It’s been a roller coaster week here at S.Y.S.C. and personally, because we were handed notice from the landlord that our lease has been terminated and we have until the end of September to vacate our one-bedroom apartment.

I guess the good news from this is that I now have the motivation to finally look for that larger place that we need.

I’ve been on email and phones with all the apartment communities here in Plant City, and am finding that nobody wants to let us bring our brood of animals into their communities, so we’ve had to give up on apartments and look for a house to rent in order to keep our little darlings that we adopted over the past few years.

We found a three-bedroom house to rent just outside of historic downtown, and the monthly rent is within our budget, but they also want a full month’s rent for a deposit plus a $200 pet deposit to cover The Three Caballeros™ and the Crazed Ferret Duo™. It’s not much unlike the home I once owned in Lakeland (before the layoff and divorce took all that away), and the floors are ceramic tile (easy to clean!). The extra room will allow me to set up a separate office/studio to record vlogs and videos for the S.Y.S.C. YouTube channel and take things to the next level.

So far, so good, until we were told that if our credit check comes back denied, we’ll have to put down two months’ rent for a deposit.

To put it mildly, our credit sucks (welcome to the Great Recession). And I hate begging.

So I decided that if I was going to “pass the hat around,” I was going to do it not just for us, but for a cause that my wife and I both hold dear.

Indiegogo Campaign

Today a new fundraising campaign has launched on Indiegogo to raise funds to help us make the move to midtown Plant City, but we’re also going to set aside a portion of what we raise to support the 4 Lil’ Pigs ‘n’ Buns small animal rescue here in Tampa Bay. They rescue small animals like bunnies, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rats, and ferrets from situations like hoarding and homes that can no longer keep them and place them in adoptive homes. The rescue is run by volunteers throughout Florida who contribute and provide “foster homes” while these pets are awaiting adoptions. Vee and I have adopted all but one of our furry family from the rescue and we’d love to return the chance to support them financially through this Indiegogo campaign.