Hey there friends and friends of friends, it's Sereia here. To make a long story short, Bishop and I are in yet another housing crisis thanks to our landlord. This time, the owner of the space has decided that she no longer wants to rent out our unit and we have until our lease is up on July 31 to vacate the premises and find new housing. This would fine if we weren't already in another crisis, which is my on-going job hunt after leaving my toxic workplace last May. I've been working working as many odd jobs (odd being the understatement of the year) to supplement their consulting gigs but I fear its not enough to supplement Bishop's wages especially in such a competitive and volatile rental market that Richmond is currently experiencing.

Right now, we are asking for $7000 to help us secure a place. Our budget is a firm $1000/month assuming we can find something with utilities included and no pet rent. Even if we have to do separate utilities and cover Rorschach's portion of rent, $1000 is the max end of our budget. We plan to look for private landlords and low-income apartments that have as many utilities included and minimal pet rent.

The costs break down as follows:

$1000 - security deposit

$2000 - first and last month's rent (assuming this is separate from the security deposit)

$2000 - two month's rent to help us get situated while Sereia continues to job hunt

$1500 - moving fees, cleaning the old place, deposits on any utilities that need to be set up, miscellaneous

$350 - application fees (assuming $35/person and we apply to 5 places that require it. Trust, we will be looking for places that don't charge app fees)

$350 - pet deposit (assuming this is the max in pet deposit)

Anything that's not used for its intended purpose will go towards paying rent and utilities for the new space.

In the event we cannot find a place in time, the money will go to us finding a pet friendly hotel and storage for our stuff until we find something.

We get it, with everything that's going on with the economy and rising costs in just about everything that this is an incredible ask. Both of us hate making these posts but unfortunately, life continues to spew stuff at us that we have to find ways to tackle. If you cannot donate, we just ask that you share and boost the posts to help it get seen.

Thanks so much for reading our sob story and we both sincerely hope we don't have to make a Housing Crisis III post