Support Brian's Urgent Home Repairs

My name is Brian Lanc, and I am humbly asking for your help with very expensive home repairs.

I have never wanted to have to use gofundme. Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been one to take any help from anyone, whether it be them getting groceries for me, scooping the driveway, giving me rides to the hospital for surgeries, etc. without offering them money in return for their time and for me inconveniencing them. I’ve never wanted for things to get this bad that I would have to ask people for financial help, but here I am, broken, completely humbled, and in desperate need of compassion and help.

I need a new roof. If that’s not bad enough, the front porch that supports the overhanging porch gable is sinking and needs lifting to level out the porch and lift the sagging roof gable that’s supported by posts that set on the sinking porch. I can’t even get the roof done until this whole sinking porch and sagging roof gable issue is resolved.

As if finding out the price of the new roof wasn’t bad enough, the news of how much the porch repair would cost, to fix the overhanging porch gable made things worse.

Replacing the posts on the porch with longer ones isn’t an option, because the porch having such a slope to it causes the posts to gradually creep down along the sloped porch. The foundation repair guy also pointed out that the sloping porch is forcing soil and putting worsening pressure against the basement wall beneath the porch, so it needs to be fixed before it continues to worsen.

I have had several estimates done, and told them that I just want done only what is absolutely necessary due to my financial situation.

I have included pics of the estimates for the porch and for the roof.

I was hoping that the porch could be repaired by simple mudjacking, but that won’t work. It’s going to need deep piers put into the ground, lifted, and braced. The cheapest place I could find has placed the cost of doing that at $11,000. So I’m looking at close to $22,000 for these two essential repairs. The fascia and eaves also need repainting too, however much extra that would cost (I’m estimating $1,000 roughly). Those are the things that are absolutely needed compared to other repairs that I can do without for now.

I was my Mom’s full-time caretaker here at home for almost 7 years. Then I had a motorcycle accident in August 2020. Due to Social Security not considering the many years of me having been my Mom’s caretaker as employment, I didn’t have enough work credits when I had my accident to get ssdi, so I can’t get on disability. All I can do now is watch my bank account dwindle away and hope that somehow I will miraculously be healed enough so that I can actually one day live again. If not, I’m going to have to go through the nightmare of applying for ssi, and somehow financially and mentally cope with the denials and appeals that it seems almost everyone who applies for it faces, no matter how disabled they are.

My dad built this house. The front door was the first door that I was carried through when I left the hospital as a newborn. Except for a few years being away after high school, this has always been my home. This house, and all the memories that it holds is my everything.

I’ve been actively working on improving my mental and physical health, and unfortunately it has been slow with many setbacks and hurdles, especially with the multiple ankle nerve surgeries, which have caused and led to more pain and more problems.

I never wanted to be in this position, having to create a gofundme and ask for help like this, but I don’t see any other option at this point.

I just want to get better. I want to be healed. I want to be able to work and LIVE again, not just exist. I want to be able to be healthy enough to hopefully someday do home health so that I can help others like I helped my Mom, and have some meaningful purpose and fulfillment in my existence.

Since the motorcycle accident in 2020, I have lost so much. All I remember from the accident is a blue car bumper in front of me, no time to stop, going into the ditch to avoid hitting them, and then waking up in the hospital without any health insurance at that time.

I have lost my ability to walk without pain, and my ability to stand or sit even in a comfortable chair for more than a couple hours without horrible back pain arising from being upright. I lost my dog 3 months after the motorcycle accident, and less than 9 months after losing her, I lost my Mom because of hospital negligence. It was supposed to be a simple overnight stay for her, but she was ripped away from me the next day. She was all that I had, and I have been utterly devastated since then. I don’t know what to do. The grief just doesn’t go away for me.

I am humbly asking for compassion and assistance in lightening the load with this added burden of needed home repairs. I thought that I’d just need a new roof, as if that wasn’t bad enough, but now I need the porch fixed to lift and support the roof gable before I can get the shingling done, as lifting the porch and the roof gable will likely cause damage to the shingles, so I need the roof gable corrected before they replace the old shingles, which are around 24 years old.

If I am lucky enough to have my goal met for the needed repairs (the porch, the roof, and the fascia and eaves painted), any extra would be used solely for me to survive on during the process of appealing the likely upcoming ssi denials.

I ask that you please help, and that you please post this on your social media page and make it shareable. Spread the message of my situation and my need for help.

And if you’re religious, please pray that God would help this request to become widespread, and that he would move people to be compassionate givers to someone in desperate need.

Thank you for considering my situation and God bless you in advance for your charity.