Don’t feel bad if you giggled. There’s definitely something funny about that juxtaposition. However, it is the actual state of our lives, which is decidedly less funny.
Hey, I’m Nik. I’m a 20 year old Jewish lesbian with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which, if you’re not well-versed, basically means that my tendons and joints just absolutely hate staying in place. It’s caused severe chronic pain since I was thirteen, and has ruined my ability to do any kind of physical work. Regardless, I’ve been working retail jobs on and off; as you may know, minimum wage is not enough to live off of. My story is, in short, my body is all fucked up, my father’s dead and my mother is basically a teenager, and my fiancee & I are all alone in this wild world.
My fiancee, @meanexwife, is also here with me. We are both disabled, we are both doing literally all we can. In our rush to find somewhere to live, and at my mother’s pressuring to stay close to home, we’ve made a pretty grave mistake.
Our apartment complex is having us pay an exorbitant amount for a roach-infested, barely functioning home.
You can see the more detailed receipts on what’s wrong with the apartment here.
All of our plumbing is prone to breaking at the slightest provocation, we’ve got G-d knows how many roaches in our bathroom and kitchen, and their so-called pest control has done literally nothing. We’re also two disabled women living directly adjacent to known sexual predators. The apartment complex has acknowledged they know the people across from us, who have gone after us both before, are predatory. They have also done nothing about it. As an added fuck-you, they initially tried to give us a (somehow) worse unit; when we complained and tried to get it fixed, they gave us a second floor unit. Both of us have declining mobility. The stairs are not going to be doable for very much longer.
Management here is unavailable almost all the time and has no interest in the quality of life of their tenants. We’re poor anyway, and they are currently doing the wonderful work of exploiting us while keeping us in abysmal living conditions. If we can pay rent, we can’t eat. So. Help us out if you can. We’re not going to be able to do this much longer, and we have no outside help.
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