Rebeck Family Moving Expenses

Hi, my name is Molly Rebeck, cello and violin teacher, and I am humbling myself to ask for desperately needed financial assistance for my family. My husband Paul (also a cello teacher, as well as a paraprofessional in a Montessori classroom), our senior in high school son Simon, and I are being bullied out of our home of 12 years by a landlord who is “sick of us” and “will give us a reference but it’s going to be a bad one”, all because he is of the opinion that we have “too much stuff”. He has threatened eviction on two previous occasions, for the same reason, when he was called because of a problem in the home. We are all musicians, with many instruments and all the sheet music that accompanies a career in music and private teaching. We have all of the accumulated stuff from a married life of almost 30 years, as well as our individual interests and hobbies, which adds up to a lot of supplies and possessions. We have treasured Knick knacks, art, and photos that have been gifted to us over our many years of teaching. We are great fans of movies and pop culture and have collections of items that make us happy. We had to rent a storage unit to house some of our belongings that, while not in regular use, we were not ready to part with. Although we have paid our rent faithfully each month for twelve years, this landlord has not done a bit of upkeep. He is so rude and threatening when he does come by to address an issue (although he usually just tells Paul to “fix it yourself”) that we have tried to avoid having to call him in abut anything. Long story short, our lease is up on November 30 and the landlord has declared that he is terminating our tenancy. Aside from the positive that we will be leaving this toxic situation, the move is not happening at a good time. We are down to only one reliable vehicle, even Paul’s ebike is in the shop after being hit by a car over a month ago. Both of our cellos are at the repair shop after sustaining broken bridges in unrelated incidents. Our income stream has finally just started up regularly again after over 2 months of not covering our monthly bills, but before we could even get caught up, we had a cat medical emergency, and we’ve already had to borrow money from both sides of the family. Because Simon is over 18, any place that we apply for a lease will charge all three of us the application fee. Because we only have 5 weeks to be completely out of here, we have to jump on something fast, and there was nothing in the bank for a move at this time. Because we have all had a difficult journey with Simon’s mental health struggles over the past 9-10 years, we are very fragile and exhausted, and want to have as smooth a transition as possible, so as to disrupt Simon’s final year of school as little as possible, as well as not require time off of work which will only make our financial situation worse. Because I do almost half of my cello teaching in my home studio, we have to find a place that will be both close enough, and have space enough, for me to continue mentoring my students in the way that we are accustomed. Because of health needs of our aging local parents, we need a place that is close enough to respond to emergencies. We are looking at application fees, pet deposit, security deposit, moving van rental, and movers (we are too old to do it all ourselves anymore), an inevitable increase in monthly rent, and the cost of leaving our present dwelling in a state that won’t tempt the landlord to sue us for damages or cleaning fees. I am not at all comfortable with asking for help and I would much rather be donating to a GoFundMe than making one myself, but desperate times call for desperate measures. We would be so incredibly grateful if you would help our stressed little struggling family at this time, at whatever level at which you are able/comfortable.