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Urgent Help for Lissette's Family Facing Homelessness

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Hello everyone, my name is Lissette but some also know me as Serenity. I really really hate asking for help but now I am at no point but asking for help or risking losing everything.

To start, I am a mom of 5 beautiful kids and a dog breeder. I have 8 beautiful german shepherds and I care for my nanas elderly border collie after she went into the nursing home. I have lived in her home for the last 10 years or so and was also born and raised here. I originally only planned to be here for a short time and move out but my nana got dementia and her health declined so stayed. It is a 2 family home and I used to live above her. She has recently this year gone into a nursing home and is now too far gone with dementia to make choices for herself. She has many back bills to the nursing home so they took it to court and have deemed the house needs to sell and all her assets, which I have been living in and using (her car) for years. Nothing matters about that according to courts since it is all in her name. The next court date is the 10th but I am facing losing my home, my car, and all of my dogs if I don't come up with the means to move. Yes I can get emergency housing but then I lose my dogs, my job, my car, and any will I have left. My animals are my life and I would be no where without them. Most of the furniture is hers and was ruined by her cats so most things need to be replaced. I have been living in a home with lead piping for water, no heat (furnace is broken so space heaters were needed), and much more just to help her get by and me get on my feet. But now I don't have a choice and I have been paying for 2 households worth of bills (the up and downstairs) while caring for all my kids, the dogs, and my father who isn't working at the moment. I am at a loss and don't know what to do anymore. I would need a home that accepts dogs and a rent to own likely. I would need a car to get my kids around, furniture for them, and a down payment. I feel broken, I feel like a failure, I feel like no matter how many times I try to do right by my kids I keep getting knocked down. If I can't find some help soon I am just losing everything and I am going to break. I work so hard to provide for them all but I only make enough to get by, and that is it.

So anyways, thank you in advance for any help, again I seriously hate that it has come to this but I don't know what else to do anymore.
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    Lissette Guzman
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    Utica, NY

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