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I am HOMELESS ..... so little could save me..

By Verna ..v.o.b.....prayers for the 'Man' - Sep 29th, 2009 at 12:46 am EDT

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Actually I became homeless this month... I am living in my xxx xxxx downtown,.. a public building... not supposed to be sleeping there... Others on the blog are in the same boat in the last 60 days and another one is fighting leaving his home of 5 years... all of us ... it was not because of our circumstances.. it was because of the owners of rentals problems.. or the property sold out from under us.,.. and unable to make new arrangements in this financial climate.

Hundreds of homes, rentals in this town empty, rents too high... first last and deposit and perfect credit ... is almost 5,000 just to rent..

Everyone holding out for the 'right' tenant to fly into town and give them the bucks.. And they can 'write off' the lost rent at a 'high' price on taxes as profit and loss...

people, men women and the youth... walk the streets ... faces drawn with long term hunger.. the junior high kids... single moms probably moved in with a man and they are on the street... it is so sad.. we had good weather until today.. rainy windy and cold.. when it turns this far north.. it stays until next June..

I am working on writing and doing what I can to help them..

I am scared.. I am at risk of losing 3 bedrooms of furniture because I do not have $157 for storage... it will be due again $132 on the first.. on the 10th it will have a lein and will be 'inventoried' and sold... they just dump it... and you have a lein for $2,000 or $3,000 because they 'inventoried' at $10 per hr every bottle cap in a 30 foot storage unit.. I am just sick with worry over it..

for $300 I could save myself all that. I get Soc Sec because of my heart.. I could pay back some a little at a time... I am overdrawn and when my check goes in ... I hope to have $300 left for my xxx xxxxx that I am sleeping in.. I am terrified.. so little could save me..

I am a Realtor, with a $1.4 Million listing... and my car is parked behind the art studio in a vacant lot... no money for gas since the 10th and I have been riding a bike to show property... I can't get away with that now.. the rain has started.... I passed it off as fun and yuks before now..

I am worried about the others on the street that do not have a dry place to hold up in.. I am at my desk on the net on my computer... I hope to keep my position until the end of the year..

I will check the other story you sent tomorrow. I have 2 miles to ride across town and it is almost ten pm.. I wore shorts today... it will be a cold wet ride.. thats the news... V.

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