single mama struggling to recover hardship

Hey there, my name is Jessica Hammond and I am fundraising after putting my situation out there to my Facebook family where I was told to try a GoFundMe.

I need help. I am normally a pretty stubborn person and have a hard time asking for help, but we need help. I have been praying and praying and continue to pray but things are just getting worse without any kind of support. Tysen (my 6 year old son), has been in Alabama with my parents since school started and wants to come home. I am heartbroken without him here but I don’t have anywhere for us to live currently.

I was hit with 2 counts of fraud last Aug which caused us to have to move out of our home. The company got away with it who caused the fraud. Legal Aid said if I was evicted or being evicted they could help seeing as the new apartment complex management team were the ones who took tons of tenants money in the 4 month period they were employees there. My son and I have lived there for 3 years before we got evicted. Legal aid contacted me after eviction court saying their case load was too high and they were unable to help after they told me they could prior to getting myself evicted to help our case. Due to the fraud my credit plummeted so far down from a 677, that I am now unable to get another home the traditional way, or my business loan I was about to get for commercial property. My car has been in the shop which I have been making payments towards but about 3 months ago my work truck was hit by a drunk driver who was charged with a felony hit and run. After Tysen and I went to the chiropractor for a month in a half, my lawyer said the man’s insurance lapsed 10 days before the accident. So my truck ended up being a total loss of course because my insurance had lapsed in March. I still have my business and I still have 1 storage unit full of our belongings and 7 with merchandise in them. I lost the other 2 of our units with our furniture, all of our clothes, keepsakes, pictures, family hand me downs, etc. to auction recently. The rest will be auctioned off in the next 5 days.

I need help. I can’t go to Alabama currently and don’t have anywhere to live which I was staying with some friends but after moving myself out of my apartment, garage and giving up my office and moving that out as well, we just couldn’t stay there any longer on their couch even though I was very grateful for them to let us stay there. I also had to transfer 14 units over to a new facility after my old one terminated my lease from negligence on their part that I thought should have been compensated. That was hard with barely any help and since I had to move everything myself my work got neglected and bills started piling up.

My parents can’t help me unfortunately and I can’t afford motels or hotels any longer which is where Tysen and I were staying at $524 a week during the summer. So, I don’t know what else to do and I can’t work without a vehicle and honestly, I can’t fix things without stability with another home. I feel completely useless as a mother and human being right now. I am stuck and very down with things and I honestly don’t feel hopeful any longer where I refused to give up on what I worked so hard to build, I don’t any longer with being out here all alone. Things were completely different a year ago and Tysen and I had a good life and my business was growing and doing well and had for almost 4 years after selling my home in Concord to move to Charlotte where my business, I knew would thrive.

So I am swallowing my pride and reaching out to Facebook and Gofundme, I have worked my tail off trying to fix everything for the last 10 months and it’s been very, very hard. I’ve tried the different resources the city has out there for people in my position but none of them could help due to being at full capacity or I didn’t meet the requirements. We need some help and I want my son to come home so he can be back with his Mommy and get back to work. I need our life back. His birthday is Nov 6th and I’ll have to miss that along with Halloween.

I hate putting this out there but I have nowhere to go and I have exhausted every option there is. I can’t get justice or rest without worry. If anyone can help or has anything to suggest that would help; please send me a private message. Thanks. ❤️

funds will be used to get my 2019 Nissian Altima fixed which is $4000 at Axles Unlimited where I’ve been paying payments to.

$2,000 goes towards storage units to get caught up on rent before I lost the 8 I have left.

the rest will be to pay down my auto loan and hopefully pull my credit up enough to get us another home before Christmas.