Help Us Move Forward After Fire Loss

Hi all! So as most of you know, my family and I were displaced due to a structural fire in our apartment building. Now, we have received an immense amount of support from our family, friends, and the city of Dekalb. Unfortunately, our property manager has been so unhelpful and actually hurting us in the long run. The fire was on 12/22/24. I’m writing this on 1/12/24. Tonight is our first night in our new home.

While we do, in fact, have renter's insurance, due to our property manager not being truthful and our insurance company not being compliant or helpful, we have been denied multiple times. We have had to come out of pocket for all living expenses, hotel stays, and deposit/rent for the new place. That being said, we fell behind a bit, and then to top it off, our only vehicle is gone now. And we just found out as of 1/13/25 that every apartment in our building was ransacked and a lot of our stuff was stolen. We both work full-time and have both of our amazing, awesome, perfect 2 three-year-olds. And now that we have the new place, we have had to start from scratch, which neither of us have done in a very long time.

Our amazing family and awesome friends have really helped us get our foot in the door with some things. We mostly need funds for a car to get kids to babysitters and us to work and also furniture and things for our new house. While I’m making a wishlist for things we need, some people have requested that we make somewhere everyone can donate funds to. Please, if you’ve already helped us, we thank you with every fiber of our beings and please do not hurt yourself helping us. We do not expect anything from anyone, and the things we have and will continue to receive are absolutely life-changing for our family. Times are hard! And we WILL make it through this. This is simply for us to collect what we can, to get back on track. 2024 wasn’t very nice to us, and 2025 isn’t exactly going as planned. But that’s not going to stop us!