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    Question A Complicated Mess

    My question involves an eviction in the state of: California

    Well, I have had the roughest of times, like many of us. It starts several months ago. The first problem after having moved in in October last year came shortly after a combination of the landlord seeing me standing in line on 4/20 at the local cannibis club. To break any hatred, I had my head rolled over on four times by a truck body (not tires, I was partially ejected); I have beat cancer twice, and I have a very poor appetite that is classified as anorexia (I weigh 99-101 lbs). OK, that said, between that and perhaps the fact that she took the clothes out of the dryer shortly thereafter and was nice enough to fold them, and I had a shirt I was given that day in the laundry. So, some tension started.

    Around the same time my job started cutting hours bad. We started to get slightly behind, but were making payments each paycheck (two weeks) and if you looked at the fact that we had to stay in a different (less expensive, as advertised) room for over two months but still gave the full amount, and the repairs (we are handy people) made at the landlady's request, with that all together, we were only short a couple hundred for two weeks at the moment of "explosion." At the same time, there were four other renters here, two had admittingly been unable to pay rent for almost a year and over a year. One was a couple months behind, and one moved in and didn't pay after that. This was now 8 months of getting $1000 from us every month.

    So when the landlady got stressed, she took it out on me. She told me that she wanted her money that day and that we were the only sole reason she was going to lose her house. She called me some nasty names and told me to get out, like get away from her out at that moment it seemed. So, I left. I have an anxiety problem, so I try to avoid conflict. Some of the things that followed this event:

    (allow me a moment of backup history to tell you where a couple things she did comes from)
    While working in Arizona a couple years ago, I got stopped New Years weekend and had some medical grade in the car, so it smelled really good (as anyone thats smelled some top grade medicine can tell you.) Well, this was their favorite DUI weekend, and my admitting to having smoked a few hours earlier before eating at a buffet for over two hours. They still arrested me and impounded my truck. I went to the big checkpoint mobile location they had set up, and went through fingerprints and stuff. When I was released, I was still not told my charges, and was only given a piece of paper telling me how to pick up my truck (which is why I got stopped, I just bought it that afternoon and there was no gear knob, so I didnt turn off my blinker fast enough because it took both hands and a lot of effort to maintain a straight line changing gears - old diesel.) Okay, I never heard from them. A couple months later when I knew I would be coming back to CA, I called all three cities in that general area since I wasn't sure after going to that mobile place, and noone had a ticket or court date for me. So I figured they finally had listened to my medical argument at that place and released me with no charges since I didn't sign anything to go to court or release me from them.

    Okay, now back to the landlord problem. She did research, and I guess at some point and time they found the ticket and put a FTA bench warrant out. I am broke and unable to travel or defend myself or take care of my animals if I go there, but I also know that CA doesn't extradite on that, as an officer told me. Anyway, I started getting hate letters, and she threatened if I didn't come up with what she said I owed in full she didnt wannt talk it over with me or see what I had to say, that I wouldnt be here or at work, I would be in jail, she would call the police to come arrest me. I guess she tried that and found out what I was told. Then she started telling me to watch what I did because she would hire a bounty hunter to come break my door down and take me back to AZ. Then she started trying to say my dog wasnt licensed or current on shots (I go to a vet four blocks down the road, a VCA) and that she wasn't spayed (new local spay law - but it excludes service animals, I am legally deaf and she is just turning two in November, still learning, but in the same protected class as she learns to alert me to sounds - which she does do, but she still has to learn accuracy.) She threatened to have my dog taken because it is part wolf (also not illegal, but when I came back to CA, I thought it was, and was honest about that with her on moving in, to which she didn't care, but that is the basis for why she thought that.) She openly allowed people to steal sodas that were placed according to her guidelines of how to put food in the fridge that is only yours (wrapped, in a bag, tied with my name on it) but the police wont do anything because no prosecution on under $10 of value so I was told. She has about five vicious dogs, appropriately seperated by two yards (her property is about the depth of street to street block, not width, but depth, like say a house on one street and your neighbor behind you on another street.) She started putting one in the first yard where we come in and out. It has barked snapped and tried to bite me several times, to which I finally told her that I would call the police if she left it out. The police said they cant do anything, its her yard. Then the community fridge, she closed the door to it (two part door top and bottom, only closed bottom) and put that dog in there where I couldnt get to my sodas. She told police I could always use the kitchen fridge and get ice from there if I needed it (which worked for my favor today when the same officer was called out unknown to me it would be same but because they locked off the kitchen after I was there getting ice!) She turned off the breakers to my room alone in the middle of the heat wave (I live in the Valley) with animals in room! Bad enough there is no air circulating up here aside from the fans! So, by now you see, I am the type that doesn't take someone infringing on my rights easily, challenging me by blaming me for something that I realy am not the end cap of the problem, threatening me, etc. So, she puts some papers down there saying its from the court, but I am aware there is no court stamp, nothing delivered in mail, no future paperwork. I told her I am waiting to take her to court for the offenses she has commited against me. The room I have to go through to access my room was always cluttered up and unable to even get 20" of walking space, and often dark. The water was turned off for over a month (imaging tugging five gallon waters and ten gallon jugs up a flight of stairs every couple days to clean off and water animals!)

    So, here I am, it has been a while since negative contact, and I was starting to think she will never file with court because I have told her what causes I have on her (well, most of em, especially the criminal part) and she knows I had a case. She keeps waiting. A few weeks ago she told me she was having someone come up to check wiring and also someone to come look at our room. I was wrong at first I said only the person for wires could come up, and then read quickly and responded within a couple hours - still a day before the time she gave - that the renter could come up, but that we weren't moving til we had our day in court. She later sent a letter saying she could inspect whenever, I told her yes, but that had to be mentioned as the specific intention. When the guy had come he was honest that he was checking the place to try to save her mortgage, and I welcomed him in anyway, Im not a bad person. He was honest, and he even said that our part of the house looked better than the rest that was so muddled up with piles of mess, like the room below. Well a week and few days ago she put up some ads from Craigslist for rentals. I thought this was a nice gesture since the last time I wrote her I replied that she should have just been honest about it, and I would have welcomed him anyway, but as she was probably told, my part of the house was in good repair compared to hers. I also told her that I was saying two prayers - one for the safety and wellbeing of her and the family and one for forgiveness for my reactions to her hateful actions. So, I thought this was nice. I found out that afternoon she was rushed to the hospital with the end result being bleeding on the brain, which has since caused surgery. In seeing her kids and ex husband since I have expressed my condolences for her situation, but asked them not to mention it to her because it might cause more stress to her. I also told each that I would do anything I possibly could to help them, especially the kids with no parent at home.

    Well today I go to get ice (if you are still awake, remember the comment earlier to police) and the kid told me there was none. I know the kid well enough to tell she was lying, opened the fridge and there it was. I told her not to worry, I would fill it up like I always do. There had been a note on the door going into kitchen to stay out, it was toxic, to call that guy that came up and has since moved into one of the rooms. But I knew it was to prevent my access to the kitchen. The girl started saying I shouldnt be there, and I told her it wasn't for me and her to discuss and that her mom was the one who told police I could use that fridge and ice, and I wasnt going to fight that battle with her mom right now because she was in hospital in bad shape and I wouldnt do that, but if that guy wanted to, I would be glad to fight that battle with him. She went to get him and he started on the phone to someone saying that I was trying to "enforce her rights to access" lol so funny the way he said it and some other stuff I couldn't understand. I told him that the police even know this exact situation and the woman herself said I could use it. As I started to walk out, he locked the door to the kitchen from the inside (to which I have no key) and I told him I would call police, and did. The police arrived and agreed with my rights, and the man tried to say it scared the kids for me to come in that way - which is completely impossible. The people that live in the guest house come in that way numerous times a day, the man that lives just below me in a room with access from outside and that same cluttered room goes in and out of the kitchen that way as well. Anyway, he told police I should go around to the front door to come into the kitchen... maybe hard to explain, but let me try. I would have to come down my stairs, enter the cluttered (not anymore) room, pass the door directly into kitchen, pass the other tenants door that goes in that way, go out the back door, go through the back yard, out the gat, around front, into the living room, through the dining room and into the kitchen. Mind you early into the rental we were asked to come in and out through the back because when we got in late from work their dog barked and it woke them up. We never minded that because at that time another tenant had a dog she tied to the couch that was always tripping you trying to get love and tangling you in its heavy chain (which dont get me started on what I think there!) So needless to say, not a probable or reasonable thing to suggest. So, as I said, the cops said I was right, but maybe try that to make him happy, and I was honest telling them I wouldnt do that. They said they couldn't make me not do it and just hoped that it was peaceful and they didnt have to come arrest someone, I confirmed it wasnt me for going into the kitchen, they said no, but it sounded like it could get hostile or physical, and they would have to arrest someone. They thanked me, asked if I had any questions, and left. I went back in the back door (where he led them to come in, go figure, not the front door) towards my room, but he was standing at the kitchen door staring at me. I looked at him and said "any more questions", he then started asking me if I was gonna be happy if that woman died because she didnt have health insurance because of me, I told him no, I pray for that woman. I said all I wanted to know was if he understood, equal access, he said yeah, I wont prevent it, but just knonw youll have the cops out here a few more times tonight. I asked him to repeat because I didnt hear it clearly. He then repeated and followed with he wasnt going to keep me out of the kitchen, but it would be dangerous. I then shouted out what he just said, "dangerous... are you threatening me? DANGEROUS?" at the same time the kid was tapping him telling him the cops were out front to talk to him, they heard most of it. I told him I was going with him, he said I didnt need to talk to them, I said he just threatened me, I did need to.

    So, now, that is where I stand. The problem is, I wanna know what I should do. I have held back rent, I was saving it, but when the hours went to basically nothing had to use it to get food and stuff - which was part of the rental agreement, some meals, but in the worst times, she cut us off from eating with them. She also tried to say the washing machine was broken, when we kew it wasn't, just unplugged. Then when we caught her using it and told her we already knew she put a sign up saying it was against the law to use it during the daytime, and then she did the same thing herself. She has done everything to take away the things in our rental agreement. One of the repairs was a leak on the roof, directly over the tv and cable box that she had someone work on twice but still leaked, we got out there and fixed it after that second time and mushy wood desk.

    What do I do here. I am trying desperately to find work, unemployment takes months just for the phone call (only two more weeks to go now though) and then theres time after that Im sure. I'm trying to find a place to live, but cant afford to move yet anyway. I wanted to take this to court, but when she served me, but she didnt seem to want to do that. But now that she is so sick I dont wanna fight her either. (not physical, Im not that type) I'm so lost. Please help!

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    Default Re: A Complicated Mess

    Quote Quoting Wolfie
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    What do I do here. :
    reduce your novel to a post it note and leave in just the important facts.

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    Thumbs down Re: A Complicated Mess

    As you said, you are not an attorney, and the facts are within that long novel, as the title reads, it's complicated. I could not build the fact of what bad things she had been doing if it were not all there.

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    reduce your novel to a post it note and leave in just the important facts.
    I can't do this one either.

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    Quote Quoting jk
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    reduce your novel to a post it note and leave in just the important facts.
    We found ashman's brother!

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    Default Re: A Complicated Mess

    No one cares about your "complicated details". Throw them out and get to the actual question.

    We don't have time to wade through your rendition of War and Peace - there are 200 other people in line who didn't come down with a case of logorrhea this morning that need help, too.

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    As you said, you are not an attorney, and the facts are within that long novel, as the title reads, it's complicated. I could not build the fact of what bad things she had been doing if it were not all there.
    as you can see, I am not alone in the criticism.

    and the facts are within that long novel,
    I never said differently but after reading a bit of it, so is a lot of superfluous crap.

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    Hey guys, I think this is balloon boy 2.

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    Default Re: A Complicated Mess

    I'm not sure a question was actually asked. If the story boils down to this: "I am not paying my rent on time, and have a significant rent arrearage. My landlord saw me in line to buy pot and says 'if you have money for drugs, you have money for rent', and is threatening to evict me," such is life. If you don't pay your rent, your landlord can evict you.

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