Save Alyssa, and her 2 teenage Son's from homelessness,hunger, and suffering is a very short title for our crisis we are facing each and every day. To begin I want to let you know who you are helping, and the fact that I specifically choose the word "save", in the title because that is exactly what anyone that helps us is doing. Saving us, you are literally saving our lives. Our family consists of My 2 beautiful boys , Nathan and Kam, our adorable tiny dog Dakota, our cats Luna, Shadow, and Oliver, and myself, a single Mom that loves her family with every fiber of her being. Most of our animals are emotional support animals for myself and my boys. Nathan, my youngest son, just turned 17, and was on the A and B honor roll in high school this year, despite all of the very hard things we have been through the past 5 years. He is a kind and bright young man that plans to join the Army after he graduates high school. He has already spoke with a recruiter and had decided that he is going to be a veterinarian in the army, and then after he comes home he will continue to be a veterinarian, then one day, a great husband and father. He has planned to be a veterinarian, soldier, husband, and father since he was a little boy, and I fully support him in his dreams, even though I scares me that he will be in the army. I am very proud of him, and I just want my baby boy to come home safe! Next is my middle son Kam, who just turned 18 and is in school to finish getting his diploma after missing some school due to the right frontal cavernoma he has that has caused him to become epileptic. He has to be on seziure meds for the rest of his life or have surgery to see if his brain tumor can be removed. We are not ready for that right now because it just doesn't make sense to take such serious risks when his meds are controlling the really bad seziures at this time. If things change in the future we will revisit the idea but right now we just want to enjoy spending the time we have together.Both Kam and myself have autism, although he is a bit closer to the more severe end of the spectrum than I am. He is very loving and funny and I am so happy to have him!!! I have had a late diagnosis of Autism because unfortunately I grew up in a very unsupportive and abusive home. Also when I was a kid Autism was unheard of completly. I am 38 now , so I went 35 years not understanding why I am so different. I thought there was something wrong with me. I learned to mask it very very well and most people would never know I am autistic. All 3 of us have ADHD which can be challenging at times but we do what we have to to be accountable and are very proactive in our individual treatment. Now that you know who we all are I would like to let you know why we need help so desperately, and what we need help with. I would love to tell our whole story, but it is far too long to type is all right now on my phone. I will shorten it down to just right now and I will have to leave out alot but please know that this is very hard for me to do. Asking for help is not something I am used to doing. I've done everything on my own for so long and I am used to being the one helping others , not the person in need of help. I dont have any support at all. I mean no one. I dont have any family or friends. I moved states and I dont know anyone at all. I really wish I did though. I dont think I would be in this situation if I did. What has happened is that I was workimg for 2 years as a live in hotel manager. I managed a 75 room 3 floor hotel in Kansas and then took the opportunity to move closer to home, and relocate to another hotel in Minnasota, with the same company. The owner of the company ended up selling the hotel in Minnesota about 9 months after I moved here from Kansas. This hotel in Minnesota is a 40 room 2 story hotel. I was scared when it was sold because I didnt know what kind of people were buying the hotel, but I tried to stay optimistic. My bosses, including my regional manager told the couple that bought the hotel about me and had nothing but good things to say about me. I am exceptional at my job and I have many years of experience. The company i worked for has multiple hotels all over the state and they said I was the best manager they had. That made me very proud and I felt seen. The contract for the sale specified that the only way that the sale would go through was if certain things were satisfactory. One of those things was that the new owners had to keep me on as the general manager at the hotel. I have a lease here and I was the live in manager after al, and the loyalty and respect that was shared between my boss and I is unshakable. It would have been very wrong of him if I moved out here and drove the whole way with my kids, pets and belongings, then enrolled my children in school, and set up an entire life here, to then have them sell the hotel and kick me out for no reason. No my boss wasn't going to allow that. In order for the sale t9 finalize the buyer had to agree to keep me on as the manager and pay me for doing my job as well. The buyers agreed and signed the contract and the sale finalized. The new owners told me that I would be on the payroll belt the end of the week and I was to clean the entire hotel from top to bottom, do all of the laundry and make every single bed , that's 40 beds, then stock every room with everything so that they are all set to be ready for guests, and the inspection that needed to happen to reopen the hotel. Let me back track and say the hotel was closed for 3 months before selling. The owner decided to close for winter and have me stay as the care taker untill reopening. For one month the owner had two people run the hotel before closing so that I could get a job outside of the hotel before closing it down. The people that ran it for a month were not good at there job. The hotel was very messy, dirty and all the laundry was dirty when I closed a week early because I reported the state of the hotel to the owner. He fired the two people and they left. I was then instructed to not worry about cleaning the hotel or anything at all and just focus on working and taking care of my boys and fur babies. I was to keep the building heated locked and safe. I had to do daily security and nightly walk throughs of the hotel to make sure noone was squatting and that everything was OK with the hotel like plumbing, electric and so on. That's what I did for 3 months untill the new buyers came along. Once they bought the place , I was nervous but tried to just trust in what they said they would do. They lied. They promised me so many things and lied about it all. I cleaned the whole hotel and made all the beds then stocked all the rooms to be ready for opening. The only thing the owners helped with was the 1st floor. They picked up prices of dry wall, vacuumed and moved a bunch of tools and stuff from one room to another. The wife attempted to "clean" up the 1st floor rooms but all she did was make it worse. She took a bucket, filled it with water and cleaner and dipped a rag it then wiped the 1st floor rooms down with it. It left a white residue all over everything. She barley rang the rag out and didnt dry where she wiped. So it dried and left everything looking gross. She also used the same rag and same one bucket of water on every room she did on the 1st floor. Spreading dirt, germs and who knows what from room to room. It was really bad. I am not trying to be mean but she had never done any form of house keeping before so she had no experience at all and refused to take any of what I tried to teach her. So, I had to go in and reclean every single room she did. What she did didnt help. At all. I say all that to tell you that they had the nerve to put a story in the local news paper about the hotel reopening. They told there story and then took credit for everything I did. They didnt mention me at all. Then showed me the news paper all proud. I couldn't believe it. They paid me 1/2 what they agreed to pay me starting. They also refused to pay me untill the hotel opened . After promising to pay me within a week. I was working 3rd shift, 13 hours a day 6 days a week at an adult group home when they bought the hotel. I asked them when they would start pay and to sit down with me to agree on an amount. It took them 4 weeks to finally give me the time of day to agree on salary and we did agree on a set amount a week as a starting pay that would go up after opening and getting busy. They lied. They waited another week till I asked again and they said they changed there mind, and they spent too much on the hotel so they were not gonna pay me untill they opened. Yet they demanded that I clean the entire hotel inside and out and then get it completly ready to open. By my self. Then when I wasnt going fast enough for them while not being paid , so i had to keep working at my other job to survive they threatened me . They scheduled the inspection and gave me a week to finish everything. I had to quit my job and do it or I would be homeless. So I did it. Then the hotel was done and ready , it passed the inspection and they opened 2 days later. They paid me 100 dollars and then 250 a week later. Then they wrote up a very bad and illegal contract stating that I would be paid half what they promised me starting pay and it would go up when the hotel made $26,000 or more in a month. The contract stated that if I didnt sign it I would be fired immediately and have to vacate my apartment in 8 hours. Yes they did this. I have all the evidence. I signed it so I could finally get paid. Because they did this the day they were supposed to be coming to pay me the 1st time. They didnt say anything about the contract when I spoke to them the day before. They simply said we will be there tomorrow to pay you. Then they did that. I was very visibly upset and i told them how I felt very respectfully. They also laid out my responsibilities in the contract. I was literally to run the entire hotel by myself untill they made enough money to hire more staff. That means all the house keeping, all the front desk work, all the manager duties, all the laundry, literally everything. I just did it . I worked 7 days a week 13 to 22 hours a day. The contract said i was supposed to have 2 days off a week. Or 6 hours off on 2 days a week. I never got a single day off. I dodnt have time for anything at all. Just work. My kids witnessed it all. I dont know how I did it but I did and I did an amazing job at it. I surprised myself. I got so many kind notes, tips and gifts from guests. That's what kept me going. I didnt want to let the guests down. I worked so hard I burned myself out and kept going. Guess what they paid me. $250 a week. Im serious. Then they mislabeled me as a private contractor. They threatened me and screamed at me every few days. They literally labor trafficked me. We were fully booked 4 weekends in a row I was so busy yet my pay never went up and they didnt even pay me for a week they owe me too. Then they said we got you a house keeper. They hired her and i injured my back on the fourth weekend we were fully booked, badly. I still was forcing myself to try to work. The so called house keeper worked her 1st day with me and she was so rude and disrespectful to me. She told me that the owners wife told her not to listen to me and to only listen to her. Then she said that the owners told her that there were gonna be some changes around here and she wasn't at liberty to tell me what they were. I knew right then. She wasn't a house keeper they promised me to help me. She was my replacement. Sure as heck the next day , after I went to the hospital for my back and couldn't sit or barley walk they suddenly called me in the morning and said they were here and needed to talk to me. I wobbled down the stairs in spite of the intense pain and they fired me. I laughed and said i knew it. Your so called housekeeper , I mean new manager told me in very few words yesterday. They said you need to be out in 8 hours and we will give you 400$ if your out in 4 hours. They know I have nowhere to go, my tags on my car just expired and I only had 350$ to my name because they didnt pay me enough to even feed my kids. I said dont bother I quit and went in my apartment and laid down and cried. I dodnt do anything to deserve what they did and I have never met such evil people in my life that would take advantage of a vulnerable single mother , use and abuse me like that and then when I couldnt even physically do what they wanted and legally didnt have to they have harassed me and my children non stop. I have texts and videos of all of it. I am taking action against them for what they have done to us and I want to make sure they can't do this to anyone else. I tried to tell the new manager to be careful and just run. Cause they will do the same to her but she is young and dosent get it. She believes everything they are saying. They are completely lieing too. They tried to make up stuff to fire me so they didnt get in trouble but its all lies and I can prove it. The owner sounded on my door screaming and swearing and threatening us from 9pm to 11am the next day one day. I called the police and the officer did nothing. The police won't help because its a civil matter. They said all I can do is get a restraining order . The place to go to get it is almost 2 hours away and I can't drive my car. My tags are expired, I dont have gas and I have one head light and one taillight out. I lost my horrible job and am fighting to find a home before I am evicted and I dont know when my time is up. I have no car so finding a job in the tiny town I'm in within walking distance is very hard, and we are literally starving. Food share is going to take a month to increase so we only get 146$ a month. We are traumatized, starving , and so scared. I make calls from 8am to 430pm every day calling every resource I can get my hands on but where I am has horrible resources. We just need help so I can get back on my feet. We need a safe home , food, hygiene items, cloths, shoes, money to fix my car and get tags renewed, and a chance. Please help us. You can call me if you would like. I havent even said everything but I already wrote a book. I pray that you can find it in your heart to help us because we need it so badly and can't find any help. We are suffering so much and I feel like such a faliure as a parent. I always provided and now I cannot. I just need a chance and I will take it and appreciate it more than anyone ever could. Thank you so much. My cell is (218)884-0528 please only text or call to help and support us in any way possible. We cannot take anymore abuse or harm. Bless all of you.
I can't eat spicy foods because I have ulcerative colitis, but my boys can. We are starving so anything helps. I cannot drive untill I register my tags and fix my head and tail lights, then get car insurance again. If you can visit we can meet near by or you can come to the hotel but you will have to call me before coming to set it up and then call when you arrive so I can come let you in or meet you in the parking lot. Noone will bother you, my bosses only harass me and my kids. No violence though so everyone is safe. No worry there. Any questions call or text me. (218)884-0528. I live near Wadena Minnasota. The only places near us to get food or anything are Burger king, Family Dollar, Dairy Queen , And some restaurants and gas stations. There is also a Dollar General across town. Thank you so much.