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Another 2 mobile homes went up for sale a 2,000 one and a 4,000 one, but both are investor/contractor specials and not being offered to the general public for sale currently. Wouldn't mind the 4,000 one which looks to be a double wide possibly it doesn't look to bad. Might have a possible go around on the trailer parks investor labeling, because I have a friend that is a contractor.
The park I'm in now only has two trailers up for sale currently. One is $7,000 and is a contractor special so I can't even look at it. The other one is $34,000 and it's a 1977 has a open car port and also a shed, and description says all appliances are included. Even with all that's it's not worth what there asking and it's Hunt selling it. They originally had it up for 60,000 so they have dropped price quite a bit.

Scheduled a walkthrough with the trailer park for today and they called me yesterday and cancelled. Supposedly they already sold (under contract) the trailer even though it's still up for sale on multiple sites. So I guess it's time to look for more mobile homes in the area.

Waiting on trailer park sales team to e-mail me with interior pictures of the trailer. I'd like to possibly schedule a walk through of the property so i can see the condition of the inside of the trailer to see what kind of work needs to be done to it, and just to see the layout of everything like the 2 rooms and the 2 full bathrooms. I already can see that the kitchen, dining room, and living room are in the middle of the trailer. Apparently they have been away on some sort of sales training.
I've looked over the outside of the trailer twice yesterday and today again. Definitely needs a little bit a work on the outside. There's a window on the left side of the trailer that needs the wood framing redone or just taken out and replaced with a better window and framing. In addition, the wood framing around the garage door definitely needs to be replaced. E-mailed whoever has it up for interior pictures last night no response yet. Going to request a walk through for maybe Thursday or Friday this week just to look at the interior.
Spotted a 1984 trailer that the park or owners have up for sale for $3,100 only and lot rent is like $680 a month. The trailer park is kept up pretty nice, and they seem a lot more active than my old trailer park owners.
Moved into my friends place last Thursday and I'm all settled in as of today 9/6. Could of grabbed more stuff from my trailer since the Sheriff's and the trailer park showed up this morning (found out from one of my neighbors). Oh well I'm all passed that right now. Just trying to figure out my future plans.
Just need something to happen in my favor either my workers compensation case or social security disability claim. Probably going to be my workers compensation first since social security disability is only in step 3 of 5 so far.
Ended up filling the 2nd trailer up yesterday plus filled a small pickup also. Moved most everything to my storage unit, and have it pretty we'll packed up with my stuff. And I've moved in with one of my close friends last night. I've got a mid size bedroom which I'm totally happy with for right now instead of a county hotel/motel room.
Going to need to get a PO box to send my mail to for the time being. Priced them and there $60 for a small box for 3 months which it's fine, but it automatically renews itself which is sort of the bad part.

Have the 1 of 2 trailer loads ready to take up to my storage unit. Then i plan on filling it a second time tonight and Wednesday to take up on Thursday.
Bought 4 more 27 gallon stackable totes from Walmart today. Plan on filling them Monday getting ready to move them on my friends trailer. I plan on possibly moving them on Tuesday and refilling trailer Tuesday and Wednesday to possible move 2nd load on Thursday sometime. So slowly but surely things are moving along.

I wanted to thank each one of you that have donated to me. I can't thank you enough.
I've come to the realization that I'm going to loose my trailer which in a way I'm good with it as weird as that sounds.
So I've been using the donations wisely as I can. Bought some totes to pack the belongings I plan on keeping and I plan on grabbing a couple more (Wal-Mart has 27 gallon stackable totes for $9.97). And I rented a 6x10 storage unit for October and I've had a friend drop off his open ended trailer that I've started packing.

This is actually me trying to get help right now.
Trailer park e-mailed me back and is requesting the full amount to cancel the lock out which is a little over $9,000 right now.

Moved into my mobile home with my dad in 2011. Been by myself since 2017 or 2018. Never had a problem paying my lot rent whether I was working my seasonal job or on unemployment in the winter. Found what I believed to be my dream job (2021) and hopefully my last job with a state pension and benefits and a decent starting wage of $17.00 per hour. Cooking staff was the only people that weren't union. They couldn't keep dishwashers for the life of them. When I started there where always 2 dishwashers on for Friday and Saturday for the restaurant I worked at to keep up with the volume. Couple months in we where down to 1 older dishwasher that I always helped while doing my pantry station. Then they started to messing around with the station's. Such as a line cook covering pantry and line or one of the other dishwashers covering pantry or having wait staff do some of it while I worked another food stand where I worked on Friday and Saturday. Monday I got hurt I was covering my station pantry and dish pit covering for our dishwashers day off. I don't mind helping somebody else while doing my own job. But to cover 2 stations while only getting paid for doing 1 is kind of ridiculous. And the fact that it was happening more and more often in the restaurant with other workers having to do the same thing. Sorry if that was long just needed to vent a bit.

I've never tried this before, but I'm pretty much at my wits' end. I currently have a New York State Workers' Compensation case going into permanency, and I'm also waiting on Social Security Disability for a hearing date on my claim. Haven't had any significant income in over a year. And I'm pretty much in desperation mode right now. This GoFundMe is just going to my past due lot rent on my owned mobile home, trying to possibly prevent my eviction (9/3/2025 was my served day) so I have 30 days from that date to come up with anything to hopefully satisfy my landlords of the trailer park.

Let me go into a little more detail on my current situation. I was hurt at work in 2021 October I received full workers compensation benefits until March 2022 when they reduced them. After they reduced them I was still getting by with no problems. On June 2024 my workers compensation benefits where stopped. Because of the reduction in 2022 I was partially disabled and showed of been attached to the work force by doing work searches and applying to jobs which was never said to me. It was then brought up in the winter of 2023. I obtained a new lawyer January or February of 2024 and was told to not do any work searches until the judge ruled on the case. I always received a call for hearing if I wasn't logged on to the virtual hearing, but never received the call nor did my lawyer so they ruled against me and stopped my payments.

I had a permancy doctor's exam in July 2024 it took over 1 full year from then to finally have a virtual hearing for my permancy and I gave testimony this Monday and it'll be another month to find out how everything worked out. Which is when I'm being evicted from my mobile home.

I've been working on getting a job currently, but with my permanent work restrictions are making it hard if not totally impossible. I've applied to quite a few in the last month. I've even gone to DSS for help as was told even if I got approved for emergency assistance since I have a 30 day eviction notice no money would be sent to my trailer park landlord. In addition, to this with DSS in June I went in for help with my electric being disconnected on the 12th. I was told they couldn't help me with it. Even though the New York State MyBenefits page states if you have a disconnect warning or have been disconnected on any of your utilities to contact your local DSS office for assistance.

I have this fundraiser set at $9,000 actually, but gofundme set it at 2,200 to start it out for some reason. My end still says the 9,000.

Every bit helps no matter the amount. I can thank everyone enough right now. Going to get a hold of my landlord tomorrow to ask what amount off of what I owe would delay the eviction 1 month maybe 2 to see the outcome of my workers compensation case around the time of my eviction date.


Any of my family or friends, please share this so it can get out to as many people as possible. Thank you in advance for any donations given to me.

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    John Kilanowski
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    Batavia, NY
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