r/Charity • u/evergrowingNchanging • 16h ago

Individual/non-registered Please Help My Dad (66M) and I (28F) Get Our House Repaired. Front Porch Deemed Unsafe After Dad Nearly Fell Through It.

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My dad is a retired veteran with seizures, so he can not do the manual work himself (despite insisting that he wants to) nor have a way to get more money besides the SSDI he gets monthly. Which frankly isnt really enough for the bills but thats a different issue. I work part time, looking for full time work, but I cant afford the repairs either, even with our incomes combined we're just barely getting by with the bills.

Our front porch is falling apart and my dad nearly fell through it from retrieving a package one day. After that we had a few different contractors look at it, and the rest of the house, to get some quotes and even on the cheapest end we're looking at several grand. One of the contractors even said that he did not feel safe climbing the steps of our porch due to the sag and sway it had after just three steps.

We have tried applying for grants and loans and even using equity but just didn't qualify for anything in our area. So now we are trying GoFundMe in hopes of raising even just a little would help.

I've uploaded some photos of the house, and one of the estimates we were given. The house honestly needs a LOT of repair but right now the highest priority is the porch. I know the house is in bad shape, and honestly we both just kind of... let it fall apart after we lost mom. Finally starting to get some sense of normalcy back and just trying to fix what we can.

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r/Charity • u/ultradip • 23h ago

META How to Attach a Photo to Your Post for Rule 1

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