#that's essentially half my pay check just for rent to my aunt and uncle and my health insurance this year

[crimsonblackrose]

I looked at how much according to experts I can spend on housing a month and omg I can afford nothing with my current job. 😂 Like I knew I couldn’t, but just how little I can actually afford at this job is pathetic.

#mumblings about work #mumblings #I've known that getting a job that is full time and pays well is highly important #but damn the actual peanuts I'm paid is pretty bad once you chop out rent #my aunt and uncle are going to charge me less than the expert amount but it's still more than I expected #and since my health insurance i foot the bill for myself is so expensive #that's essentially half my pay check just for rent to my aunt and uncle and my health insurance this year #which really that shouldn't be right...I mean it's a little less than half but by like a razors edge that #I'm just looking at my dream of moving downtown with a little sad face and looking at jobs with a someone please pay me a lot more money #I mean my salary is essentially unlivable which I knew but also like well damn #I could ask for a raise but that feels dangerous atm because we literally just laid off like 13% of the company #and I don't want to have no job and then now suddenly I'm eating into my saved downpayment #adulting sucks y'all I just want roots #I also planned next month to go downtown and explore #and then a friend I haven't seen in like 5 years (omg) was like hey road trip? #so now she's coming to visit later in the month and we're going to stay downtown so I can explore neighborhoods again #and I'm like well huh what do I want to do for my birthday then? #because the idea of paying for places downtown twice in one month does not sound like fun #Still want to go downtown and see people #but I've got to think about it a little more #My aunt asked me what I wanted to do and I'm like uhhhhh #because she asked if I wanted to go to the place I was supposed to go with dad and I'm like #well first off they're closed till spring and second off how expensive is this going to be? #Like I don't think she realizes that I was starting to feel a little stable and then throwing rent at me (which is a fair thing to do) #is just like whelp now I've got to decide what's worth doing financially and what's not #and I'm going to lean towards doing nothing to save money #which is my go to #I had planned to go visit friends this year but since I want to move out asap it's kind of let's find a new job and save up so I can move #which means not going to hawaii or seattle or new york #and frowning at the idea of going downtown even

[prorevenge]

Hello again, I'm the girl/artist who's aunt tried the old "I'm giving you experience and exposure" instead of paying me for some art I did for her real estate business. Just a quick update and then I'll try to let this fade away...

Hello everyone again. I feel bad about posting again because I'm totally not a karma whore but people seemed to be really invested in it and there were actually some people from the company in question who contacted me via this throwaway account so I figure I needed to give some closure (though the story is going to play out for a long time because it's my uncle/aunt's divorce is going to be ugly).

At this point I have no idea what's removed and why, what's still out there, what's been crossposted, etc... so for those who are just checking in I'll try to reset as succinctly as possible:

At the beginning of the year my Aunt Jay (by marriage) asked me to do some artwork for her new real estate business. We had a verbal agreement that she would pay me. She was demanding, insulting and shitty from the get go and I was out a ton of time, quite a bit of material costs very quickly. She wanted me to fly out on my own dime to finish up and paint a mural I designed. I asked for payment on everything I'd already done and she freaked out and screamed at me.

Tuesday, I went to my schools licensing/legal aid office, they helped me draft a letter to cease using my work and an invoice. Aunt Jay called my mom calling me an "ungrateful brat." Mom called Aunt Jay's supposed real estate company to say that one of their agents was not paying for services rendered. Company had no idea who Aunt Jay was. This caused my Uncle to look into things and it turned out Aunt Jay had taken out a few credit cards in his name only and maxed them out. Probably for her Escalade, new "real estate agent" wardrobe and office.

My update was Wednesday so in the following 2/3 days quite a bit more information has come to light about what Aunt Jay was actually up to. She's actually not in as big of trouble as I and everyone on the last post assumed but she's still pretty much screwed in several ways.

So first of all we learned that she probably never told anyone other than my uncle that she was working for the nation wide real estate company in question going to call it ProRealty (my last fake name may have been a little to obvious). It doesn't look like she had any clients, never brokered a single deal, she may have taken a few people around to look at houses but we aren't even sure about that. It looks like the "soon to be ProRealty franchisee" thing was just a lie to get my uncle off her tracks about where this huge influx of cheaply financed money was coming from. She had told him that ProRealty had financed her new Escalade and that they had helped her rent her office.

Since she never actually claimed to be a certified ProRealty agent in order to defraud people, it doesn't look like the company itself has any legal recourse against her. However my mom (extreme extrovert, opposite of me) who has become fast friends with the most senior agent in my hometown and he is (or has, not sure) going to report my aunt to the state board of real estate to have her new (as of last fall) license reviewed and probably suspended. Even if this doesn't happen, she is essentially blackballed from ever doing a deal with ProRealty and according this senior agent, something like 45% of home sales in my town happen with a ProRealty agent one either side of the sale. So even if Aunt Jay doesn't lose her license, she's effectively chopped half of her business potential right from the get go.

One thing that absolutely came out of my last r/prorevenge post was that two actual "ProRealty" agents commented and it was because of them that I was able to figure out a huge chunk of the puzzle. So the real life version of this company uses a very identifiable form of transportation on their logo but to keep this anonymous let's say that ProRealty uses a boat. When Aunt Jay was first talking to me about doing work for her she was oddly adamant that I don't use any "boats" in any of the work I was going to do for her. I mean actually forcefully direct instruction was "no boats!" In my head at the time I was like, I'm not one to paint boats anyways but point taken. Well as me and my family now surmise, while she knew she was already fraudulent, she was still trying to walk a line of not getting on ProRealty's radar in any way shape or form because she knew they could really screw up her plans if she were to be seen driving an $80000 Escalade around town with anything resembling ProRealty's "boat" plastered all over it. But to me it shows she absolutely knew she was up to no good and I hope this can be used in the divorce.

So onto my uncle, I don't know all the ins and outs of how separations and divorces work but as I understand he contacted a lawyer Wednesday afternoon and they were working to file some sort of emergency separation motion with the courts as soon as they possibly could in order to make sure she couldn't do any more financial damages to him. One thing that I thought was really cool of my uncle to do was that his lawyer did (or is in the process) of filing paperwork so she has to turn over all financial records and declare all assets related to her "business" and my uncle specifically asked the lawyer to include the oil painting and logos I'd already shipped to her. So while I'll never get paid, at least I may get my work back. The lawyer is also figuring out what to do about the identity theft.

One thing that is totally screwed up and I totally don't understand is that my uncle has pretty much paid for everything since they've been married (about 5 years) and Aunt Jay literally committed identity theft against him, he is still the one who has to leave the house so at least until he can get a place on his own, he's staying with my parents. My dad says my uncle is basically broken over this, that he didn't see it coming and actually bought into the bullcrap about ProRealty financing a car for someone who didn't even work for them. This makes me feel bad because I brought it all to light but my dad says my uncle appreciates it because Aunt Jay could have gotten in much deeper and she didn't really have a chance to try to and cover up fraud with more fraud.

So still a lot I don't know but this is where we are today. My uncles lawyer doesn't have a timeline for the divorce, I guess it will just depend if stupid Aunt Jay actually finds a lawyer who will put up a fight or if she just tries to fade away.

We'll see, thank you for reading, thank you for all the comments the other day and thank you to the posters who provided a lot of clarity with their knowledge of relationships and the real estate business.

(source) (story by KindredCocaCola)

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[orbmanson7]

So, for those of you not following along with my misadventures on instagram, I'll let you in on the latest update (it's a long one) on the life of Orb!

From the top: I was going to be moving in to my new house today. The Big Move, that is, though I've been getting stuff here and there all weekend when I was off work.

Some of you know that I had some...very unfortunate issues with my last roommate, had to make an emergency move to my parents' basement two states away for a few months, and had been working full-time to be able to move back to the city and on my own again.

None of you know that my stepsister had a storage unit that she let me use to store my big stuff, like my bed, my bookshelf, my kitchen appliances, my stuffed animal collection (there's a LOT), and so on. We'd both been using it for a couple years now since the last time we actually lived together (back in 2014).

For the past two weeks, I asked to borrow her key so I can get in there to organize and move out the smaller stuff, she told me she'd get back to me.

For the past week, when I asked again, she told me she lost her key. And that her ex-fiance/friend had lost his, as well. Odd, but okay. I asked her to go by the storage unit or call them to work out getting a replacement so I could at least get my stuff out when I move on Tuesday (today).

Today she told me she hasn't been paying for this storage unit since March.

The last time I put stuff in/took stuff out was in February. I currently don't have ACTUAL proof that my stuff is even still there. My stepsister flat out told me she intended to lie and never tell me why I wouldn't be able to get my stuff today when I was supposed to be moving. I'm not sure what she planned to tell me, but I definitely wouldn't have believed anything she tried to tell me at this point so...

I now have NO WAY to get my stuff because my stepsister owes a back-balance and I can only HOPE my stuff is still there (unless I happen to have an extra grand lying around, nope doesn't look like it). My stepsister is also obviously broke (I was planning to share a new place with her to cut costs for both of us upon my moving back to the city but every place we went, her credit check would fail so i just found a place on my own), so she can't pay this outstanding bill that she Just Now realized wasn't being paid. And she doesn't think she can pay it for at least another month. And there's no guarantee our stuff will even be there in a month.

My short-term situation before I moved in is now gone, so I HAVE to move in officially, but now I don't have most of my furniture or any kitchenware, lamps, appliances, shelves to put the stuff that's in boxes, half my clothes...all my stuffed animals.....

But the lights are working and internet gets installed Thursday, so I figure I might just borrow blankets from my grandparents and aunt and uncle across town and just make a big ol' blanket fort (with my veggietales string lights) and make the most out of it for now!

I'm pissed as fuck, don't get me wrong, but I need positivity to get through this shit right now, so I'm just gonna do what I can with what I've got.

But if people would commission me, I'd SUPER appreciate it! I still have my phone and my laptop & graphics tablet, I just won't have wifi until Thursday. So any amount will help A LOT (considering I don't have access to a truck after today, I'll have to probably rent a uhaul whenever I can get access to the storage unit, which is hopefully soon)! Also I am running low on funds until the end of the month for food & gas, and essentially my whole paycheck is gonna go to rent, too, ugh.

This ain't how my first month back was supposed to go, y'all. 😥

#long post #update for my followers #orbs thought bubbles

[prorevenge]

Hello again, I'm the girl/artist who's aunt tried the old "I'm giving you experience and exposure" instead of paying me for some art I did for her real estate business. Just a quick update and then I'll try to let this fade away...

Hello everyone again. This is an update of my previous story so if you haven't read it yet, read it first before reading this one.

I feel bad about posting again but people seemed to be really invested in it and there were actually some people from the company in question who contacted me via this throwaway account so I figure I needed to give some closure (though the story is going to play out for a long time because it's my uncle/aunt's divorce is going to be ugly).

At this point I have no idea what's removed and why, what's still out there, what's been crossposted, etc... so for those who are just checking in I'll try to reset as succinctly as possible:

At the beginning of the year my Aunt Jay (by marriage) asked me to do some artwork for her new real estate business. We had a verbal agreement that she would pay me. She was demanding, insulting and shitty from the get go and I was out a ton of time, quite a bit of material costs very quickly. She wanted me to fly out on my own dime to finish up and paint a mural I designed. I asked for payment on everything I'd already done and she freaked out and screamed at me.

Tuesday, I went to my schools licensing/legal aid office, they helped me draft a letter to cease using my work and an invoice. Aunt Jay called my mom calling me an "ungrateful brat." Mom called Aunt Jay's supposed real estate company to say that one of their agents was not paying for services rendered. Company had no idea who Aunt Jay was. This caused my Uncle to look into things and it turned out Aunt Jay had taken out a few credit cards in his name only and maxed them out. Probably for her Escalade, new "real estate agent" wardrobe and office.

My update was Wednesday so in the following 2/3 days quite a bit more information has come to light about what Aunt Jay was actually up to. She's actually not in as big of trouble as I and everyone on the last post assumed but she's still pretty much screwed in several ways.

So first of all we learned that she probably never told anyone other than my uncle that she was working for the nation wide real estate company in question going to call it ProRealty (my last fake name may have been a little to obvious). It doesn't look like she had any clients, never brokered a single deal, she may have taken a few people around to look at houses but we aren't even sure about that. It looks like the "soon to be ProRealty franchisee" thing was just a lie to get my uncle off her tracks about where this huge influx of cheaply financed money was coming from. She had told him that ProRealty had financed her new Escalade and that they had helped her rent her office.

Since she never actually claimed to be a certified ProRealty agent in order to defraud people, it doesn't look like the company itself has any legal recourse against her. However my mom (extreme extrovert, opposite of me) who has become fast friends with the most senior agent in my hometown and he is (or has, not sure) going to report my aunt to the state board of real estate to have her new (as of last fall) license reviewed and probably suspended. Even if this doesn't happen, she is essentially blackballed from ever doing a deal with ProRealty  and according this senior agent, something like 45% of home sales in my town happen with a ProRealty agent one either side of the sale. So even if Aunt Jay doesn't lose her license, she's effectively chopped half of her business potential right from the get go.

One thing that absolutely came out of my last @prorevenge post was that two actual "ProRealty" agents commented and it was because of them that I was able to figure out a huge chunk of the puzzle. So the real life version of this company uses a very identifiable form of transportation on their logo but to keep this anonymous let's say that ProRealty uses a boat. When Aunt Jay was first talking to me about doing work for her she was oddly adamant that I don't use any "boats" in any of the work I was going to do for her. I mean actually forcefully direct instruction was "no boats!" In my head at the time I was like, I'm not one to paint boats anyways but point taken. Well as me and my family now surmise, while she knew she was already fraudulent, she was still trying to walk a line of not getting on ProRealty's radar in any way shape or form because she knew they could really screw up her plans if she were to be seen driving an $80000 Escalade around town with anything resembling ProRealty's "boat" plastered all over it. But to me it shows she absolutely knew she was up to no good and I hope this can be used in the divorce.

So onto my uncle, I don't know all the ins and outs of how separations and divorces work but as I understand he contacted a lawyer Wednesday afternoon and they were working to file some sort of emergency separation motion with the courts as soon as they possibly could in order to make sure she couldn't do any more financial damages to him. One thing that I thought was really cool of my uncle to do was that his lawyer did (or is in the process) of filing paperwork so she has to turn over all financial records and declare all assets related to her "business" and my uncle specifically asked the lawyer to include the oil painting and logos I'd already shipped to her. So while I'll never get paid, at least I may get my work back. The lawyer is also figuring out what to do about the identity theft.

One thing that is totally screwed up and I totally don't understand is that my uncle has pretty much paid for everything since they've been married (about 5 years) and Aunt Jay literally committed identity theft against him,  he is still the one who has to leave the house so at least until he can get a place on his own, he's staying with my parents. My dad says my uncle is basically broken over this, that he didn't see it coming and actually bought into the bullcrap about ProRealty financing a car for someone who didn't even work for them. This makes me feel bad because I brought it all to light but my dad says my uncle appreciates it because Aunt Jay could have gotten in much deeper and she didn't really have a chance to try to and cover up fraud with more fraud.

So still a lot I don't know but this is where we are today. My uncles lawyer doesn't have a timeline for the divorce, I guess it will just depend if stupid Aunt Jay actually finds a lawyer who will put up a fight or if she just tries to fade away.

We'll see, thank you for reading, thank you for all the comments the other day and thank you to the posters who provided a lot of clarity with their knowledge of relationships and the real estate business.

Edit: eeeekkkk...pms are getting a little dodgy.

I'm not hot at all.

Aunt Jay looks like she is trying very hard to be in "step-mom" porn and coming up just short (my ex was really into it, that's how I know about it).

Edit 2: just talked with my mom again, my uncle wasn't forced to leave the house, I guess his lawyer advised him that if he felt he was any danger, or if he felt that there was even a slight chance that Aunt Jay would accuse him of harming her, it's best he just leave and they'd work out possession of the house later. It's very hard to reconcile that he was either scared of her or scared of her accusing him with the huge 6'3" dads little brother who used to throw me around in our pool. Growing up sucks

(source) (story by KindredCocaCola)

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