I pay it forward and now I need some help please. I've always been a kind and giving person - I have been an active member of service organizations such as Campfire Girls, Key Club (Kiwanis for HS), Circle K (Kiwanis for college), and my credo has always been THE GOLDEN RULE.
I have given much of what I can spare to help other people. It's not something I have been forced to do, just something that is very rewarding to me - I love to help people, even sometimes when I am myself in need.
I never gave expecting something in return, but I find myself in difficult times and I need some serious help.
I don't like to ask, but I desperately need some angels...
To be brief - mercifully (honest I will try but this is complicated) - I am 51 years old, disabled (cannot work) and on welfare, waiting for SSI to be approved (third time's the charm?) (sigh).
I applied for Section 8 (subsidized housing) when I had been injured and no longer able to work, and after ten years of waiting, it was GRANTED!!! Finally some relief in sight, except I do not have any money to MOVE.
I need a security deposit and I need money to pay people to come in and pack me up to move me out.
There are NO agencies that have been able to help me. In this awful economic state this country is in, nobody has any money - especially for single people. They all help families over singles.
I cannot find anyone who can help me, and my Section 8 voucher will expire soon and I will NOT be able to pay my rent AT ALL.
My predicament is worse because my current landlord has tried to and threatened to kill me. He is a sick and brutal man and he's abused and tormented me (for no reason other than that I am POOR and an easy target) (and I am not the only one he's tormented) ever since his mother bought the place in which I live.
YES, police, detectives, lawyers, judge, city attorney, adult protective services, department of consumer affairs, &tc, &tc, &tc, have been contacted (TRO granted but not made permanent) but apparently they can't do anything about his tormenting harassment of me unless he actually attacks me physically.
Apparently mental abuse is not criminal.
He wants me out of here so he can rent my apartment for three times the rent he is getting from me (rent control area - 18 years of residence).
He cannot find a legal way to evict me so instead of paying me to leave, he's simply decided to wait me out until I have no more money to pay the rent (rapidly approaching).
He even refused to take a money order from a highly respected charity for my rent. He is singing and dancing in our backyard right now, about the prospect of evicting me.
I desperately need to get out of here to save my own life. I am a quiet, gentle, and giving person, and I just want a little peace and quiet and safety.
I have nowhere else to turn. I do not like to beg, but I am desperate, and there are far more unfortunate circumstances at play here than I have related. Were I to tell it all, I'd have to write a book.
God Bless you, Angels. I promise I will pay it forward.
