Camper For Emergency Housing

My name is Shauna. Most people call me Moose. I'm in a rough spot, BUT I have a long term solution and I could use a boost.

I live in Florida with my husband and I've been the only provider since we've met because he can't work. Hes been waiting forever for disability to come through.

In the meantime, I've been working non stop since we met. I work DoorDash for now because it makes me ok money. I work part time at the diner too and so I don't get days off. I still don't make enough to cover living expenses to pay the rent and bills at the apartment and the utility rates keep going up. I'm constantly fighting shut off notices, and I'm behind on rent again. I'm sinking here. The cost of living is too high with the insane apartment prices and it's given me a mental breakdown. No really. It was pretty bad and I never did get a break to heal up so I can't do it anymore. I can't make enough to handle a regular apartment with super high utility bills and carry two people. This is beyond hard for me. Putting this out here and exposing my issues is like stepping onto a stage with a light in my face, speaking to the dark on the other side. I have anxiety disorder dudes this sucks.

Recently, I got a job at 15.00 per hour plus huuge commissions. I filled out my new hire packet and got the job offer letter and filled out my tax forms and even got to choose my insurance coverage. I went to class for the sales job. I bought new clothes for the job. I stayed up late at night studying with my husband. I showed up to class everyday excited for a career. I was soooo happy and everyone was so proud of me. I could make decent money! I'd never need help again!..

I was expected to have the sales pitch script nailed down where I'd pressure the customer (one of you) to buy our solar panels. I had three days to learn all of those plus how to keep the customer from walking away. I had no idea that's what the job was. I just really like renewable energy.

I have a learning disability which makes my short term memory a little .... Special... and I couldn't remember the lines I rehearsed with my classmates even though I practiced. I froze during the pitch audit. I tried over and over and couldn't do it. They fired me before I ever got a chance. My friends tell me it's for the best because no matter how hard I tried, I could never be a pushy sales person. It's not who I am. It happened to me just a week or so ago and I was devastated. I felt like a stupid failure. I thought I had a job.

Despite all my trying, I will loose everything should one more thing go wrong. Im not capable of handling two jobs at once and so the only solution is to change my living situation to something more financially manageable and long term stable before everything collapses completely. There's no apartments anywhere less expensive than mine and they keep rising. My neighbor is currently renting out bedrooms at 650.00 per month per bedroom. Yeah. It's rough here. I found a way out. Here's my plan.

What if I told you, that you could move to a nice area and pay an average range of 300.00 to 800.00 a month in rent with utilities included in that? Some places even have electric included. If you don't like where you are, you can move any time you want. You own your walls, roof, bathroom, kitchen. Where you reside belongs to you. You just need to be willing to move into an RV or travel trailer. Yep. I need a travel trailer camper because regular apartments are too unaffordable for me. I've lived in one before. Two years. It's not bad. No seriously though, hear me out.

If I can buy a used travel trailer camper, I can cut our cost of living substantially which would allow me to save money for emergencies and to eventually get our own property. And I can buy my husband a car. I have people I can rely on to move the trailer from place to place for me who have already agreed to do it. If not, I can hire anyone with a pickup truck for a case of beer. We don't intend on moving more than three times over the next year or so. The longer we can stay at one place the better. The idea is to settle, and have a normal job in that area within an hour from work. Any food service job to do it in a pinch. Meanwhile, I can survive off almost anything including just door dash if I absolutely have to, but just about any job would float us at that point. Florida is packed with options for long term RV residents. Some are called "RV parks" and some refer to themselves as campgrounds, so there's absolutely no shortage of options for us. Nearly all of these places come with utilities included (lots of places include Internet) and facilities of some sort such as showers or laundry.

I can't begin to describe how much we need this for our mental and physical health. The weight of trying to maintain this place and two people is crushing me and I'm going to end up get evicted eventually. If I do, I will never be able to get into another apartment. I have anxiety attacks all the time and I need help. I can't go talk to a Dr for mental health help because I'm working all the time. I just keep working and working and working with no time off. I've landed myself in the hospital a few times. Once for nutrition deficiency. Magnesium and potassium was so low it was dangerous. Lowering the cost of living means better food and more time off to get help for the PTSD and depression that beats on me just for fun every day. And most importantly, more time off to enjoy my husband who never gets out of the house. More money to save to get a plot of land. I can take the ferrets to the vet when they need it instead of feeling like a bad pet mom. It means that we can have social interactions and make friends. My husband won't have a bunch of stairs to go down and he'll have things to do and people to talk to instead of being stuck inside all day never seeing his wife and stressing over money. There's people at RV parks and we desperately need local friends. We have no one here because ours from work moved away.

I need help getting a used tavel trailer camper and if there's anything left, the first month's rent at a park to get me started. If there's enough money left after the trailer, I might be able to pay for 2 months which would be fantastic.

The absolute lowest used trailers I'm finding online in the size we need (two adults and a massive ferret cage and our stuff) are $3,000 or more but those are mostly in need of some sort of repair. That's fine because I've done all of that before. I can find one in decent enough shape to start and then use the rest for the RV park rent...

I'm not asking for help to buy an object because it's pretty or cool or fun. Im asking for help buying the key to long term self sufficiently and better mental health. I'm asking for help to buy a home that no one can evict me from. I am absolutely desperate to get out of the sand pit. I'm almost out but I'm running out of time. One more tiny thing goes wrong between now and getting a trailer and we lose everything. This is my escape plan. A long term solution and I'm sooooo close to it.

I have done lots of research regarding laws and things like residency. We're good to go and we have local addresses we can use for mail. As soon as I have 3 thousand, I'm grabbing my husband and we're going to look at used trailers and RV parks/campgrounds/whatever works for us. God knows there's options. Give me two weeks tops and we're out of the apartment and into something I can actually afford.

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You can also find this video as an update below. I wanted to spare you the extra reading and did this instead https://youtu.be/s8PohfbMUF8?si=j9LY8sg95txjK48J