Please boost! We need help ASAP!
So as y’all know, if ya don’t there’s about 2 years worth of posts on my blog where I’ve talked about this, we’ve been dealing with a violent and dangerous situation with our neighbor and shady ass slumlord of a property manager.
TW:: Some of the audio might be triggering to anyone who’s been in a violent situation — also broken glass and yelling — Here’s a link to the Instagram highlight I made with all the “tea” on it (as it relates to what we’ve been dealing with these last few months; but it’s just the tip of the iceberg for what’s been going on since late 2019), including video and audio clip proof of my neighbor’s violent and dangerous behavior.
We’re trying to move asap! Unfortunately, after my 99’ mercury mountaineer was totaled last October when someone hit it from behind at a red light, we spent all our savings (plus the insurance money) on the beetle. It was definitely worth it. We needed a car so my boyfriend could continue his chiropractor appointments and we could stop wasting $50 a ride on cabs to his work. But it completely dried out our savings. So we are back to living paycheck to paycheck (as I’m sure a lot of you can relate to as well). This means coming up with $1,400 to move is almost impossible for us to do in a timely manner.
We don’t have time to wait. Our property manager has made it very clear that she isn’t concerned with our safety. She was on speaker phone with our other neighbor when she [our upstairs neighbor] was threatening us at our door (watch 4th story on the highlight I linked) and she [our property manager] claimed that there was nothing she could do about it. We emailed her the day our hot water was stolen and.. she did nothing about it. We emailed her the night our neighbor swept broken glass, trash and cigarette butts onto our patio.. and she did nothing about it. She refuses to evict this woman despite her being violent, dangerous, a disturbance to everyone around her and, being complained about multiple times by multiple residents.
I have chronic pain (fibromyalgia) and a compromised immune system; so working a physically labor intensive job, during a pandemic, isn’t an ideal solution for me. Despite this I’ve applied at 120+ places, I’m just waiting for a call back. I have an Etsy shop, and I’m a freelance crochet artist. I make enough to survive but not enough to save. I’m also trying to slowly chip away at the $20,000+ of medical debt I’ve accumulated over the last 8 years. My boyfriend is a dance teacher but he’s also applied for a part time as well, even though he doesn’t really have time and he’s still recovering from the accident. These part time jobs won’t be forever, we’re just trying to get anything we can to save money at this point. Even if it compromises our health. At this point, living where we live now, our health is already going south; especially our mental health.
I’m just trying to move. Affording to actually live in a new place isn’t obviously the problem (as we live in our own apartment now; and the rent at this place is actually cheaper than the market value rent of our current place) it’s just there are so many costs to moving that paying rent + bills + groceries + medications + debt + other essentials leaves no room for actually saving to move out. There’s security deposit + first months rent + a deposit to get electricity turned on + cost to switch internet to new place + uhaul rental. It’s a lot.
So I’m asking anyone who might want to help if they can drop a few dollars on my ko-fi — or even better — if you crochet (or knows someone who does) you can purchase one of my patterns. They’re all currently 25% off as of posting this (and will be on sale until Jan 24th 2022). If you’d like to purchase a custom crocheted sweater, cardigan, bralette etc. please feel free to message me and I can give you a quote on price and turn around time estimations. And you can check out my Instagram to see examples of all my work.
Thank you so much in advance for any and all help. We are so desperate to get away from this dangerous and incredibly mentally exhausting situation.
My Etsy shop (with crochet patterns)
