My husband and I were separated from 2004 to 2006 and brought our marriage back to God and were reconciled in July, 2006. In August, to make a good start and because methamphetamine dealers were taking over our neighborhood, we moved with our three children and dog to a smaller town. I had a place all set up to rent. As we were pulling the moving truck out of the driveway, the landlord called to say the new place...not so much. So we were essentially homeless but chose to proceed to the new town anyway.
We stayed on a family farmhouse for 3 months but that was not to be permanent as it had no furnace. In November, 2006 we found a great house to rent in the new town, my husband had been working construction and I had some money coming in from my writing.
He lost his job in December.
He found a better one in January.
I worked part time retail from January to May but at that point summer came and what I would make would all be going to daycare for our four year old and we did not qualify for day care assistance because I was not working 28 hours a week.
Over the summer I was promised $10,000 from a single writing contract (signed and notartized) and another $2-5,000 from various writing activities, some of which were potential clients who, for whatever reason never signed their contracts.
I received none of this money. The $10k was promised in May and I still don't have it. The rest, well, I guess it is their perogative if they sign up or not but they said they were going to in July and August. This money was going to go to the landlady to buy the house on contract. Now her own child has moved back to town and being on a month to month lease she can oust us to get her own child in the house.
We did make the mistake of paying groceries and lights and school expenses before rent.
That will NEVER happen again. We will pay for the roof over our heads first because we have more options for procuring food, etc. I take ownership for the mistake and it will not repeat.
I am now working a call center job with part time evening hours and will get my first paycheck on October 3. I also have an interview for a part time admin assistant job and I have the exact experience of this job -- admin for a national nonprofit -- I worked as a temp for the exact same nonprofit at a different location doing the exact same thing and now I know a lot more about nonprofit management so I would be great at this job. Unfortunately we have to be out by the 28th. Yeah 4 days from now. And we don't have a place yet. "It's rented." "It's been rented." "No pets." "No children." "It's been rented." "Do you have good credit?"
Husband has been working steady all year at the same job never missed a day and has had two raises. However it only brought him up to $9.75 an hour which is not enough for five people to live on.
Our mistake in paying other expenses and bills before rent did catch up to us but we will never do it again.
We need $1500 for moving expenses but will take whatever we can get to not leave the landlady who has been generally good to us up til now in the lurch. I tried to have a yard sale but as it was a cool windy day it only made $50.
We have strong faith that God will find us the perfect house (this one turned out not to be ideal as the ceiling fell in on my daughter's head one day as she was sitting on the computer minding her own business.
I have bipolar disorder and my teen son has autism and my husband has Marfan's so we have our struggles and medical bills too but right now we just need a new place to live immediately.
I also have faith that one day my $10k will come in. After all they signed a legal contract so they can't just say, "not so much" at this point. I could go after them if they continue to delay or make excuses but for now I want to work with them. Should that ship come in, I vow to help the next person or more than one person or family with at least as much $$$$ as I receive on here.
I think that is what will make this community thrive.
Thank you so much for your consideration and God bless you and your loved ones.
A (wife) B (4 year old son) C (11 year old daughter) D (teen son) E (dad) F(cat - may she rest in peace) G (black Labrador dog).
