Katie needs a place to live.
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I'm having an extremely difficult time finding a place to live. Firstly, there's my credit. After the divorce, my financial situation completely died because I had to keep up with child support and the mortgage on my condo, and everything else went to the wayside. I get calls from at least 8 bill collectors every day, usually multiple times a day, and it has utterly destroyed my credit.
Secondly, there's the situation of being transgender... normally I wouldn't even mention this, but here in Utah, it's a problem. I was rejected face to face by 4 different potential room mates in a row, so I started telling people up front when responding to ads for private rooms, just saying "hey, are you okay living with someone who is transgender?" The answers have ranged from "that's f!*(#@# disgusting" to "you can pay me in sex instead of rent", and pretty much not a single "yes" in between there.
So I'm stuck. I have lots of good friends here, but I really feel that I've worn out my welcome with most of them and I'm afraid of damaging friendships if I keep crashing their apartments, so I started sleeping in my car a couple times a week. I have one application I'm waiting to hear back on, which I'm not too hopeful about, for a basement apartment in Millcreek.
If I get it, any money from this GoFundMe will go to the security deposit for that. It is $600/month with $600 security deposit. I get paid $1200 on the 15th, but with that paycheck I'll also need to pay $300 on my car to avoid Repo, and $650 in child support. I'm losing hope fast, friends.
If I don't get the basement apartment, money from this GoFundMe will go to buying a small camping trailer and hitch for my car, so I can live in the trailer down at the KOA or something, which still isn't great but beats the hell out of trying to sleep in the driver's seat.
You guys don't know how difficult it is for me to put this out there. It's not pride I'm having to swallow in asking for help, it's guilt and the feeling that I'm not worth helping in this way. Everyone has financial problems, so why should mine be worse than anyone else's that makes me think I deserve to stick my hand out and hope for pocket change? Well they're not... everyone has problems, so if you can't help or won't, I don't blame you. But I'm at the end of my rope and have to ask anyway.
Secondly, there's the situation of being transgender... normally I wouldn't even mention this, but here in Utah, it's a problem. I was rejected face to face by 4 different potential room mates in a row, so I started telling people up front when responding to ads for private rooms, just saying "hey, are you okay living with someone who is transgender?" The answers have ranged from "that's f!*(#@# disgusting" to "you can pay me in sex instead of rent", and pretty much not a single "yes" in between there.
So I'm stuck. I have lots of good friends here, but I really feel that I've worn out my welcome with most of them and I'm afraid of damaging friendships if I keep crashing their apartments, so I started sleeping in my car a couple times a week. I have one application I'm waiting to hear back on, which I'm not too hopeful about, for a basement apartment in Millcreek.
If I get it, any money from this GoFundMe will go to the security deposit for that. It is $600/month with $600 security deposit. I get paid $1200 on the 15th, but with that paycheck I'll also need to pay $300 on my car to avoid Repo, and $650 in child support. I'm losing hope fast, friends.
If I don't get the basement apartment, money from this GoFundMe will go to buying a small camping trailer and hitch for my car, so I can live in the trailer down at the KOA or something, which still isn't great but beats the hell out of trying to sleep in the driver's seat.
You guys don't know how difficult it is for me to put this out there. It's not pride I'm having to swallow in asking for help, it's guilt and the feeling that I'm not worth helping in this way. Everyone has financial problems, so why should mine be worse than anyone else's that makes me think I deserve to stick my hand out and hope for pocket change? Well they're not... everyone has problems, so if you can't help or won't, I don't blame you. But I'm at the end of my rope and have to ask anyway.
Organizer
Katie Tilley
Organizer
Pleasant Grove, UT