An update to the eviction process

I’ve been overwhelmed by the response to my post about Vee’s and my current living situation and the related email campaign that I wrote to friends (more or less out of desperation). I feel that I should provide an update on what’s happened since last night, especially since a couple of the donations we received were from people I don’t even know. The word has spread thanks to internet contacts who passed my situation on to others.

This morning I pulled a $430 money order from my PayPal account, the donation total as of that time ($300 of that, by the way, came from just two people; there were about a half-dozen in total). I also received a commitment from my extended family of a month’s rent ($557) to add to this, so in total you’ve provided almost a thousand dollars to help us out. I gave this information to the pro bono attorney (from Bay Area Legal Services—if you’re in need of an attorney and can’t pay for one, they’ve been so helpful to us) to offer to the landlord/management company’s attorney in consideration for giving me more time to keep looking for work, appeal the denial of my unemployment compensation benefits, &c.

The attorney passed the offer on to UDR for their consideration.  We didn’t get a response back before business ended today, so we’re spending the weekend on pins and needles waiting for their response.  From what our attorney told us, it looks like UDR’s attorney wants to take this money and then have us pay more in a few weeks (hoping that I’ll have a job by then), so we’re not out of the woods yet; we’ll need to keep raising funds.

We also need to raise funds to keep our internet connection going and the power on so I can keep looking for work, so it’s not over yet. I’ve posted the PayPal link again below if you can help us out with a donation.