
Evicted & scared. Help keep a roof over our head.
Hi, my name is Holly. First and foremost, this is a very difficult thing for me to do, but I don't know what else to do. I'm turning to others and their kindness in asking for help. We had resided in our rental home over the past 7 years without any problems at all, then Covid came along and it changed everything. I have three children, one is pictured above with my husband and I have two children from a previous marriage. We live in a small rural county. Last year, Covid shut everything down, my husband no longer worked and we began to fall behind on our rent. Our landlord started the eviction process immediately. The CDC moratorium allowed us to stay in our house and we continued to pay our landlord when we could, we did our best. In July of 2021, the 6th District Court thats over TN, KY, OH and MI ruled the CDC didn't have the authority to put a rent moratorium in place and the eviction processes in TN began. On August 12th, we went back to court and the judge ordered us out of our home. He only gave us 10 days to move. Because of Covid, there is now a housing crisis. People are staying put, rental houses are being put up for sale instead of rented, apartments are full and there is nothing available. My family is staying in a motel. I drive 40 minutes four times a day to get my youngest two children to and from school. The only motel we could find that lets locals stay was that far away. I/we go out every single day, for hours, looking for something, anything to rent. So far, we've not found anything. We're on dozens of waiting lists, most are telling us it could be 3-4 months before we get a call. I'm scared and feeling so defeated. We never wanted to get in this position. I know everyone falls on hard times in their lives, but I never thought something like this would happen to us. Our motel cost is $600 a week, im spending over $200 a week in gas, my storage cost where our belongings are is over $200 a month and we still have bills to pay every month that didn't stop because of Covid. We can't afford to stay here much longer on our own. I don't know what to do or where we're going to go. We're absolutely heart broken by this! Covid cases here are exploding again. My husband, my daughter and I ended up getting covid and im still suffering with some long hauler symptoms. My two oldest children, my husband and I have all been vaccinated. My 8 year old son has not been able to get vaccinated yet, he's too young. We are trying our hardest and my husband does work, his amount of work is determinedby the weather. He's been there 6yrs now.. He does tree work and he works very hard. This is my story and why I'm asking for help, as hard as it is to do. Thank you so much for reading this, I know it's long, but I wanted to explain my situation the best I could. To those who can help, you're truly a blessing to all five of us. One day, when we get back up on our feet, we are going to pay forward blessings to others in need.