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Help Hel and Cats Move to Secure Housing

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Hi, I'm Hel, and I am trying to raise funds to move myself into secure housing (my mother's basement) and make that housing livable and safe for myself and my cats. (honestly, mostly my cats. I can put up with a lot, I grew up with my mom.)

I'm physically disabled, which means I have to hire people for the actual moving part, because I am only capable of going up and down steps so many times in a day before my bad knee will refuse to support any weight. Historically, hiring movers has run about $2000. I have very few local friends, and the few I have are also mostly not physically capable of a whole move.

Also, for the pre-move cleaning/dumpster filling, I'll need to rent cars/take lyft, as my car is dead and I can only borrow cars for limited amounts of time, and it's 2+ hours one way on public transit plus I can't transport much on transit.

Also, my mother is a hoarder, so I need to get a dumpster to clean at least the common areas and the basement of the house out before I can move in. I got a quote at a little under $1000 for that.

As well, there isn't a single fully working bathroom in the house. The bathroom on the ground floor has a working tub/shower/sink and but the toilet doesn't fill. (it can be manually flushed with water from the sink, at least....Small blessings!) It MIGHT be something I can fix myself, but I might need to hire a plumber for it. The other two upstairs bathrooms can't be used at all because of leaky pipes.

On top of all that, every single appliance needs replaced. Fridge, microwave, oven, washer/dryer. The HVAC also doesn't work, and while I have some plug in radiators already, I'd like to get a couple window AC units as well.

If there's any money left after all that, it will go towards making the house wheelchair accessible. My best friend Sean is currently in a nursing/care home, and I'd like them to be able to come home one day, but that requires a wheelchair accessible house. Most of the interior doors are already wide enough, but at absolute minimum there'd need to be a ramp installed, and the ground floor bathroom would need renovation, by way of an interior closet removed and the door widened, plus ideally the shower modified tho just a transfer chair would work if necessary.
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    Helen McGee
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    College Park, MD

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