Give My Mom Some Hope in Humanity

My mom is a great person who has always cared for others and always believed in the good of others, even to her detriment. These past few years have been particularly hard on her as she has been taken advantage of so many times that she is starting to lose her faith in humanity.

In 2018, she sold her house in Denver and moved to Texas in hopes of finding love just to realize that the guy she was with didn't actually care about her and was enjoying racking up tens of thousands of dollars on her credit cards. To add insult to injury, he stole a bunch of her stuff when they split up and the house she sold in Denver is now valued $250,000 more than what she sold it for.

In 2019, she moved back to Colorado for her job and to care for her mother with Alzheimer's while renting out her Texas house. During this time she was able to pay down her credit card debt by living with a friend and by the end of 2019 she was able to get back on her feet and get into her own apartment.

Things were going smooth enough (other than a global pandemic) until the start of 2021 when her car was broken into while she was walking her dogs and her purse was stolen.

Then in May, her renters said they were moving out. She had to continue paying her current rent and start paying the Texas mortgage in June, even though the renters were still in the house for most of June, refusing to pay rent.

Unfortunately, the housing market in Bay City, Texas isn't like Denver and it doesn't look like her house will sell any time soon. On top of that, her renters destroyed the floors, wreaked havoc on the septic system, and stole her 25 foot above-ground swimming pool and portable air conditioning unit.

And now, while at the bank sorting out some things for her mom, her emergency brake failed and her car rolled into two other cars in the parking lot.

Thankfully she is insured and still employed, but she is at her wits' end working 60+ hour weeks constantly interacting with customers, and her paycheck simply isn't enough to afford the insanely high rent of Denver, her Texas mortgage, potential court fees dealing with her renters, and any car repairs that may not be covered by insurance.

She has worked incredibly hard to recover from bankruptcy and foreclosure that she went through in 2008 and the thought of having that happen again is completely demoralizing.

I know that it is unrealistic to raise the thousands of dollars that she has lost over these past couple of years, but if you could chip in a little to meet this $3,200 goal so that she can have just two more months of mortgage payments while she tries to sell her house that would be amazing!

Despite her best intentions, these past few years she has only been taken advantage of. This has greatly affected her mental health and left her feeling completely alone in a world surrounded by people who only use others for their own benefit, lacking empathy, compassion, and kindness. I know there are still people who are willing to help someone when they are down, just like my mom has always been there to help when her friends are at their lowest.

Thanks so much to Dionne and Mike for letting my mom live with you when she had nowhere else to go, and thanks to Wanda for coming up with the idea to do a GoFundMe!