Hey Reddit I’ve been like living with my sister since she bought a house in July of 2016. At the time I was working as a Certified Pharmacy Technician making about 18/hr so paying half of her new mortgage of 1500/ month so $750 was not that hard. Plus my wife had came to stay with me and was helping with half so I only had to come up with $375 and the utilities were being paid by my father and I also threw in like 200 for groceries a month.
I had lost my job in November 2016 and I’ve been working with for my father since around the beginning of this year since I was living off my savings and I was running out of money for my room. My dad offered to let me work for him in his so called painting business in which it really isn’t a business just him getting jobs by other people referring him from other jobs he has done.He paid me under the table and it was always just enough to just cover my bills and I’m currently trying to get my recertification but I just started a part time not night job at FedEx making 13/hr but I just got it to make extra money for the holidays and finally start having money of my own not as a main source of income. Well my father just decided to tell me in the past week things are slowing down in the winter for painters which I’m suspecting there’s something more to it I think he is just trying to stop being responsible if I have the $750 on the first for rent and I know I won’t be able to with just my part time job since they take out taxes and my child support.
Sorry I’m not trying to rant I guess it’s just coming out like this but I guess what I’m asking is I want to find somewhere new to live. I do own a work truck that isn’t the most reliable it’s slowly falling apart and I don’t have the best credit score which is between 540 to 560. I looked up a couple rooms on Craigslist today and one sounded like I woke him up and another said he would call me back because he was in a meeting but never did. I live in Phoenix Arizona and I looked up some apartments but think it’s going to be hard since I can’t really prove my employment for the past year and the one I just started at FedEx probably won’t put me in the range to show I would actually afford the place by myself. So what I would like to know if and how do I find affordable housing because I don’t want to go back to being homeless. I had wasted my twenties in a drugs, drinking, depression binge neglecting every aspect of my life and after my last od in which I almost died and was put on a ventilator and woke up 3 days later and my then gf passed away with her own od exactly a month later I decided to get my life together and that’s when I moved in with my sister and now I’m getting my recertification and I also plan on still working my nigh shift FedEx job but until then I need to find a new place to live like now because the first will be here in a couple weeks. Does anyone know of any low income hosing or rentals in Phoenix Arizona or know a way I could get a place when I really don’t have anyone to help me or co-sign. I mean my wife hinted that she would consider moving back in with me but only if we could find a place by her mothers house since she watches our daughters when we work.
I really want to keep painting with my father but have came to find how hard it is to work for and with family. He was constantly under paying me since he paid me daily but I was always working more than he would pay me for. I have some ideas of my own to help him expand and legitimize his business business but he seems to dismiss any of my suggestions and I am really considering maybe starting a company of my own but like everything else in life it takes money. So I am just starting to feel lost and trapped at the same time if that makes any sense and I feel like I gotten really far by turning my life around and just don’t want to end up staying on the the streets again injecting that poison into my arms again but I know if I end up homeless again I will probably relapse because I still am taking my addiction medication that I’ve been trying to taper down since I started it last year in April but I have to pay 160 a month for copays and medication which is way better since I finally got approved for this free Medicare I applied for at my local des office.
I don’t know if this is even the right community I should even post this and if anyone knows of any other communities I probably would get better answers at please point me in the right direction but thanks for any and all advice in advance. And please I really don’t really need nor want to hear any criticism or lectures trust me I’m my own worst critic which probably contributed largely to a lot of my mistakes I just turned 30 and I feel like I’ve spent the last decade digging myself in to a hole in my life neglecting not only my financial life and responsibilities but my marriage and family and friends at least the few ones I realized who were really my friends and wasn’t just around for drugs. So please somebody help me and thanks again
Submitted December 19, 2017 at 12:17AM by joemorenoiv http://ift.tt/2kJlAJv
