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Help Overcome Financial Hardship After Roommate's Abuse

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As some of you know, my mother died a few years ago from covid. You guys helped me out back then to get on my feet because I wasn't working at the time to try to prevent my mom from getting covid. I moved out to Michigan with one of my friends from highschool. They however, moved back to Florida after a couple years. I found a new roommate, that I had met at my petitioning job the previous year. I don't know many people out here and he seemed like a nice enough guy. I was wrong. We signed a new lease together and the first month was fine. However he soon got fired and, I thought hey shit happens. He didn't find a job for months but then found a new one. He was a server and was at least paying me something but I was still covering the majority of the bills. I was keeping up with things for the most part, but then it turned out her was trading his shifts away and was getting less hours and because of that he wound up straight up quitting. Of course, I was mad but I didn't get really mad for a few months of what seemed like him not looking for a job at all. So I changed the Internet password. He comes out of his room drunk and demands I change it back of which I refused. Only for him to hit me. I didn't do anything then but we talked it out and he agreed to look for a new job and soon found one. I thought it would be a one time thing. Like I understood his struggle with alcohol because I've had my own struggles with it especially after my mom died. Things were going fine, he was actually paying his half of the bills for once. A couple months went by and he starts coming out of his room and talking to me after work using me as his therapist, which I found out he stopped going to. He starts going on about how he's a troop and a murderer. So about a week later, I ask him hey when does he work next. He then casually drops that oh he quit his job again because he can't deal with people because he's a murderer. It's obvious, he was trying to intimidate me. I let it go, but another week goes by and he keeps using me as his therapist and I've had enough and call him out. I'm like dude are you even looking for a job right now? He admits he isn't. I'm like what the hell, you promised me last time you wouldn't just up and quit. He's drunk and is like watch it and I'm still yelling about him quitting only for him to scream you're assaulting me and he punched me in the head multiple times. This time I called the police and had him arrested. They released him the next day. He gloated about getting out. I was like fine whatever the lease is going to be up soon, however I come back to the apartment only to find the door to my room kicked in and my laptop broken, he had poured water or something on it. This freaks me out, so I grab my stuff and I wind up staying in a motel. I didn't feel safe in my own home and wound up staying in the motel for weeks. I wound up filing for a PPO and it being granted, however that didn't mean he had to leave. He tried to pay nice and texted me while I was at the hotel that he would pay me back. My landlord threatened him with eviction and he said he would leave on his own just give him a few weeks. He wound up leaving but at this point I was behind on bills and didn't have money for food.I wound up using those payday advance apps to keep up but at this point I'm so far behind. I also wound up having to go to the hospital because I tried to quit drinking cold turkey and wound up going through withdrawals and not being able to sleep, not realizing I had been up for 72 hours. I don't even have insurance right now. I was doing well out here, especially after the petitioning job, I had even saved up a few thousand dollars but that of course was eaten up over the last year and a half. If you can help please. I wouldn't be asking if I had any other choice. These funds will go to covering my rent which I haven't been able to pay this month, they'll also go to catch me up on my other bills and help pay for things like laundry, cat food, and other essentials. I don't want to post the photo of the PPO part because it has my address and other private details on it.



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Brandon Scienski
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Grand Rapids, MI

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