Eviction Yard Sale: A Scene That Is Surely Replicating Itself All Over America.

I'm a yard sale fan. So, I noticed when a big plot of land was covered with tarpaulins covered with yard sale stuff.







Then I saw it.







I drove past, on an errand, but on the way back I stopped to find out what this was all about.



I took a picture of the car and some of the tarps.







The owner came over, looking annoyed.



I'm with the media I explained.



"Well, that picture will show my license plate," she said.



"I can photoshop it out," I replied.



We talked about the sign on the car. "It's for real," she told me. She said her name's Diane. She was being evicted for failure to pay her rent.







"I went to the state looking for help, but I'm working. I have a job. I just can't afford it any more," she explained.



Ends up her "Ex" is three months behind in child support. She has an 11 year old daughter. You could tell by all the girls toys for sale. Diane was selling them to try to come up with the rent.





Diana is selling her daughter's toys to make rent by the 15th



When I spoke with her, about 3:30 PM, the day mostly gone, she'd raised about $150. She needed about $2400 by October 15th to pay the month's rent she was late, the next month's rent and court costs. Her landlord had taken her to court when she let them know she was having financial trouble. Court costs are close to $200 on top of her rent, which just over $1000 a month.



She'd been holding her own until her ex-husband stopped paying support. There are millions of Americans like her, living paycheck to paycheck. A recent CNN study found that almost half of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That means half of us are just one troubling incident or
failed back-up system away from being in Diane's shoes.



Diane, who lives in South New Jersey, has her court hearing on October 15th. She's hopeful. I asked her what she would do if she was evicted and she replied, "I have until the 15th."



She's caught between a rock and a hard place though-- no help from the state or county getting her ex-husband to pay the child support he owes, no help with her housing because she's working. You have to wonder how many hundreds of thousands of people this is happening to.



If you want to help Diane, her email is jobjmpr (at) verizon dot net (she used to do temp agency jobs.)

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Comments

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I am the person the story is written about and would like to respond however it is very long so I am going to try to split it up between my comment and the two that were made- hope you can follow it.

I am only trying to keep a roof over my daughters head, food on the table & clothes on her back. What he does will eventually catch up to him but in the meantime my focus is MY DAUGHTER . Everyday I TAKE CARE OF THIS CHILD and do what is necessary to do so such as selling everything I own, humiliating as it is to expose my personal life to the public but at least I AM A WORKING - LAW ABIDING CITIZEN and not out there selling my body or drugs or abusing the SYSTEM.

HE chooses to not call his daughter or see her. I have had my daughter 24/7 for the last 11 yrs. He has never had to miss a day from work because she was ill, take her to a DR/Dentist appt / find a daycare / has never had her overnight or every other weekend as a LOVING PARENT WOULD WANT TO. He can not tell you who her teacher is, her friends are, how many baby teeth she has left or anything about her. His statement when I was pregnant was “ I guess this is like a bad football debt for 18 yrs. “

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[ggirl]

IIf her ex-husband is drawing unemployment shouldn't he have to pay part of that to her? I do not want to cause a stir, I am only asking a question.

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part 3

He goes to great lengths to conceal his identity and whereabouts. Uses friends/family addresses and 2 Social Security #’s. He does not file Income Tax Returns. He does not pay into Social Security since he is an “Independent Contractor” and there are no survivor benefits in SS or an insurance policy if something should happen to him. He does not pay into Disability or Unemployment therefore he is not entitled to collect any of the above and is HIDING. The police impounded his vehicle for driving with fictitious Delaware tags last month when he is a resident of NJ and has a PA license (not sure if the car is registered or insured- most likely it is not). NOTHING is in his name such as rental agreement, utilities, ect., everything he does is in his sister’s name and is paid by CASH.
He also stayed at Frankford Hospital for over 6 months using a friends PA address although he is a NJ resident, claimed he has no income (since nothing is traceable) and has been receiving medications for over 2 yrs now and it was ALL FREE FOR HIM and paid for BY TAX PAYER MONEY however CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS WERE NOT MISSED DURING HIS 6 MONTH STAY. SO LEARNING WHY EX DOES NOT PAY IS ABOUT A GOOD OF A GUESS AS ANY…..HOW ABOUT THAT!
MAKES THE PICTURE A BIT BIGGER HUH?

[whypassword]

How about this?

The majority of citizens losing their jobs in this recession are men. We never learn why "ex" is not paying support, but it's probably because he, unlike Diane, has no job at all. And if that's the case, she should have dropped off the kids at his place and started paying HIM support.

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Since readers may be concerned as to “WHY” “EX” is not paying , I will share what I found out and fill you in about this “EX”. His line of work is SALES. He is dodging a $150,000 judgment in Florida from a “DEAL GONE WRONG” . When he found out that the homeowner he ripped off was an Attorney by profession he has been hiding from the “system” since. I was unaware of how MERKY of a character he was until I needed him to supply INCOME INFORMATION and to CHILD SUPPORT and it is still a fiasco.

Your suggestion to just drop my “kids” (I HAVE (1) 11YR OLD DAUGHTER) off at his house and PAY HIM SUPPORT would be like me dropping her off with a Stranger.

I DID CONTACT him to notify him that I was facing an eviction because HE is in the ARREARS OVER $3,500.00 to date and asked if we could possibly stay with him (NOT THAT WE WANTED TO) since he has a 2 bdrm place and his response was “ IF YOU COME HERE I WILL SIGN A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST YOU and BESIDES YOUR MOTHER WOULDN’T LET HER BE HOMELESS” I told him “YOUR RIGHT BUT IT’S NOT MY MOTHERS RESPONSIBLILITY AND YOU WOULD “ and he hung up on me.

I am open to suggestions, however there is more to the story one must know before one can criticize or come up with a SOLUTION to MY problem .