I was evicted from my home in Burnsville, MN, not because I didn’t have the money, but because the system blocked me from using it. First, BMO Bank placed an illegal hold on my inheritance check based ‘solely on the size,’ causing a manufactured default. When the funds were finally released, I offered the landlord the full rent amount to exercise my Right of Redemption.
My husband and I lived with my aunt-in-law for 4 years. We established a great family dynamic. My aunt-in-law passed away on Father’s Day 2024. My uncle-in-law took us to the Justice of the Peace court to evict us on January 2, 2025. Judge Sasha Moreno stated that she couldn’t evict my husband and me because we are part of an heirship. She told the uncle he needed to go to probate court to establish ownership. (more…)
My mother and I had gotten into a home here in Vegas with the help of a couple of local agencies. When we moved into the house, we had been homeless beforehand. After we got into the house, we realized we were moved into a fire hazardous home due to the fuse box wires all exposed. It would spark and smell really bad. On top of the fire hazard, we did not have a heating or cooling system at all. Our rent was $1,400 and the landlord kept trying to raise it without doing any repairs on the house. He raised our rent to $2,100 which the two of us really could not afford and he knew it. (more…)
I was wrongfully evicted, displaced out of my public housing apartment at least 3 to 4 times due to worn out rusted, busted pipes. They left my apartment uninhabitable from the smell to black mold and bug infestation. Old rusted light poles fell down all around my resident placing.
Me and my family are in direct danger. I received a non compliance from management, stating to successfully repair these health and life-threatening matters. I was promised to be transferred to another apartment unit, but received an eviction notice instead.
In June 2023, I was locked out of the payment portal for my rent, and then promptly paid June’s rent with a money order on the 5th. Despite this, I was served an unlawful detainer for non-payment of rent on the 7th by the same person who accepted my payment. This was not the first issue I had with the management. In January 2023, I was charged twice for my rent portion. As a Section 8 tenant, my portion was small, with housing covering the majority. The second payment should have covered February’s rent, but the manager, who seemed to have a personal issue with me, failed to apply it correctly. This tension began when I had to involve the housing authority after being told I couldn’t move in on the agreed date because the manager was sick, leaving me homeless for an additional week despite having paid my deposit. I received no assistance or apology, but I let it go, grateful to finally have a place to live.
I had to retire before I planned to due to health problems which meant a substantial drop in income. Social security just isn’t enough to live on. But an apartment became available in my mother’s building, the owner let me have it for $300 so I took it. It was all I could afford. It was in bad shape but I got to work papering and painting and making it a fairly nice place to live…until winter came. The heating system was horrendous. The entire downstairs froze–radiators, water, food–everything, except the mice (I’m phobic about mice). Upstairs it was 90+ degrees with the windows open. So for 10 years, I made due by often turning the furnace off at bedtime and hoping the two cats and I wouldn’t die of hyperthermia by morning. The outside temp was often far below zero. By the last year I was there I had no running water, no working range or refrigerator (but in winter it didn’t matter), and bad electricity that nearly started a potentially tragic fire. Camp toilets are no picnic if you must use one every day. But, still, it was a roof over my head. The city stepped in and I found a vacate order on the door. (more…)
I am 30 years old married with 6 kids. I’ve been with my wife for 12 years. I’ve always had well paying jobs but our credit is preventing us from getting any housing. So we’ve been hotel hopping but it’s not sustainable it takes all my paychecks and just my kids are so tired from this it’s been about a year we’ve been going through this cycle. I try to be strong for them as the man of the house but it’s just been breaking us down. I have such wonderful kids and a beautiful family everyday seeing them going through the struggle breaks my heart.
A year ago, in May 2023, while in the middle of my divorce, I lost my job. My ex husband also lost his job a month later, so he could no longer pay me child support. We were both previously making $90,000/yr, but in Georgia unemployment only paid us $1,200/month. My rent alone for my two bedroom apartment for my daughters was $2,000/month. Unemployment ran out after 3 months, and it took me a total of 11 months to find work again.
The apartments weren’t willing to take partial payments, and in all honesty, I don’t really know how I would have been able to pay them anything. Now I am working again, and it has been the absolute hardest experience trying to find a clean, non roach-infested and safe place for my two daughters and me. Right now I’m paying almost $4,000/month for us to stay in a furnished hotel. Many landlords and property management companies won’t even look past my eviction to actually hear my story.
I am sharing with you this concern for myself and my three babies. I am a 27-year-old mother of 3 children, and I’m also juggling school. The past four years I have resided in a rental house in Pascagoula, and in those four years I have met my landlord one time and that was at the time of signing the lease. I have never been a problem. When things break I fix them myself instead of calling my landlord (he lives 15 hours away). At the end of May, I contacted my landlord to make him aware of the mold, and he ignored the repairs that affected our health and well-being; he disregarded requests to repair the property to make it more livable. (more…)
A few years ago when COVID-19 had started, it was spreading like wildfire everywhere. It was awful that so many things were closed due to COVID. It was even worse staying in one small apartment in the Bronx, New York. So the only solution that my family had was to go visit some relatives and we did. We went to Indiana. (more…)
