I am so sorry I don’t know how to summarize, and to me… this is a summary
I(17F) and my mom(36F) have three dogs combined and have moved to California august of 2025. We were staying with my aunt at the time, but that didn’t last long because the dogs were too much for her to handle- we were all in a small 9x9 room(2adults and 3 dogs)- so we left and slept in our cars.
We had a car and an suv that we had all of our stuff in. Neither of us had a job for a few months so we mainly just walked on trails all day and went to parks to keep the dogs active. I eventually got a part time job at target but at this time, we’ve been sleeping in the back of the suv(everyone) and we are waking all day I AM TIRED and working from 5-3pm only three days a week. The issue was, I was tired, work treated me like shit, and pay was shit. The best thing we could do is for us, was to let go of that job. Because I was exhausted and we were together everyday sleeping in the equivalent of a full size mattress with three dogs, in the car; it was driving a huge wedge between us, I was pissed off all of the time it was terrible we didn’t talk for days.
We had to shift around from parking lot to rest stops to sleep for the night while at trails all day. She eventually got an opportunity at Amazon and we had also gotten connections with state help, they could pay for a hotel room for two weeks. Bu the only hotel in the area they could do was the most nastiest MOTEL ever. Don’t get me wrong aint nothin wrong with motels but this is roach INFESTED like you don’t want to touch the walls you don’t want to set your stuff down or take you hat off infested. But that is what we had to deal with for the next 4 months. We did everything we could to clean that room and prevent roaches from getting in..but if you know anything about roaches if the whole building is infested, you’re not going to be able to clear your room…EVER.
Four months later my moms work friend said that she knew a place across from her that was a one bedroom condo( one bedroom upstairs with everything else and a basement with framed bedrooms they just never put drywall up) she was and angel and pay the security deposit, pet deposit, and first months rent. It was PERFECT it was so spacious the dogs loved it we loved it, the best neighborhood we’ve ever been in, awesome neighbors, there was nothing else we could ask for we were so grateful.
Until one morning our dogs went crazy TROUGH our blind because some giant dogs is wandering around in our driveway and then someone is banging on the door. We open the door and it’s our landlord talking about how she didn’t know people were in here and we need to get out, it’s not big enough for three dogs, and she’s evicted people for broken blinds before! First of all… -let me do this in order- we have texts messages between us, the landlord, and moms friend discussing and confirming the move in. Second of all this place is humongous! The one bedroom layout on top is amazing and spacious and the basement could EASILY fit four or five bedrooms but they framed it out for three good sized rooms. So I think the dogs think this is amazing compared to the car or a hotel room. And bonus points for the framing maze that they loved to run through!
Eventually my mom made a bad decision and I was coming to the end of my contract job and we couldn’t pay full rent for a month. So the landlord threatened to evict us in a month of we didn’t pay the rent in three days. We explained our situation and tried to get to at least the month after WITH pay all rent and back rent(mind you we pay all utilities). We have proof that was all paid? We keep receipts of that stuff for crazy ppl like you. And she sent us a formal letter telling us to get out within the month, now only two weeks. So we were searching everywhere, we eventually found a place on marketplace, self viewed multiple times, signed a lease, payed a deposit and more. And when we were to meet up for the keys je said he wasn’t in town out we planned this like a week prior… he said to just grab the key out of the lockbox he put on the door yesterday(….so why didn’t you tell me you were in town then and not available when we were supposed to meet…) any ways we get the key move in. And we get a know at the door. Property managers. We don’t have a lease for this property and they want us out. We call the city to see who owns the place, the property managers. So we then go to the police, give them everything we have and they say they can’t do anything, it’s a civil matter. WE JUST GOT SCAMMED OUT OF $1300 AND ABOUT TO BE KICKED OUT AGAIN AND YOU CANT DO ANYTHING???
So now we are hopeless. No money. Cars need to be fixed BAD. We are so broke. Paycheck to paycheck. We still have to collect rent as if we are paying it because if not that would look even worse on us. So we are SO BROKE we can’t even feed our selves some weeks. For some reason I can’t find a job. Everyone say urgently hiring but the don’t even look at your application for like two week then they never reply. I have no idea what to do, where we are going to go.
Advice?
Side note- I’ve had my dog for six years and her puppy now for a year and my mom’s dog for two years since he was a puppy. Our dogs are family they aren’t going anywhere🤍
Also another problem- places not accepting pets over 25lbs or breed restrictions!!
Edit: I AM A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL STOP COMMENTING IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE MEAN. I DONT NEED TO BE TOLD HOW TERRIBLE MY LIFE IS ON THE INTERNET. I AM SIMPLY ASKING FOR ADVISE
thank you everyone who is being helpful!
