<prompt> Human: Heres a little bit of background, my dad is a self employed contractor doing home improvement although he makes his bread and butter roofing, he has been doing this most of my life. These past couple of years have been rough on him financially, physically, and mentally. He went through a separation, me enlisting, and my brother going to college, so he doesnt really have anyone to help him out with paying the bills that have been accumulating. As I stated in the title, he is facing foreclosure on the house. Im not quite sure on the status of it right now as he doesnt like to talk about it, all I do know is that he said it should be finished by August. I loaned him 4,000 about a year ago, he said he would pay me back within two months, that didnt happen. OK, whatever. No big deal, Im receiving a steady paycheck and I got to help him out a little bit. I, myself have never really been good with money, Ive always been impulsive and have used my credit card to pay for everything each time Ive gone home on leave 5 times in the last two years. So my credit card was near its limit, 9,500 about 5 months ago. I had set up a budget and have been putting towards 650 almost two weeks. I was hoping to have it paid off by this August so that I will be debt free and have some sort of cushion by the time I reach the end of my enlistment next February. Thats 11 months away. I am also sending an alottment of 500 each month to my grandma that just got laid off due to her being an illegal immigrant, and she needs an extra 500 by the end of this month to help pay for the property tax or something like that. As far as I know, she relies solely on that 500 a month from me, but with the situation with my dad, I dont know how I can help the both of them. All I know is that Im not going to stand by and watch them struggle. Is there anyone that has any advice on what Iwe can do?Update Thank you everyone for taking the time to offer perspective and advice, I really appreciate it. As of now, I am looking into getting a Humanitarian Assistance Transfer to a unit closer to home. This would allow me to be close to home to take care of him, physically, mentally, and financially. From my understanding, I would essentially be a reservist getting paid as active duty until my end of active service date in 11 months. From there, I would be able to get a class B CDL that is going to give me more income to do the things I mentioned above.  <response>: I read through some of your answers. You need to get your stuff together before you can really help someone. You need to swim before you can save someone.Dad has to make tough choices. You cant help him financially so he has to give up the pets and live with grandma. Its homeless and on the street or living with Grandma and no pets. Maybe get rid of the dogs and keep the catI dont have personal experience with this but this is based on things Ive read here - Sometimes parents guilt trip their kids into helping - maybe when your dad realizes that you really dont have any more money to help him, hell see that he has no choice.You look like you have a plan so keep plugging away at that and I really hope it works out for everyone involved. 