Help the Brooks Family Keep Their Home

Hello this is Brooks family, let me just introduce myself, I am koralie. Mother to a beautiful 4 year old developmentally delayed partially deaf little boy, i am a young adult who did end up emancipated at 15 out of the group home/foster care system. I dont have much and I'm happy with that, becuase with my family thats all I truly need. Me and my family are in a huge rut. I've never been the one to give up or admit defeat, but here I am unfortunately. Let me explain a little. A year ago I was working as a salesperson as a insurance agent. I was doing pretty well, I always usually have been. Accept this year. I had gotten married 6/9/24 and shortly after my father was in a terrible accident as a pedestrian and was handicapped into a wheelchair for a bit. I was raised by my daddy and his mother (my grandmother) so it really struck home and I had quit my job to help him get on the road to recovery as he really needed help and my grandmother was beating cancer for the 5th time so they really needed the help, we were already a one income household and have been since my son was born primarily becuase we couldn't afford daycare nor had the schedules working to do the pick up routine for our son, nor have any villiage to help. So I had my husband initially as a stay at home dad to help bond their ties, so when I quit it was a challenge for sure. This is when things got a bit tough for us, our apartment complex were crooks and kept trying to pocket our rent claiming we didn't pay and left us in a molded infested unit due to a water leak and no hot water. It took awhile but we managed to get cooperate to do a face-lift and was able to get new management in which was heaven sent . They fixed the leak and reimbursed our rent. But not before we had to fork out alot in late fees as we refused to pay more until our past rent was found. Once that was resolved I went back to work trying to get back on track. And then the day I knew was going to be the hardest day of my life happened, my grandmother suddenly passed and my dad barely out of the wheel chair and i had to empty my childhood home. Im not one to go into my past or my feeling as it is hard for me to discuss but I figure you should know a little bit about me before I go on. I've had a rough upbringing as my mom wasn't around so it was just me and my dad and grandmother and 2 siblings, they were all that I knew, at one point as a teenager I had turned down a dark path until I found faith self love and God and remembered who I was and who they raised me to be. I am now a 27 year old with 15ish + years clean as a recovering addict who was told she'd never have kids due to medical reasons and was living on the streets. God gave me something beautiful and his name is Dimitri (my son) but that wasn't before I had to put in the hard work to show i deserved him by busting my butt off to get my own place, get clean, get my GED and my own car. It was hard but I did it and I did it on my own. Im very proud of that. I dont boast about what I have, I just enjoy it and help others (mentally emotionally or what ever I have to help) when they need it becuase ive been in alot of case scenarios where ive been in alot of others shoes and sometimes people need help and I dont help others becuase I can say I helped. I do it becuase i know God helped me get me where I am today if it wasn't for the fact that I am supposed to help others get here too.

That being said, most of my relatives are already dead they started passing when i was 13 years old, I cannot count how many funerals I have been to but after my grandmother suddenly passing, it was too much for me, I all of a sudden for the first time couldn't perform work duties without being hysterical being under stress and grief I had to leave temporarily due to my sadness. It was better to quit then be fired. So my partner took over and told me to focus on myself and my baby and getting him better at asl and communixating and speaking. However with that being said my husband hasn't had much experience taking on such responsibility as when we got together 7 years ago he was fresh out the military and has never had his own place, hes helped with bills but never took it all on by himself before, however he's taken up rideshare donating plasma (i can't donate as I have a heart condition im trying to resolve but i do uber eats delivery) and as a pest control technician. So he's working 3 jobs and trying his best and we are currently rotating shifts between the rideshare, but with the late fees on rent starting last year with the lost rent we haven't been able to pass between bills to even them out to being no longer late and they have just gotten more and more expensive which has made me completely overwhelmed. I am smi with bpd as well and have been since a teenager. I was also in and out of institutions, at one point I had self harmed so badly I almost lost my arm and took 3 years to be able to use it again with physical therapy so dealing with all this isn't exactly as someone can imagine being the same way to handle the grief as I do but I try to manage, I never like being the one to ask for help but this year ive had to, in may my lights had to get cut off and our phones (our phones are still off) however between car insurance electric and car payments and rent and my kiddos needs (i dont really care for myself anymore as its too expensive) the rents late payment haven't been caught up. We keep trying.

My Nana loaned us the money to turn on our electric but I had to pay it back immediately as she is a retired elementary teacher and on a fixed income, my aunt in Texas (whom I still have to pay back) helped me with rent in about 250$ and my dad helped me with 500 ( i barely paid back and then he had to loan another 500 and i owe again) in rent but the money from my dad and aunt, those were used for the months before this for the first month of late fees after the lost rent. Then we had to replace the fan control module and our harness for our transmission which was 900$ we had to pay for this becuase our car was overheating and we needed it badly to keep up with the bills doing ride share.

Right now, Having to pay my nana back for the tep made rent late again (my husband honestly forgot about electric juggling all the bills and there was miscommunication about the final due date on my part) then our car fix and car insurance almost lapsed and our car almost repoed so we had to pay that to be able to continue the rideshare to keep up with the bills. Meaning last month's rent wasn't paid, we're in month two and only have half of it, my normal rent is 1284$ but with the late fees its 1600 just for last month. This month we're at 1500, in total we owe 3100 and we have 1100 right now as we speak so we have the option to beg our leasing office to hold off until next paycheck (which i doubt) which will only put us at 2500 ish or try until ends earth to get the extra money, I'm also willing to do odd end jobs if you can look me up on fb

I have worked so hard, my sons literally next month starting pre-k so we can be a two income household again and not have to worry about this. I just want to make my dad proud and not have to worry about us, I want to make sure my son has a warm bed and roof over his head. Or if anyone knows any private homeowners willing to rent to me. I've tried all rental assistance agencies and churches. The resources are gone, I have no where to go, I'm trying to get back to work even though I know I'm not ready. I can't give up its not an option. I am not the one to take any help for granted. I hate that I'm in this spot to begin with. My husband's family is in their own rut so they can't help and I don't really have a village as everyone's dead... please help... I am willing to do anything for my family to keep their home. I truly am sorry for having to ask for help its extreamly hard for me right now and I'm getting to the point where I just dont want to exist anymore becuase everywhere I turn life is making more obstacles before I can breathe and I truly dont know how to get out of this. Anything will help even any advice... thanks for reading and sticking to the end to hear my story. Im glad I'm still here and so are you. I pray God helps see me through this. Amen. Please share link.

The funds provided will be used to be withdrawn in cash and set aside until 750$ increments so we can immediately put it in a feys money order until reach at goal so that NOTHING, no bills and no hands can touch that money and will be issued to my leasing department.