My Ex Friend Is Trying To Sue Me, I Am Homeless With No Assets

Location: Ohio

Edit2: to clarify: i did not blow my money. I am SEVERELY disabled and a lot of funds go into keeping my out of constant pain and just alive. She knew this before i moved in. The rest of our money went into food for my service animal and getting my fiance to and from work as our car broke down a while ago. We struggled to save as the only thing my fiance could get was part time fast food work, its been rough where we are job wise unfortunately.

EDIT: Typing this back out with hopefully more clarity, i wrote this in a bit of a panic. Sorry for that! This is much longer but i figured the situation requires more context. Sorry to leave out any details but this is a very complex situation with a lot happening.

Me and my fiance moved in with my friend from highschool in the summer this year, i was homeless before staying with her. We had just come to ohio from florida and were flat broke (very long story, Florida was just too expensive basically.)

We had no lease, we offered to help with bills, rent and groceries repeatedly and she denied it every time. She is a wealthy person and her parents pay all of her bills for her house that they bought her, and her mother had helped someone a few years back in a similar way (broke, in debt, housed them and helped them back on their feet.) So while i felt bad not paying anything, i couldnt really force her to take the money nor was i in the position to.

She offered us money to help with various things (getting to and from work after our car broke down, food, even gave us a bit of money to go on a date once, it was a nice gesture!) i denied any money from her for a long time as i hate owing people money and knew/told her i would not be able to pay it back soon. She insisted and offered anyways for months until i caved and let her help us. All of this money was transferred via zelle and cashapp, with no indication it was loaned, with the three comments on the cashapp transfers being ‘McDonalds’ ‘uber’ (things she was paying us back for) and ‘have fun’

At a certain point she even discussed buying a larger house with us to live in! We went around and looked at houses together.

She gifted us a few of her ex girlfriends things that were left behind when she moved out (a keyboard, an ashtray, small things like this) The only thing i took that was expected back was a microphone, my fiance and other friend packed this up while i was not in the house, neither of them knew it was expected back so they packed it up. Of course i am planning to give this back, along with any other items she wants, it really doesnt matter too much to me.

Very suddenly a few months ago she got very hostile with both of us, i should specify she has some form of (undisclosed to me) mental illness that she has sought treatment for in the past. All of her other friends from school can attest that sometimes she just turns on a dime on people for little to no reason. Everyone we know was VERY surprised i was staying with her and not at all shocked when she kicked me out without reason, none of them are really talking to her now it seems like. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt because we are both in our 20s now. I feel dumb now but what can you do i guess.

She started screaming at us, claiming i was lazy (i am disabled, very badly, and while i could not work a normal job i did clean her house, and up after her specifically as she does not clean, i also brought in money through my own means.) she lied to her girlfriend about us in various ways, she made threats to my fiance out of nowhere, her gf also showed us her making suicidal threats over text because we lived there, she screamed at my service animal, and just overall was very intense, and would then suddenly flip back to being really nice out of nowhere.

Obviously we made plans to leave around this point. We discussed it and planned to leave in march or april if not hopefully sooner. She said that was fine and so we moved that plan into action.

Last month she gave us an envelope and it had unnotarized eviction papers that said we had to leave in three days. We did. We are homeless now and couch surfing.

The night we were leaving she sat on the sofa and asked if something was hers every time we walked through the space (ex: we had a can opener with us and she was trying to say we were stealing it. It was our can opener, ours is white and hers is black.) eventually this lead to her getting violent and the cops were called. They told us to just get our stuff and leave, and we did.

This was about three weeks ago. Yesterday she sent us a Google document of what she wants back and money she expects back that totals to 660$. She specified in the google doc that any money spent on bills was money lost that she did not expect back.

I am staying with someone else for now but will be officially on the street in November as they just arent able to keep me and my fiance here for unrelated reasons.

We have about 35$ to our names, we are in MAJOR debt, have no car and no house, we will literally be on the sidewalk soon as all the shelters around us are full because this winter is apparently going to be very bad.

Is there anything we can do, anything to know? How far can she even really get with this? I have no problem giving her money over time, i planned to do so anyways even if she didnt ask for it at the time. Should i tell her this? I just wnat to avoid court, even if it is small claims.

I should clarify i dont feel entirely in the right here, i feel bad for taking any money she offered, i feel bad for taking up space in her home even if it was just a room. I just want to get this over with and try to rebuild my life and leave her be.