Help Dena & Cooper Find a Home ❤️
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Cooper and I could really use your help. After two years of fighting the good fight to stay in my beloved country home, I have lost the battle and now I need to pick up the pieces and move on to what’s next.
In May of 2022 lost my permanent, full-time job and since then, I have had 5 different jobs (4 of them temporary contract jobs) and currently do not have unemployment. As a result am losing the house I’ve been renting for nearly 4 years; the only home Cooper has ever known. There is a pending eviction with a balance of $1000.00 that I ABSOLUTELY have to satisfy by 4/26/24, otherwise the eviction gets served and goes on my legal record and credit file. I am a Banker by trade (34 years), so having an eviction will hurt my Job Search as well as make it impossible for me to find an apartment for Cooper and I once I do have enough funds. My credit score is already below 500, so passing rental standards is going to be very, very hard. We have to be out by 4/30/24, and with every day that goes by my anxiety grows. Thankfully, due to a change of circumstances, we will be staying temporarily with my son until I can find a job and save up enough funds to move to a new place of our own. Cooper has been my lifeline through all of this change and loss. He’s not an official Emotional Support Dog, but he is the reason why I can wake up and face each day. Being without him now or in the future is not an option…it would literally break me.
In addition to paying off the debt to my current landlord to avoid the service of eviction, I need to find funds to rent a moving truck and rent a storage space, feed Cooper, and find money to pay my car note and insurance (because I’m close to having it repossessed). With my physical challenges I cannot be without my car; I need my car to find and go to work. On top of all of this I need to put money away for a new apartment (First Month, Security Deposit, Pet Deposit), which could be $2500 or more depending on what I’m able to find. I have stopped paying on all credit cards and other loans. With all of the other hurdles I have to jump, they are just not a priority at this time.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not one to ask for help from anyone…I’m usually the one helping others. I have worked officially from the time I was 17, and unofficially long before that. I’ve never been involuntarily unemployed like this and it is destroying me mentally, and financially. Not being able to secure permanent, full-time employment that covers my expenses is draining the life right out of me.
I sincerely appreciate ANY help that can be given to help us get through this situation. It’s going to be many months before we are ok again…..❤️
In May of 2022 lost my permanent, full-time job and since then, I have had 5 different jobs (4 of them temporary contract jobs) and currently do not have unemployment. As a result am losing the house I’ve been renting for nearly 4 years; the only home Cooper has ever known. There is a pending eviction with a balance of $1000.00 that I ABSOLUTELY have to satisfy by 4/26/24, otherwise the eviction gets served and goes on my legal record and credit file. I am a Banker by trade (34 years), so having an eviction will hurt my Job Search as well as make it impossible for me to find an apartment for Cooper and I once I do have enough funds. My credit score is already below 500, so passing rental standards is going to be very, very hard. We have to be out by 4/30/24, and with every day that goes by my anxiety grows. Thankfully, due to a change of circumstances, we will be staying temporarily with my son until I can find a job and save up enough funds to move to a new place of our own. Cooper has been my lifeline through all of this change and loss. He’s not an official Emotional Support Dog, but he is the reason why I can wake up and face each day. Being without him now or in the future is not an option…it would literally break me.
In addition to paying off the debt to my current landlord to avoid the service of eviction, I need to find funds to rent a moving truck and rent a storage space, feed Cooper, and find money to pay my car note and insurance (because I’m close to having it repossessed). With my physical challenges I cannot be without my car; I need my car to find and go to work. On top of all of this I need to put money away for a new apartment (First Month, Security Deposit, Pet Deposit), which could be $2500 or more depending on what I’m able to find. I have stopped paying on all credit cards and other loans. With all of the other hurdles I have to jump, they are just not a priority at this time.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not one to ask for help from anyone…I’m usually the one helping others. I have worked officially from the time I was 17, and unofficially long before that. I’ve never been involuntarily unemployed like this and it is destroying me mentally, and financially. Not being able to secure permanent, full-time employment that covers my expenses is draining the life right out of me.
I sincerely appreciate ANY help that can be given to help us get through this situation. It’s going to be many months before we are ok again…..❤️
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Dena Blair
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Batavia, NY