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Unexpected Move Has Financially Broken Us

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I've put off starting a GoFundMe because I really dislike asking for help. It's very difficult for me to do this, but we desperately need it.

Here's the situation:
Patrick and I and our boys have been living in an RV on a property that we've been renting for about a year and a half. We wanted to decrease our cost of living for several reasons, but one of the big ones was for me to be able to stay home with the boys. I was able to homeschool, care for our home and start gardening pretty seriously. I was still going to end up having to get a job because things are so outrageously expensive these days, but I was waiting until after we got back from visiting Patrick's family before I get a job and try to get us caught up financially.

Well, while we were visiting his family we got a call from our landlord saying that they had sold the property and that we had 30 days to move ourselves and all of our stuff off the property. At the point we were finding out, it was actually less than 30 days and we were all the way up in PA finally seeing Patrick's family for the first time in over a year! The emotional toll of all of this has been rough, especially losing my garden. I poured soooo much energy, love, sweat and money into that to try to feed my family for less expensive and more healthy. Losing that is really hard.

We had no idea what we were going to do. We were already barely making ends meet, which is why I was going to have to get a job. Luckily our neighbors stepped up BIG TIME for us and helped us find a property to move to. That relieved a ton of stress, but that was just the beginning of so much more stress and expense. The new property needed a completely new electrical hookup and RV hookup. The new landlord has been awesome and helped us cover half of the cost of the electical box and then we fully covered the RV hookup. Even with their help it was very expensive. Then there was the moving of our large shed, cat enclosure, RV and many other misc things that added up to several thousand dollars by the time it was all said and done and that was even with our neighbor helping us move the RV. This whole process could have been so much worse without the help of my parents, our neighbors, our former landlord and our new landlord. I'm extremely grateful to all of them and no one is to blame in this situation. It was just very unfortunate and sudden.

That is the short version of the story. It's been an absolutely exhausting month. On top of the stress, expenses and emotional nature of it all, we were working out in the intense heat of the hottest month of the year in Florida. There were heat advisories almost every day and we had no choice but to just push through it.

I wanted to wait until most of the moving was done before reaching out for help because I had no idea how much this was going to cost and wasn't sure what kind of hole we were going to need help digging out of. It's a much deeper hole than i even expected. Thank you in advance for anything you can offer to help. It's deeply appreciated.


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    • 2 yrs
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Jenica Crail
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Plant City, FL

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