By Mirsha Lopez
[Editor’s Note: The four-member Sebastian and Mirsha Lopez family of East Los Angeles has been battling broken/missing/ignored facilities and amenities in its apartment since agreeing to move into the affordable rooms three years ago. Here is a lengthy letter they delivered yesterday to the management of Wyvernwood Gardens.]
Re “26 Calls Every 30 Days for Lopezes to Protest Problems”
January 15, 2014
Wyvernwood Apartments
2901 Camulost St.
Los Angeles, CA 90023
To Wyvernwood,
We deny each and every allegation as put forth on your letter dated January 15,2014 and in fact every single letter you have ever written to us. Be advised that nothing herein constitutes a waiver of any of our rights. Also, be advised that due to the excessive abuse and the excessive amount of violations you have committed, it would be impossible for us to cover each and every instance. We are making no attempt to do so. This letter and notice is designed simply to provide you with another cursory outline as to the outstanding issues that remain. Also, note that your letter’s typeface is way too small and inappropriate to provide to a person who is disabled. I request that you send another copy in the appropriate font size.
Also, note that if you insist on sending regular delivery and have security put notices on the door, we can take no responsibility for receiving them. We are duly informing you that this hereby constitutes inappropriate service and delivery. But as you know, you have a long history of fraudulent and deceptive illegitimate forms of delivery of such notices, which of course is completely deliberate on your part. Again, provide all communications by certified registered receipt, as you all know our mailbox is not secured. If you choose to deliver any communication in any other format, the responsibility is wholly yours. I know it is very difficult for you to understand the things we are talking about because neither you nor your staff comprehends or you are deliberately choosing to “modify” them for your own purposes. So let us try for the umpteenth time.
We are not addressing at this moment the construction of a potential ramp. We are simply saying that we wish to have access by wheelchair ramp or any other means and be encumbered and be unmolested by your staff, management, maintenance and security.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Next, you have received two letters from my Dr. at Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Caplan, informing you that we have the right to a comfort dog. He has provided you with the information as well as Narine from the Housing Rights Council as well as us. You also are being informed upon our accepting tenancy here that we reserve the right to a comfort dog/service dog. (We have yet to receive an original, unaltered copy of our lease.) Having been denied and having lived under the threat of eviction has only served to exacerbate both my husband’s and son’s medical conditions. We continue to insist and ask you to recognize our right, and my family’s right, to own, possess and care for a comfort dog, as defined and provided by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Next, as we did from day one, we continue to make a request for reasonable accommodations for carpeting to be installed in the living room as we did from day one when you fraudulently, deceptively and maliciously performed a bait- and-switch in a deliberate attempt to deny us a right under local, state and federal law as well as the ADA, our rights as disabled persons. You have been well advised and well informed as to the medical necessity for this accommodation. We continue to make this reasonable request and accommodation from you.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
(To be continued)
