The interviewee shares a heartbreaking story of how they ended up homeless after their landlord decided to sell the property with only 10 days notice. They lost everything, including their business tools, belongings, and even their home. Despite the challenges, they express gratitude for meeting supportive individuals like Steve and emphasize the importance of taking legal action to seek compensation. The interviewee also acknowledges the unwavering support of their fiance throughout the difficult times.
How did you, I have so many questions like, how did you wind up homeless and where are you from? And how did you wind up not being homeless anymore? How did you wind up not having a place to sleep? Yeah, so I had a house in Columbia for about four or five years. I'm not gonna name the landlord, but essentially the landlord got sick and gave his business down to his son. His son decided to sell everything, so he essentially screwed everybody at the same time out of their housing. Everybody had to be out in 10 days. And so we ended up having to be out in 10 days. That's, anybody knows that's not nearly enough time. So I lost my, which I was running a business at the time, a painting business, so I lost all my tools and everything. Ended up in the landfill before I was able to get them. I lost everything that I had ever bought for my children. We lost almost all our clothes, you know, everything. So we lost our home. We literally lost everything. Can't even imagine what, and you're, so this happened very recently. Yeah, definitely. When was the day that you were out? So. Like September 15th or something? It was, I don't know exactly the date, but it was here very recently. I know part of being homeless, your life, you know, kind of goes to hell for lack of better words. So I've kind of lost track of a lot of it. I can't be 100% accurate, but that's the worst part of what happened was that I didn't have 10 days. You know, how lon...
How did you, I have so many questions like, how did you wind up homeless and where are you from? And how did you wind up not being homeless anymore? How did you wind up not having a place to sleep? Yeah, so I had a house in Columbia for about four or five years. I'm not gonna name the landlord, but essentially the landlord got sick and gave his business down to his son. His son decided to sell everything, so he essentially screwed everybody at the same time out of their housing. Everybody had to be out in 10 days. And so we ended up having to be out in 10 days. That's, anybody knows that's not nearly enough time. So I lost my, which I was running a business at the time, a painting business, so I lost all my tools and everything. Ended up in the landfill before I was able to get them. I lost everything that I had ever bought for my children. We lost almost all our clothes, you know, everything. So we lost our home. We literally lost everything. Can't even imagine what, and you're, so this happened very recently. Yeah, definitely. When was the day that you were out? So. Like September 15th or something? It was, I don't know exactly the date, but it was here very recently. I know part of being homeless, your life, you know, kind of goes to hell for lack of better words. So I've kind of lost track of a lot of it. I can't be 100% accurate, but that's the worst part of what happened was that I didn't have 10 days. You know, how long it takes for the mail to reach you in the first place. It was already like six or seven days in, so I had literally like three, four days notice. And then your crap goes to the dump. I don't know if he took it or not, but you know, he told me it was in the landfill, so one way or the other, I lost it. We're reopening the case here soon, and we're, I'm definitely planning on suing them for that and kind of doing everything that I can to try to, you know, I have to do what I have to do, and my family needs to be compensated for what happens. I feel like it's the right thing to do for me and for my kids, you know, to go that avenue and kind of try to reopen that case now that the person is available who had all that evidence, and we can try this again, as the judge told us that we could. It's like I said, it's by the grace of God that I ran into Steve and was able to talk to you guys, meet you guys, you know, it's been, I've seen a lot of blessings come in, despite all the pain and suffering, you know, and my, I just wanted to mention real quick, my baby's mom, my fiance, very wonderful woman. She stuck by me through a lot of hard times and a lot of, you know, shit that I went through in life that I didn't understand, you know, where I fell short from, you know, the grace of God. So I wanted to make sure that I mentioned her, and she's been a huge part of everything I've been going through. She's helped me through these times when I had no food, you know, everything like that. She's, I don't know how else to say this, but she's quite literally the only reason I'm still alive or that I ever met Steve.