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Struggling After Roommate's Crisis

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Thank you to everyone who has helped me so far, I truly cannot express in words how much it's meant and helped!!! I have a few leads about a potential roommate but nothing so far. I have been able to pay February and March rent and my utilities but now with April right around the corner I am once again struggling.


I have been looking into legal ways to have ex roommate pay but so far the cheapest way I've found is an insane retainer, so I'm going to keep looking. I really hope she never does this to anyone else.


I'm hoping that everyone could please share this post, and ask others to share this post I would be so grateful! My goal is to have a roommate by May!


Again thank you everyone who has donated and has shared my post and a huge thank you to everyone who has helped me already






I had a roommate move into my apartment in December. The first month went really well. When January first came, everything changed. She locked herself in her room and would be screaming at the top of her lungs. She didn't talk to me for days until one night she woke me up screaming for me to call 911. This was the first time I called emergency services, but it wasn't even close to being the last. It was after that I learned my roommate was a horrendous alcoholic. Her bedroom was covered in empty cans, bottles, nips, food, trash, and urine. After taking her to the hospital, I was late to work. Her mother came over, cleaned her room, and took her dirty clothes home to clean. She was discharged less than 24 hours later. She came home and promised never to do it again, and I believed her because I've never been around someone with an addiction. Since that day, I called 911 twice a day almost every day, sometimes three times a day. She continued to drink, lie, and steal from me while destroying her room. She would go to my neighbors and ask them for alcohol and money while I was at work. She would also sit in the main entrance to ask anyone who came into the building for the same things. I would buy groceries, and then they would be gone within two days. She would walk around the house naked while on her period and bleed on my furniture, and she would leave the door to the apartment open (not just unlocked) so anyone and anything could get in. If I was not calling 911 on her, she would call it on herself. At one point, she passed out, and the firefighters had to break the door open (they now have to replace the entire door and frame). Around this time, I learned of her previous run-ins with the police, and I began to feel unsafe in my home. I was scared she would hurt my dogs and had to leave the camera on that I have for my dogs all day long. At one point, I had my brother, who lives in Boston, stay with me because I was afraid. Every time she went into the hospital, I thought they would hold her, and every time she was home within hours. She started saying she was trying to kill herself, and when I got it on camera, she told the officer I was lying, and he didn't help. I filled out multiple IEAs to get her the help she kept telling me she wanted. Finally, she got into a detox program in Massachusetts and was gone for five days. While there, she knew she had to pay for the door, utilities for January, and the upcoming rent for February, and she agreed to all of it. On January 29th, she told me she was moving out and would not be paying February's rent or the door replacement fee. After a long back-and-forth text, she agreed to pay February's rent on the third. As of today, the fourth, she has not paid rent, has not cleaned the room covered in filth and bodily fluids, and still has several things of hers in the room. At this point, I am afraid I will be homeless because I cannot afford $2,600 a month, not including utilities. Since I took time off work to help her and she stole so much food from me, I have been eating about one meal a day so I can make sure my dogs have food, and I am struggling to pay my regular bills (car, phone, and credit card bill that is maxed out from buying groceries on it). I hate having to ask for help, but I am not sure how much longer I can live like this without asking for help. I am currently looking for a roommate and will be finding out what I can do legally, but in the meantime, I need a place to live and be able to buy food. So I am asking for help from anyone who can spare a little. I would be grateful for anything, but I am trying to get enough to cover the rent for a month or two since it's winter and it's harder to find a roommate. Thank you, everyone, for reading this and helping me.

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