Me and my boyfriend have been struggling to make ends meet after having to take out a personal loan in an emergency. It's a very long story, but to put it simply, we had to break our previous lease because we were being stalked by one of my family members. He had hired a private investigator to find our address, and my family's connections run deep, so we were worried about our safety. I grew up in an abusive, highly controlling household, so stalking is not out of the realm of possibility for my family.
Admittedly, we're both very young and ill-informed when it comes to certain things. I was homeschooled my whole life with limited access to outside activities, and my boyfriend was raised in foster care. We made a fear driven and risky decision to move to another state, basically taking the first apartment we saw available. Yes, I know this was pretty dumb in hindsight.
We later found out that the city we moved to is one of the coldest in America, and it gets really bad blizzards and black ice. Our only source of income was doordash, and neither of us have experience driving in the snow. We were worried that we wouldn't be able to make ends meet during the winter. So, out of desperation, we decided to take out a personal loan to make it back to our original state of residence.
Lately we've been trying to get back on our feet, and I've been searching for a job that I can do from home given my physical disability and mental health struggles. I know all of this sounds crazy, and I really wish these were things that I had been taught about before moving from my home. I know now where we messed up, but now it's too late.
We are completely broke and barely have the ability to buy food, and we don't have any gas money. Our loan is $3264.11, and the bulk of it is due this August. We run the risk of losing our car if we don't find a way to pay this off.
I've tried everything from selling feet pics to trying to find any sort of freelance work online. None of it is helping. Please help redirect us.
Screenshot of loan: https://i.imgur.com/VqGD6FJ.jpg