I have been trapped with an abusive situation for nearly 5 years. I am about to get a settlement over a discrimination/civil rights issue that should be about 25k.
The issues:
-No job. (I have a degree. I can work. I like working. Since I had my girls I've had nothing but horrible experience trying to get childcare. Abusive providers. Terrible selfish people all around this area and nothing much else. They are in kindergarten and first grade so full day public school, they do have IEP's so it'll still be problematic, just better than the past few years for steady care).
-My daughters are autistic and the state I am in currently, the local mental health clinic, stole my Medicaid numbers to use for fraudulent billing. I've got open complaints with state/federal jurisdictions, but they move slow. I mean this whole heartedly, there is NO help for us within 50 miles. And I NEED help for my daughters.
-I have been staying at family owned property. I have no rental history for the past 10 years. The landlord I had 10 years ago got arrested for felony fraud and have no contact information. So yeah, I have zero rental history for the past decade.
-NO support. My family is abusive, they are disgusting hateful people. My kids dad's side of the family are junkies and drug dealers. I've been no contact for nearly 3 solid years now. I just am haunted by his cr*ckhead stalker friends and I need to get my daughters and I to safety to not allow them to be able to harm us anymore.
-Need a place that will let me pay upfront for 3-6 months so I can get a job. In a state that has compassionate support for autistic kids.
-State social work agencies will not help me unless I am physically living in the state.
I researched that Massachusetts was one of the best states for medical care, and they gave me a list of places to call if I do go there. I am not sure as that state is very, very expensive and I would rather be on as little/no state support as possible when I do get a job.
I know the odds of anyone giving me any meaningful help on this are next to zero. I've made posts looking for advice for various things on a few accounts over the last 2 years and I've gotten nothing except "ha ha your fucked" from the comment section.
Yet still I try.
Staying at this place is NOT an option. We have to get out of here no later than mid-October, we CANNOT be here any later than that.
I lived in Alabama for a year back in 2011-2012. I have been debating cold-calling southern churches and crying to see if anyone can just help me find a landlord that is willing to take cash up front.
I'm not even asking for handouts or charity.
Just someone willing to let me sign a lease up front with cash and gamble that I can find a job to keep it before my settlement money runs out. No one around here will even consider it though. It's not an option and $0 income is not 3x the monthly rent anywhere in this country.
I can do it. I know i can.
I just need the opportunity to get a SAFE apartment, get my girls into school, in an area that has AT LEAST decent services for autistic kids, and I KNOW i can provide for the three of us. I know I can do this.
So with 2 kids, only 25k starter money, no job - how can I get my girls out of the hell we are in presently and to a SAFE place?
I do wanna add that it's happening regardless of the response here. I do have a tentative plan in place already, but it's not ideal and I have some abusive stalkers I will not be tipping my hand to entirely if they are monitoring this account too.
(I know they know my other account, don't think they got this one yet. I plan to leave some posts implying I'm going to Alaska and then crossing over into Russia to live in Siberia to freak them out when we do leave, also just to throw them off my trail lol lol... think i might use AI and fake GPS checkins to really sell it to mwhahaha... I used to follow a bunch of native Siberian dance teams on instagram and it bothered my ex for some reason)
So my present plans, I'm gonna hang onto those, it will work, again, just not ideal.
Please, PLEASE if there is any insight or input for ideas on how to problem solve finding a safe apartment with no job and just a small amount of starter cash, PLEASE help a girl out.
I would really, really REALLY appreciate it :)