Re: Need advice ASAP

From: Bam (dearcounselor_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:26:20 -0800

Have you called any of the colleges in the area?

"CindyB" <cburns@twcny.idontthinkso.rr.com> wrote in message
news:fW8Xc.171282$bp1.35235@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Sorry for reposting this but I realized that my original subject line
might
> have been too specific and someone who might have some advice to offer
> wouldn't read it.
>
> This is going to sound like one of those sob stories on another board
> but I'm not asking for money, just some advice. Anyone have any to offer?
>
> My son needs a place to stay in or near Virginia Beach. This is the one
who
> got a teaching job there.
> They gave him 3 days notice to get there and he won't have a paycheck
until
> September 30. He's been staying with a school administrator but her
husband
> has taken a dislike to Nick (called him an idiot for moving there without
a
> plan and generally made him feel like crawling back to Michigan and
> McDonalds) and they want him out by Friday.
>
> He found a hotel that would rent him a room on a weekly basis for
$210/week
> but there are drug dealers next door and hookers on the corner. Anything
> else is way beyond his means right now. Prices will probably come down
some
> after Labor Day.
>
> If anyone knows of a room he can rent for a few weeks or even a month or
> two, please please let me know ASAP. He has situational anxiety which he
had
> well under control with Paxil but he's been off it since March because he
> didn't have insurance and couldn't afford it. He called me almost in
tears.
> He wants to give up and go back to Michigan but his wife (who is still in
> Michigan) said "over my dead body." Good for her! They are newlyweds and
> she's his rock. This is the first time they've ever been apart. I'm going
to
> contact his her and see if he has a current prescription so I can have
some
> sent to him but that still won't get him a place to live.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not much help. I don't have credit cards and no decent
> cash for another couple of weeks. So I can't put him up in a hotel or pay
> his rent and security deposit on an apartment at this point. Hubby has
> decided to drive down there tomorrow and see what he can do to help, given
> our limited finances.
>
> If you want to reach me via e-mail, use c*burns@twcny.*rr.*com (remove
> asterisks). But I'll check in here every couple to see if there are any
> replies here. THANKS!
>
>
>

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