Roommate Tags

Hello to all and thanks for taking time to view my donation page. I'm 24 years old and I just saved up my last and moved to Nashville TN. I have a very promising future ahead with my music career in Audio Production. I'm in a very tight situation because I needed to get away from everybody slowing me down back home in Cleveland Ohio that does not want to see me succeed (including family, my 2 kids mothers, and people I thought were friends.) I've had opportunities at one point to make theme music for up and coming Disney, HGTV, ESPN and other shows just to name a few. Nobody really wanted to see me make it and help fund a Engineer so my dreams could become a reality. With the last of the money I was able to raise, I kissed my kids goodbye and moved to Nashville with a close friend from high school.
I figured that everything happens for a reason and prior to me moving, I found out that she has been out here in TN for almost a year with no furniture (bed, couch, dining-kitchen table) Its just her and her cat in a empty Apt. She has a job doing what she went to school for in the animal vet field but she's only recieving small pay. I know anything beats nothing but what is that for someone who graduated from WVU with a bachelors of science? She has Student loans to pay back to a actual bank, a car note, rent and utilities to pay for all on her own and her family is In Cleveland as well. They aren't fortunate to help the situation and anybody from Cleveland could understand why considering how the economy is.
Being a good friend(especially considering that im allergic to cats and there is no vaccume), I saved my last and moved down here because I figured I could help her as well as help myself. If we are going to struggle, we can struggle together. That's what true friends are for right? I have been here since Easter and it's still hard to adjust. She has a leased vehicle so im not really in the predicament to double up her mileage looking for jobs and going to school in it. Everything is so far apart here.I had intentions on going to school in the fall for Audio Production but one day i called a local school from one of the commercials and I ended up taking a tour the same day. I was so Excited to see the Music Studio that I wanted to start immediately!!! I then found out that I started school the very next month (May 7th to be exact.)
Now I have to find a job to go around my school schedule which is only 3 days a week but Im having trouble figuring out how I will even get to school. The bus system is different than back in Cleveland. In Cleveland, schools give students bus passes and they even get discounted prices for being students. Here is definitely not like that. I'm not complaining because I'm blessed to at least be away from all of the distraction and I'm enrolled into school. Now I'm just worried as to what it will take for us to be comfortable for a change.
I eat ramen noodles and Vienna sausages just about everyday to make food here last. I'm not complaining at all but I'm sure that after while i will start to get sick from this. The noodles have high sodium as well. Just barely making it is an experience that isn't fun and I wish this upon nobody. This is why I'm turning to a donation community.

Things all donations will go towards:

Food for home, Bus passes for my schooling, Furniture for our apartment (I'm seeing alot we can get for less locally on Craigslist), Internet so I can stay active with my production, More Music Equipment (the equipment is so expensive but im in the right state to get it used) and eventually a vehicle so I could get us around and not worry about my roommate going over her mileage.

Seems like I'm asking for a lot but I grew up knowing that everything happens for a reason and that prayer goes a long way. Somebody I met in passing recommended this site hearing me talk about my situation to a relative. Thanks in advance and even 1 dollar is appreciated.

Matt

I moved from the west coast to the east, to start a new life for me, I'm a25 year old female living in a small apartment with a roommate and her dog(ifound them in thepaper) after being in the new area for a week I found a good paying job and I was on cloud 9, then I got sick and spent a few days in the hospital, without insurance ( I had been at my job long enough to have it). I had to take a loan out on my car to help with my medical bills, that wasn't enough, so I was stuck making payments on my car, the hospital, my car insurance and my rent, my job laid everyone off on a Tuesday saying that it was closing, I never got a last check, its been a few months and I stopped paying for car insurance, and haven't paid my share of the rent in two months (my roommate understands but can tell she is getting tired) and I woke up yesterday to a tow truck taking my car, if you could please help me out while I'm down I'm just ashamed of how my life has gone.

All I was trying to do was give my roommate the birthday of a lifetime. Her dad passed away about 6 months ago and she wasn't going to have a happy birthday but I wanted to try. I wrote a check, thinking my overdraft protection would cover it, and it did not. Now if I don't come up with the money in the next 36 hours, my life will be ruined. I will be arrested and charged with a felony. My family will disown me and I will lose my job. All I need is 1500 to cover the check, fees and expenses.

Even if you can't give it all any would be appreciated more then you realize. I am 24 years old and just trying to not let my life be ruined at such a young age.

I just moved out of my one-bedroom apartment into a two bedroom apartment with a new roommate to help her out of a bad situation with her parents. A week after moving out, I was forced to resign from my job due to health issues affecting my quality scores. I was denied unemployment because of this, and now she's telling me that if I'm not able to pay rent, she will kick me out and either find a new roommate or get her own one-bedroom apartment. I have applied for every job I could find, and no one has called me back in over a month. Any help I can get would be loved and appreciated; if I can't make rent, I'll have to find somewhere to store my furniture and couch-hop for awhile until I can get back on my feet.

I am 57 yrs old and retired on disability. My roommate moved out and now I am stuck with everything. The electric company has informed me that I now need to switch the bill into my name BUT they are requiring a payment of $976.24 to do so; this includes a past due amount and a security deposit. I do not have this kind of cash on hand. My due date is 5/21/12 or the service here will be disconnected.
I am desperate. I have never been in a situation such as this before. I have numerous ailments and require electricity in order to take my daily breathing treatments. I have diabetes, severe asthma, fibromyalgia, arthtitis, and severe high blood pressure. No, I do not smoke, drink or use drugs. I don't even have a cell phone.
Any help you can offer would be very appreciated. Asking for financial help is the most difficult thing I have ever done.

I honestly don't know how to say this. I mean, I know my situation is unusual, even bizarre.

Let's start simply. I'm a young real estate agent. I suck at it, so I work part time at two places in the mall. It's hard to keep it all under control, but I manage. I'd rather work six days a week than have a roommate. Really, though, I would get a roommate to ease up a little more money before I'd even consider begging, but fate has conspired against me. I now have two roommates who can't pay - my dwarf parents.

Yes, yes, I know. My father and my mother are little people. I'm a normie, though. My dad lost his job at Intel as a system administrator and so has accumulated a lot of debt. You could say he's up to his eye-balls, but that would be hardly sufficient. He wanted to postpone boarding in my house for as long as possible, but this is, it seems, how it has to be.

So, I'm majorly strapped for cash constantly, because I've become responsible for two other people. They need rides, and they need food, and it's costing me a lot on utilities. I've been dipping into my meager savings for the past two months. I've been doing nothing but work, and I just need a break. I want to sit down and drink a good cup of coffee with a girl, or read a book, you know? I don't want to just slowly keep dying, I want to live.

We all want to live, and so I'm asking you share just a little, just enough for a little extra strength of spirit against a cold, crazy world. Every cent is appreciated. =D

I just recently got kicked out of my apartment from an unruly roommate, and I have been on the streets for a week. Being a 21-year-old female, trying to ask for donations pinned me with a bad name on the street, and has left me with nothing but 15 cents. I haven't eaten in days, and i can't find any source of food anywhere.

I'm going to get straight to the point and be %100 honest so that I don't waste your time.

My name is Micheal. I am a 23-year-old male living in the midwest. I currently have a job at a failing restaurant and am struggling to look for a job in a failing job market.

My old roommate left me to join the Navy and I have been in dire financial straits ever since (I have gone through dozens of potential roommates and NONE of them were responsible enough to pay their rent or they failed to move in). My rent is VERY high (a little over $700). I can only take serving jobs, because they are the only type of job which provides an average amount of money per hour for me to barely scrape by (I have to make at LEAST $15-$20 an hour to have a place to live and there are no non-specialized jobs that will pay that much per hour to someone with no advanced education).

To the point though, this post isn't really for me; it is for my parents. My parents are BOTH on disability and barely make enough COMBINED to pay for the house that they live in. I constantly have to assist them with living expenses among other things (food and medicine usually). Yes they do get quite a bit of government assistance, but with NO other source of income, things are impossible for them without my help (for example, I had to take on the full car payment for an Acura that my father owned that costs me nearly $400 a month NOT including the insurance).

Now, with myself in financial difficulties, they too are faced with the threat of losing much-needed medicine, vehicle transportation, and possibly their home.

I am making this post in hopes that there is someone who can help keep the worst from happening in my life and for my parents. I don't want to fail them as a son, so I have made this post in a last-ditch effort to plead for assistance. Anything that you can contribute would help me with bills for both myself and my parents. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I wish that you be blessed.

Please help me out... I need almost $4000 before the end of the month.
Let me give you the short version of a very long story... after finally leaving my cheating husband I finally decided to go back to school. I moved to San Diego in order to attend UCSD. I was able to secure a partial scholarship which covers most of my tuition and was able to secure loans to help with most of the rest of the costs. I assumed I would quickly be able to find a job and help pay for my living costs and other expenses... and I had some money saved up. Things didn't go as planned... I went through my savings and I just barely found a job that pays a decent wage while working around my school schedule. But now that I have a job my car has been repossessed so I have no way to get to my job. I need to pay the amount owed to get my car back so I can work. My phone is about to be cut because I haven't paid my phone bill in two months. I owe my roommate one months rent and I owe the school for the books I bought for this quarter... so I won't be able to enroll until I pay for the books I owe.
Please help me get through this hard time, so I can continue to go to school I feel like if I can make it over this hump I can do the rest myself.
Thank you for any help and prayers... it's all very much appreciated.

My roommate and I just relocated to San Marcos, in order to go to school. Our families have both fallen on hard times, and neither of us has been able to find a steady job at more than twelve hours a week, due to our schedules. If we don't get jobs within the next week, we will be forced to drop out and lose our apartment as well. Our kitchen is bare. We've sold everything we could, and neither of us wants to drop out. Any help whatsoever is greatly appreciated.

I am 28 years old single male living in Portland metro area. I am currently renting a tiny 2 bedroom 700sqf house with a roommate. I am not making much at my work at the moment, and really need to get out of my current place. I want to be done renting. I want to be in a place that i can truly call my own. I am looking to buy a house, but i do not have enough money for a down payment or repairs on a house. My plan is to by a foreclosure HUD home for less then 100k, alot of lenders want atleast 3% down on a home. I plan to find a cheap place that i can do almost all the repairs myself to save as much money as possible to make this happen and rent a room out to help pay my house payment. Anything will be grateful:)

I desperately need rent money soon.. My roommate died a month or so ago and I'm stuck with the full rent and on top of my medical bills I cannot afford to pay 650 a month right now!! Please help! I'm a musician and trying to make it in this big world.. Luck doesn't seem to be on my side. I'm trying hard. Help me please. I'm even considering doing sexual favors for cash.. I don't want to be THAT desperate.. But in a couple days I may have to. Please help a guy who would help ANYONE out. I'm the guy who stops for the homeless and gives what little money I have. Thank you for your time.

I desperately need rent money soon.. My roommate died a month or so ago and I'm stuck with the full rent and on top of my medical bills I cannot afford to pay 650 a month right now!! Please help! I'm a musician and trying to make it in this big world.. Luck doesn't seem to be on my side. I'm trying hard. Help me please. I'm even considering doing sexual favors for cash.. I don't want to be THAT desperate.. But in a couple days I may have to. Please help a guy who would help ANYONE out. I'm the guy who stops for the homeless and gives what little money I have. Thank you for your time.
Nick

Please help us save our neighbor's home. She is 78 and has no next of kin. She lives alone and has fallen on hard times due to the economy. She is so kind, always looking out for everyone in the neighborhood, but she is ashamed to ask for the help she needs to pay her mortgage.

My roommate and I want to do something kind for her, so we beg you to donate money to help save her home. Like everyone else, we only have so much we can give on our own. But, with the donations from the community we can positively impact our neighbor's life with a meaningful gift and alleviate this great stress.

Please help us give a kind lady peace of mind and donate what you can. No amount is too small. We appreciate your generosity and support!

Please help us save our neighbor's home. She is 78 and has no next of kin. She lives alone and has fallen on hard times due to the economy. She is so kind, always looking out for everyone in the neighborhood, but she is ashamed to ask for the help she needs to pay her mortgage.

My roommate and I want to do something kind for her, so we beg you to donate money to help save her home. Like everyone else, we only have so much we can give on our own. But, with the donations from the community we can positively impact our neighbor's life with a meaningful gift and alleviate this great stress.

Please help us give a kind lady peace of mind and donate what you can. No amount is too small. We appreciate your generosity and support!

I am a wheelchair user with Cerebral Palsy. My roommate (who is also my caregiver) needs gallbladder surgery. While he has insurance (his COBRA is quickly running out), the hospital is demanding outrageous co-payments for preliminary tests, which he can barely afford. We fear what the surgery will cost. Please help!!!!!!!!!

Things have been really rough at home. My girlfriend has recently been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and been put on preventative medication to slow development. Shortly after our roommate gave her month's notice that she would be vacating. Our cat has also had some recent medical problems. We are behind on utilities. Our vehicle registration was up in June and has not yet been paid. We've been pawning off items and borrowing small amounts of money from family but we haven't been able to get out of this rut yet. All of this has led to us being unsure if we'll be able to pay this upcoming month's rent. Any help would be greatly, GREATLY appreciated and, once out of this mess, I intend to pay it forward. Please help us.

I was just evicted from my apartment last week. I need help with an apartment. I was two months behind because my roommate couldn't pay their half and we were both on unemployment and it was exhausted. After it was exhausted, neither one of us could find work.

I typed for a medical company and was making 850.00 a week. I got laid off.

I need help with a lap top computer to make money over the internet.

Right now I can't afford to buy a laptop computer.

Please let me know if anyone can help me.

My phone number is 561-856-9845. I have been looking for work everywhere and need help. Right now I have no income.

majesticmonique

Hello, my name is Scott and I am here asking for help because I... have run out of every alternative to get my life and my project studio business off the ground. It's at a dead stop. I was laid off in March 2011 due to company downsizing, could not qualify for unemployment because the previous employers "claimed" I'd quit. Job hunted on foot in Chicago from March to August filling out 4-9 applications a day, 5 days a week without a single call from anyone. Exhausted all of my bank accounts, can not get a load due to not owning a car or home, had to sell my car just to pay off debts, lost my apartment because ex-roommate thought it was better to steal from me and lie about having a job than telling the truth. My parents are in the hospital, so they are in no shape to help me.

The only way I have been able to contact people is by relying on my girlfriend's Internet, electricity, helping her cook and clean while "guest staying" at her apartment but know this won't last. I ask too much of her help to watch my cat while I continue to look online.




All I ask is for someone, anyone who can help. My goal is simple: I need to raise enough money to start a art design, publishing studio which would bring in clients who need visionaries to help make their designs, commercials, products, books, ebooks, animation using the next wave of 3D technology, FX special effects for student filmmakers in Chicago colleges, to help bring in interns and show them the pros and cons to hone their skills, and finally bring together Chicago artists who wish to have their talents and skills to create extraordinary work for any and all who wish to see it.

Bottom line, I need help. Financial help. I don't know what else to do. I can't get a job, for whatever reason, I'm flat broke, exhausted from sleeplessness and stress. All I own is a laptop, some clothes, my wonderful artistic skills, (my undying determination, good sense of right and wrong, knowledge of computer programs, business sense, sharp humor and a kind heart to make my dream a reality. I really don't want to live under a expressway but if things don't change, it looks like my next post just might be my last.

For those of you who have read this and given some thought, please help by donating. Who knows, you might be lending out to the future "Industrial light and Magic" of the 21st century?






This is for more that just myself, this is for a cause that needs help. Help from people like you who know the value of the human heart. This is to help create a studio designed to welcome those who wish to create, strive, teach, animate, and pioneer. Imagination is the last, boundless frontier, let's be a part of that journey by helping one another dream it to fruition.

No dream ever truly dies, we just let them fade away.



Help me change that. Any help will do.






Thank you for reading.

Hi, I recently lost my job. I'm a college student (pre-med) living in an apartment with one roommate. My half of the rent is $440, our bills add up to be about $80 a month each, and anything leftover goes to food. I have a dog that I need to take care of too, her needs go above my own. My parents do not have any money to loan out to me (part of why I'm in school, to do better)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am a experienced receptionist, admin asst. , front desk person seeking any job anywhere in Phoenix, AZ. I am also willing to move to Boston, MA

I am a recent college graduate, recieved my Bachelors degree in May 2011 from Arizona State University.

Life has gone downhill from there. I have applied for a fingerprint clearance card to try to get into substitute teaching. No luck so far with that.

I have not been able to pay my mortgage in 6 months, my place is going into foreclosure.
I cannot keep my electricity and phone on. I've tried getting a roommate, no luck with that either.

I have applied to hundreds of jobs, Wal-Mart, temp agencies, amazon.com, CVS, Circle K.
No luck.
I am on the verge of homelessness and feel depressed and drained.
I need help.

i am a recently graduate from college, I was working with a new restuarant on creating their recipe book and opening their first location. after putting togeher most of their recipe book for the kitchen and opening the first location they laid me off and hired on someome for less pay. so i ahve been out of work for 2 months,on top of that i had a roommate. a student from my school, i let him stay because i thought it would help with bills, tho i was very wrong. he has stayed with me for 3 months with lil help, all together he has contributed 183 over the past few months. last week i asked him to leave and when he did he stole my rent, my tv, laptop with my whole portfolio for work and school, my puppy is missing, he stole a keg but not my keggerator, some of my clothes(im a lesbian and dress like a surfer so lots of board shorts and tshirts) and other small things out of my house. i filed a police report but really they cant help you unless they pawn my stuff or get caught with it since i didnt see who did this.... idk what to do

I have reached a point where I have no choice but to ask for help or file bankruptcy. I am a very hard worker and have had a few unexpected expenses over the past few months. I had to change jobs last year because I moved to go back to school. My new job pays less than my old job and this has started to take its toll on my finances. I am working 1 full-time job and 1 part-time job and still unable to make my payments. I have been looking for a roommate for 4 months and have not been successful. I am behind on my car payment 4 months and they are going to repossess it next week if I don’t come up with $3,500.00 to catch my payments up and pay the late fees and penalties. If my car gets repossessed then I won’t be able to work and my other payments will not get paid. I don’t know what else to do. I have sold and pawned everything of value that I have but was only able to come up with $300.00. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. I have always been the one to help others and put their needs before mine, expecting nothing in return. I just hope that someone out there will be generous enough to help me the way I have helped others in the past. Please if you can only give $1.00 that will add up.

Hi

I have never had to beg before in m life. I can't believe I have to resort to this tactic at the age of 55 years old. Exhausting all my savings.

Here is my story.. In April 2008 I was laid off my Shop Manager job for a construction company after 5 years employment.

Shortly after I was only able to secure a Desk Clerk job at a old run down former Holiday Inn, here in Salina, KS.with a room as part of the compensation. After 2 years of employment there they had a infestation of bed bugs and the owner wouldn't do anything about it and I was really ate up by them, didn't know why I had bites all over me until I visited the emergency room. Upon returning to work I asked the owner to pay the hospital emergency room bill of $380. He said he would but still hasn't done so after presenting the bill to him.

I was able to get $106. a week unemployment though which put me living out of my 1989 Jeep pickup that I had. I built a box on the back that I cared my positions and slept in a Wal-Mart parking lot. I put ads on craigslist for house painting and got very few jobs but once in a while I could get a room so I could clean up and get some relief from the heat that summer sometimes hitting 106 degrees.

Finally August 5,2010 I found a job at a Car Detail shop and was able to get a cheap motel room. This is hard work now for a 55 year old man, but I persisted even though finding out the owner was a drunk. I came in on pay day one day in September only to be fired because he didn't have the money to pay the help. Even after filing a complaint with the Kansas Labor board he has managed to avoid payment.

Then I meet a man that had an old house for sale that was willing to help me out and I was able to make a deal to buy the small home for $2500. , $500. and $100. a month till paid for. No gas , No electric, No Water, it was a wreck none the less a shelter for the winter coming up. I put a ad on craigslist to sell my truck so I could make the deal and within a week a couple had purchased my truck and I was able to make the down payment and moved the few things I had left in and make a bed. The neighbors were nice people and insisted on running a electric cord through the window so I would have lights and I had a little electric heater to stay warm.

I was still running the ad on craigslist for painting and through the grace of god got a pretty good painting job that netted me $1300. After waiting 4 weeks to get paid for that job ( the company said the check was buried under paperwork on his desk when I called the day before Thanksgiving wondering why I hadn't received the check) right..

Any way I paid the payments up till February 2011

In November the city heard I was living in the house with out electric, gas and water and sent me a notice and posted a notice to vacate the premises with in 30 days or be fined $500. I called them and said I was working on it and they gave me till December to have it up to code and inspected for $150 city fee. I didn't know what to do but kept applying for jobs and praying for someone to call and have some painting done. A friend of mine was a electrician and came over and told me what I need to pass the electric inspection. I called around and there was one company that would do all the inspection so I scheduled the inspections and passed the electric December 24 2011 and I called to have it turned on and they couldn't do it till the 26th, all gone for holiday. The gas line was a different story, the plumbing company spent two day correcting the problem and left me with a bill of $1400. that I have only been able to pay $40. on.

A 50 year old man I had made friends with Russ, while working the motel told me he had to quit work because he
was dying from hepatitis and didn't know what he was going to do, he had been homeless while I was for a while, so I told him he could move in 2nd week of February 2011, he was waiting on unemployment and should be coming in any time now, But the motel wouldn't let him stay with out paying.

He did get a good size unemployment back payment and 2 days before the utilities were to be disconnected we got the utilities and the house payment caught up.

Because of the unemployment he was getting SRS has cut off his and my food assistance and he has been denied disability and has to get a lawyer to handle it. I have been applying to every job and submitting my resume to every job online and in the local paper with not 1 interview. I do have a company that said they will call me as soon as they get some work themselves.

Russ my roommate will get to were they have to extract the water that builds up around his organs. The Dr said he has anywhere from 1-2 years to live and I would like to make him as comfortable as possible. I cook all the meals and take him to Dr appointments and to pick up his medication.

The gas is all ready going to be shut off this next week because we missed a payment on the cold weather agreement and now owe $689.35

I do have a PayPal account where you can send assistance it is edwardahopkinsjr@gmail.com Mail to: Ed Hopkins Jr 331 N 11th St. Salina, Kansas 67401 We still have a cell phone 785-201-2347 if you would like to call.

Thank you in advance for your generosity,

Ed & Russ

P.S. I belive in the Pay It Forward System and will help at least 3 other people if you help me. I did donate $1. to BegsList I had $2. in my PayPal account. But I can't afford the $9.95 for the spotlight ad.

This is the first year I've been on my own. I'm not in trouble because I couldn't handle it, but because my father lost his job last spring and can't help me, and in the 18 months I've been searching for a job, the only one I've found will give me 20 hours a week at minimum wage.

My roommate and I are already moving into the cheapest apartment we could find near the University, since I have no car and the bus doesn't run during my summer classes, but the fees associated with terminating our lease have taken every last cent I have to eat on.

Just $10 could feed me for a whole week; I've gotten used to living on very little: Ramen, pasta, bread and milk. It's probably too many carbs and not enough fresh fruits and veggies, but I literally can't afford to be picky.

Anything you can spare would be an immense blessing.

Thank you so much.