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I hate that it has come to this. The last thing I want to do is A) ask for help and B) resort to making a post on the internet and putting my business out for everybody to see. I have been through every available option, and this was my last resort.
Here is my situation. I'm a single mom with no support system at all. Today marks 6 years of losing my second son at 5 months. Today also marks the moment that my 12-year-old living son and I will be kicked out on the streets come Monday morning. I'm aware it is very last minute; that is because I was trying everything in my power to come up with something on my own and explore every possible available option before resorting to asking for help from people. I've been working every day, coming home, and making a million calls, explaining everything over and over again like a broken record. Unfortunately, I've reached the end of what options might be able to direct me somewhere that can assist me. My son and I are all over the place, having to face the reality that this eviction seems inevitable. I have nowhere to turn to. Between that and the extreme emotions/depression we go through from him losing his brother and me losing my youngest son 6 years ago a week and a half before Christmas, we are trying to make it through Christmas and the daily struggle of raising a kid and trying to keep afloat long enough to catch a quick breather.
I live in the middle of the country, and my car stopped working, and I lost my transportation to get to work for a while. So, as expected, the bills kept piling up because I couldn't make it to work and was between jobs. My car is still sitting in my driveway, still not working.
I finally was able to start working again 3 weeks ago, and I came home last Saturday from work, and I have a letter posted on my door telling me that my son and I have to vacate by this Monday coming up. I've been working with housing, and my landlord goes through a third-party rental agency to take care of rent. I have been open with them about why I've been behind and when I can start paying, as well as letting them know about housing taking over payments. The company needed to provide housing with an updated lease to match housing's records, as well as signing and sending housing back these forms so they can release the checks that have been filled out and ready to be sent to pay my rent. The rental agency still has yet to do this, and I've kept calling them over the last few months to get it squared away. Like I mentioned, I just started back to work 3 weeks ago, and I told them I will get paid next Wednesday and again on the 3rd, and please work with me. I intend on getting caught back up and haven't had the money to do so because of no work. And now I have a steady full-time job, and I won't be getting behind anymore. They refuse to work with me and insist I have to pay the full amount to stay.
I do understand where they are coming from, and like them, I do wish to give them what is owed.
I can't come up with the money in the 10 days (which now is down to 3 days) they gave me notice for my eviction. I cannot come up with a solution. I've made calls to housing, the rental agency, both courthouses, Center for Community Action (which I had their help about 4 years ago and exceeded what they are able to do until 2026 or 2027). I called Catholic Charities, which there's no funding, and a few other places. I've called several legal aid places, and I've broadened my calls and search to outside of McConnellsburg. I've called everywhere here to Bedford to Chambersburg. There's no help for me and my son.
I know it is Christmas, and I know even without the holidays, times are tough. But I really cannot afford to lose my house for my son. I have nowhere or nobody to take me in. There are no shelters in McConnellsburg, and I don't have transportation to get anywhere, let alone to my job here if there is an opening in a shelter in Chambersburg, which is where I would have to go if they have the room. So, I lose my house, my job that is supporting us now, and all the food I had bought I would have to throw away because of not having anywhere to put it due to being homeless and then me not having the funds to get more food for us to eat each day. My son will be uprooted from his school and his friends and the in-school programs my son really needs to excel in his education. Then we will lose our dogs as well because of not being able to have them at a shelter. I got the oldest dog right after my youngest son died for my oldest son. I'm really going through the motions and don't know what to do or what I think this post will accomplish. I REALLY NEED HELP. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, GOD, HEAR MY CALL AND SEND US A MIRACLE. WE DON'T NEED ANYTHING FOR THE HOLIDAY OTHER THAN TO BE ABLE TO REMAIN IN OUR HOUSE AND MY SON TO BE ABLE TO STAY AT HIS SCHOOL AND KEEP OUR DOGS. THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT MATTERS TO ME.
I hate the fact I have to do this because I don't see any other option. I hate that my son has to keep watching me struggle non-stop and run myself ragged to try and provide the necessities, let alone another year where Christmas is off the table and to add another life-changing situation to his life before the holidays. I know times are tough just trying to make do with trying to afford what you need to get by in life, then here it is Christmas time to top it all off, and I know everybody is struggling. But please, if anybody can help with anything, it is seriously needed and would be greatly appreciated.
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