Any suggestions, what can I do?
I am a single mother of two. I just recently had a baby girl this summer, and although she is wonderful, it has been hell for me ever since... Where do I start?? Last summer my car was repossessed because I could not afford to keep it and pay my rent and other bills on my fixed income, so my mother lent me one of her cars.
Okay now the day I had my new baby this past July... the car was towed from in front of my building for having a expired temporary parking pass. Which was about $130.00. Mind you I don't work and have not worked my entire pregnancy, because I was let go from my security job because I was pregnant. I did receive unemployment but that only lasted for a few months. Any ways that was the first thing, mind you it is bad enough that I had to get a scheduled c-section. Now when I came home from the hospital (very very sore and I could barely move around as I wanted) about a week later the car my mother lent to me was stolen from in front of my apt. building with the keys in the ignition. I know you are saying "why the hell were the keys in the car?" I had a friend go and start the car for me on their way out so I could go take the baby to a WIC appointment. When I went outside the car was gone... of course I am blowing up my friends phone like where is the car I thought she was playing around... she said it is parked in front of the building, mind you I'm standing in the parking lot and the car is no where to be found.. so I just hung up and called the police they came out and made a report... Now the following week the car was found with the Juveniles in the car. The car was damaged when the police were trying to apprehend the crooks, so it is no longer drivable... it was towed to the local police station until I was able to get the car out... mind you again I don't work so the little money that I do have coming in I am trying to keep my rent and bills paid which I am barely getting done with no help... I have been faced with eviction notice after eviction notice... SOOOO I have been trying to get the police officers at the station to work with me and just hold the car until I can come up with the money to get it out. They are making me pay for the towing from when they caught the crooks, the car had to be towed to the police station. Now since the car is in my mother's name they would not notify me for anything they would notify her. I love my mother dearly but some times she is a little DUHHHHHHH.. according to the police station and the abandoned car place they say they have been trying to contact my mother with no success. If it were not for me calling yesterday I would not have known anything about the car being sent to the abandoned car lot. Now when I called a police officer to check on the car he then informed me of where the car was. I called the Abandoned car lot and they told me that I had until the 19th of Oct to pick up my personal belongings out of the car and until the 27th to get the car out. They also informed me that it would cost $800.00 to get the car and that is not including having the car fixed and towed to where ever it needs to go to get fixed. Now I know I will have to take this as a loss because I just don't have the money, I can barely pay my rent. So now I am looking for some type of help in getting a car donated to me and my family... so I can get to and from school ( I am enrolling in school for the winter classes) and get the kids to and from daycare especially now that the weather is breaking and it is getting colder... Please any information that can help me in my time of need would be greatly appreciated... and I am very sorry that I made this soooo long but this is not even the half but I will stop for now...
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