In March of 2012, a whole lotta crap happened to me at the same time, and I posted this text on /r/vegas below. I am now changing the original posting to stay something different, but saving the original text for posterity.:
Imagine learning that the cancer tumor which had spread to the liver (and you thought had been defeated by your previous round of chemo) is back - AND that you are being kicked out of the place you live at - both in the same freakin' week? :-(
I am being treated at the Comprehensive Cancer Centers Of Nevada. I has just discovered I have to go back into to chemo in a couple of weeks. My life partner (who is also my caretaker) is out of work with a severe back injury, though he has been getting some good treatment recently.
Both of us have a perfect longtime rental history with our landlady. However because of her legal/financial problems (which have nothing to do with either of us) she is losing her home in a short sale where we were her tenants. We were supposed to get several weeks warning if/when there was a sale offer, but unfortunately there was no word until we recently got hit with less than a months notice to move out.
Even worse, the bank just changed the deadline of the house sale closing to much earlier than they originally said. I found out yesterday we must have ALL our belongings out on Wednesday. There is no legal recourse here for us as renters. We don't have access to a car anymore. Plus cancer is an expensive, bankrupting son-of-a-bitch. We have no credit to use for renting a truck, nor the energy to deal with loading and driving it. :(
We do see how we can have enough energy to at least box up our stuff completely.
I was scared of ending up homeless because we didn't have much spare energy or time to find a new place. I didn't expect that the first place we looked at would look at would be THE perfect new, safe home for us both to rebuild our health and lives. It's a nice master bedroom in a house with storage in the garage.
Now for the next hard part. Help, Reddit! We need affordable moving help SOON! On Wednesday, we need help for an hour or two to load near Charleston and Sloan, then transport to the new place near Palace Station and then unloading into the garage.
The only pieces of big furniture we have are two mattresses and a coffee table. (We were also given a good TV, but if there is no practical way to move it, we'll have to abandon it.) Since the notice was so short, we have no chance to sort through our stuff first to reduce the moving burden. We are tossing everything we have into a whole lotta boxes (the small, file-box kind you get at Office Depot) to make them easy for the move.
Our money is very tight but if you have some kind of van or maybe a pickup truck with a cap on it to protect against road dust, that would be wonderful to safely move the larger pieces of furniture. We could probably reimburse the cost of renting a large moving van or small truck. (Our concern is that we might not be able to cover any deposit on a rented van or truck of our own. Of course you'd get the deposit back.)
Anyone else with a working car can join this reddit convoy by helping us transport maybe a few boxes each. I understand that a lot of people have to work in the daytime. If you can get us safe to our new home before 9pm Wednesday, that would be wonderful.
We got our small deposit back from the landlady, so we can use it to help cover your gas costs, offer a little cash as well as feed you some delicious pizza near the new residence. Plus you get positive, real-life karma out of all this. :)
If you know someone else who might want to help, please forward this. I know most of the /r/vegas action these days is on the reddit vegas facebook group, but I am not involved with facebook very much in the first place. So if you could let them know, I'd appreciate it.
I am writing this in the empty bedroom at the new place near Palace Station. The old place on east Charleston has no Internet access anymore, but when I get there Tuesday morning to pack, I'll be checking Reddit via my local McDonalds wifi every few hours for messages. PM me with your phone number and your ideas for help. I appreciate anything practical and positive you can offer.
(as of the evening of 3/26/2012, things have improved... see this posting for details.
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