I don't normally ask for help like this. And I don't like doing it, but who does? I'm just asking for you to listen, and maybe share this with people who might be willing to help...
In 2001, me and my family moved here from GA. My Grandpa had bought a duplex for us to live in. Him in one side, us in the other. The mortage was paid off in full, and we were blessed. There was just one catch. Property taxes. Each year we had to pay the property taxes. And even though my Grandpa has moved out and now lives in TN., he expects us to pay them or we'll get kicked out. He doesn't help us at all with them.
Each year, we have paid it off to make sure we can keep our house. But this year, it's been a little hard on us. My mother is the soul provider. She works her butt off to make sure we (me and my Uncle) have food to eat, clothes to wear, and are happy and healthy. I would work if I could to help out, but because of my Anxiety, I can't. And my uncle is disabled, so he can’t either. He gets checks, which help a lot, but sadly they never come when we actually need it. We have the money for my Grandpa’s side, but we’re coming up short on ours.
My mom works 60+ hour work weeks at the Hospital just to break even, and we still live paycheck to paycheck. We still end up struggling towards the end of the week. So you'd imagine, when she found out she had shingles and would have to miss a 1+ week of work, that would be hard on us. She only worked two days and is getting the minimal PTO, but that still is going to be too late to help us with the property taxes. We’re having a Yardsale, figuring up things to pawn, but we still don’t think it’s going to be enough. Not when it’s due in less than a week. We barely have the money to survive, let alone pay this off in full (which is around 2,000ish dollars). Seeing as we’ve been living off my mother’s $300 limit credit card for the past week or so.
Again, I don’t like asking this. But this is basically our only option. I want to help my mom, and this is the only way I know how to. The shingles was caused by stressed, and my mom is stressed enough as is. I’m watching her fall apart in fear she’s going to lose her house, and I hate it. We’d have nowhere to go, and my siblings have done nothing to help us. I’m not asking you to donate $100, I’m not even asking you to donate $10. Anything would help, even your prayers. I just don’t want to lose the place I’ve basically grown up in. It’s broken, and messy, and not perfect, but it’s a place with a (semi-)solid roof over my head.
Thank you for listening. If you could please reblog this that would help so much, thank you.
(tldr; Basically we have to raise enough money to pay off our property taxes in less than a week and are short a pretty good amount, and if we don’t come up with it soon we’ll be kicked out So if you could help by donating/sharing this, that would be great.)