Marti Coleman

Getting evicted while I’m 6 days post partum. We moved to LOUSIANNA in march to help out my husbands aunt who had dementia. We went to the coroners office to get her a diagnosis and some medicine since no one in her family was helping. The conditions of the house that we came home were horrendous and un livable the carpet was flooded the living room was flooded due to a toilet not working properly getting backed up in the tub as well. A dog that was huge and wouldn’t listen, overly aggressive that his aunt could not handle or take care of. Piles and piles of her clothes not being washed. Fast forward. We get her the help she needs all of a sudden her family wants to jump in and help and keep her medicine out of the house and just make our stay here mostly miserable. We stayed in our room 90% of the time, I worked up until 30 weeks pregnant. And we came by more family hoping to get some help with our toddler maybe once in a while. That never happened. My husband fixed up the floors fixed put brand new tile in, replaced the toilet, plumbing had to come out because of the pipe back up; it had to be snaked out. Got rid of the dog to a families house because he was untrained, peeing in her room, wouldn’t listen, very aggressive and just lived in the cage. my husband met the landlord who isn’t really a landlord just a friend of the daughters who had an extra house for her to stay in. No one gave us a forewarning of what we was walking into. Fast forward time again my husband makes food offers it to his aunt, gives her food, got her laundry caught up. Eventually some of the family who got themselves involved took her out of the home. The plan we had with the landlord the whole time was to rent the house once she was out. So it’s not September no rent was paid after she left at the end of the month we were left with a cut off notice on one of the bills we had to take care of due to non payment. We got that taken care of middle of September. October roles around we communicate with the landlord the whole time. He raises the rent to 1200 instead of 1000. Mind you I had no help with baby stuff and no baby shower due to not being around any family. It’s his family and they have been messy this whole time. They’re mostly older aunts who love drama and really has made me uncomfortable my whole stay here. Saying I’m some rich white girl that he is married to without any context of who I actually am. The dishwasher needed fixing. He had someone come out and still not fixed yet. Just wanted it ready to help with bottle cleaning. We paid him 800 dollars and by the time we was ready to put the rest of rent in his account we had an eviction on our door we had court Tuesday and lied and said a whole bunch of lies like we locked his aunt out and kept her furniture and belongings hostage. Which is not true because her daughter said she did not want anything and she had already taken all her clothes and whatever she needed a month prior to all of this. So bottom line is now we have to be out by five o’clock on Monday with a house full of furniture and no where to go, with a new born of 6 days and a toddler. I know everyone is going through their struggles right now but we could really use the help. Even if it’s a dollar we have no one to ask. And I had a c section so I am no much help in packing all of this stuff up. I am thankful I am mobile just getting around the house and walking form the bed to the couch to pump and hold my baby. This has been a disheartening time and really year with all that we endeared when we just came with good intentions and ready to start a new life in a new area surrounded by some people my husband have not seen in years. But it shortly after arrival just turned into such a headache. And no I feel frozen cause I have no idea what we are going to do within the next couple of days or where we are going to go. Please if you read any of this and have anything to spare I would greatly greatly appreciate from the bottom of my already heavy post partum heart. God bless.