Hello friends and family, my family is about to lose our home by August and we are urgently in need of some help at the moment.

We rent our house and were informed that the homeowner had decided to sell. We are currently not on a lease and as I understand they are only required to give us a 30 day notice.

We would have the option to buy it ourselves but we have not the best credit and our income is from gig work and under the table small jobs etc. and the bank would obviously want to see a steady income I’d assume. I’ve been fantasizing that we could stumble across some magical money or that we knew a millionaire who would buy the house and let us stay.

The first issue is that we LOVE our home. We have lived here for 8 years. Kate and I moved here specifically so that we could start a family. Sadie started her life here. It’s the only home she’s ever known. She randomly says to me fairly often ”I love 3 3rd Street and I never want to move”. I would usually tell her we had no plans of moving and I didn’t want to leave either.

Sadie loves it here. She loves her yard and waking to the beach at the pond across the street and the playground, and going for walks in our neighborhood and her yard and her playroom etc…

after telling myself for years I would set up a music/art space in the basement I FINALLY put together the music space I dreamed I would have in my house when I was a teenager a year and a half ago. Our friend (and former drummer of our band) Jason passed away and we were playing a show to memorialize him and needed a place to practice and now I have it and I had so many more plans for it.

I love my music space and my meditation room, this whole house, and all the memories in it.

This is Sadie’s house, This is my family’s house and it’s making me sick to my stomach to have to leave.

We had no intention to leave and I always hoped we could buy it someday.

The second issue (and perhaps the larger issue, though in the immediate I’m stuck on the part where I’m losing the home we love) is that by August we are homeless.

While Kate is finishing school full time and me around more to watch Sadie we have been making ends meet with gig work and under the table odd jobs. We have been consistently about a month behind in rent for a while and we live day to financially, trying to stitch together funds and warding off debtors to keep everything going. That being said, while our main focus is figuring out how to not leave our home, we just don’t have the money it costs to move and have no emergency option of somewhere to move to temporarily.

What to speak of the fact that Katie has been dealing with health issues and recovering from 2 recent surgeries that were a lot to deal with emotionally and financially as it was.

I’m terrified, defeated, devastated, sick to my stomach that I can’t save the day for my family. I woke up with that feeling the day after a loved one dies and you remember that it happened, and that it wasn’t a bad dream.

My “pie in the sky” goal is to find a way to a buy our house before someone else can and am looking into all avenues to make that happen but at the very least we will need money to cover first, last, and security, moving expenses etc.

Love to you all and thank you ❤️