! Some deep well of strength that we didn't even know we had! Any help with everything else would be greatly appreciated though! :) Thank you! Love you!!!
I have already contacted a lawyer, but in the meantime, we're homeless! And comparative rentals are literally twice what we've been paying, and we were barely hanging on then! There are lots of options we're looking into, like buying an older mobile home, yurt, rv, tiny home, whatever, but that is just as daunting! It's all just too much! As most of you know, I recently became disabled with long-term covid since October of last year, and was already suffering greatly with multiple health issues as a result, and my energy levels are most highly impacted. So dealing with all of this is a LOT! However, I do believe that all of that has been improving greatly since leaving the house! We went back the other day to gather some things, weren't there even an hour, and I was wheezing, and my daughter had a terrible headache. The mold is getting so bad, that all our clean clothes that were on the couch, smelled greatly of mold, and when we tried to wear some of them later, my daughter broke out in a rash. (Her doctor had her tested for mold allergies recently, and she is extremely allergic!) Technically, we have months to move, but I'm afraid the longer all of our stuff is in there, the more likely it is to all be destroyed by the mold. I don't really know how this even happened, other than the fact that the roof has been leaking for the entire 6 years we've lived here, and the landlord has known about it the entire time. The amount of things that we need to deal with right now seems insurmountable, and I'm finally just sucking it up and reaching out for help. I'm hoping to raise enough money for a down-payment on something, or to cover the insane move-in costs for a new rental. I'm also going to be reaching out for help with packing and moving, loading and unloading trucks, etc. So, if you can't help financially (please share!) and still do want to help, there are a million things we could use help with! Maybe most importantly really, is help in finding somewhere to live!!! If I didn't already know pretty intimately how much of a housing crisis we were in by working at a shelter, I am now getting a much more in-depth experience! Any of my old co-workers wanna help by being my personal caseworker, wouldn't be turned down! ;)
I'm seriously heart-broken about leaving our gorgeous forest retreat... We put so much work into that yard, and will have SO many plants to dig up and put into pots, until we know where we're going to go! Several raised beds I want to keep! Two poultry enclosures we just put up this year! Lots of native plants we added to the space... A gorgeous creek in the back yard... lots of local trails we frequented.. But something is pushing us out! I think this may the longest I've ever lived anywhere, including when I was growing up. I finally put roots down somewhere, and now we're pulling them back up again... Sigh! It is what it is, I guess! And I'm grateful for what we do have! Supportive friends and family, that I know won't let us literally be homeless, like in our cars, or anything. Easily adaptable animals. Resiliency! Some deep well of strength that we didn't even know we had! Any help with everything else would be greatly appreciated though! :) Thank you! Love you!!!
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Amanda Brown
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Eugene, OR
Isabelle Strother
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