
Help to stay in our home ❤️
Let me start off by saying thank you for even taking the time to click on the link and make it this far. This is by far the most awkward, hardest and embarrassing thing that I have had to do but at some point you have to put your pride aside and do whatever it takes for your children. For those that know me, know that I can ramble on and on. A two minute story usually ends up being thirty. I’ll try and keep this as brief as possible.
We have been faced with a less than ideal situation. At first, we were told we needed to move out of our house by this Saturday. After searching and searching for a place to live and a terrible Craigslist ad experience, I went to my landlord yesterday and begged him to work something out with me to let us stay.
Here is what he is willing to offer in orderfor us to stay. By Monday June 29th, I must be current on rent (June and July paid) and provide 3 months worth of security deposits in order to sign a new lease. In total that is $3325, as my rent is $665/month as well as each security deposit. I rounded up to $4000 to help with groceries, car payment, gas, electricity and water as this is going to take every bit of money I have and will make over the next few weeks or so and not fall behind on all of thosebills.
As a struggling single parent of a 7, 8 and 16 year old, I do not have that kind of money saved up. My attempt at making extra money by posting to Craigslist in hopes of working some side jobs (painting, pressure washing, etc) or finding someone with a rental house/apartment that neededwork done to it was met with numerous offers of paying for sexual favors, child pornography, and to be involved in a prostitution “business.”
Luckily, I am still receiving pay from my full time employer as well as picking up shifts at my part time job. We plan to have ayard sale in the next few weeks to help ourselves out but we have a deadline that is just 3 days away.
Whenever the time comes, hopefully awhile from now, that we do move and are given the 3 deposits back, I will keep track of all the money and repay it to each person. In the meantime, I would like to make payment arrangements to pay each person that helps us out back before that time comes and/or do some type of work to compensate like yard work, cleaning, painting, etc.
Also, I have been stuck in a house with 3 boys for months... I will not survive being stuck living out of my car or a cardboard box with them.
Sarcasm and jokes are how I handle uncomfortable situations or feeling ashamed. Basically, we are broke, about to be homeless, and I am not desperate enough to be a prostitute...yet. So, gofundme it is.
In all seriousness, we are in need and would appreciate any and all help that anyone could send our way.
Thank you,
Cassidy, Sam, Hunter and Easton