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Sandra left South Florida and her marriage about eight years ago and moved to Orlando. Things were going well until the daycare where she worked <\/span><\/span>closed<\/strong><\/span><\/span>, her <\/span><\/span>rent more-than-doubled<\/strong><\/span><\/span>, and her <\/span><\/span>car became undrivable<\/strong><\/span><\/span>. Her only recourse was to live with a colleague and depend on a friend to drive her back and forth to the two part-time daycare jobs she found. That started her <\/span><\/span>unstable living situation of renting rooms in other people\u2019s homes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sandra was able to save money and build her credit score, with the goal of buying a home. But when she sought mortgage approval on the conventional market, the loan amount her income allowed would only buy an \u201cawful\u201d house that would \u201cset me her up for problems!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Happily, she was hired as an Orange County Public School substitute teacher at Apopka High School and <\/span><\/span>learned about Habitat Seminole-Apopka from a coworker<\/strong><\/span><\/span>. She applied to our Homebuyers Program, was accepted, and began her sweat equity hours. She took our Financial Academy, in addition to her mandatory classes, worked on houses, helped at a food bank, and did everything she was required to do.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sandra is a true example that, <\/span><\/span>\u201cThings happen for a reason.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0Originally choosing a lot in Apopka for her home, permitting issues delayed the start of construction. Understanding her frustration, staff offered her the choice of several sites in Sanford. Hearing an address on <\/span><\/span>Holly Avenue<\/strong><\/span><\/span>, she immediately fell in love with the name. Sight-unseen Sandra said, <\/span><\/span>\u201cThat\u2019s the one I want!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And this is the home Sandra is thrilled to be buying and into which she\u2019ll be moving her <\/span><\/span>15-year-old grandson<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0from South Florida to give him a brighter future. She wants him to get a good education in Seminole County and then go to the University of Central Florida for Engineering.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI now <\/span><\/span>feel secure about my grandson\u2019s future<\/strong><\/span><\/span>. He will always have a place\u2026and me too,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is the best thing that could have ever happened! It was worth the wait!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sandra left South Florida and her marriage about eight years ago and moved to Orlando. Things were going well until the daycare where she worked closed, her rent more-than-doubled, and her car became undrivable. Her only recourse was to live with a colleague and depend on a friend to drive her back and forth to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"iawp_total_views":39,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatseminoleapopka.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}