Second of two parts
By Mirsha Lopez
Re “Lopez Family Pleads for Mercy and Accommodation”
[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 the second half of a lengthy letter they delivered Wednesday to the management of Wyvernwood Gardens.]
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We believe you have provided the same care and custodialship to our Notices of Unsafe Conditions from the gas company. You received four original red tags and forced the gas company to re-issue a notice on March 19, 2013, of Notices of Unsafe Conditions with dates of February 14, and March 12, 2013. The gas company was again forced to re-issue you a new notice date of July 20, 2013, where they provided to you copies of the Notices of Unsafe Conditions dated March 4, 2011, February 14,2013, March 12, 2013, and May 24, 2013. This corresponds to a total of 12 notices to you about this matter alone. So to be clear, both Mario and Marcelo received the appropriate documentation required by you to secure an assigned/disabled parking. They did add that there would be no way in hell that I would get one. You and your entire staff have gone out of their way to demonstrate that Wyvernwood is hell, and there was no way that I would ever get my parking spot. Again, this is why you should want to only communicate in my presence with a video recorder in hand and only want to send me communication that is dispatched by letters sent via certified registered return receipt requested. We find it incredibly suspicious that you have repeatedly attempted to communicate in such a fashion, which leaves room for doubts. Please feel free to accept full responsibility for communicating in such ineffective and suspicious manner.
We are certain that you have given the same care to the numerous bank money orders for the rent that you have repeatedly “lost/thrown away and/or hid.” I have never once had any other landlord ever lose a single payment that I have given to them. Again, we are asking that our rights under the ADA as related to parking be honored immediately.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Since we know that Wyvernwood’s strategy is based on the Sgt. Schultz character Hogan’s Heroes. This is where you perpetually know nothing, see nothing, hear nothing, and get nothing. However, we do have an email to Anita Joseph from HUD email: Joseph, Anita@DFEH and Dept. of Environmental Health email@ph.lacounty.gov that repeated our original communication to you as well as to Alex, your alleged maintenance supervisor. Dated December 16, 2013, a precedent has been set with this issue of fumigation as last time when we declined this treatment due to medical reasons on both my husband’s and son’s behalf, it was in fact honored and a local alternate, effective treatment was applied. Therefore, it is clear to us that it is simply a ploy, another attempt at obfuscation. Why is this issue being raised on January 15, 2014, when this issue was in fact resolved on or about December 7, 2013, at a minimum, but truly it was resolved well over a year ago. So therefore this “issue” has zero percent credibility. We fully expected you to arrive on Monday, January 13, to in fact perform the repairs and indeed the pest control treatment. As to why you did not attend, it is clear that the choice was yours. We continue to extend an invitation to perform all necessary maintenance duties as well as the de facto agreed upon pest control process.
We continue to demand the return of all our property by you and/or your employees, including but not limited to cane, books, 2 bicycles, several books, videotapes, camera and other assorted materials. We also find it incredibly suspect that it has taken you over a month to issue any form of a denial. Further, on or about January 7, 2013, I did inform you that you and/or your staff, employees, affiliates, agents, etc., acted in a manner that once more created a dangerous circumstance that resulted in Mr. Xoss slipping, falling and injuring himself and did in fact by means of audio/video recording documented his request for an accident/incident report. As of this date, we have not received one. We continue to request one sent certified registered receipt return receipt requested, and isn’t this the real motive for most of your current maliciousness, fraudulent and retaliatory behavior. We expect to receive said notice in 24 hours.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
On January 5, when I paid the rent, I was still denied my right to have a key to my apartment. We have made repeated requests, documenting on video and still do not have a key in our possession, which can easily be viewed as a constructive eviction, which as you know, is patently retaliatory as well as illegal. We again request that our key be sent to us certified registered receipt return receipt requested. I do not have the time to cover every single issue.
As you know a series of repairs, including smoke detector, the shower, which my husband and son need due to their disabilities, and it is absolutely inhuman that we haven’t had one in almost three months, and the stove still needs to be repaired. We consider this a breach of our warrant of our habitability, our interference with quiet enjoyment, harassment, retaliation, violation of our privacy, theft, robbery, vandalism etc, etc, etc.
We look forward to receiving your 24-hour notice (this time received in the actual 24 hours and issued appropriately, as you generally don’t ) so that you may perform the appropriate pest abatement as well as all other repairs.
P.S. Your request for documentation goes to thefrontpageonline.com, and our websites:
http://laworstapartments.weebly.com
If you need any more documentation (please put it in writing, sent certified registered receipt) so we can post them for your convenience.
Zaybastian Xoss and Mirsha Lopez
The Lopez family may be contacted at havennay@yahoo.com
