Third in a series
Re “We Consider Ourselves Very Fortunate”
Dateline East Los Angeles – With paper documents firmly in hand, Sebastian Lopez, one of the most harassed apartment dwellers in Los Angeles, said this morning he has contacted management 77 times in the last 90 days to complain about problems in the Boyle Heights complex where his family has resided for three years.
Calculating an average of 26 calls every 30 days, Mr. Lopez said that “I am trying to demonstrate my diligence.”
With father and son operating with severe physical disabilities, and Mirsa, Sebastian’s wife, the lone breadwinner, the family is stifled, says Mr. Lopez. They don’t have the resources to move, fleeing an unbelievable string of facility failures and inconveniences that someone living in a tent would take for granted.
Among the 77 calls, one of the later ones was to the LAPD, complaining their home had been broken into and a selection of gifts, wrapped and not-yet-wrapped under the Christmas tree were taken. That was on Dec. 17 when a Wyvernwood property person opened the apartment when the family was not home, allegedly to accommodate a utility person “who had to have access.” And by the way, on that visit, the lock was changed and the family, says Mr. Lopez, never has been able to secure a key to the new combination.
For its part, Wyvernwood Gardens denies the disabled father of two has made a good-faith effort to inform them of the numerous problems that have bedeviled the Lopezes from the day they took occupancy.
The complex’s management team is slightly more difficult to contact than the late uncle of the dictator of North Korea.
The positions of the two combatants this afternoon have changed little. What is by all available evidence an uninterrupted tragedy, drags into a new day, as if the living dilemma were a runaway vehicle pulling four anguished, protesting persons tied to the rear bumper.
(To be continued)
