The Sandoval Family - Making ends Meet

Hello Everyone,

My name is Mary Sandoval, I'm the mother of 4 wonderful kids and have a loving husband. Our family of 6 had not long ago resided in a small two-bedroom apartment in a rather skittish neighborhood, but after two incidents of shootings and a Hit & Run in the complex I had to make the decision to relocate my children to a safer location.

Through a family friend I was able to find a two story house in the town I grew up and played in the streets growing up. However the rent was a little higher then my husband and myself were able to afford but I didn't want to take my children back to a crime ridden area so I looked into having roommate to share the costs of the two story house with me. They has also been another family of 4 and I had thought they would also be interested in providing a better situation for their own children.

This did not turn out to be the case with them. Within 2 months of living together I could see they were trying to bring the trouble of our old neighborhood with them, holding drinking parties, littering on the lawn, piling up junk for "Auto shop" work and getting behind on bills. It took months for me to convince our landlord to evict them but with that time they had already done plenty of damage. By the end of their stay they were basically freeloading in what was supposed to be our dream home, All the bills were back up because it was basically only myself and my husband paying utilities and rent by 4 months of backed up bills. My family Highlander was even reposed because I was stuck covering their half of the bills to keep a roof over our heads to continue with our car payments. Our family of 6 has been having to travel for all our necessity in a small sedan

I felt things had gotten so out of control and fell into depression for a while with nowhere to turn for some relief but my words were finally heard with the landlord and finally evicted them. My elderly parents and college-attending sister have been able to help us make-ends meet here and there but they cannot help me erase the entire debt I was left with

This is my last hope by posting this on Gofundme to get rid of this large debt they left me with. I'm hoping with all my heart that there are people who can lend a helping hand to provide some relief from these backed up payments at least somewhat for the Holidays to give my children a proper Christmas.