I'll Be Homeless on 08/25/2010

[equus]

Awesome Hoosier. That is excellent news.

[nell67]

Great news HA!!!!!!!!

[mountain mama]

I am so happy for you, HA! Congrats

[hoosierarcher]

till don't have a place to live. Apartments that are not worth living in(as in infested with vermin and deplorably filthy) are going for $500/month here because of construction workers from all over the country descending on the area for the building a coal gasification plant in a near by small town. It's frustrating, to say the least.

[BENESSE]

HA, I know this is not ideal, but is there a way you could rent a room in someone's house (say, an old lady who needs to supplement her income) til you get back on your feet? The important thing is you have a job and if you can just hang on to it and hang in there things are bound to improve.
btw...How's the job going? What do you do, what's your day like?

[rebel]

till don't have a place to live. Apartments that are not worth living in(as in infested with vermin and deplorably filthy) are going for $500/month here because of construction workers from all over the country descending on the area for the building a coal gasification plant in a near by small town. It's frustrating, to say the least.

For 500 dollars you could get a camper that has a kitchen, bathroom and heat.

[rebel]

http://evansville.craigslist.org/rvs/2023544093.html

[BENESSE]

http://www.apartmentfinder.com/India...F|FP16A|228645

http://www.apartmentfinder.com/India...F|FP16A|231423

http://evansville.reachoo.com/ads/112825799

[your_comforting_company]

HA.. I know you aren't in a position right now to move away, but housing is a LOT cheaper down here. Not a lot in the way of work right now, but the farming industry always needs help, seasonal, and full time. Cotton and peanuts are in full force and will be for several months, and then the farmers themselves will be hiring again.. Not sure if that is something that interests you at all, but my SIL just got a really nice apartment up town for around $350 (It's cheaper for her, being a single parent, and getting housing assistance). I'm not talking about housing projects.. real houses, usually duplex apartments, in really nice neighborhoods. Heck, her house is nicer than mine (but mine is paid for, lol).
If work ever picks back up for me, I'll definately hire you.
Just tossing an option out there. It ain't city life, but it's gotta beat living on the street.

[hoosierarcher]

YCC Thanks for the offer. I have a decent job and I was just told of an apartment that is becoming available on November 6. It is right across the street from the hospital I work at.
Benesse, Evansville is an hour south of here. That is too far a commute for what they pay and the price of gas. Thank you very much though.
Rebel the construction workers also have all the RV parks and campgrounds in the area full; but I still may buy that camper trailer for hunting and 3D shoots. It's too good a deal.Thanks to you as well.

[y2k]

Do you or will you have funds? If you can put together $500 (or so) by selling stuff, etc, you can buy and old van and live in it. I've done so, off and on over the years, for months on end. By not having rent or utilities, by moving it only 1/2 mile at a time, twice a day (to keep people from siccing the cops on you) and riding a bicycle, your living expenses come down to just food, mostly, and food can be as little as $3 a day, if you know what to buy. If you set up someplace where you can garden, food can be $1 a day, too.

[y2k]

This tactic would save most people at least 10k a year, and if you really look into what you waste, it might well save you 20k a year or more. When you don't drive much, and have a junk car, you only need the legal minimum insurance. When you save so much money, you can buy insurance by the year, instead of by the month, and that will save you another $20 a month (or so). When you save this much, you can afford to go to college, or take some sort of training. When you live in your van, you park it where you need to be, and you stay there until you need to be elsewhere. You run errands on the bicycle. You live up North for the summer, and move south for the winter, so you don't need heating or cooling. If you install cabinets, and a chest of drawers, the van has plenty of room, but you can use a public storage place to keep a small, pull-type trailer, or just a space to hold your "extra" stuff. When you move, you just pile the stuff in the back of the van, until you can get another storage space, or leave some of it with a friend, etc.

[Rick]

Seriously? A couple of folks have suggested an introduction. You've made some pretty bold statements/claims. Just so we know you aren't a 12 year old blowing smoke (not that all 12 year olds do) why not take a look at this.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...ead.php?t=7813

[hoosierarcher]

UPDATE: Today is the Marine Corps Birthday and I also signed a lease on an apartment. Moved mostly in today. I will be sleeping there tonight. Headed over to Wally World to buy a few groceries, mostly snacks for my new diagnosed diabetes. I have never been much of a snacker; but it's a required dietary part of managing diabetes. Nice little place, I am blessed to have found it and had so many friends pray for me, help me over this rough patch and family that helped me get this fine job, which led to this apartment. A coworker told me about it.
My diabetes is proving to be tricky to manage here at the beginning. My medications working too well and the fact that I have really cut back on my consumption of food have caused my BG to be as low as 68(tonight before dinner.) Anything below 70 is BAD and they don't want mine to go below 90. I've lowered my A1c 3 points in 1 month. I got an "attaboy" from the RN at the Diabetes Education center.
I average BG for the last 3 weeks has been 114 so I am responding well to my medication, diet changes and exercise increase.
Life as they say is good. God is Great and I am pretty happy. Now I just need to find a woman to share this adventure with, or is that asking too much?

[crashdive123]

congratulations again.

[Rick]

I don't know, HA. Maybe you and SD can compare notes. He's lookin' too, so I hear.

[BENESSE]

Hey, wait a minute!!!
Maybe HA & SD could go in on time share.

[Rick]

Well, there is land for sale and I think a town that size needs a Whiskey Emporium.

[BENESSE]

Well, there is land for sale and I think a town that size needs a Whiskey Emporium.

I was talking about a 'lady friend' time share.
Jeez!!!
Do I have to spell it out?

[rwc1969]

That's great HA, glad to hear it.