Communications with city employees Los Angeles

The city knows the owner has installed SmartphoneApp Door entry system and not provided the smartphone and internet to each tenant in order to use the system. How Los Angeles government denies housing services to Blacks

LA City employees declared as “Racists” PC 22-1327

April 20, 2024

Office Katy Yaroslavsky Says Blacks Not Entitled to Housing Services

April 11, 2024

To: Owner Agent David Diaz: I am still without working intercom and tandem parking stall. ONGOING DAMAGES. HUD Case 09-24-3598-8

From: G Johnson ( )

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Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 11:18 AM PDT

To whom it may concern:

On August 1, 2024, I received a phone text message from David Diaz, agent for owner Hi Point 1522 LLC. Diaz indicated I should call him. I asked Diaz to convey his message by email, so as to avoid confusion. Diaz has not done so nor has he taken the opportunity tp leave me a voicemail. I remind you that I have a vision and hearing disability.

I remind you that there is a three to four year look back on seeking damages for personal injury and breach of the rental agreement in this case. I anticipate a new lawsuit for damages that may name all employees and agents of the owner, as well as naming all employees of the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s office. Damages sought will include but are not limited to denial of tandem parking $200/month x 36 months $7200; denial of intercom services $150/month x 36 months $5400; Harassment $5,000; Denial of reasonable accommodation $10,000, fax and postal costs, and punitive damages.

I have not been assigned the tandem parking stall that was promised to me in 2014, 2021, and 2023. I have not been provided the tools/parts to use the Akucox system, namely the instructions, smartphone, and WiFi, much like the owner supplied parts to use the kitchen sink, bathroom sink and shower.

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52, 54. *

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA. 90035 Phone 323-807-3099

*Redacted CC section 54

(a)(1) Individuals with disabilities shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to accommodations, advantages, facilities, medical facilities, including hospitals, clinics, and physicians’ offices, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motorbuses, streetcars, boats, or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation (whether private, public, franchised, licensed, contracted, or otherwise provided), telephone facilities, adoption agencies, private schools, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement, or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, or state or federal regulation, and applicable alike to all persons.

(2) As used in this section, “telephone facilities” means tariff items and other equipment and services that have been approved by the Public Utilities Commission to be used by individuals with disabilities in a manner feasible and compatible with the existing telephone network provided by the telephone companies.

(3) “Full and equal access,” for purposes of this section in its application to transportation, means access that meets the standards of Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-336) 1 and federal regulations adopted pursuant thereto, except that, if the laws of this state prescribe higher standards, it shall mean access that meets those higher standards.

(b)(1) Individuals with disabilities shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to all housing accommodations offered for rent, lease, or compensation in this state, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law, or state or federal regulation, and applicable alike to all persons.

(2) “Housing accommodations” means any real property, or portion of real property, that is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence, or sleeping place of one or more human beings, but shall not include any accommodations included within subdivision (a) or any single-family residence the occupants of which rent, lease, or furnish for compensation not more than one room in the residence.

(3)(A) A person renting, leasing, or otherwise providing real property for compensation shall not refuse to permit an individual with a disability, at that person’s expense, to make reasonable modifications of the existing rented premises if the modifications are necessary to afford the person full enjoyment of the premises. However, any modifications under this paragraph may be conditioned on the disabled tenant entering into an agreement to restore the interior of the premises to the condition existing before the modifications. No additional security may be required on account of an election to make modifications to the rented premises under this paragraph, but the lessor and tenant may negotiate, as part of the agreement to restore the premises, a provision requiring the disabled tenant to pay an amount into an escrow account, not to exceed a reasonable estimate of the cost of restoring the premises.

(B) A person renting, leasing, or otherwise providing real property for compensation shall not refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services, when those accommodations may be necessary to afford individuals with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy the premises.

April 3, 2024

Re: April 3 2024 Urgent Request for Fair Housing Intercom and Tandem Parking – Case CRD 202305- 20745222. HUD Case 09-24-3598-8

From:	G Johnson ( )
To:	shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; askdoj@usdoj.gov; ben.luu@hud.gov; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov; ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; hud-pihrc@ardentinc.com; openjustice@doj.ca.gov; skylight.propertymgmt@gmail.com; info@powercapitalgrp.com; michel.abajan@lacity.org; augustus.albas@lacity.org; sabas.alonso@lacity.org; darryl.arnold@lacity.org
Cc:	susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov

Date:	Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 09:13 PM PDT

To whom it may concern:

Based on the writings of Governor Newsom’s agent:

The keypad and intercom system call box

On what date, time, and by what method did the owner announce to me that the “newly installed call box is fully functional”? What was my reaction?

The parking and tandem parking

Which tenants by apartment number and parking stall are short term tenants? What is the move-in date for the short term tenants?

What is the assignment of parking by tenant of single car parking stall or tandem parking stall? For each tenant , what is the date they were assigned to the parking? Indicate the tenant unit number and parking stall assigned number.

Indicate how many cars are parked in each stall, single and tandem, and indicate the date this occurred.

Indicate how and when tenants are advised of availability of parking, in a full and equal manner.

The CRD claims at one point ( the Gerst communications) that the owner said there were three tandem parks stalls available for myself to choose from. What date, time, by whom and what method was I advised of the three tandem stalls available? What was my reaction? Was my reaction in writing or was it verbally and to whom?

How do the housing services of the owner, answered within, regarding the call box, and the tandem parking , comply with the Unruh act CC 51,52, 54, which states “All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, or sexual orientation are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever”?

P.S. I think I am owed an answer from the maintenance company being that the owner is refusing to respond to my questions. They are the maintenance people that have been in my apartment repeatedly and not repaired the intercom or addressed the extended striping for the parking stall number eight. I have every right to contact them, especially as regards negligence. The state of California should revoke their business license.

It takes less than two minutes to order the repair of the unit intercom, less than two minutes to supply the needed smart phone, Wi-Fi, and instructions; less than two minutes to order the assignment to a tandem stall, yet from the likes of Governor Gavin Newsom to Mayor Karen Bass these requests cannot be satisfied because said parties act in the manner of Lester Maddox, George Wallace, and Bull O Conner; am I right to hear you all say “kill that n – – – – r. F- – k his rights. F- -k that he is an American citizen.” Am I justified in hearing those words?

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles, CA. 90035

Phone (. )

February 23, 2024

Subject: Parking Stalls Are Available at 1522 Hi Point St. Intercom Still Not working Unit 9. Ongoing harm and new evidence. Case CRD Case 202305-20745222
From: G Johnson ( )
To: askdoj@usdoj.gov; ben.luu@hud.gov; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov;
ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us;
cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org;
councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org;
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Date: Friday, February 23, 2024 at 10:22 AM PST

To whom it may concern Nisi Walton et al:

I was previously told by the owner of the property (via agent Gerst) that I am first come
first served for tandem parking stall. I have indicated previous to this email that there are
numerous parking stalls vacant as well as tandem stalls 13 and 14 are vacant. I still have
not received notification of what tandem stall I am assigned to. As you know, the cost of
parking is included in the rent paid monthly, rent checks have been endorsed by the
owner to that effect. Under duress, I have agreed to pay an additional $50 to be assigned
a tandem parking stall. Owner agent also said that as of 2021 I was entitled to a tandem
parking stall but I have been passed by as new white tenants have secured the tandem
parking stall. That I have not been assigned an available parking stall at this point is
outrageous, intentional to cause harm and retaliation because I complained.

The intercom in my unit is still not functioning as intended, while numerous White tenants
in the building have a working intercom in their unit or they have been provided the
internet to use the Akuvox system. As indicated previously, the code provided to me for
the keypad function does not enable me to use the Intercom function of Akuvox nor does
the code allow guests, deliveries, emergency responders, friends or relatives to use the
intercom function; trying to use the alleged Akuvox intercom functions results in the
outside building notice “network unavailable. The intercom and the tandem parking stall
(or conversion of stall 8 to a tandem stall) —and denial of such services—-are housing
services also under the jurisdiction of the City of Los Angeles Housing Department. The
City of Los Angeles Housing Department, under the REAP provisions, has the authority to
provide the housing services requested and bill the owner. That I have not been
provided a working intercom at this point is outrageous, intentional to cause harm and
retaliation because I complained.

See the picture attached showing stalls #13 with two cars parked which appears to be
new tenants provided a tandem parking stall, while still denied to me —-over a nine year
period.

My rent paid entitles me to the use of such services on a daily basis.

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black
male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights
under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

I may also incur the billable cost of sending this email by facsimile and USPS Priority
Mail.

All rights reserved.
Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone ( )

January 9, 2024

Subject: Communications from the Public

From: G Johnson ( )

To: askdoj@usdoj.gov; ben.luu@hud.gov; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov;
ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov; hello@skylightla.com; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us;
councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris- dawson@lacity.org; hud-pihrc@ardentinc.com; openjustice@doj.ca.gov

Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 12:57 PM PST

Communications from the Public Submitted

JANUARY 9, 2024
√20-0841-S39
CD 4
STATUTORY EXEMPTION and HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE REPORT relative to a
proposed extension to the lease with People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), for the A Bridge Home (ABH)
interim housing site with 100 beds that resides on the property owned by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks located at 3210 and 3248 Riverside Drive in Council District 4. SUPPORTED.

√22-0799-S2
HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE REPORT relative to a follow up on the City’s Homelessness
Prevention Programs. OPPOSED.

√23-0255
PUBLIC SAFETY and PERSONNEL, AUDITS, AND HIRING COMMITTEES’ REPORTS relative to Los Angeles
Police Department Communications Division staffing levels, call load, and recruitment. SUPPORTED.

√23-1430
CD 15
MOTION (McOSKER – LEE) relative to funding for a hazmat survey and abatement work at the Warner Grand
Theatre in San Pedro. OPPOSED.

Tortious, Nasty, Ugly Actions of Mayor Karen Bass directed Employees

“So code enforcement continues the tortious game of life and death refusal to provide health and safety: the
intercom and the gated tandem parking are for purposes of health and safety”
“The petitioner’s entitlement to maintenance has not been disputed by the respondent or real party in
interest. The petitioners right to maintenance of the single parking stall and maintenance of the intercom in
the unit has not been disputed by the respondent or real party in interest. ” Filed Exh 27, page 75, paragraph
27, page 76 paragraph 33. filed 1/5/2023.

“The city’s position is that the rent agreement does not specifically state the intercom and the tandem
parking. The city has failed to prove that the rent agreement is required to specifically state the intercom and
tandem parking in order for them to be housing services available to the Petitioner. The position of the city is
frivolous and without merit because the city fraudulently ignores that the rent agreement clearly says that
housing services are “including, but not limited to “, therefore the rent agreement does not allow the intercom
and tandem parking to be denied to the Petitioner. This is mirrored in the LA municipal code section on
housing services that are ” included, but not limited to” meaning that the available intercom in the unit and
tandem parking in the parking lot are housing services under the rent agreement. The city has failed to
provide any evidence that the intercom in the petitioners unit, and the tandem parking are not included in
the rent agreement of the petitioner. In addition, the City and Real Party in Interest falsify the record because
the 2014 Change in Terms of Tenancy (case file CE273371 exhibit) clearly proves that tenants unit 9
(petitioner) were assigned in the rent agreement to a tandem parking stall; the declarations under penalty of
perjury of Petitioner and roommate Wilson clearly indicate the tandem stall was part of the rental agreement.
The City has not proven that the rent agreement intended to exclude the intercom and the tandem parking
from the rent agreement. ” (paragraph 33).

“As you may be aware, most court documents are actually available to the public for viewing. Under the first
amendment, most court proceedings are public matters, and case files are public record.
”(Source: Google)

“Respectfully, please desist in further emailing on this issue because I believe I understand your position and
simply do not agree, and this is becoming harassing. Let’s get your writ to trial without conflict. ” City attorney Deborah Breithaupt email November 21, 2023 at 5:08 pm to Petitioner Geary Johnson. Filed
January 4, 2024 Exhibit 25, page 58.

January 6, 2024. As seen on Facebook Los Angeles Housing Department Page.
“CORRUPTION LOS ANGELES HOUSING DEPARTMENT. So the City Mayor and Council and property owner have admitted in Court documents that I have been fighting the City for ten years: the issues: getting my parking stall extended or assigned to a tandem parking gated stall, and getting my unit intercom repaired. How would you feel if you paid your rent on time for ten years and still were denied an available tandem parking stall and still denied a working intercom in your unit? While other WHITE TENANTS around you have them without having to struggle ten years. There is a box on the outside of the building that lists my apartment number, but the box does not connect to the device in my unit. My guests, friends and family, deliveries have no way to contact me by the INTERCOM. FOR TEN YEARS. Housing code enforcement has been to the property probably over twenty times and inside my unit a few times but refuses to inspect and cite for the intercom. The city position is essentially biased and feels the rent agreement does not entitle me to maintenance of the intercom and parking stall. The city is engaged in pattern and practice racial discrimination. The city REAP department can provide the services requested but refuses. One court did rule in my favor but did not order the repairs; the LA County Health department ordered the intercom repaired in 2015 but the owner refused. So code
enforcement continues the tortious game of life and death refusal to provide health and safety: the intercom
and the gated tandem parking are for purposes of health and safety; I continue to file monthly code violation
complaints; the city employees some making over $200,000 still refuse to inspect. I even gave the city the
code to enter the property so they have no excuse not to inspect the parking lot and the intercom function
Akuvox is on the outside accessible from the street and still code enforcement refuses to inspect. I tell them to
have the millionaire owner assist them; they refuse and say they cannot inspect without me being there,
without giving any legal justification. The Klu Klux Klan ruled the country and members included government
officials in the thirties, forties, fifties; the Klu Klux Klan is still here in the Los Angeles Housing Department
under Mayor Karen Bass. 42 USC section 1983.”

Tortious, Nasty, Ugly Actions of Mayor Karen Bass directed Employees

December 11, 2023 SUBMITTED by G. Juan Johnson . The city government has made all kind of excuses as to
why the Blackman with a disability is not entitled to a working intercom in his unit and a tandem parking stall.
The city position is without merit. The city has not denied that the herein mentioned rent agreement entitles
Blackman to maintenance and such maintenance includes the intercom and the parking stall (single or tandem).

The city government under Mayor Karen Bass, thinks otherwise, but there is nothing in the rent agreement that
excludes the intercom and parking from maintenance; there is nothing in the rent agreement that excludes the
intercom in unit 9 or that excludes the availability of tandem parking. The owner of the property, thru attorney
Michael Gerst, has admitted that the tenant mentioned herein is entitled to intercom service in his unit and
entitled to tandem parking, hence the evidence that such housing services have been reduced. The intercom lack of repair and parking stall lack of extension are also a nuisance, that is additionally under the authority of the Los Angeles Housing code enforcement department. Some code enforcement inspectors make over $200,000 per year yet they seem not to have the authority to force the property owner millionaire to appear for inspection at the property. ADA violation complaints have been ignored by the City and owner. The code enforcement employees have harassed the tenant claiming the tenant needs to be present without giving any legal authority to claim that. See code violation complaint attached 876337

CorruptionCorruptionCorruption. Why It Thrives in Los Angeles Government. How Mayor Karen Bass’
Government Denies Housing Services to Blacks and Squashes Efforts to Curb Government Corruption. The City Attorney’s Office under Heidi Feldstein Soto and Novian and Novian’s Michael Gerst said in a court hearing October 24, 2023 that the Public should not be allowed to see these documents herein. When presented with the English comprehension of the herein “Motion to Augment the Record”, the city attorney’s office called the motion “unintelligible” (Hearing October 24, 2023). “This torturous situation which was conduct by the respondents is meant to harm me and retaliation because I complained. They might as well just string me up and lynch me on the front lawn, cut my body up in small pieces, disembowel me and just spread my blood all over the front sidewalk because that really is the intent of the respondents and their racist torturous tirade of retaliation.” The phase local government “corruption” is mentioned seventeen times. The word “corruption” is found on three pages. PETITIONER GEARY J. JOHNSON’S NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO AUGMENT THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD FOR THE PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE (CCP § 1085) (CCP 1084-1097). Filed Case 23STCP00644 Los Angeles Superior Court. The word “corrupt” or “corruption” is found on over 17 pages. Petition for Writ of Mandate by Geary J. Johnson. Filed 02/28/2023. Court case 23STCP00644. The word “corrupt” is found on over 10 pages. Email 05/15/2022 at 5:53 pm. Sent to city RSO case CE273371 as an Exhibit. “The Answer (of the City) proves eight years of tortious interference and lack of diligence by city employees that intentionally causes denial of intercom repair and denial of tandem parking because Petitioner is a ……who is a male, over the age of 45 with a disability.” Page 15. Filed PETITIONER GEARY J. JOHNSON’S AMENDED REPLY TO RESPONDENT’S SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER TO PETITIONER’S SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE (CCP § 1085) (CCP 1084-1097). The city attorney’s office under Heidi Feldstein Soto and Novian and Novian LLP have said they will request the court to strike from the court record any mention of government corruption.

REFERENCES.
“City Council Public Postings Show Fraud and Corruption”. https://wp.me/P57D2C-1y0\
“Code enforcement complaints to LAHCID and LADBS Los Angeles”. https://wp.me/P6ztbL-i

Click to access 23-0321-S1_PC_M_12-11-2023.pdf

Letter HUD and Justice do not care about corruption
https://wp.me/P57D2C-1Ck

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone ( )

Click to access 13-0275-S4_PC_PM_01-07-2024.pdf

“THIS IS A PUBLIC DOCUMENT THAT WILL BE POSTED ON THE CITY CLERK’S COUNCIL FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.”

December 25, 2023

The City and Property Owner Real Party in Interest (Hi Point 1522 LLC) admit that Black tenants including Petitioner have been denied herein stated housing services for over eight years.

Subject: The Proof of Pattern and Practice Housing Discrimination by the City Government of Los Angeles–Request for Order to make rent payments into Escrow

From: G Johnson ( )
To: askdoj@usdoj.gov; ben.luu@hud.gov; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov; ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov; hello@skylightla.com; deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org;
highpoint1522@gmail.com;09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org;
councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com;
frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; hud-pihrc@ardentinc.com; openjustice@doj.ca.gov; susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov

Date: Monday, December 25, 2023 at 04:05 PM PST

State Bar Complaint Number Gerst 23-O-25895
State Bar Complaint Number Breighthauph 23-O-24507
CRD Case 202305-20745222 HUD number:

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant,
aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

Dear Parties

Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W . Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Ongoing harm
Continuing obligations
Continuing damages
Continuing violations
Michael Gerst of Novian & Novian LLP is the attorney for Hi Point 1522 LLP .

The Proof of Pattern and Practice Housing Discrimination by the City Government of Los Angeles

Email and letter from agent of property owner says that the city government in concert with the
property owner have denied Los Angeles Black tenants housing services for over 10 years .
The state crd says that it will be 8 months before it can investigate or maybe it will never
investigate disability discrimination and racism complaint at this Los Angeles apartment
complex.
If one you has a disability complaint, it’s no point to take it to a government agency for
assistance.
The Rental agreement shows the obligation of tenant myself is to report need for services,
maintenance, or repairs. The only option the owner has is repair “opportunity” to address the
services requested. The owner has had ample opportunity to address the need for services as
Gerst says this has been ongoing for over ten years. The request for reasonable
accommodation started in 2020 into 2021 of which the owner acknowledges. The rent
agreement does not give the owner any other authority and does not give the owner discretion
to ignore my reasonable requests for over ten years.
My rent money check is endorsed every month by the owner for 30 days of living space as well
as housing services. Part of my rent paid —-monthly—-benefits the city government in fees. My
rent check clearly says it is for repairs to the intercom and for tandem parking.
My rent money is for services that I am supposed to receive on a daily basis, namely
maintenance to the intercom system, maintenance and parts to the Akuvox system, parts for
me to use the Akuvox system intercom, and maintenance to the parking stalls i.e. painting of
striping, concrete resurfacing, etc. I am not receiving a working intercom and tandem parking
stall on a daily basis. Contact with city code enforcement $200,000 dollars per year employees
is fruitless because past times they have entered the property or unit, they refuse to inspect the
non-working intercom or the request for tandem parking. The City also refuses to order the
property owner to accompany them onto the property. The City has ignored witness statements
that the intercom in the unit is not operational.
The property owner thru Gerst has admitted that I am entitled to a working intercom in my unit
and a tandem parking stall. I cannot understand the delay except for purposes of international
discrimination and harassment. Tandem stalls 13 and 14 as noted previously are vacant; I have
not received the “first come first served” tandem parking stall that the property owner has said I
am entitled to since 2021. The owner and city has admitted by their conduct that the intercom
and tandem parking stall are included in the rent agreement as services are “including but not
limited to”.
Agent Gerst needs to be ordered by the city Housing Department to explain why the owner
endorses my rent check every month but the owner refuses to engage in an interactive process
regarding the provision of the services requested. The owner has a duty to engage in an
interactive process and comply with the repair opportunity which repeats itself every time I
repeat the request for maintenance and every time I pay my rent.
I note that the Gerst letter Oct, 4 below, further neglects to say that unit 9 tenants were
assigned to a tandem parking stall at the inception of tenancy and were parking in tandem stall 14

from 2010 to 2014, of which the owner admits in writing, and of which I have provided

photographs. I also note that while Gerst says that I have been provided a key code for entry to the building, he neglects to mention that the keycode supplied does not allow me to use the intercom function of the Akuvox, a continued denial of full and equal housing services freely given to other tenants who are White and Female. I have previously addressed the other false statements in the communications frpm Gerst. I think I have a right to know as a tenant proof of when he alleges the parking tandem was previously addressed; otherwise, Gerst is lying.

Based on the email and letters of owner agent Michael Gerst redacted below that indicates an unreasonable and intentional refusal to provide the housing services requested, I request the City put this address under the REAP program and require the rents of all eighteen units be put into an escrow account until such time the owner provides all services that I have requested.

Geary J. Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles. CA. 90035
323-807-3099

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant,
aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

References:

RE: Regarding the REAP complaints. LASC Case 23STCP00644
From: MichaelGerst(gerst@novianlaw.com)
To: tainmount@sbcglobal.net; deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org
Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 10:30 AM PST

Mr. Johnson, my client and its predecessor have responded to your complaints regarding the call box and the parking repeatedly for a decade at this point. You have filed numerous actions and complaint on these points, all of which have been unsuccessful. My client stands by its response in my prior letter to you, and there is no need to further expand upon or argue about its contents. You have a pending action in Los Angeles SuperiorCourt, and a pending complaint with the California Department of Civil Rights. My client’s intent is to allow those actions to go forward through resolution. Since your emails make defamatory accusations towards my client, Ms. Breithaupt, and myself, I will not engage in a further back and forth responding to each of your emails. We can contain our communications to those in front of the Court.

Regards,

Michael Gerst, Esq.
Senior Counsel
Novian & Novian LLP
1801 Century Park East, Suite 1201 Los Angeles, CA. 90067
Tel: (310) 553-1222 x 324 Fax: (310) 553-0222

Email: gerst@novianlaw.com

V I A. U . S .M A I L
Geary J. Johnson
1522 Hi Point St.
Apt. 9
Los Angeles, CA 90035
1801 Century Park East, Suite 1021 Los Angeles, CA 90067 t/310.553.1222 /310.553.0222
http://www.novianlaw.com

October,4 2023

Geary Johnson, 1522 Hi Point Street, Apt. 9, Los Angeles, CA 90035

Novian and Novian is counsel to Hi Point 1522 LLC, and we are in receipt of the letter
dated September 22, 2023, you taped to Power Property Management’s office door on or about October 2, 2023.

In that letter you include an April 12, 2023, letter from a D.r Marcus Tellez, DO, stating that you need a reasonable accommodation because of your disability which states that you “occasionally experiences episodes of disorientation and dizziness, balance issues, and trouble maintaining body fluids.” This is the first time Power Property Management has received this letter. The letter requests that you be assigned a tandem parking space, and that the intercom be fixed. It is not clear how these requests correlate with the stated limitations.

At the time you signed your lease, and throughout your tenancy, it has been repeatedly relayed to you that your lease has an explicitly assigned single parking spot, space number 8. As has also repeatedly been relayed to you, there are three tandem parking spaces, which are available on a first come first served basis. Previously, when a tandem spot was available for a separate lease, it was offered to you under prior ownership, and you declined to lease the tandem parking space. At no point in your tenancy have you stated a willingness to pay this additional fee for a tandem parking space.

There are not currently any available tandem parking spaces, as all have been taken by other tenants willing to pay the additional fee. If you are willing to pay the additional fee per month for a tandem parking spot, please let us know in writing, and we will let you know if a tandem parking spot becomes available.

Additionally, to upgrade the property, we replaced the prior working intercom with the Akuvox system. This system allows all tenants to access the intercom remotely so they can provide access to guests and deliveries even when they are not home. Since you stated that you either do not currently have a cell phone capable of utilizing the Akuvox system or do not want to use you cell phone to utilize the Akuvox system, an access code was provided to you by PowerProperty Management, which you can provide to guests or delivery drivers to gain access to the property.

Sincerely,
NOVIAN &NOVIAN LLP Attorneys at Law
MichaelGerst MICHAEL GERST

(Editor note: Rent checks to the property owner prove that Blackman tenant was already paying for the tandem parking stall as stated on the rent checks which the property owner cashed. For example a rent check Feb. 1, 2021 states “for tandem parking and repairs”; thus Gerst has made a false statement. The tandem parking has already been paid for prior to the letter of Gerst.)

December 24, 2023

Subject: There is an available tandem stall at 1522 Hi Point Street 90035

From: G Johnson ( )

To: shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us;
councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com;
nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; attorneyregulation@calbar.ca.gov; susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov

Date: Sunday, December 24, 2023 at 12:04 PM PST

CRD Case 202305-20745222
HUD number:

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black
male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights
under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

Dear Parties

Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W. Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Ongoing harm
Continuing obligations
Continuing damages
Continuing violations

Dear Property Owner, et al.

As of December 22, 2023, I have observed that for a few weeks there is available tandem parking
stalls at stall #13 and #14. I am not sure what apartment numbers they are linked to.

As per the original rent agreement, and as changed and agreed to November 4, 2021, please
assign unit 9 to tandem stall #14, or the equivalent, as we are first come first served, as agreed.

Please communicate to us this assignment to a tandem stall by email, US postal mail, or the
equivalent.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone 323-807-3099

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

(Editor: The above email was also faxed to the Los Angeles Housing Department and property owner management company Power Property Management Inc.)

December 4, 2023

Subject: Denial of Housing Services. Please revoke the license to practice of the attorneys stated herein Breithaupt and Gerst

From: G Johnson ( )
To: susan.davenport@calcivilrigths.ca.gov; attorneygeneral@dojca.gov; attorneyregulation@calbar.ca.gov
Cc: askdoj@usdoj.gov; ben.luu@hud.gov; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov;
ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov; hello@skylightla.com; gerst@novianlaw.com; deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org;
highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us;
cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org;
councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com;
maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; hud-pihrc@ardentinc.com

Date: Monday, December 4, 2023 at 02:37 PM PST

State Bar Complaint Number Gerst 23-O-25895
State Bar Complaint Number Breighthauph 23-O-24507
CRD Case 202305-20745222
HUD number:

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

Dear Parties
Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W . Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Ongoing harm
Continuing obligations
Continuing damages
Continuing violations
Michael Gerst of Novian & Novian LLP is the attorney for Hi Point 1522 LLP .

I request that the state bar as well as the state civil rights department (CRD) compel the
property owner and their agents, including Michael Gerst to answer my following concerns or else
the state bar shall revoke the certification to practice of Michael Gerst and Deborah Breithaupt.
Per the current obligations of the rental agreement between Petitioner and owner and agents
(Gerst at al) and per the statements of owner agent Power Property Management Inc, I have
fulfilled my obligation to provide “outstanding issues and or items” “questions, comments, requests
or concerns” as stated herein. I demand that the property owner respond; they have been given
ample opportunity to address these outstanding issues and concerns.
In 2019 at this address unit 9 tenants were already paying for the tandem parking stall through
the rent check which includes tandem parking as well as intercom repair and maintenance to the
parking stall . The owner endorsed the rent check in December 2021 which reads “for maintenance
and tandem parking”. In 2019 Kassandra Harris tenant unit 12 was assigned to tandem parking
stall 16 in my opinion. At that time the tandem stalls were 13 ,14, 15 ,16 ,17, 18, 19 as they are
now. As of 2021 November the only tandem stall that was occupied by someone before 2021
November was the stall occupied by Kassandra Harris. By November 2021 tenant number 9 was
first come first serve for the tandem stalls 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 because all of the tenants
currently in tandem stalls —except for tandem stall 16— were not tenants in November 2021. By
November 4, 2021 I signed the additional agreement for the tandem parking to pay an additional
$50 per month; the agreement to change in terms of tenancy was signed under duress. That made
me first come first serve (see Gerst letter Oct 4 2023) and I had already offered the additional
payment and already was paying for the tandem stall at that time thru the endorsed rent check.
My question is where is the tandem parking stall that was promised to unit 9 tenants in
November 2021 says Gerst (2023 letter) since the owner said that we would be supplied the
tandem stall based on the rental agreement which terms were changed November of 2021 and
payment tendered?
Gerst maintains this matter has scanned over ten years. The owner endorsed the rent checks in
December 2021 (to now) which reads “for maintenance and tandem parking”. Why does it take
over ten years for a Blackman in America (petitioner) to get a unit intercom repaired and have his
parking stall converted or re-assigned to a tandem parking stall? According to city LAMC, the value
of the tandem parking stall denied is $200 per month from 2021 (or before) to current.
On what date will I be assigned to the tandem stall that Gerst (property owner agent) said I
was “ first come first serve” entitled to in November of 2021? Please state the number 13 14 15 or
17 18 19 since we were first come first served ahead of all of those tenants now occupying stalls 13
14 15 17 18 19.
Tenants unit 9 (myself) were first come first served for a tandem parking stall. On what date will
the property owner be honoring that commitment?
Breighthaupt and Gerst have not complied with CCP 1094.6 and all pleadings not included in
the supplied administrative record (“AR”). CCP 1094.6 (c) “The complete record of the proceedings
shall be prepared by the local agency or its commission, board, officer, or agent which made the
decision and shall be delivered to the petitioner within 190 days after he has filed a written request
therefor. The local agency may recover from the petitioner its actual costs for transcribing or
otherwise preparing the record. Such record shall include the transcript of the proceedings, all
pleadings, all notices and orders, any proposed decision by a hearing officer, the final decision, all
admitted exhibits, all rejected exhibits in the possession of the local agency or its commission,
board, officer, oragent, all written evidence, and any other papers in the case. The State Bar is
asked to revoke the certification to practice law on the grounds Gerst and Breithaupt have been
adequately notified that a motion for sanctions is being prepared due to the fact the record in this
matter from the City does not include “all pleadings” as required under CCP section 1096.5 ( c )
herein (emphases added), and that both attorneys refuse to compile the complete record of all
pleadings. Attorney Breithaupt has stated by email that the City will not add to the AR all
pleadings in the City’s possession.
The city employee who was directed to prepare the AR and did not include all pleadings should
also suffer discipline for falsification of the record.
All rights reserved.
Geary Juan Johnson
1522 HI POINT ST 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone 323-807-3099
I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant,
aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh
Act, CC 51,52.
State Bar Complaint Number Gerst 23-O-25895
State Bar Complaint Number Breighthauph 23-O-24507
cc: HUD, Justice

ATTACHMENT CITY REAP COMPLAINT 9/23/2022
attachment October 4, 2023 letter of Michael Gerst
Executive Office for United States Attorneys
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 2242
Washington, DC 20530-0001
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Main
Washington, D.C. 20530
Tax Division
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

2022-9-23 Email REAP Complaint.pdf
232.5kB
2023-10-4 Letter from Owner Lawyer Gerst.pdf
538.2kB
Los Angeles FBI
11000 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 1700
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Kristen Clarke
Assistant Attorney General
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Fax: 202-305-1367
Ciaran McEvoy
Public Information Officer
United States Attorney’s Office
Central District of California (Los Angeles)
ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov
(213) 894-4465

“I think that is a reasonable request as long as I do not have a tandem parking stall and as long as I do not have a working intercom in my unit then there is a need to further expand upon about the contents of your October 4 letter which you claim is the words of the owner. I hope this is clear, and understandable English to you. I will continue to complain until the services are restored to me, or until Hell freezes over which ever occurs first.”

December 3, 2023

Subject: Denial of Housing Services. Please revoke the license to practice of the attorneys stated herein Breithaupt and Gerst

From: G Johnson ( redacted)
To: attorneyregulation@calbar.ca.gov; susan.davenport@calcivilrigths.ca.gov
Cc: hello@skylightla.com; gerst@novianlaw.com; deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org;
councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; cityatty.help@lacity.org;
councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org;
councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org;
councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com;
thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com;
nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov;
councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

Date: Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 11:38 AM PST

CRD Case 202305-20745222
HUD number:

State Bar of California
AttorneyRegulation@calbar.ca.gov
Case number 23-O-24507

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant,
aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

The state bar of California is asked to revoke the license of Deborah Breithaupt and
Michael Gerst until they answer the following questions below in item 26.
The state board of California and the civil rights department of the state of California are
asked to order High Point 1522 LLC and it’s agents to answer the following questions here12/3/23, 11:39 AM AT&T Yahoo Mail – Denial of Housing Services. Please revoke the license to practice of the attorneys stated herein Breithaupt and Gerst in below item 26.
To: ALL TENANTS RESIDING AT 1522 Hi Point Street Los Angeles, CA 90035.
“Effective today, you will have a new on-site property manager. Kasandra Harris is now available to answer any of your questions and can be found at the managers unit 1522 Hi Point Unit #12. We’re excited to have Kasandra on board! If you have any outstanding issues and or items to discuss please reach out to Kasandra immediately. She will be going around and introducing herself to each and every one of you.” 2/2/2019 letter. Power Property Management on behalf of Hi Point 1522 LLC. “I also enclose confirmation on the change of ownership, but If you have any questions, comments, requests or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact me.” Circa March 27, 2014 via letter to all tenants from Power Property management.
See CCP section 527.6 and definition of harassment. This proves that Petitioner is not harassing either attorney or property owner/agent in this matter.
“Escalation” defined. to increase in extent, volume, number, amount, intensity, or scope
(Source: Google)
“Litigation” defined. the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the
act or process of litigating
“Conflict” defined. competitive or opposing action of incompatibles : antagonistic state or
action (as of divergent ideas, interests, or persons)
English “comprehension” defined. the act or action of grasping with the intellect
My main objective is to get the housing services that I am entitled to. In order to get those
housing services I have to ask questions of the property owner and Property Management.
And I had to enter this court proceeding in order to get answers to those questions that is
the part of what I have to do in order to succeed with getting housing services. If I could do
those things without the cooperation and communication of Mr. Gerst or Ms. Breithaupt,
and the city of Los Angeles, I would do so, but apparently that is not the case.
Dismissed without prejudice defined. “Whereas a case that is dismissed “with prejudice” is
dismissed permanently, a case that is dismissed “without prejudice” is only dismissed
temporarily. This temporary dismissal means that the plaintiff is allowed to re-file charges,
alter the claim, or bring the case to another court.” Source: Google. Dismissal without
prejudice. “When a court dismisses a claim but leaves the plaintiff free to bring a
subsequent suit based on the same grounds as the dismissed claim.
” (Source: Legal Information Institute).
There has been no written or other communication to me other than the Gerst letter about
the repairs to the Intercom in my unit; parts to operate the Akuvox Intercom functions, or
when I will be assigned the available tandem parking stall that Gerst said I was entitled to
when I signed the change of terms in tenancy in 2021 re tandem parking availability.

(#12 and 13 deleted)

I am entitled to the Services requested, on a daily basis 24 hours a day, seven days a week and every month of the year.
The failure to provide the services and the delay in providing the services is intentional to
cause harm on the part of the respondent, as well as the real party in interest.
It is agent Thomas Khammar who said in court hearing in 2021 that tenants unit 9 already
have a tandem parking stall; this indicates the tandem parking stall was included in the rent
agreement.
Gerst says that according to the rent agreement, I am entitled to tandem parking and a
working intercom and the parts to activate the Akuvox system, but Gerst has admitted that I have not been given the parts to operate the Akuvox Intercom function.
The letter of Gerst says that the rent agreement entitles me to tandem parking but tandem
parking since 2021 per Gerst has not been supplied.
The owner of the property has cashed my rent checks and endorsed them from 2021 to 2023 and I have made such payments under duress.
Corrections to December 2 email at 12:23 PM. All references to Megan Hayner are correct it to read Megan Hayner. All instances of Hi Point 1522 LLC are corrected to read Hi Point 1522 LLC.Item 40 is corrected to read “I will ask …”. Item 47 the word “date” is removed. Page 8 line 2 from the bottom is correct it to say “ Intercom in my unit which is the subject of a ADA disability complaint”. Page 9 the line 1 the phrase on going home is corrected to “on going harm”. Page 9 paragraph two is correct to say you are October 4 letter as opposed to your previous letter.
I further note that you say and you were November 22 letter from Gerst that all of which have been unsuccessful. I would disagree with that because the Accuvox is a new system that was installed most likely in response to my complaints although the owner has not admitted that. So that would be some success on my part even though I still am without a working intercom in my unit which it has not been working since 2014. But the AKUVOX box installed at the front of the building indicates that I am entitled to a working intercom as part of the rent agreement. I would also say I have had some success because your October 4 letter admitted that I am first come first serve entitled to a tandem parking stall so even though I have not received the stall yet there still has been some success on my part to get to this point to get you to admit that the first come first serve tandem stall is a part of the rent agreement.
GERST states on November 22 “there is no need to further expand upon or argue about its
contents“. I disagree . There is a need because I am entitled to Intercom use 24 hours seven days a week 12 months of the year. I am entitled to tandem parking 24 hours seven days a week in 365days per year. The entitlement comes from the rent agreement and the rent checks that are endorsed by your client. I would like to have a clear understanding of when you feel you had contacted me as far as saying they were 3 tandem, stalls available. I think that is a reasonable request as long as I do not have a tandem parking stall and as long as I do not have a working intercom in my unit then there is a need to further expand upon about the contents of your October 4 letter which you claim is the words of the owner. I hope this is clear, and understandable English to you. I will continue to complain until the services are restored to me, or until Hell freezes over which ever occurs first.
Perhaps a TRO to stop all rent payments from all tenants until these issues are resolved would be a possible remedy.
I demand that the property owner or their agents respond to my questions as stated herein.
Because the law firm Novian and Novian has refused to answer my questions stated herein, I ask that the State Bar revoke their certification to practice law.
The questions I demand answers to and ask the State Bar and CRD to order a response from the owner are:

a. Gerst says October 4, 2023 letter. “It has been repeatedly relayed to you that your lease has an explicitly assigned single parking spot space number 8.” Please provide specificity as to how and when such alleged communications occurred.
b. Gerst says, “as has also repeatedly been relayed to you, there are three tandem parking spaces, which are available on a first come first serve basis.” Please provide specificity as to how and when such alleged communications occurred.
c. GERST states “at no point in your tenancy have you stated a willingness to pay this additional fee for a tandem parking space.” Please provide specificity as to how and when such alleged communications occurred in light of the signed Notice of Change in
terms of tenancy dated circa November 4, 2021 and exhibit for city case CE271455.
d. I am entitled to the use of an intercom on a daily basis. When will the intercom in my unit be repaired?
e. I am entitled to the use of an intercom on a daily basis. When will I be provided the smartphone and WiFi to use the Akuvox intercom functions?
f. When will I be compensated for the reduction of intercom function in my unit and when will I be compensated for the reduction of tandem parking?
g. In light of the owners statements to the city that all parking is included in the rental amounts, Gerst made a statement on October 4 “all tandem spaces have been taken by other tenants, willing to pay the additional fee.” Please provide specificity as to how and when which tenants are paying an additional fee for parking and what is the fee.
h. Where in the rental agreement does it say that tenants unit 9 have to provide the parts to use the intercom system?
i. Please provide as of today’s date how many single stalls are available in accordance with my communications to Gerst that additional tandem/single parking is currently available.

If Gerst refuses to answer the concerns in writing in a reasonable amount of time, concerns
numbered a-i, I request that the State Bar revoke his license to practice and I request the Civil
Rights Department order Gerst/property owner to answer my listed concerns. If Gerst/owner does not answer the concerns, I ask the State Bar to revoke the certification of the law firm Novian and Novian LLC.
Per the obligations of the rental agreement between Petitioner and owner and agents (Gerst at al) and per the statement of Power Property in item 3 above, I have fulfilled my obligation to provide “outstanding issues and or items” “questions, comments, requests or concerns” as stated herein. I demand that the property owner respond; they have been given ample opportunity to address these outstanding issues and concerns.

In a Los Angeles city government marked by racism, corruption and misuse of federal funds, how does a Blackman qualify for housing services?

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black
male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone 323-807-3099

Reference: Gerst November 22, 2023
Mr. Johnson, my client and its predecessor have responded to your complaints regarding the call box and the parking repeatedly for a decade at this point. You have filed numerous actions and complaint on these points, all of which have been unsuccessful. My client stands by its response in my prior letter to you, and there is no need to further expand upon or argue about its contents.

You have a pending action in Los Angeles Superior Court, and a pending complaint with the California Department of Civil Rights. My client’s intent is to allow those actions to go forward through resolution. Since your emails make defamatory accusations towards my client, Ms. Breithaupt, and myself, I will not engage in a further back and forth responding to each of your emails. We can contain our communications to those in front of the Court.

Reference from Johnson:

California Code of Civil Procedure
527.6. (a) (1) A person who has suffered harassment as defined in subdivision (b) may seek a temporary restraining order and an injunction prohibiting harassment as provided in this section. (2) A minor, under 12 years of age, accompanied by a duly appointed and acting guardian ad litem, shall be permitted to appear in court without counsel for the limited purpose of requesting or opposing a request for a temporary restraining order or injunction, or both, under this section as provided in Section 374.

(b) For the purposes of this section:

(1) “Course of conduct” is a pattern of conduct composed of a series of acts over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose, including following or stalking an individual, making harassing telephone calls to an individual, or sending
harassing correspondence to an individual by any means, including, but not limited to, the use of public or private mails, interoffice mail, facsimile, or computer email. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of “course of conduct.”

(2) “Credible threat of violence” is a knowing and willful statement or course of conduct that would place a reasonable person in fear for his or her safety, or the safety of his or her immediate family, and that serves no legitimate purpose.

(3) “Harassment” is unlawful violence, a credible threat of violence, or a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, or harasses the
person, and that serves no legitimate purpose. The course of conduct must be such as would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, and must actually cause substantial emotional distress to the petitioner.

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(Civil Rights Department)

December 2, 2023

Subject: Tandem Parking- Parts for Akuvox and Still Not Supplied – Ongoing harm Ongoing
Damages Continuing obligations- CRD Case 202305-20745222

From: G Johnson ( redacted))

To: gerst@novianlaw.com; deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov;
mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; cityatty.help@lacity.org;
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Cc: hud-pihrc@ardentinc.com; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov

Date: Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 12:23 PM PST

CRD Case 202305-20745222
HUD number:

State Bar of California
AttorneyRegulation@calbar.ca.gov
Case number 23-O-24507

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male
tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under
the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

Dear Parties
Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W. Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Ongoing harm
Continuing obligations
Continuing damages
Continuing violations
Michael Gerst of Novian & Novian LLP is the attorney for Hi Point 1522 LLP .

NOTES ON WHAT WAS SAID THE OCTOBER 24, 2023 COURT HEARING CASE 23STCP00644

This is meant to be indicative but not all inclusive.

The Judge said that he had previously ordered a meet and confer. The Judge claimed it was
not a motion to augment.
The City says the City has produced no less than 1300 pages which she says comprised the two
decisions by the Los Angeles Housing Department.
DB called the housing complaints “identical”.
Deborah calls it a “supplemental decision”. I disagree because that is not what the July
document says it is. Deborah says that the three prior RSO complaints by myself were identical; I
disagree on that because each RSO complaint is based on new evidence as new payment of rent
that had not occurred in the previous RSO complaints. Each RSO complaint is based on ongoing
harm thus continuing damages recognized by the State Civil Rights Department. It is erroneous to
call the July 6 supplemental information a decision, and it is falsification of the record to call the
July 6 document a “decision”.
Deborah says the record is not complete and the meet and confer is not complete.
Deborah calls the Motion to Augment “unintelligible”.
Deborah says she said in meet and confer that she would move to strike filed documents because
they did not comply with the CCP , but she was vague and lacking in specificity as to what did not
comply with what code of civil procedure. Deborah contradicts herself because at other points in
the hearing she said there was no meet and confer.
The Judge said all email communications between myself and the City
Petitioner Johnson states that the only subject of the Petition for Writ was a decision that was
138 pages. Johnson says that the amplification of the record has occurred because the City
supplemented its decision and added two other cases. (9:03)
Petitioner:I asked her to give me some idea in writing before the meet and confer so I could
have a pretty good picture of what she is objecting to and she basically refused to do that……
hearing and other disabilities….I prefer the meet and confer in writing since the attorney has said
her objections will be pretty lengthy. I think the Motion to Augment is pretty clear the documents
that I am asking to be augmented ….detailing the documents that the city already has possession
of. I get receipts from the City saying those documents have been filed (received) so I do not know
why the City Attorney is having difficulty.
The Judge asks why the record has more in it than the December 2022 decision and the July
2023 supplemental information.
Deb says the matter had already been decided based on the present circumstances (Note: that
is a contradiction as how could a July document be based on the present). Deb says decisions RAC
go back to 2015. Deb says tandem parking was not provided in the lease and not provided at the
outset of the lease and there is no diminution of housing services for the claimed inoperable
intercom.

(NOTE THAT DEB DOES NOT MENTION THAT THERE HAS BEEN A REDUCTION IN
MAINTENANCE TO THE INTERCOM AND PARKING, SUCH MAINTENANCE THAT WAS
AVAILABLE AT THE INCEPTION OF THE RENTAL AGREEMENT .)

Deb asks is the Motion to Augment off the record. The Judge says the Motion to Augment is off
the calendar. The Judge says the City can file its Noticed Motion Strike and set a date with the
clerk
Judge says deadline of November 3, 2023 for City to lodge and serve bates stamped copy of the
Record.
Judge says Petitioner may make a Motion to Augment but it must include the bates numbers.
He says emails that were in front of the decision maker (LAHD) (December 2022 – July 2023) can
be included in the Record. (Emails to LAHD before July 6, 2023 should be included)
Judge says he is not interested in the code enforcement complaints. Deborah says she is not
producing the code enforcement complaints. She said she is not producing the REAP complaints.
Deb said she is not producing Petitioner statement filed by city clerk under Public Comments.
Deb says she will file a complete motion to strike.
Judge said he doubts Motion to Strike will be heard before the end of the year.
Deb says she got an email threatening litigation from Petitioner re the Writ.
City said petitioners communications are going to everybody all council members and elected
officials, his universe is extremely broad.
City admitted this case includes a claim for damages of continuing harm. City claimed that the
issues go back to 2015. City claimed that the records she have touched are just scraping the
surface. But she did not indicate what records are remaining to be produced by the city.
City maintained that the city has started an email communication to meet and confer on its
proposed motion to strike every pleading after the city’s filed supplemental answer to the
supplemental writ.
Real Party in interest says “We believe the city came to the appropriate decision and we will file
a joinder to their opposition.”
The court said that any emails to public housing before July 6 should be included in the
administrative record.

DONE.
COMMENTARY ON WHAT WAS SAID AT HEARING –

The three or four RSO decisions that City references are not identical. there are similarities, but
they are not identical because they are each based on new damages. the cashed rent checks show
the new damages. They are also not identical because they are based on different time periods.
New damages. The exception to res judicata is if the facts are different and the parties are not the
same. The case files the city uses prove that the facts are not identical and the parties are not the
same.
They are also not identical because they reference two different property owners. Also, the
three RSO decisions are not identical, because the first two referenced the parking and the
intercom and the last one references the parking, intercom, and harassment. Therefore the
complaints are not identical. Since this has already been proven in writing to all parties, her
comments to the court, are a falsification of the record.
The petitioner’s entitlement to maintenance has not been disputed by the respondent or real
party in interest. The petitioners right to maintenance of the single parking stall and maintenance
of the intercom in the unit has not been disputed by the respondent or real party in interest
The Judge said that he had previously ordered a meet and confer. I note that Judge said the
Motion to Augment did not specify any documents to add or delete; that is not true. The Judge
claimed it was not a motion to augment; I disagree because the title says it is a Motion to
Augment.
I disagree that there are “two decisions” as the city clearly said that its July 6 document was
supplemental information to the December 2022 decision, such that the July document did not
issue a new decision but clarified there was a typo in the December 2022 decision. Making a
correction to a prior decision I do not agree is a new second decision.
The City failed to mention to the court that petitioner has repeatedly asked for her specificity
as to why she would file a motion to strike, and the City has failed to provide that information.
Where in the rent agreement does it say the intercom and tandem parking are excluded from
repairs? The City has failed to establish lack of entitlement by Petitioner under the Unruh Act.
Where does it say in the rent agreement that the petitioner is not entitled to a working
Intercom in his unit and not entitled to a tandem parking stall? The City’s failure to address these
two issues indicates that the city’s position is frivolous and has no merit. Petitioner is entitled to the
requested service TODAY.
The city’s position is that the rent agreement does not specifically state the intercom and the
tandem parking. The city has failed to prove that the rent agreement is required to specifically
state the intercom and tandem parking in order for them to be housing services available to the
Petitioner. The position of the city is frivolous and without merit because the city fraudulently
ignores that the rent agreement clearly says that housing services are “including, but not limited to
“, therefore the rent agreement does not allow the intercom and tandem parking to be denied to
the Petitioner. This is mirrored in the LA municipal code section on housing services that are “
included, but not limited to” meaning that the available intercom in the unit and tandem parking
in the parking lot are housing services under the rent agreement. The city has failed to provide any
evidence that the intercom in the petitioners unit, and the tandem parking are not included in the
rent agreement of the petitioner. In addition, the City and Real Party in Interest falsify the record
because the 2014 Change in Terms of Tenancy (case file CE273371 exhibit) clearly proves that
tenants unit 9 (petitioner) were assigned in the rent agreement to a tandem parking stall; the
declarations under penalty of perjury of Petitioner and roommate Wilson clearly indicate the
tandem stall was part of the rental agreement. The City has not proven that the rent agreement
intended to exclude the intercom and the tandem parking from the rent agreement.

MAY 2023 EMAILS TO INCLUDE

All emails of May 2023 sent to the LAHD or RSO department should be included in the record.
Such email are already in the possession of the City. Based on the court comments October 24.
Continuing harm and continued damages is noted in the documents for the case file of the
decision December 2022. Continuing harm and continued damages is also noted in the claim for
damages against the city. Continuing harm and continuing damages is also noted in the original
filed petition for a writ of mandate.
Continuing harm and continuing damages has also been recognized by the state civil rights
department, and a complaint against the property owner, and the city of Los Angeles filing recently
authorized by the state civil rights department.
The court said all emails to Public Housing before July 6 must be included in there
administrative record. That would include all emails to Public Housing between January 2023 and
July 6, 2023, so to that extent, any emails that are included in any file documents by the petitioner
are to be included in the record, even if the city moves to strike those documents.
Code enforcement violation complaint 7/28/2022 is mentioned in the documents for case
CE273371. Please add the attached code violation complaint 825343 to the administrative record
that you are tasked to prepare.
Gerst claims I was notified repeatedly of three available tandem parking stalls at this address.
You have provided no verifiable proof that I was told that. You statement was made October 4,
You have had 49 days and still no evidence of that. Your client has lied about the intercom
and lied about the parking availability. Not only are you defending your client, but you are lying on
their behalf for purposes of the numerous complaints against your client. Your falsifications violate
the state Rules of Professional Conduct. I will ask the court to sanction you and the attorneys
for the City for your role in denying me full and equal housing services and denying me a
reasonable housing accommodation and acting in collusion with the city of Los Angeles
government to harass me for complaining. A rent reduction is considered to be a housing service
that the city government in collusion with the owner continues to deny me as a Black American.
I will asked for sanctions against both parties, because the city has refused to meet and confer.
I request damages for flat tire due to no tandem parking stall.
A violation of the ADA under the Unruh act which has occurred under Megan Haynes is a
violation of the Unruh act which means Megan Haynor and Hi Point 1522 LLC is a racist.
From communications with High Point 1522 LLC and also with contact to Bold partners I’ve
been told that Megan Hanner still is associated with Hi Point 1522 LLC. If you have proof
otherwise please provide me a verified statement from Megan Hayner or Hi Point 1522 LLC.
Megan Hayner and Bold partners Inc. are still part owners of the property. That makes them
liable. To provide full and equal housing services in a reasonable accommodation or modification
upon my request. Hayner has not relinquished her ownership share of the property 1522 Hi Point
St 90035.
Courtroom Information on the Joint Appendix
Where the Petitioner is self-represented, Respondent or Real Party will be tasked to prepare
and lodge the joint appendix. Also Quote what real party has to do.
The interaction of cashing and benefitting from my rent check proves the connection to
Meghan Hayner. The interaction of receiving my email proves the interaction with Meghan Hayner. Gerst has admitted that Hayner received my voicemails and emails.
Interaction with Meghan Haynes First rent check endorsed for the benefit of Meghan Hayner.
Date. For tandem parking and intercom repair. Dated and paid August 1, 2021.
If Meghan no longer has financial interest in the property, please advise all tenants, not just
me, and post in the common area of the property.
Hi Point 1522 LLC has failed to act in good faith reasonable manner
Please remit payment of damages to address below for tire replacement due to not having a
tandem parking stall.
The city has noticed the December 2022 decision and added to it RSO case files from 2015.
The city opened the door. The December 2022 case file CE273371 mentions the capital
improvements case, and also mentions the code enforcement case of July 2022. The capital
improvement 2015 decision is therefore relevant to this petition for a writ and should be included
in the administrative record. The code enforcement complaint of 2022 mentioned in the CE273371
case is therefore relevant, and should be included in the administrative record. I have made the
request. If the city or real party in interest refuses to include these documents in the record, I will
consider filing a motion for sanctions against both parties.
I consider your proposed motion to strike as frivolous and without merit. I have never heard of
a petition for writ being subject to a motion to strike. If you persist with such frivolous motion, I
will seek sanctions against you as well as the real party in interest.
The following code violation complaints were received by the City LAHD April to October
Please include them in the administrative record: cases 815528, 823529, 825343 as they are
relevant to the RSO case CE273371.
The remarks of the City at the hearing did not address the harassment complaint which is part
of case CE273371.
I reserve the right to include in the administrative record any small claims or otherwise
Superior Court cases where the matter was decided as to damages in Johnson favor due to
reduction in housing services under previous property owner Hi Point Apts LLC. Superior Court
Case 19STSC14394. This case is relevant to the Petition for Writ of Mandate.
The evidence shows that there was reduction in services i.e maintenance to the intercom in the
unit and maintenance to the parking stall #8 and that the maintenance is included in the rental
agreement; this has not been disputed by the City or by the Real Party in Interest.
The actions of the Real Party in Interest in denying the services requested violate the city
tenant anti-harassment ordinance.

RESPONSE TO THE EMAILS OF NOV . 21 AND NOV 22 AS REDACTED BELOW

The November 21, 2023 email from City Agent Deborah Breithaupt. The City describes this
action as “escalation”. That sounds like a war term to me. You phrase to “prevent further
escalation.” I am not sure what you feel is “escalating”. We have been bought together by the court
filed petition for Writ . You are free at any time to withdraw your opposition and withdraw from
the case. But all parties have an obligation to engage in good faith communication with each other,
not baring any obligations that both attorneys have under the state bar of California. The court has
ordered us to meet and confer and you have refused. I have simply been communicating to you on
the issue of meet and confer, the administrative record, and your proposed motion to strike. Those
are legitimate concerns, that I am obligated to communicate with you on. You have not cooperated
in communicating to me in a specific manner, what your responses are. You have lies and
falsification of the record. I have a duty to respond to that. You have clearly indicated in your
communications and your comments to the court that the record shows that this is an ongoing
harm situation. I just paid my rent yesterday and I still don’t have the housing services requested.

As this is an ongoing communication, and a rental agreement, I am entitled to engage in
communication to the city government and the owner of the property, that is my entitlement under
law. For you to characterize my communications as “harassment” is not only unfair, but it’s an
attempt to interfere with my right to bring my grievances to government officials. In case you did
not know, an exercise of constitutional rights is not considered to be harassment. As the conditions
that are the subject of the case file CE 273371, and current conditions, are continuing I have every
right to complain to the city and to the property owner due to a reduction in maintenance to the
intercom in my unit, and reduction of maintenance to tandem parking stall number 8. If you do
not chose to respond in a civil manner in compliance with the state bar rules of professional
conduct I will seek to have you license revoked as well as the license of Michael Gerst.
I too have requested a copy of the transcript but the court reporter has not indicated to me that the
transcript is available. As far as augmenting the record goes, I have detailed above what the court
said that I am entitled to file motion to augment the record, as fully as soon as I get the full record
from you. In the meantime I can engage in a conversation as to what I would like added to the
record. Based on the October 24 hearing, and my recall of what was said court, the court indicated
that emails are to include our to be included that were sent to the LA housing department. As
result of that order from the court, and this here in Dock, I’m asking you to add those documents
to the administrative record. You are refusing, thus you are refusing to comply with the order of
the court. The CCP in this matter as stated before requires you to include in the AR all pleadings
filed and you have refused. How many times do I have to mention the CCP or is that just a right
reserved for you?

And one of my November 21, 2023 emails to you I indicated very clearly to you what the green
sheet says that was provided by the court. It is based on the courtroom information of which I’m
going to copy you again because I already copied you on November 21 and you have ignored it.
(See Below). The document clearly says, “Where the Petitioner is self-represented, Respondent or
Real Party will be tasked to prepare and lodge the joint appendix.” I am responding your email
where you told me to prepare the joint appendix, which is not my obligation, and you refused to
admit your falsification of the record. I note also that the courtroom info also says, “Where the
Petitioner is self-represented, Respondent or Real Party will be tasked to prepare the trial notebook
and memory stick.” That conflicts with your statement that I should prepare the Joint appendix
which was a false statement on your part. You claim let’s get your writ to trial without conflict.
Well, how do we get it to trial without conflict? If I don’t have a working Intercom in my unit and I
don’t have a tandem parking stall that is available and I have the right to complain about those
things but you’re interfering with my right to complain?

I respond to the email below from Michael Gerst dated November 22, 2023 at 10:30 am.
Gerst states, “Mr. Johnson, my client and its predecessor have responded to your complaints
regarding the call box and the parking repeatedly for a decade at this point”. Your comment is
vague and lacking in specificity. I do not agree that you have responded because I still do not
have the services. You have not indicated that in terms of the Akuvox system that you will be
letting me use your cell phone and Internet to access it. You claim that I was supposed to get a
tandem parking stall first come first serve, but even though those stalls were available in 2021, I
still haven’t received one. I also still have a nonworking Intercom in my unit which is the septic of
a ADA disability complaint of which you have not responded to, and you have not provided the
service requested. At this point, I am suffering on going home, and I have a right to complain about
it to the property owner and to the city. Again, you are free to remove yourself from the situation
by removing yourself as the attorney on the case. You said I was told there were three parking
stalls tandem available, but you have refused to provide proof of that. That is why your license
should be revoked and I will also ask the court to sanction you for not providing the information
you claim occurred.

You state: “You have filed numerous actions and complaint on these points, all of which have been
unsuccessful.” FALSE. A number of the complaints were dismissed without prejudice, which one
court felt was a victory in my favor. The County Health department ordered the repair or
replacement of the intercom in 2014; in my favor. The state CRD has recently certified my concerns
as valid disability and racial discrimination complaint; in my favor against the Property owner and
the city. Also State case 19STSC14394 ruled judgment in my favor.

Your previous letter, self serving I might add, indicates I was entitled to maintenance of the
Intercom in my unit, and entitled to a tandem parking store at the inception of the tenancy. You
have further indicated in your previous letter that there is a intercom system on the out of the side
of the building that you will be providing, the cell phone and the Internet for me to use it perhaps
your own cell phone and Internet since maybe your cell phone and Internet are not entitled to
privacy. You also indicated that I am entitled to a tandem park install as that was the agreement
with the original rent agreement; however, it seems that I have to constantly prod you on this issue
as your are the agent of the owner. Where is the tandem parking stall that you said I am entitled
to which you do have available? I do not have any obligation to communicate in front of the court
only and I do not wave any of my duties to communicate with the property owner through the
owner or any of the owner’s agents. The rent agreement gives me the authority to communicate
these issues to the owner and the agents of the owner, and I will continue to do so until the
matters are resolved.

I don’t think either attorney has the authority to refuse to communicate—or seek an amicable good
faith out of court settlement—with the parties as the Court has instructed us to communicate.

Your email, Gerst, is not acceptable as a resolution.

Please remit damages (new evidence) for the tire I had to replace due to damages caused by not being assigned a tandem parking stall. $355.00.

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male
tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under
the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

In a Los Angeles city
government marked by
racism, corruption and
misuse of federal funds, how
does a Blackman qualify for
housing services?

attachment
receipt for replaced tire

REDACTIONS FROM EMAILS RECEIVED
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 10:30 am

Mr. Johnson, my client and its predecessor have responded to your complaints regarding the call
box and the parking repeatedly for a decade at this point. You have filed numerous actions and
complaint on these points, all of which have been unsuccessful. My client stands by its response
in my prior letter to you, and there is no need to further expand upon or argue about its contents.
You have a pending action in Los Angeles Superior Court, and a pending complaint with the
California Department of Civil Rights. My client’s intent is to allow those actions to go forward
through resolution. Since your emails make defamatory accusations towards my client, Ms.
Breithaupt, and myself, I will not engage in a further back and forth responding to each of your
emails. We can contain our communications to those in front of the Court.

Regards,
Michael Gerst, Esq.
Senior Counsel
Novian & Novian LLP
1801 Century Park East, Suite 1201
Los Angeles, CA. 90067
Tel: (310) 553-1222 x 324
Fax: (310) 553-0222

Editor: City Attorney Says She’s Feeling Harassed

Because Black Tenants Asked for Housing Services

Email: gerst@novianlaw.com
Re: Your Opposition to Motion to Augment and Your Proposed Motion to Strike- Request to Meet
and Confer
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 5:08 pm

Mr. Johnson, I wanted to acknowledge your email to prevent further escalation.

As I had mentioned before, I am waiting for the certified transcript from the court reporter from
the last TSC. Please rest assured that I will not attribute this delay to you. Realize that there is
only so much pushing I can do to get the transcript faster and the fees have already been paid.
Obviously the court’s orders control the green sheet. I plan to file a copy of the transcript once I
get it so you will have full access to it on the court docket. Based on the last TSC orders, I do not
agree that the city will be required to supplement the administrative record with anything you feel
was omitted as per what I understand to be the court orders. Respectfully, please desist in further
emailing on this issue because I believe I understand your position and simply do not agree, and
this is becoming harassing. Let’s get your writ to trial without conflict.

On the court’s green sheet that was on the counsel table in the courtroom that I served on you
along with the administrative record – feel free to call the courtroom assistant if you have any
genuine concerns over its authenticity or ask them to perhaps mail a copy to you or visit the
courtroom. You will see it is from the court and is on the counsel table.

Thank you for your time in these matters.

Very truly yours,
Deborah Breithaupt
Deputy City Attorney IV
Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office
200 N. Spring Street, 21st Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Main: (213) 922-7715 | Direct: (213) 922-8382
Fax: (213) 978-7957

BELOW SUBMITTED BY JOHNSON

MANDAMUS TRIALS
Trial dates for petitions for writ of mandate are set by the court at the trial setting conference and
are not reserved in advance with the clerk.

The parties will be ordered to prepare a trial notebook for the mandamus trial. The trial notebook
shall be lodged on the date that the reply must be filed or as set by the court. No courtesy copies
of briefs are necessary if a trial notebook is prepared and lodged.
The trial notebook shall be in a one or three-inch, three-ring binder as appropriate and lodged with
the court when the reply brief is filed. The trial notebook shall contain only copies of the bates-
stamped agency decision, the parties’ briefs, and any requests for judicial notice. The documents
should be separated by labeled tabs. Except in traditional mandamus cases, documentary evidence
should not be included in the trial notebook. In traditional mandamus cases, the trial notebook3
shall have documentary evidence with exhibit tabs, which may be in a separate three-ring binder(s)
if voluminous.

The parties must also provide the court with a memory stick containing the moving, opposition,
and reply briefs on Microsoft Word in a format from which the court may cut and paste without
dragging the brief’s rule and numbering or footers, so that the court can prepare its tentative
decision.

Unless otherwise ordered, Petitioner has the responsibility to timely prepare and lodge the trial
notebook and memory stick. Where the Petitioner is self-represented, Respondent or Real Party
will be tasked to prepare the trial notebook and memory stick.

The joint appendix shall include the agency decision followed by the pages actually cited in the
parties’ briefs. The pages in the joint appendix must be in numerical Bates-stamped order
no matter which party cited the page.

Only the document pages cited in the parties’ briefs should be included in the joint appendix, not
the entire document. To reduce the number of pages, briefs should pin cite, not blanket cite, to
pertinent record pages. If it is necessary to provide context to a cited page, the joint appendix may
include a document cover page or witness identification page. The joint appendix may have
labeled side tabs separating the pages from different documents.

The parties may, but are not required to, highlight significant information on the Joint Appendix
pages, using different colors to show which party highlighted the information on a particular
page.

Unless otherwise ordered, Petitioner has the responsibility to ensure that the joint appendix
including all pages cited in the parties’ briefs is timely lodged with the court. The failure of
opposing counsel to provide copies of the relevant pages cited in their opposition does not excuse
this responsibility. Where the Petitioner is self-represented, Respondent or Real Party will be
tasked to prepare and lodge the joint appendix.

November 21 2023

Re: Hi Point 1522 LLP – Cease Contact with Meghan Hayner- Illegal Storage at Stall #13

From: G Johnson ( )

To: gerst@novianlaw.com; deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov;
mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org;
councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org;
councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com;
nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-
dawson@lacity.org; susan.davenport@calcivilrigths.ca.gov; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov

Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 05:50 PM PST

Thomas Khammar,
property owner, is a Racist.
(Source: CRD case 202305-20745222)

“This is the only warning you will receive regarding these defaming lies.” 2022 Thomas Khammar after a Blackman asked for housing services in Los Angeles

Dear Parties especially Gerst:

Your email does not answer my pressing concerns on when will my unit intercom be repaired and when will I be assigned an available tandem parking stall.

I have received your request that Meghan is no longer associated with Hi Point 1522 LLC. The
Meghan information was supplied to me by the City Housing Department. It may take me a
minute to get her off the mailing lists.

I further have concerns that I have not been given the tools/parts to use the Akuvox system.
Under the dictates of the ADA thru the Unruh Act, in order to agree to a resolution of my request for housing accommodation/modification, I cannot be charged a fee for the intercom
repair/usage and I cannot be charged a fee for assignment to a tandem parking stall. My last
communication to you on this issue was by email or fax on November 2, 2023. Other emails,
faxes, or priority mail have been received by you 10/23/2023, 10/28/2023, 10/30/2023, and
11/15/2023. Many of my emails over the past three years include request for damages of $45.00 per email. I am anxious to reach a resolution here but your client is unresponsive.

Gerst, can I use your personal cell phone and internet to access the Akuvox intercom feature at
this building?

I am glad you have admitted to the city that there has been a reduction in services i.e. reduction in repairs to the intercom and reduction in repairs to make the parking stall 8 into a tandem stall. I note that stall 13, a tandem stall, only has one vehicle. That vehicle could easily be switch with stall 8 and unit 9 could be assigned to stall 13 a tandem stall. I do note that the vehicle currently parked in stall 13 appears to be abandoned and does not have current license plates. See attached picture. The owner would rather use stall #13 for illegal storage rather than assign it to me as a tandem stall.

Ongoing harm. Ongoing violations.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone 323-807-3099

Thomas Khammar,
property owner, is a Racist.
(Source: CRD case 202305-20745222)

In a Los Angeles city
government marked by
racism, corruption and
misuse of federal funds, how
does a Blackman qualify for
housing services?

Expired Plates Stall #13.jpeg
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On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 01:43:33 PM PST, Michael Gerst gerst@novianlaw.com wrote:

Mr. Johnson,
Meghan Hayner is no longer employed with Hi Point 1522 LLP . Please cease all communications with her, especially on her personal cell phone, as she has no role regarding your tenancy.

Regards,
Mike

Michael Gerst | Senior Counsel
1801 Century Park East, Suite 1201, Los Angeles, CA 90067
T (310) 553-1222 [ext. 324]
F (310) 553-0222
E gerst@novianlaw.com

November 21, 2023

Re: Your Opposition to Motion to Augment and Your Proposed Motion to Strike- Request
to Meet and Confer
From: G Johnson ( )

To: deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org

Cc: gerst@novianlaw.com; attorneyregulation@calbar.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov;
mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org;
councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; cityatty.help@lacity.org;
councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org;
councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org;
councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com;
thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com;
nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; susan.davenport@calcivilrigths.ca.gov;
contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST

Meghan Hayner,
property owner, is a Racist.
(Source: CRD case 202305-20745222)

Dear parties:

I don’t recall the Court saying we do not need to meet and confer on motions. I will have to
check my notes from the TSC hearing.

You state: “When the court struck your motion, he explained why this was done. The court also explained that if you want anything added to the Administrative Record that the City compiled, you are free to do so provided that you conform to the court rules and procedures (that is the green sheet I included with the AR).”

The Court did not strike my motion to augment the record. The minute order served on you states that the Court took the motion off calendar. The minute order reads “The court takes the motion to augment off calendar”. Again you exhibit your English comprehension problem.
I don’t recall the court mentioning the green sheet you mention, and in particular see my response (2:55 pm) of today to your Oct 27, 2023 email. However the redacted green sheet you supplied did not refer where it came from. I took the time below to discover it is the Dept 85 Courtroom information. Again you exhibit your English comprehension problem. Under local rule Local Rule 3.231(g), “In cases
under Code of Civil Procedure section 1094.6, the local agency must prepare the record.” The City refuses to do so. In addition, the courtroom information states that the parties will be ordered to prepare a trial notebook; this court has not gotten to that point yet. So reading the JOINT APPENDIX SECTION, “If the administrative record for a writ of mandate exceeds 450 pages, the court may order the parties to prepare a joint appendix.” This does not apply yet because the Court has not ordered
a joint appendix. Also, according to you, the AR is not complete because you have not included all the pleadings in your possession or filed with the Court. Since the court has not ordered a joint appendix, then I am under no obligation as a PRO SE to prepare my portion of the AR as you allege, nor has the Court ordered me to prepare a joint appendix. The Court clearly stated in the last minute order : “Respondent is ordered to certify the record no later than 11/03/2023 and provide a Bates-stamped hard copy to petitioner and real party-in-interest.” Minute order 10/24/2023.
The last minute order says that you said the AR is 1300 pages. Since the Court did not say for me to prepare the record (joint or otherwise) , that means it is on you to make sure the record is “complete.” I do not have to supply any documents to you that are already in your possession, as I have stated before.

All rights expressly reserved.
Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone ( )

State Bar of California
AttorneyRegulation@calbar.ca.gov
Case number 23-O-24507

2023 California Rules of Court
Rule 5.98. Meet-and-confer requirements; document exchange
(a) Meet and confer
All parties and all attorneys are required to meet and confer in person, by telephone, or as ordered by the court, before the date of the hearing relating to a Request for Order (FL-300). During this time, parties must discuss and make a good faith attempt to settle all issues, even if a complete settlement is not possible and only conditional agreements are made. The requirement to meet and confer does not apply to cases involving domestic violence.
(b) Document exchange
Before or while conferring, parties must exchange all documentary evidence that is to be relied on for proof of any material fact at the hearing. At the hearing, the court may decline to consider documents that were not given to the other party before the hearing as required under this rule. The requirement to exchange documents does not relate to documents that are submitted primarily for rebuttal or impeachment purposes.

COURTROOM INFORMATION Department 85, Room 834 Address: Stanley Mosk
Courthouse, Department 85 111 N. Hill Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 Judge: James C.
Chalfant Courtroom Telephone: (213) 830-0785 Public Hours: 8:20 a.m. to 12:00
p.m./1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

MANDAMUS TRIALS
Trial dates for petitions for writ of mandate are set by the court at the trial setting conference and are not reserved in advance with the clerk. The parties will be ordered to prepare a trial notebook for the mandamus trial. The trial notebook shall be lodged on the date that the reply must be filed or as set by the court. No courtesy copies of briefs are necessary if a trial notebook is prepared and lodged. The trial notebook shall be in a one or three-inch, three-ring binder as appropriate and lodged with the court when the reply brief is filed. The trial notebook shall contain only copies of the bates stamped agency decision, the parties’ briefs, and any requests for judicial notice. The documents should be separated by labeled tabs. Except in traditional mandamus cases, documentary evidence should not be included in the trial notebook. In traditional mandamus cases, the trial notebook 3 shall have documentary evidence with exhibit tabs, which may be in a separate three-ring binder(s) if voluminous. The parties must also provide the court with a memory stick containing the moving, opposition, and reply briefs on Microsoft Word in a format from which the court may cut and paste without dragging the brief’s rule and numbering or footers, so that the court can prepare its tentative decision. Unless otherwise ordered, Petitioner has the responsibility to timely prepare and lodge the trial notebook and memory stick. Where the Petitioner is self-represented, Respondent or Real Party will be tasked to prepare the trial notebook and memory stick.

JOINT APPENDIX If the administrative record for a writ of mandate exceeds 450 pages, the court may order the parties to prepare a joint appendix. If a joint appendix is ordered, the administrative record may be submitted in electronic format (in a Bates-stamped, searchable document) via flash drive. Please see Local Rule 3.231(g) for the preparation of the administrative record. The purpose of a joint appendix is to enable the court to easily review the pertinent cited pages from the record in a single take-home binder. The joint appendix shall consist of a single three ring binder — preferably a three-inch binder — or a binder that is spiral bound on the side. The joint appendix shall be lodged with the court at the time the reply brief must be filed or a set by the court. The joint appendix shall include the agency decision followed by the pages actually cited in the parties’ briefs. The pages in the joint appendix must be in numerical Bates-stamped order no matter which party cited the page. Only the document pages cited in the parties’ briefs should be included in the joint appendix, not the entire document. To reduce the number of pages, briefs should pin cite, not blanket cite, to pertinent record pages. If it is necessary to provide context to a cited page, the joint appendix may include a document cover page or witness identification page. The joint appendix may have labeled side tabs separating the pages from different documents.

The parties may, but are not required to, highlight significant information on the Joint Appendix pages, using different colors to show which party highlighted the information on a particular page. Unless otherwise ordered, Petitioner has the responsibility to ensure that the joint appendix including all pages cited in the parties’ briefs is timely lodged with the court. The failure of opposing counsel to provide copies of the relevant pages cited in their opposition does not excuse this responsibility. Where the Petitioner is self-represented, Respondent or Real Party will be tasked to prepare and lodge the joint appendix.

Meghan Hayner,
property owner, is a Racist.
(Source: CRD case 202305-20745222)

[Editor note: The emails of Deborah Breithaupt the city attorneys office is evidence of how the city attorneys office under Mayor Karen Bass harasses a Black tenant asking for very simple housing services.)

On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 05:17:32 PM PST, Deborah Breithaupt deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org wrote:11/21/23, 4:01 PM AT&T Yahoo Mail – Re: Your Opposition to Motion to Augment and Your Proposed Motion to Strike- Request to Meet and Confer

Mr. Johnson, I am waiting to get the court transcript from the last case management
conference. Mr. Gerst and I believe the court mentioned we do not need to meet
and confer on motions but I want to verify what was said. Therefore,
please understand I am not ignoring your request for a meet and confer. When the
court struck your motion, he explained why this was done. The court also explained
that if you want anything added to the Administrative Record that the City compiled,
you are free to do so provided that you conform to the court rules and procedures
(that is the green sheet I included with the AR).

Thank you and will be in touch.
Very truly yours,
Deborah Breithaupt
Deputy City Attorney IV
Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office
200 N. Spring Street, 21st Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Main: (213) 922-7715 | Direct: (213) 922-8382
Fax: (213) 978-7957

On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 1:33 PM G Johnson <( )> wrote:

Case 23STCP00644
Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W. Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Ongoing harm
Continuing obligations
Continuing damages
Continuing violations

Michael Gerst of Novian & Novian LLP is the attorney for Hi Point 1522 LLP .
11/21/23, 4:01 PM AT&T Yahoo Mail –

Re: Your Opposition to Motion to Augment and Your Proposed Motion to Strike- Request to Meet and Confer

Dear Parties:
I hereby provide the following dates and times to meet and confer:
November 15, 2023 Wednesday
11:15 am – 11:25 am
November 16, 2023 Thursday
11:15 am – 11:25 am
November 17, 2023 Friday
11:15 am – 11:25 am
Please confirm one date only.

“Your office and the City has engaged in corruption and falsification of the record”

November 21, 2023

Re: Regarding the REAP complaints. LASC Case 23STCP00644
From: G Johnson ( )
To: deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org
Cc: gerst@novianlaw.com; attorneyregulation@calbar.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov;
mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org;
councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; cityatty.help@lacity.org;
councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org;
councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org;
councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com;
thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com;
nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-
dawson@lacity.org; susan.davenport@calcivilrigths.ca.gov; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov
Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 02:55 PM PST

Meghan Hayner,
property owner, is a Racist.
(Source: CRD case 202305-20745222)

Dear Parties and Deborah Breithaupt in particular:

Breithaupt, I think you seriously need to attend to your English comprehension issue.

You state: “Mr. Johnson, please add whatever records you like
to your portion of the AR.” My response: You seem confused as to who is to compile the record and asto me needing to prepare a separate record. As the Respondent, it is your sole obligation to provide the record. In numerous TSC hearings, you admitted you were compiling the record and you also indicated this in numerous emails to me. You also asked me to provide documents so YOU could add them to the record. Suddenly, you are saying that I have to provide a “separate” record, but you provide no local rule or statute that indicates that. You are well aware of section (c) Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §1094.6 below “The complete record of the proceedings shall be prepared by the local agency or its commission, board, officer, or agent which made the decision.” Unless you are 100% incompetent, I don’t think the CCP is difficult to understand.

You state: “As noted by the court, you will be responsible for compiling and filing these records for yourself.” I don’t recall the Court telling me to prepare my own portion of the AR, especially in view of your repeated statements that you were preparing the record and your representation that I should supply you with documents for the AR that you committed to supply. “Parties are ordered to meet and confer to discuss the complete administrative record.” Court Minute Order July 25, 2023. (Respondent)”will provide petitioner the administrative record this week. September 7 2023.”Minute Order. “Respondent is ordered to certify the record no later than 11/03/2023 and provide a Bates-stamped hard copy to petitioner and real party-in-interest. “Minute order 10/24/2023. None of those orders indicate that the Court or CCP has relieved you of your liability to supply the “complete record” (AR) and that you have
not done so and you intentionally have not included in the AR “all pleadings:” as indicated in the Court docket summary, and even if you were to succeed in a motion to strike any of the pleadings, under the CCP 1094.6 (c) , you still have to include in the AR “all rejected exhibits in the possession of the local agency or its commission, board, officer, or agent. “The City has failed to follow the CCP 1094.6 (c) herein. I disagree with you that the matter had been concluded because this very matter must be addressed by the Court on December 5, 2023 and you can explain to the court your failure to comply with CCP section 1094.6(c).

I offered to meet and confer with you on the following dates but I did not receive a call from you
on those dates.
November 15, 2023 Wednesday
11:15 am – 11:25 am
November 16, 2023 Thursday
11:15 am – 11:25 am
November 17, 2023 Friday
11:15 am – 11:25 am

Again I have no indication that the Court ordered us to prepare separate administrative records.
Your office and the City has engaged in corruption and falsification of the record as I have noted
previous; you have not included in the AR all the pleadings that appear in the court summary
and that were filed and served and in your possession. This I will include in my opening brief.
You as well as all members of the City Attorney’s office need to be held accountable.

State Bar of California
AttorneyRegulation@calbar.ca.gov. Case number 23-O-24507

(c) The complete record of the proceedings shall be prepared by the local agency or its
commission, board, officer, or agent which made the decision and shall be delivered to the
petitioner within 190 days after he has filed a written request therefor. The local agency may
recover from the petitioner its actual costs for transcribing or otherwise preparing the record.
Such record shall include the transcript of the proceedings, all pleadings, all notices and orders,
any proposed decision by a hearing officer, the final decision, all admitted exhibits, all rejected
exhibits in the possession of the local agency or its commission, board, officer, or agent, all
written evidence, and any other papers in the case. Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1094.6

On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 12:17:34 PM PDT, Deborah Breithaupt deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org wrote:

Mr. Johnson, please add whatever records you like to your portion of the AR. As
noted by the court, you will be responsible for compiling and filing these records for
yourself. I think you have mis-stated what I advised the court and will rest on the
transcript of the TSC proceeding. I believe this concludes this matter.

Thank you.
Deborah Breithaupt
Deputy City Attorney IV
Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office
200 N. Spring Street, 21st Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Main: (213) 922-7715 | Direct: (213) 922-8382
Fax: (213) 978-7957

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 9:15 AM G Johnson tainmount@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W. Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt

The city attorney office indicated at the October 24, 2023 hearing on this matter that
she could not find any city documents regarding my submission of a REAP
complaint.

As a courtesy, and for inclusion in the Administrative Record on this matter, I attach
copies of the REAP complaints or documents related to them. I remind you also that
the REAP complaint is mentioned in the 9/8/2022 email document which is a part of
the city CE273371 case file which is the subject of the Petition for Writ of Mandate.
The REAP complaint(s) or REAP department are mentioned in emails to the city
dated 7/8/2022, 9/5/2022, 5/15/2022, 5/19/2021 code violation complaint 783277,
email 9/8/2022.

Attached are REAP complaint emails dated 9/15/2014, 8/9/2021, and 9/23/2022.
REAP complaints are also mentioned in some of the code violation complaints I
referred you to.

c: attorney for Hi Point 1522 LLC and Power Property Management Inc.

November 15, 2023

Subject: Intercom in Unit Still Not Repaired. Tandem Parking Stall Still Not Assigned. State Bar Complaint Filed Against Gerst.

From: G Johnson (tainmount@sbcglobal.net)

To: deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org;
lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org;
councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; cityatty.help@lacity.org;
councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org;
councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org;
councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com;
thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com;
nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

Cc: deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; gerst@novianlaw.com

Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 09:54 AM PST

Dear Parties
Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W. Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Michael Gerst of Novian & Novian LLP is the attorney for Hi Point 1522 LLP .

To whom it may concern:

Please see the attached complaint against attorney Michael Gerst to the State Bar of California. I
request disbarment and that his firm lose its certification.

The City of Los Angeles says that Meghan Hayner of Bold Properties is the owner of the Property
1522 Hi Point Street 90035.

“Renter shall notify owner promptly in writing of any deteriorating and/or peeling paint….
Evidence of Renter’s “good faith” shall include, but not be limited to, written proof of Owner’s
knowledge and opportunity to repair any claimed housing deficiency prior to service of an
eviction notice, whether by a copy of a request-for-maintenance-demand delivered to Owner or
otherwise, and lack of Renter-causation of the claimed housing deficiency…. (renter shall) advise
Owner immediately of any equipment malfunction. ” (Rental agreement)

The owner of the property has the obligation to act in a good faith and reasonable manner. It is
not good faith or reasonable that the intercom in unit 9 is not functioning for years; It is not good
faith or reasonable that the owner for months has not supplied the tools/parts to use the Akuvox
system for intercom purposes; it is not good faith or reasonable that the owner has not assigned
unit 9 tenants to a tandem parking stall after repeated requests and payments FOR YEARS. This
is the basis for my pending legal action against the owner to be served momentarily upon
MEGHAN HAYNER by the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department.

Tandem Parking- Parts for Akuvox and Still Not Supplied – Ongoing harm Ongoing
Damages Continuing obligations- CRD Case 202305-20745222
Ongoing harm
Continuing obligations
Continuing damages
Continuing violations

2023-11-14 STATE bar complaint re Gerst.pdf
3.9MB
2023-11-15 Fax and receipt SB re Gerst.pdf
35kB

November 6, 2023

Subject: Please restore the intercom in my unit and the tandem parking stall today without further
delay. CRD case 202305-20745222

From: G Johnson (tainmount@sbcglobal.net)
To: gerst@novianlaw.com
Cc: deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org;
lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org;
councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com;
cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org;
councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org;
councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com;
maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com;
frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org;
councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; susan.davenport@calcivilrigths.ca.gov;
contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov

Date: Monday, November 6, 2023 at 10:41 PM PST

CRD Case 202305-20745222
HUD number:

Tandem Parking- Parts for Akuvox and Still Not Supplied – Ongoing harm Ongoing
Damages Continuing obligations- CRD Case 202305-20745222

Ongoing harm
Continuing obligations
Continuing damages
Continuing violations
Dear Parties
Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W. Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Michael Gerst of Novian & Novian LLP is the attorney for Hi Point 1522 LLP .

“A “reasonable accommodation” is a change, exception, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice,
or service that may be necessary for a person with a disability to have an equal opportunity to use
and enjoy a dwelling, including public and common use spaces.” HUD

“Any person or entity engaging in prohibited conduct – i.e., refusing to make reasonable
accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services, when such accommodations may be
necessary to afford a person with a disability an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling –
may be held liable …” HUD

“When a housing provider refuses a requested accommodation because it is not reasonable, the
provider should discuss with the requester whether there is an alternative accommodation that
would effectively address the requester’s disability-related needs without a fundamental alteration
to the provider’s operations and without imposing an undue financial and administrative burden. If
an alternative accommodation would effectively meet the requester’s disability-related needs and
is reasonable, the provider must grant it. An interactive process in which the housing provider and
the requester discuss the requester’s disability-related need for the requested accommodation
and possible alternative accommodations is helpful to all concerned because it often results in an
effective accommodation for the requester that does not pose an undue financial and
administrative burden for the provider.” HUD

“A failure to reach an agreement on an accommodation request is in effect a decision by the
provider not to grant the requested accommodation. If the individual who was denied an
accommodation files a Fair Housing Act complaint to challenge that decision, then the agency or
court receiving the complaint will review the evidence in light of applicable law and decide if the
housing provider violated that law.” HUD
Based on the Oct 4, 2023 letter from Michael Gerst and my responses including my
October 30, 2023 at 10:54 am email response:

The Respondents have refused to make a reasonable accommodation requested repair or
replace the intercom in unit 9 and assign the tenant a tandem parking stall.
The housing services requested by myself are housing services I am entitled to under the rent
agreement and the conduct of the parties: maintenance and parking are included in the rental agreement. Maintenance covers the intercom system parts and labor and maintenance covers the parking lot and all stalls.
The requestor myself as regards the intercom system and/or the Akuvox system — Akuvox
being an alleged alternative accommodation — has requested the reasonable accommodation smartphone and internet to use the Akuvox system; the Respondents have refused an interactive process to discuss the owner supplying the parts to use the Akuvox system (smartphone and internet) and has also refused to discuss the repair to the intercom in the tenant 9 unit. See
the Oct 4 letter from Gerst and my email responses. The intercom in unit 9 is unusable; the
Akuvox intercom system is not available to tenant 9 because the owner has not entered into a discussion as to providing the smartphone and internet to use the Akuvox. The owner has refused to enter into an interactive discussion on if tenant can use the Akuvox system intercom without the smartphone and internet.
As regards the tandem parking, Gerst said that the tenant 9 (myself) is first come first served.
But nonetheless, Gerst has not provided the tandem parking stall to unit 9. As regards the tandem parking, Gerst says none are available and tenant says the opposite, that there are vacant stalls available. If unit 9 tenants are indeed first come first served, then please provide the assigned tandem parking stall without further delay.
The provider has refused to grant the reasonable accommodation since there is no agreement
on the accommodations requested. The Gerst letter and my email responses October 26, Oct 23, and Oct 30, prove there is no agreement on the accommodations/modifications requested.
The Gerst letter indicates that tenants unit 9 are entitled to a working intercom in the unit and
tandem parking stall.
The Gerst letter does not indicate a date as to when the housing services requested will be
provided, considering the email responses from me.
As I have said previously, the Gerst letter is not acceptable as a resolution, nor do I agree with
the Gerst position.
Gerst claims tenant 9 was previously told there were three tandem stalls available but his
statement is vague and lacking in specificity. I request the City of Los Angeles and Housing Department order Gerst to provide verifiable proof of the communications he alleges. Below are housing services advertised at this 18 unit building. Including the secured tandem parking stalls and intercom services, these are additional housing services that are being denied to me, a Black male entitled to full and equal housing services. The Walter Barratt owned company “JustBring Your Toothbrush” operates claimed illegal home sharing where services and privileges are granted to hotel like occupants but denied to the Petitioner. Such services denied to me include Mini split duct air conditioning and heating, DACK app and entry code for smartlock, Owner provided Wi-Fi and high speed Spectrum Internet, InHouse washer and dryer, Maid service, Enhance your stay add-ons, Desk with chair and lamp,Guest parking, A full
maintenance team, who can deal with most repairs with ni 24 hour., A fully loaded kitchen, Bedding and towels, Air purifier, a shower water filter, anti-allergic mattress encasement & ‘disposable slippers with your wellness in mind.”

I am denied the full and equal housing services provided by “Just Bring Your Toothbrush” a
contractor of the owner.

No resolution has been reached on the financial damages I have suffered due to deprivation of
housing services.

No agreement has been reached as to my request for reasonable accommodation /modifications.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone ( redacted )

October 30, 2023

(Editor note: The CRD case number is the discrimination complaint filed with the State of California Civil Rights Department. This case has also been filed with the HUD).

Subject: Tandem Parking- Parts for Akuvox and Still Not Supplied – Ongoing harm Ongoing Damages Continuing obligations- CRD Case 202305-20745222

From: G Johnson (tainmount@sbcglobal.net)

To: deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov;
contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org;
lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org;
councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com;
cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org;
councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org;
councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov;
gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com;
brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com;
councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org;
susan.davenport@calcivilrigths.ca.gov; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov; gerst@novianlaw.com

Date: Monday, October 30, 2023 at 10:54 AM PDT

CRD Case 202305-20745222
HUD number:

Dear Parties
Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W. Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Ongoing harm
Continuing obligations
Continuing damages
Continuing violations
Michael Gerst of Novian & Novian LLP is the attorney for Hi Point 1522 LLP .
I make further response to the letter of Gerst dated October 4, 2023.

BUILDING ENTRY CODE. INVASION OF PRIVACY. I understand that in order to provide me
an entry code to the building under Akuvox, you had to set up an account in my name. I
expressly do not give you permission to set up an account in my name. Also the entry code
you supplied appears to be part of my phone number; I do not expressly give you permission
to use any part of my phone number as a tracking device for purposes of Akuvox. Please
provide an access code that does not include any parts of my phone number. The number
1456 could be used for example. Previously I was told by Akuvox that they set up an account
in my name; I do not give Akuvox permission to set up an account in my name as it would
violate my privacy and would be identity theft. Do not set up any accounts in my name
Akuvox without me first being able to review the conditions of such agreement.
I remind you I still do not have a working intercom in my unit. The intercom device in my
apartment does not function. (Request for repairs pending since 2014).
I also do not have the ability to use the Akuvox smart phone based door entry system and
intercom because I have not been provided a smartphone and internet, the parts and/tools
necessary to operate Akuvox. The installation of Akuvox also is an illegal rent increase.
ADEQUATE NOTICE BY OWNER OF REQUEST FOR TANDEM PARKING. When the new
owner purchased the building around July 2021, they had adequate notice that I had been
requesting a tandem parking stall, that the conditions were first come first served and
payment of $50 per month outside the rent agreement; but the new owner was also aware
that I had been first come first served before 2021 and that by the payment of rent checks I
was already paying for the tandem parking because the parking is included in the rent by
statements rent registry that the owner makes to the city LAHD every year.
FAXES. The current management company for the property is Power Property management
Inc. (“PPMG”). PPMG was faxed including but not limited to 3/6/2020, and 8/9/2021
regarding the request for working intercom and tandem parking; similar faxes were delivered
7/4/2022, 2/6/2023, 5/25/2023, 6/5/2023, 6/6/2023, 6/13/2023, 6/22/2023, 7/13/2023,
8/10,2023.
EMAIL ADDRESSES. I match the email addresses with names because these are the email
addresses provided by PPMG or these are email addresses that appear on the internet website
of PPMG. These are the email addresses I have used in my email communications:
highpoint1522@gmail.com (Kassandra Harris-Resident manager);
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us – Power Property Inc. –
meghan@boldpartnersre.com- Meghan Hayner Owner;
maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com – Thomas Khammar
at PPMG; brent@powerpropertygrp.com-Brent Parsons at PPMG;
frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com- Nisi Walton at PPMG.
Occasionally I will fax or Fed Ex or Priority Mail select emails.
THE OWNER ENDORSED RENT CHECKS THAT GIVE NOTICE OF TANDEM PARKING
REQUESTED AND PAID FOR. Including but not limited to: 5/1/2019 rent check says “paid
under protest for parking and maintenance” ; 10/1/2019 “paid under protest for
maintenance and services”; 12/1/2019 “payment under duress for housing services”;
9/1/2021 “paid under stress for parking and repairs”; 10/01/2021 “paid under stress for
intercom repairs &parking lien”; 11/1/2021”re lien repairs &parking paid under stress”;
12/1/2021 “for maintenance and tandem parking and lien for”; 04/01/2022 “paid under
stress for repairs to intercom & tandem parking”; 5/1/2023 “paid under stress for tandem
parking &intercom repair”; 6/1/2022 “paid under duress for intercom repair & tandem
parking”; 8/1/2022 “for tandem parking & intercom labor and repairs”; 01/01/2023 paid
under stress and arrest for rent, parking, two cars and intercom repairs”; 02/01/2023 “paid
under stress and duress for tandem or two car, parking and intercom repair”; 09/01/2023
“paid under duress for unit Intercom repair and tandem parking”.
The endorsed checks clearly prove that you have accepted payment for the tandem parking
and that you have agreed by your conduct that there is no additional or $50.00 fee for
tandem parking and that tandem parking is included in the rent paid.
TANDEM PARKING IS AVAILABLE. As previously indicated, in tandem stalls 13 and 14 there
is only one vehicle. In stall 17 there is only one vehicle. Stalls 15 and 16 tandem have only
two cars, so combined that makes one full tandem stall available. Unit 9 tenants could easily
be assigned to stall 14 and have the car in stall 14 move to stall #8 and unit 9 would thus
have a tandem parking stall.
Please assign the tandem parking stall for unit 9 by today and without further delay.
Please provide the Akuvox smart phone and WiFi or internet today without further delay so
unit 9 tenants have “full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or
services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.”

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

Ongoing harm
Ongoing Damages
Continuing obligations
Keypad entry code question re Akuvox
From: G Johnson (tainmount@sbcglobal.net)
To: nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com;
meghan@boldpartnersre.com; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org

Date: Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 04:56 PM PDT

Dear property owner:

You supplied me with Akuvox outside entry door code 30– —. You neglected to tell me which
option button should guests or deliveries use. There are three option buttons titled delivery, temp
key, and pin. Which one is to be used to Input the code you gave me?

As you know, all utilities are paid thru my rent. You still have failed to supply me the phone, smart
phone or internet utilities to operate the Akuvox system; including but not limited to I consider this
to be a breach of the rental agreement.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St. 9
Los Angeles Ca. 90035
Phone (Redacted)

October 26, 2023

Subject: Supplemental Information to Email “Your Letter of October 4, 2023 re Denial of Reasonable Housing Modifications- DFEH CRD Case Numbers 202310-22236606-202305-20745222 – 202310-22253508”

From: G Johnson (tainmount@sbcglobal.net)

To: gerst@novianlaw.com; deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org

Cc: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov;
shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us;
meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org;
councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org;
councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org;
councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com;
maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 11:36 AM PDT

Dear Parties
Hydee Feldstein Soto
Denise C. Mills
John W. Heath
Mei-Mei Cheng
Deborah Breithaupt
Hi Point 1522 LLC

I hereby supplement my email sent October 23, 2023 to Michael Gerst subject “Your Letter of October 4, 2023 re Denial of Reasonable Housing Modifications- DFEH CRD Case Numbers
202310-22236606-202305-20745222 – 202310-22253508″

Gerst maintains in his letter that his client did not know about my request for parking and/or did not know that I had agreed in writing under duress to pay extra $50 to pay for tandem parking. My further response: A court case was filed against Hi Point 1522 LLC and Power Property Management Inc.
12/20/2021 case number 21STSC04819. This case was served on the owner as well as management company on Jan. 4, 2022 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department. Included in the complaint is a declaration dated 11/24/2021 item #5 that states, “The rent agreement states there are two parking spaces available, parking space #1 and parking space 2. By landlord “notice in change of tenancy” signed by tenant November 2021, the owner has indicated that tenant 9is entitled to a second or tandem parking stall.” Thus the owner received adequate notice of my request for tandem parking, and that I signed an agreement under duress to pay $50 per month for the tandem parking stall.
The rent agreement indicates that parking for two cars is included in the rent to be paid.
The rent agreement indicates that there is no separate charge for parking.
Gerst maintains that the parking stall #8 (a single stall) is an explicit assignment in the rent agreement. FALSE. “Explicit” is defined as “in a clear and detailed manner, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.” The addendum house rules to the rental agreement states, “New rules and regulations and amendments may be adopted by landlord by giving 30 days notice in writing.” The rent agreement section #4 states:“Upon 7 days notice to renter, owner may terminate renter’s parking privilege or change the size and/or location of renter’s parking space or storage space described in Section I.”Thus stall #8 us not an “explicit” assignment.
The notice of change of terms of tenancy, signed by tenant myself 11/24/2021, indicates the stall number can be changed; thus stall #8 is not an “explicit” assignment.
I clarify the stall numbers here are (single car stalls:) as numbered: 1A, 1B, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, 12, (tandem two car stalls:) 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
I was first come first served for the parking before all tenants except for tenant in unit 9. (Note the parking numbers do not correspond to the apartment numbers).
As of 2021, I was first come first served before tenants in units 9, and tenants in unit 12.
As Gerst has indicated that I can be assigned to a tandem stall, that proves that the assignment to stall #8 is not explicit and can be changed according to the conditions in Gerst’s letter.
Ads on the internet do not mention the tandem stalls, although at one point the ads said “all units include a tandem parking stall.” Current ads on the internet state parking for one car is included in the rent; no mention of the rules to access a tandem parking stall.
The condition of $50 for a tandem parking stall is not posted as a rule in the common area of the building.
My request for a tandem parking stall has been sent over the years to the owner by facsimile, post cards, emails, priority mail, and phone calls, at a considerable cost.
I attach a city records release of the Rent Registry submitted by the property owner for years 2019-2021. The registry clearly indicates that parking is included in the rent. There is no indication that tandem parking is not included in the rent or that there is an extra charge.
Gerst said in court that he would join the cities opposition to my court filings. But the City claims that my court filings are unintelligible. So I would wonder how do you oppose something that you don’t even understand.
While the city says that it will oppose any of my filed motions or documents. The Gers letter contradicts that because he claims that I am entitled to the Intercom service and entitled
to the tandem parking.
The city claims that they will oppose emotion that they clearly said they did not understand because they called it “unintelligible”. Again, how does an attorney oppose something that they don’t understand?
I pay rent in exchange for housing and housing services. In this case the housing services includes parking and the Akuvox app based door entry Intercom system. Repairs includes parts. If the Intercom/Akuvox system needs certain parts for it to work, then that is already paid for in my rent
payment. For example, the garbage disposal and the light switches and the electrical switches and the tub in the shower all contain parts that must be working, and if they do not work, my rent amount pays for those parts to be replaced and installed. My rent agreement does not say I have to provide
my own personal property to access housing services in this building other than it says that I have to supply a battery if the smoke detector does not work.
Gerst claims that the Akuvox is an “upgrade”. I note that the previous intercom system and keypad only required the tenant/guest/family to push buttons and it worked. The previous intercom system and keypad did not require the tenant like myself to use a smart phone or Internet to access the housing services. Functionality has been reduced or eliminated as in my case.
I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone (redacted)

2022-10-27 LAHD Rent Registry File #32659 RSO.pdf
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2023-10-4 Letter from Owner Lawyer Gerst.pdf
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(Editor note: the email above was also sent to the Property Owner as well as City attorney via facsimile.)

(Editor note: The following corrections were emailed out on October 28, 2023: Corrections to Email Oct 26 Subject Supplemental Information to Email “Your Letter of October 4, 2023 re Denial of Reasonable Housing Modifications- DFEH CRD Case Numbers 202310-22236606-202305-20745222 – 202310-22253508”. Section numbered 7 and 8 note “unit 9”; that is corrected to say “unit 8” which is tenant T. Ruggieri. Section numbered 16 the word “emotion” is corrected to “a motion”.) As of today’s date, I am still without a working intercom in my unit. As of today’s date, I am still without a tandem parking stall even though there are available vacant stalls. The denial of housing services is intentional to cause harm.)

October 23, 2023

Subject: Your Letter of October 4, 2023 re Denial of Reasonable Housing Modifications- DFEH CRD Case Numbers 202310-22236606-202305-20745222 – 202310-22253508

From: G Johnson (tainmount@sbcglobal.net)
To: gerst@novianlaw.com
Cc: deborah.breithaupt@lacity.org; patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov;
contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org;
lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org;
councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com;
cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org;
councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org;
councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov;
gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com;
brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com;
richard.brinson@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

Date: Monday, October 23, 2023 at 11:08 PM PDT

To Michael Gerst et al:
Disingenuous Fraudulent Corrupt
I get the impression counsel for Hi Point 1522 LLC /Power Property Management Inc. is unable to
conceive that the herein deprivations of housing services have been the subject of numerous
emails, housing complaints, lawsuits, and city clerk published documents since 2014. At this point
I am able to seek damages four years back for breach of the agreement and 3 years back for
personal injury.
THE INTERCOM
The intercom system in 2014 was made inoperable by the previous owner when he disconnected
some units and replaced 15 others. Around June 2021 the current owner purchased the building
and for years——the intercom unit #9 still was not repaired. The letter from Novian and Novian
does not attempt to offer compensation to myself for damages for the period June 2021 thru
today’s date for the non-working intercom in the unit 9, or deprivation of parking stall.
The diatribe of Novian and Novian also fails to admit that the Akuvox system—a smartphone app
based door entry system— was installed in May 2023 without advance notice to myself or other
tenants. It was installed unilaterally. Select tenants were provided with emails from the owner
explaining the system. I have not received the same email although I have asked repeatedly for the
same email. The owner also did not seek a mutual agreement with myself, particular since he
removed a door entry device that I had previously been ordered by the City to pay the owner
reimbursement for five years (of damages).

The intercom system is detailed in 207 pages filed with the court most recently and 467 pages,
filings 2/28/2023 and 8/23/2023 (Los Angeles Superior Court case 23STCP00644) as served on
the owner and Novian. The city attorney’s office claims there are over 800-1000 pages of
documents related to the intercom and tandem parking at this address.

Why wasn’t the intercom box in my apartment repaired or replaced when Akuvox was installed in
May 2023? Novian and Novian is silent on this, claiming it was an “upgrade” : but never claiming it
was done to help resolve my complaints.

With the Request for Reasonable Modification, the nature of damages has changed to the extent
tenant myself is still entitled to maintenance and repairs but the owner cannot charge me for the
use of the housing services to make the Akuvox work. If the owner refuses to supply the parts to
make the Akuvox intercom function i.e. phone and internet, they cannot force me to spend money
to buy a smartphone and internet to access the Akuvox because that would violate the ADA (i.e
Unrub Act also). I would also violate the provisions of the rental agreement.

It is fraudulent, corrupt, and disingenuous that the Oct 5 letter of Novian and Novian ignores the
intercom unit in apartment 9.

It is fraudulent, corrupt, and disingenuous that the Oct 5 letter of Novian and Novian ignores that
the owner is liable in the rent agreement for all electrical, gas, and plumbing fixtures “including
but not limited to” the parts smartphone and internet so tenant can “properly use and operate” the
Akuvox system. That the owner has not supplied myself with the smartphone and internet is a
housing deficiency solely caused by the owner HI POINT 1522 LLC.

THE PARKING
Maintenance crew can today extend the striping for stall 8 and make it a tandem stall. Today. But
according to Novian and Novian, the owner refuses.

A few years ago, at the request of a white tenant, the striping for stall #13 was extended into a
tandem stall from a single stall. I have requested stall #8 to be extended. Years have passed since
repeated requests. Novian and Novian ignores that my rental agreement says “parking space 1”
and “parking space 2”. Novian ignores the numerous pictures and declarations under penalty of
perjury that show the conduct of the parties from 2010-2014 was tenant myself had parking for
two cars. The owner has adequate notice of the 2014 proposed change in terms of tenancy where
the then owner admits I was parked in tandem stall #14, a signed document which disputes what
Novian says that we were only assigned to park in single stall #8.

There are frequently about ten units that house short terms tenants so parking is frequently
available. There are total of 18 units and 28 parking stalls. City documents show that for all units
parking says the owner is included in the rent paid, yet the owner proposes (change of tenancy) to
make me pay $50 per month. At my count there are currently at least five single stalls available.
The owner could easily switch myself and roommate with one of the tenants using a tandem stall
for a single vehicle. That could be done within 24 hours notice. Contrary to what Novian implies,
there are single stalls available that can be converted to tandem stalls.

I count single stalls available at #13, 14, 15, 16, 17 (all tandem stalls with only one car parked ).
So that is available parking for five cars. Novian claims in its letter “As has also repeatedly been
relayed to you, there are three tandem parking spaces which are available on a first come first
served basis.” The statement is vague and lacking in specificity as to when and how and by
whom I was told there were three tandem stalls available and that they are first come first served. I
never received such notice. “First come first served” admits Novian, means that I’m long overdue
because out of eighteen units, I am the third longest renting tenant, since 2010, so that means
there are currently fifteen tenants here—seven in tandem parking—who were NOT first come first
served. Specifically, parking stalls 1A, 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (tandem), 14 (tandem), 15
(tandem), 16 (tandem) 17(tandem) , 18 (tandem) and 19(tandem) are occupied by tenants who
were not first come first served according to the owner. If the owner can be believed and trusted
(99% chance the owner cannot), then I should be assigned a tandem stall immediately. I do not
waive that parking is included in the rent paid (my endorsed rent checks say for “tandem parking”)
and that by conduct of the parties there has never been an additional charge to park in tandem vs
single that I know of. However as is known to Novian and the owner, I signed the parking
agreement 11/4/2021 and it appears in the filed, and served on owner, 8/23//2023 court
document Exhibit 43-001. So when Novian says paragraph 2, “at no Point in your tenancy have
you stated a willingness to pay this additional fee for a tandem parking stall” then this becomes
another FALSE statement by the Novian, since the evidence shows in 2021 I stated a willingness to
pay the additional fee (and I reserve the right to claim it is an illegal rent increase.) Did I ever
mention the tandem parking agreement since 2021? Sure did. Emails 9/8/2022, 1/25/2023 at
8:52 am, 5/12/2023 at 9:48 am.

The failure to immediately supply the parts to use the Akuvox intercom is intentional to cause
harm. The failure to immediately assign a tandem parking stall is intentional to cause harm.
“Novian and Novian is counsel to Hi Point 1522 LLC, and we are in receipt of the letter dated
September 22, 2023, you taped to Power Property Management’s office door on or about October
2, 2023. In that letter you include an April 12, 2023, letter from a Dr. Marcus Tellez, DO, stating
that you need a reasonable accommodation because of your disability which states that you
“occasionally experiences episodes of disorientation and dizziness, balance issues, and trouble
maintaining body fluids.” This is the first time Power Property Management has received this letter.

The letter requests that you be assigned a tandem parking space, and that the intercom be
fixed. It is not clear how these requests correlate with the stated limitations.”

I have received your letter of October 4, 2023. It was postmarked October 5, 2023 and I received it
on October 10, 2023, delayed due to the limitations and obstructions of the Akuvox system where
mail carriers could not contact me thru the intercom and did not have an entry code. Your letter is
not acceptable as a resolution to the issues stated herein.

Attached is a copy of your letter of October 4. I am glad to hear that you are the counsel for Hi
Point 1522 LLC; I believe the average attorney would have clarified this months ago by letter when
you first became their counsel.

You claim I taped a letter to the door of Power Property Management on October 2, 2023 but you
give no proof of that.

The package of letters with cover letter dated September 22, 2023 states 1.Notice of Intent to File
Court Action for Damages from Geary Johnson 2. Request for Housing Accommodation- Letter
from Dr. Marcus Tellez dated April 12, 2023 3. Email August 27, 2023. Eleven pages. Sent at 9:46
am. Subject: “The actions of Respondents are Intentional to Cause Harm. Demand for $1 Million
Dollars in Damages to CRD Complaint Case 202305-20745222- Owner Refuses Housing
Modifications”. This letter package was delivered 9/25/23 and 10/4/2023 and then signed for J.
Javier at Power Property Management Inc. Delivered to your office by Fedex.

Your October 4, 2023 letter states: “This is the first time Power Property Management has
received this letter.” “ The letter requests that you be assigned a tandem parking space, and that
the intercom be fixed. It is not clear how these requests correlate with the stated limitations.”
You are mis staking the letter from my doctor ( and from myself). The letter clearly requests that
the intercom in the unit be fixed. Your client and yourself is well aware that the intercom in the
unit is not working. I disagree with your statement “It is not clear how these requests correlate
with the stated limitations.”; I believe my Doctor has made it adequately clear how the requests
correlate with the stated limitations; not being a doctor you are not in a position to understand
what he is saying anyway.

You claim, “This is the first time Power Property has received this letter.” I bet the certification of
your law firm on the fact that is FALSE statement on your part. The times that Power Property
received the letter from my doctor: via email attachment sent 4/13/23 at 4:34 pm subject: Kitchen
Sink Repair, bathroom Toilet Repair, Screen Repair, Housing Services Request for Accommodation
at 1522 Hi Point St 90035” This email was addressed to email addresses for
thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us;
frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com;
meghan@boldpartnersre.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com. It would be extremely unlikely that
none of those emails arrived at their destination. A court filed document 8/23/2023 shows the
letter of Dr. Tellez as an exhibit; such document served on the property owner and Power Property
Management Inc. PETITIONER GEARY J. JOHNSON’S SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE (CCP § 1085) (CCP 1084-1097). Exhibit 71 page 71-001. In addition, I asked for reasonable accommodation by email 3/13/23, 3/8/23, 3/6/23 and 11/2/22 without the Doctor’s note.

Who must comply with the Fair Housing Act’s reasonable
accommodation requirements?
Any person or entity engaging in prohibited conduct – i.e., refusing to make reasonable
accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services, when such accommodations may be
necessary to afford a person with a disability an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling –
may be held liable unless they fall within an exception to the Act’s coverage. Courts have applied
the Act to individuals, corporations, associations and others involved in the provision of housing
and residential lending, including property owners, housing managers, homeowners and
condominium associations, lenders, real estate agents, and brokerage services. Courts have also
applied the Act to state and local governments, most often in the context of exclusionary zoning or
other land-use decisions. See e.g., City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc., 514 U.S. 725, 729
(1995); Project Life v. Glendening, 139 F. Supp. 703, 710 (D. Md. 2001), aff’d 2002 WL
2012545 (4th Cir. 2002). Under specific exceptions to the Fair Housing Act, the reasonable
accommodation requirements of the Act do not apply to a private individual owner who sells his
own home so long as he (1) does not own more than three single-family homes; (2) does not use a
real estate agent and does not employ any discriminatory advertising or notices; (3) has not
engaged in a similar sale of a home within a 24-month period; and (4) is not in the business of
selling or renting dwellings. The reasonable accommodation requirements of the Fair Housing Act
also do not apply to owner-occupied buildings that have four or fewer dwelling units. (Source:
HUD)

What if a housing provider fails to act promptly on a
reasonable accommodation request?
A provider has an obligation to provide prompt responses to reasonable accommodation requests.
An undue delay in responding to a reasonable accommodation request may be deemed to be a
failure to provide a reasonable accommodation.

What types of discrimination against persons with disabilities does the Act prohibit?
The Act prohibits housing providers from discriminating against applicants or residents because of
their disability or the disability of anyone associated with them (5) and from treating persons
with disabilities less favorably than others because of their disability. The Act also makes it
unlawful for any person to refuse “to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices,
or services, when such accommodations may be necessary to afford … person(s) [with disabilities]
equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling.” (6) The Act also prohibits housing providers from
refusing residency to persons with disabilities, or placing conditions on their residency, because
those persons may require reasonable accommodations. In addition, in certain circumstances, the
Act requires that housing providers allow residents to make reasonable structural modifications to
units and public/common areas in a dwelling when those modifications may be necessary for a
person with a disability to have full enjoyment of a dwelling. (7) With certain limited exceptions
(see response to question 2 below), the Act applies to privately and publicly owned housing,
including housing subsidized by the federal government or rented through the use of Section 8
voucher assistance.

The Housing Provider Cannot Charge the Tenant a Fee
Example 1: A man who is substantially limited in his ability to walk uses a motorized scooter for
mobility purposes. He applies to live in an assisted living facility that has a policy prohibiting the
use of motorized vehicles in buildings and elsewhere on the premises. It would be a reasonable
accommodation for the facility to make an exception to this policy to permit the man to use his
motorized scooter on the premises for mobility purposes. Since allowing the man to use his scooter
in the buildings and elsewhere on the premises is a reasonable accommodation, the facility may
not condition his use of the scooter on payment of a fee or deposit or on a requirement that he
obtain liability insurance relating to the use of the scooter. (Source: HUD)

You state: “At the time you signed your lease, and throughout your tenancy, it has been repeatedly
relayed to you that your lease has an explicitly assigned single parking spot, space number 8. It has
also repeatedly been relayed to you, there are three tandem parking spaces, which are available on
a first come first served basis. Previously, when a tandem spot was available for a separate lease, it
was offered to you under prior ownership, and you declined to lease the tandem parking space. At
no point of your tenancy have you stated a willingness to pay this additional fee for a tandem
parking space. There are not currently any available tandem parking spaces, as all have been taken
by other tenants willing to pay the additional fee. If you are willing to pay the additional fee per
month for tandem parking spot, please let us know in writing, and we will let you know if a
tandem parking spot becomes available.”

You state: “At the time you signed your lease, and throughout your tenancy, it has been repeatedly
relayed to you that your lease has an explicitly assigned single parking spot, space number 8.” I
disagree. The rent agreement explicitly says parking for two cars. My endorsed rent checks state
they are for tandem parking. If the statement you made is true, on what dates and times by what
method was I told I was not entitled to parking for two vehicles, and by conduct of the parties.
Based on your license to practice, please provide specificity. As you know as I quote in exhibits,
Thomas Khammar said previously in a court hearing that unit 9 tenants already have a tandem
parking stall. (Recalled in email May 14, 2022, in evidence). This means that we were entitled to
it. Khammar also said our intercom needed to be rewired. (Recalled in email May 14, 2022, in
evidence). I have not received any advance notice that Akuvox was being installed; I did not sign
any agreement to use the Akuvox system, a housing service installed unilaterally. Your letter fails to
mention the fee to use the service or the costs of the parts needed to use it. Again you engage in a
false statement regarding my agreement for the parking: I already provided you that signed in
2021 for the tandem parking. I signed for the parking 11/4/21 and that is also an exhibit with the
court and served on your client. A disability may mean I should get the tandem parking stall
without paying a fee. Photos provided to you and the Court indicate vacant stalls available. I still
have not received a copy of the email sent to white tenants announcing the Akuvox.

Your letter states: “Additionally, to upgrade the property, we replaced the prior working intercom
with the Akuvox system. This system allows all tenants to access the intercom remotely so they can
provide access to guests and deliveries even when they are not home. Since you stated that you
either do not currently have a cell phone capable of utilizing the Akuvox system or do not want to
use your cell phone to utilize the Akuvox system, an access code was provided to you by Power
Property Management, which you can provide to guests or delivery drivers to gain access to the
property.” Your statement is either FALSE or misleading. You never sought my input on the
Akuvox system and further damaged me for a month where no mail or other packages was
delivered because no access code was given to myself; your letter is misleading because it does not
state that the access code is only for door entry not for use of the intercom. Your letter admits that
I still do not have access or the ability to use the Akuvox intercom function because the owner has
not provided the required services to use Akuvox, i.e my rent agreement says utilities are supplied
and paid for by the owner; “no alterations or improvements shall be made by the tenant”. My
smartphone and internet are my private property and not for the use of the property owner and their supplied housing services. I cannot use the Akuvox intercom system unless the owner supplies the smartphone and internet. This agreement has to be mutual, not unilateral as the
Akuvox is. This has been told to the owner repeatedly since May of 2023.
I imagine if I could prove —— which I have—your client received actual notice of the disability
RA, and you did receive a signed parking tandem agreement from me, then that would prove your
client did indeed unlawfully discriminate against me and that your letter is false for the purposes
of denying me housing services.

It is generally settled that landlords should not place financial conditions upon the granting of an
accommodation. For instance, residents with disabilities should not have to pay for additional
insurance in order to fulfill a disability-related need. In HUD v. Twinbrook Village Apartments,
HUD ALJ No. 02-00-0256-8 (HUD ALJ Nov. 9, 2001) the requirement for a
resident with a disability to procure a renter’s insurance policy specifically to indemnify the
landlord against injury that could be caused by a wheelchair ramp was found to be discrimination
in the “terms, conditions and privileges” of renting. (HUD) For instance, if all parking spaces on a
property are already assigned to residents and no one with a desirable space will voluntarily
exchange spaces with the resident who has a disability, the parties should communicate ideas for
other options. Alternatives might include the resident being put on a waiting list for parking
assignments ahead of all non-disability related transfer requests.

I summarize the false /misleading statements of the attorneys Novian and Novian:

Re: The April 12, 2023 letter from Dr. Telez. Novian says “This is the first time Power Property
received the letter. FALSE. The times that Power Property received the letter from my doctor: via
email attachment sent 4/13/23 at 4:34 pm subject: Kitchen Sink Repair, bathroom Toilet Repair,
Screen Repair, Housing Services Request for Accommodation at 1522 Hi Point St 90035” This email
was addressed to email addresses for thomas@powerpropertygrp.com;
highpoint1522@gmail.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us;
frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com. It
would be extremely unlikely that none of those emails arrived at their destination. A court filed
document 8/23/2023 shows the letter of Dr. Telllez as an exhibit; such document served on the
property owner and Power Property Management Inc. PETITIONER GEARY J. JOHNSON’S
SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE (CCP § 1085)
(CCP 1084-1097). Exhibit 71 page 71-001. In addition, I asked for reasonable accommodation by
email 3/13/23, 3/8/23, 3/6/23 and 11/2/22 without the Doctor’s note. (Case 23STCP00644)
“At the time you signed your lease and throughout your tenancy, it has been repeatedly relayed
to you that your lease has explicitly, assigned single parking spot, space number 8.” FALSE as to
“throughout your tenancy.” My rental agreement and addendum clearly states the owner can
change parking assignment if he wishes to. Also, the owner signed Change in Terms of Tenancy
(dated 4/9/2014) clearly indicates that unit 9 tenants were assigned to stall #14; pictures clearly
show unit 9 tenants parked in stall #14, and the declarations under penalty of perjury of both unit
9 tenants. The 4/9/2014 document proves that the assignment of parking could be changed, and
the rent agreement says parking for cars 1 and 2; therefore stall #8 was not “explicitly” assigned.
FALSE on your part.
That I have been given access to use the Intercom thru Akuvox. This is FALSE because I was
supplied the key code which is only for purposes of providing entry to the front building door, not
for using the intercom functions
That the non-working intercom box in my unit is what my Doctor ordered to be repaired. It has
not been working since 2014. NOVEAN SAYS “THE LETTER REQUESTS THAT YOU BE ASSIGNED A TANDEM PARKING SPACE AND THAT THE INTERCOM BE FIXED.” FALSE. The Doctor letter requests that the intercom in my unit be repaired or replaced.
Novian says there are currently no tandem stalls available. FALSE. From my observation tenant12 is two tenants with two cars but occupy two tandem stalls #15 and 16 so they have parking for four cars. If they were reduced to one tandem stall, then one entire tandem stall is available.
“There are not currently any available tandem Park spaces as all have been taken by other
tenant willing to pay the additional fee. If you are willing to pay the additional fee per month, for a
tandem parking spot, please let us know in writing, and we will let you know if a tandem parking
spot becomes available”. FALSE AND MISLEADING. As stated herein, there are single stalls
available that can be coverted to tandem stalls, there are single cars in tandem stalls that can be
changed assignment, and I am by Novian’s words “first come, first served” since November 2021 at
the least. False to the extent I have previously let the owner know in writing and that was ignored.

May 19, 2021 email – Excerpt
Let’s examine the parking problem, for the sake of negotiation. (1) The state housing
discrimination laws prohibit a landlord from refusing to rent housing services by telling a tenant
the services are not available (tandem parking) and the same laws prohibit a landlord from
singling out a tenant for unfair treatment and setting different terms and conditions for such
tenant. Walter Barratt has done all these things and thus has violated the fair housing laws. (2)
Retaliation because I complained is unlawful. By not assigning our unit 9 an available tandem
parking stall with no extra charge, he has continued to unlawfully retaliate against me because I
complained. Walter Barratt works with his agent, resident manager Kassandra Harris. (3) The rent
agreement shows that the cost of parking is included. There is no indication there will be an extra
charge for parking. Therefore, Walter cannot charge $50.00 for parking. (4) Walter has filed with
the City rent registry documents that show that for all units at 1522 Hi Point St, parking is
included in the rent. There is no indication in these documents that any tenant is being charged a
separate fee for parking. Thus, Walter has singled me out for unfair treatment. It is true he could
post a sign in the common area that “tandem parking is $50 extra” but that would be incongruous
because (1) many tenants already have rent agreements in which they may already have a tandem
stall at no extra charge and (2) it would not apply to tenants where tandem parking was available
at the inception of their tenancy. But of course, no such sign is posted.
Of course, if I was to pay $50 under these circumstances, I would be infringing upon my right to
claim discrimination and I would waive my right under the LAMC: that a landlord can charge an
additional fee for housing services only if the service was not available at the inception of the
tenancy.

Contrary to what the biased and retaliatory city employees have stated, tandem parking in 2010
was “available” at the inception of unit 9 tenancy. I have pictures of unit 9 parked in tandem stall
14 and another tenant parked at stall 8; the city employees refused to admit that another tenant
was assigned to stall 8, proving that unit 9 was assigned to stall 14, the rent agreement being a
clerical error.

In summary, the landlord is without authority to charge unit 9 $50 for tandem parking because it
would constitute unlawful different terms and conditions; it is not agreed to in our rental
agreement, and the landlord is without authority to charge $50 for tandem parking because such
fee would violate the LAMC that does not allow an added fee for services that were available at the
inception of the tenancy.

I am surprised the owner brought this $50 up last week because I disposed of his argument years
ago. Even when sued in federal court 2015, he never filed an “answer” to the complaint and never
alleged the $50 fee. Of course, he still does not admit the fee would be unlawful. I told the court
on May 14 that unit 9 already pays the $50 because parking is included in the rent. Walter at the hearing spent a lot of time saying he felt harassed by reading articles on the internet. He complained about seeing the words “Racism at Hi Point Apts” on the internet and that such sites were directed at him. I have attached a Google page showing that there are numerous apartments with the name or similar “Hi Point Apts” and some are out of state. I also remind the parties that many of the documents that Walter may be reading on the internet are documents published to the internet by the Los Angeles City Clerk’s office. I guess Barratt will now sue the City government for harassment. There is a cause and effect, that Walter seems unable to comprehend, that if he had provided the intercom maintenance and tandem parking in 2015 as requested, I would not have grounds to complain now.

Walter said in court that I, as a tenant (Black) am not entitled to fair housing or housing services. I
disagree because the “entitlement” comes from federal, state, and local fair and civil rights housing
laws as well as the rental agreement.

Email Redacted Feb 1, 2022
“My rent agreement says: “Renter shall be liable for any damages caused by renter’s failure to
comply with these conditions”, i.e. duty to report repair and maintenance issues. The agreement
says renter shall not repair any damage “except thru licensed, insured professionals approved in
advance by owner in writing.” The owner has refused to comply with the rent agreement and
prevented inured professionals from repairing the intercom and extending the striping for the
parking stall.”

Redacted email September 5, 2022
“The LAMC however, prohibits the owner from charging a tenant a fee for services that were
available at the inception of the tenancy, i.e. tandem parking was available in 2010 tenancy
included in the rent.”

Redacted email Jan 25, 2023
I have suffered financial damages as a proximate result of the neglect of parties herein including
but not limited to mail or packages not delivered due to non-working intercom, debris and dust
damages to my car from construction contractors up and down Hi Point St, loss of street parking
due to construction contractors and impact on increased auto fuel/electric costs. Since I am
restricted from parking in the secured parking lot, my car was broken into; I have purchased an
alarm system for $1,000.

Redacted 2/15/23
Owner has failed to obtain clearance from the LAHD for change in use of occupancy without
building permit and COO in that there are white wires electrical on the exterior of the building
presumably for the owner using the premises for the “Just Bring Your Toothbrush” advertised
website (and others) where select units at this address are used for hotel home sharing rental
rather than as rent controlled units; separate but unequal practices.

Redacted 3/8/23 Email
I need the intercom and I need the parking tandem/2 cars, or additional parking stall.

I have a disability and I request the intercom be repaired and the parking for a second car be
provided, as a reasonable accommodation.

Failure to respond to this request is considered by the government to be a failure to provide a
reasonable accommodation.

To meghan@boldpartnersre.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com;
highpoint1522@gmail.com;
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com;
brent@powerpropertygrp.com
Redacted 5/12/2023 at 9:48 am. includes 11/4/2021 written request for parking attached.

Change in terms of tenancy prohibited
SEC. 151.09. EVICTIONS.
(Amended by Ord. No. 154,237, Ef. 8/30/80, Oper: 9/1/80.)
(c) A change in the terms of the tenancy that is not the result of an express written agreement
signed by both of the parties. For purposes of this section, a landlord may not unilaterally change
the terms of the tenancy under Civil Code Section 827 and then evict the tenant for the violation of
the added covenant unless the tenant has agreed in writing to the additional covenant.The tenant
must knowingly consent, without threat or coercion, of each change in the terms of the tenancy. A
landlord is not required to obtain a tenant’s written consent to a change in the terms of the tenancy
if the change in the terms of the tenancy as authorized by Los Angeles Municipal Code Section
151.06, or fi the landlord is required to change the terms of the tenancy pursuant to federal, state,
or local law. Nothing in this paragraph shall exempt a landlord from providing legally required
notice of a change in the terms of the tenancy.

“The landlord cannot change any term of your tenant without your voluntary, written agreement.
[Voluntary means without coercion or threats] The landlord cannot make changes in your rental
agreement, such as to : prohibit pets, take away parking spaces, swimming pool privileges, change
the “rules,” or manner of payment, for example, without your written consent. Further
complications may arise where the former manager or landlord permitted something which had
been prohibited in the rental agreement, or waived its application by not enforcing it, and now the
new landlord or manager wants to enforce the original agreement. Landlords may approach you
with a new rental agreement to sign -don’t sign it, unless you plan to give up the rights you had
before -you can negotiate and new agreement, getting things you want, as a trade-off.. This is a
significant change in the law. Eviction for violation of a new term of tenancy that the landlord
imposed on you may look legitimate, but it’s not!” (Source: Google)
Your letter of October 4, 2023 indicates that your client continues to deny me full and equal
housing accommodations, services, and privileges because I am a Black male, over the age of 45,
and with a disability, in violation of the State Unruh Act and indicates that your client continues to
deny me a reasonable housing modification as requested.

Your letter is not acceptable as a resolution to the issues and damages stated herein.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone ( )

July 27, 2023

Subject: Repair to Sink Made- Still Need Working Intercom and Tandem Parking- RSO LAHD case number CE282421. CRD Case 202305-20745222 – New Evidence

From: GJohnson( )

To: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

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Date: Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 11:30 AM PDT

RACISTS AMONG US

The city housing department per the claim for damages

against the city is requested to access damages of

$1 million dollars against the property owner for the acts stated herein

Dear Respondents Hi Point 1522 LLC, et al. and Mayor and Council members:

My email of July 25, 2023 at 4:49 pm has not been responded to.

This shall verify that between 10:15 am and 10:55 am the hot water line on the kitchen sink restricted water flow was repaired.

No attempt was made to repair the intercom device in my unit; no attempt was made to extend the striping to make parking stall #8 a tandem stall.

Your actions of not addressing the July 25, 2023 email are malice oppression and fraud. “Oppression involves despicable conduct that subjects you to cruel and unjust hardship. Fraud refers to intentional deception for personal gain. Malice denotes conduct driven by ill will or a conscious disregard for the rights and well-being of others.”

I am a responsible person and I am up against a bunch of savage animals.

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

Geary J. Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )

July 25, 2023

Subject: Your Unlawful Notice to Enter Dated July 25 – Still Need Working Intercom and Tandem Parking- RSO LAHD case number CE282421. CRD Case 202305-20745222

From: GJohnson( )

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 04:49 PM PDT

RACISTS AMONG US

The city housing department per the claim for damages against the city is requested to access damages of $1 million dollars against the property owner for the acts stated herein

EMAIL NOT RESPONDED TO

My July 3, 2023 email at 4:42 pm has not been responded to by the owner Meghan Hayner, Bold Properties Inc., Hi Point 1522 LLC, Power Property Management Inc., Thomas Khammar, Brent Parsons, Nisi Walton, or Kassandra Harris (resident manager), or by the city Housing Department. My July 11, July 17, July 19, and July 21 emails have not been responded to.

THE NON-WORKING INTERCOM
After complaining about this since 2014 (over eight years), the intercom in my unit is still not functioning as intended. Not working. I have not received any written notification or otherwise of when it will be repaired or replaced.

THE AKUVOX SYSTEM
The owner installed the Akuvox SmartPhone App based Door Entry system on the outside of the building around May 19, 2023. I have not been provided any information by Meghan Hayner, Bold Properties Inc., Hi Point 1522 LLC, Power Property Management Inc., Thomas Khammar, Brent Parsons, Nisi Walton, or Kassandra Harris (resident manager) or by the city Housing Department.as to how to operate the system. My own research at $22.00 per hour indicates that a smartphone and Wi-Fi/Internet are needed to operate the system which I presume includes the function of keypad entry. The owner has not supplied me with the parts to operate the Akuvox, i.e. the smartphone, Wi- Fi/Internet, and has not supplied me with the keypad number to allow deliveries and guests to enter the building. The keypad number was previously 1967E but the front door keypad was removed May 19 2023 and the rear building keypad remains. I paid extra rent monies for the front door keypad and the intercom that was removed from the front of building on May 19, 2023.

TANDEM PARKING

The owner has previously stated that unit 9 tenants are entitled to a tandem parking stall. However the parking stall we have is a single car stall as pictures supplied to the city indicate.Meghan Hayner, Bold Properties Inc., Hi Point 1522 LLC, Power Property Management Inc., Thomas Khammar, Brent Parsons, Nisi Walton, or Kassandra Harris (resident manager), or the city Housing Department have refused to indicate the assigned number of the tandem parking stall that Thomas Khammar says that unit 9 is entitled to. The tandem parking stall issue has been pending since 2014 also. All respondents have ignored my doctor requests for such services as a housing accommodation/modification. It is a repair issue that the striping for stall #8 should be extended to make it a tandem stall. Such repair the owner is liable for as well as the city.

THE JULY 25, 2023 NOTICE TO ENTER

1. The attached notice does not comply with Civil Code section 1954 in that it does not indicate the approximate time the repairs will occur on July 14. CC 1954 states: “The notice shall include the date, approximate time, and purpose of the entry.” Your refusal to comply with CC section 1954 has been repeated numerous times as reported to city housing. If your employees attempt to enter the unit without compliance, I will file a complaint for trespassing.

2. Your notice uses the phrase “necessary or agreed repairs or inspection”. CC section 1954 only allows “To make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors or to make an inspection pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 1950.5.” Since your notice has not checked off section (f), then your use of the word “inspection” is a false and deceptive business practice and abuse of the right to entry and done for purposes of harassment.

Based on the incorrect and abusive Jul 25 2023 notice attached to this email, the landlord is abusing the process and using it to harass me the tenant. This is added to the current harassment complaint filed with city housing.

There has been no agreement on my part that I have to use a smartphone and internet to use any housing services in my apartment (or in the common areas). Khammar and Power Property Management Inc. has demonstrated negligence or incompetence in performing an act for which the officer, director, or person is required to hold a license. ; as a broker licensee, failed to exercise reasonable supervision over the activities of that licensee’s salespersons, or, as the officer designated by a corporate broker licensee, failed to exercise reasonable supervision and control of the activities of the corporation for which a real estate license is required; Engaged in any other conduct, whether of the same or of a different character than specified in this section, that constitutes fraud or dishonest dealing. The facts herein indicate Khammar has also engaged in fraud and dishonest dealing. The Akuvox company has indicated to me that the owner opened an account in my name and then closed an account in my name; however I was never asked if I wanted to open an account and I never gave my permission for anyone to open an Akuvox account in my name. This is another example of abuse by the owner and harassment of me and identity theft.

“Making a mistake in the analysis of reasonableness can be costly. The DFEH negotiated a settlement with a San Francisco landlord which resulted in the landlord agreeing to pay damages in the amount of $1 million dollars for failing to accommodate a request for assignment of a more accessible parking space for a resident with a disability and for refusal to provide an extra key to the gated entry for the resident’s caregiver. Such frightening results underscore the importance of giving each and every accommodation request careful consideration.” (Source: DFEH)

The Department of Real Estate is requested via this email (via fax) to revoke the real estate broker licenses DRE# 01866167 and DRE #01443898.

The city attorney’s office under Hydee Feldstein Soto takes the position that res judicata applies. Res Judicata does not apply and neither does claims exclusion. This is incorrect. In Komarova v. National Credit Acceptance, Inc. (2009) 175 Cal.App.4th 324 (Komarova), a plaintiff who had been mistakenly and repeatedly harassed by a debt collection agency asserted a claim under the Robbins-Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (Civ. Code, § 1788 et seq.). The court found that the defendant’s statute of limitations defense was overcome by the continuing violation doctrine, permitting recovery “‘for actions that take place outside the limitations period if these actions are sufficiently linked to unlawful conduct within the limitations period.’” (Komarova, supra, at p. 343, quoting Richards, supra, 26 Cal.4th at
p. 812.) The court, quoting Joseph v. J.J. MacIntyre Companies, L.L.C. (N.D. Cal. 2003) 281 F.Supp.2d 1156 (Joseph), noted that “‘[t]he key is whether the conduct complained of constitutes a continuing pattern and course of conduct as opposed to unrelated discrete acts.’” (Komarova, supra, at p. 343.) Payment of the rent on a monthly basis by myself as tenant renews the continuing obligations of both parties regarding maintenance and housing services i.e. intercom and parking. Every time I file a code violation complaint, and every time I monthly pay my rent and request repairs and tandem parking, represents a continuing obligation of the parties. Contrary to the position of LAHD city employee David Wood, there has been no adjudication that denies me the monthly right to request repairs and housing services; there has been no adjudication that denies me the right the benefits and privileges of the rent contractual agreement. The right to repairs and housing services i.e parking and intercom are contract benefits that renew themselves upon payment of the monthly rent. This is continuing obligations. The Court relied on the New York Court of Appeals’ decision in Bulova Watch Co. v. Celotex Corp., where the Court concluded that a new claim, with a new limitations period, accrued each time the roofing material supplier failed to honor its promise to repair the roof. 42 U.S. Code § 1981 – Equal rights under the law (a) Statement of equal rights. All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other. (b) “Make and enforce contracts” definedFor purposes of this section, the term “make and enforce contracts” includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship. David Wood and Richard Brinson are racists and continue to violate the Unruh Act and continue to deny me full and equal housing services because I am Black, male, over age 45, and have a disability.

Geary J. Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles. CA. 90035

Phone ( )

DRE #1-23-0217-015

Department of Real Estate 320 W. 4th Street Suite 350 Attention Lizette Castro

Los Angeles CA 90013-1105

Facsimile 213-620-6442

References: As with past practices seen on the internet videos, entry into the unit may be tape recorded.

Reference: Court case Johnson vs Los Angeles Housing Department, case

CASE NO. 23STCP00644

2023-7-25 PPM Notice to Enter Premises.pdf

558.2kB

July 21, 2023

Subject: Response to phone calls received from city employees and property owner. Reference July 19, 2023 email sent at 8:41 am. CRD Complaint Case 202305-20745222- Owner Refuses Housing Modifications. Ref RSO LAHD case number CE282421

From: GJohnson( )

Date: Friday, July 21, 2023 at 09:03 AM PDT

ARBITRARY DISCRIMINATION IS UNLAWFUL UNDER CIVIL CODE 51, 52
RETALIATION IS UNLAWFUL UNDER CIVIL CODE SECTION 51, 52

As seen on Yelp at
https://www.yelp.com/biz/power-property-management-los-angeles

Apartment unit at 1522 Hi Point St 9 at 90035 needs unit intercom repair or replacement; striping at parking stall #8 needs extension to create tandem parking stall; kitchen sink hot water line not operating as intended. With the exception of the kitchen sink, repairs have been pending since 2014. Kitchen sink repair has been pending over 35 days. This company only recently came on the scene but they work for Power Property Management Inc and Hi Point 1522 LLC and BoldPartners. They do not respect tenant rights and civil code section 1954. Such code gives the landlord the right to enter under certain circumstances and by giving written 24 hour notice. Whenever I as tenant (GJ) make a request for repairs, I always cite CC 1954 and ask for written notice as well as tell city housing to get the access from the owner or resident manager. Then from the owner, city, and Home Improvement Services I get a slew of calls (CYA) from 213-252-2875 (LAHD), 310-996-1727 (LAHD), 818-219-1587 (owner), 310-593-3955 (Power), 310-499-2808 (Power), 310-499-2808 (Power). They ignore their obligations under Civil Code 1954. The tenant has no liability to be present for inspection or repairs as that would disturb peaceful enjoyment. The owner and agents are named in numerous city harassment complaints as this is harassment. A tenant can waive their right to 24 hour written notice; they have adequate notice and disregard my good faith requests that I have NOT waived my rights. They keep harassing me with the phone calls. Their notices to enter often do not give the approximate time they will enter. They have no intention of repairing the unit intercom, no intention of providing the smart phone and internet to use the Akuvox, no intention of providing tandem parking. They are racist under the state Unruh Act provisions. See city Los Angeles documents at “LA City employees declared as “Racists” PC 22-1327″ https://wp.me/P57D2C-1sY

(Above also posted to Home Improvement Yelp page . https://www.yelp.com/biz/home-improvement- services-tarzana )

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

The owner stated herein is engaged in retaliation because I complained and engaged in arbitrary discrimination against me.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone ( )

July 13, 2023

Subject: Your Unlawful Notice to Enter Dated July 12 – Still Need Working Intercom and Tandem Parking- RSO LAHD case number CE282421. CRD Case 202305-20745222

From: G Johnson ( )

To: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris- dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto- martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org

Date: Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 09:21 AM PDT

RACISTS AMONG US
The city housing department per the claim for damages against the city is requested to access damages of $1 million dollars against the property owner for the acts stated herein

EMAIL NOT RESPONDED TO

THE AKUVOX SYSTEM
The owner installed the Akuvox SmartPhone App based Door Entry system on the outside of the building around May 19, 2023. I have not been provided any information by Meghan Hayner, Bold Properties Inc., Hi Point 1522 LLC, Power Property Management Inc., Thomas Khammar, Brent Parsons, Nisi Walton, or Kassandra Harris (resident manager) or by the city Housing Department.as to how to operate the system. My own research at $22.00 per hour indicates that a smartphone and Wi-Fi/Internet are needed to operate the system which I presume includes the function of keypad entry. The owner has not supplied me with the parts to operate the Akuvox, i.e. the smartphone, Wi-Fi/Internet, and has not supplied me with the keypad number to allow deliveries and guests to enter the building. The keypad number was previously 1967E but the front door keypad was removed May 19 2023 and the rear building keypad remains. I paid extra rent monies for the front door keypad and the intercom that was removed from the front of building on May 19, 2023.

TANDEM PARKING
The owner has previously stated that unit 9 tenants are entitled to a tandem parking stall. However the parking stall we have is a single car stall as pictures supplied to the city indicate.Meghan Hayner, Bold Properties Inc., Hi Point 1522 LLC, Power Property Management Inc., Thomas Khammar, Brent Parsons, Nisi Walton, or Kassandra Harris (resident manager), or by the city Housing Department have refused to indicate the assigned number of the tandem parking stall that Thomas Khammar says that unit 9 is entitled to. The tandem parking stall issue has been pending since 2014 also. All respondents have ignored my doctor requests for such services as a housing accommodation/modification. It is a repair issue that the striping for stall #8 should be extended to make it a tandem stall. Such repair the owner is liable for as well as the city.

THE JULY 12, 2023 NOTICE TO ENTER
1. The attached notice does not comply with Civil Code section 1954 in that it does not indicate the approximate time the repairs will occur on July 14. CC 1954 states: “The notice shall include the date, approximate time, and purpose of the entry.” Your refusal to comply with CC section 1954 has been repeated numerous times as reported to city housing. If your employees attempt to enter the unit without compliance, I will file a complaint for trespassing.
2. Your notice uses the phrase “necessary or agreed repairs or inspection”. CC section 1954 only allows “To make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors or to make an inspection pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 1950.5.” Since your notice has not checked off section (f), then your use of the word “inspection” is a false and deceptive business practice and abuse of the right to entry and done for purposes of harassment.

Based on the incorrect and abusive Jul 12 notice attached to this email, the landlord is abusing the process and using it to harass me the tenant. This is added to the current harassment complaint filed with city housing.

There has been no agreement on my part that I have to use a smartphone and internet to use any housing services in my apartment (or in the common areas).Khammar and Power Property Management Inc. has demonstrated negligence or incompetence in performing an act for which the officer, director, or person is required to hold a license. ; as a broker licensee, failed to exercise reasonable supervision over the activities of that licensee’s salespersons, or, as the officer designated by a corporate broker licensee, failed to exercise reasonable supervision and control of the activities of the corporation for which a real estate license is required; Engaged in any other conduct, whether of the same or of a different character than specified in this section, that constitutes fraud or dishonest dealing. The facts herein indicate Khammar has also engaged in fraud and dishonest dealing. The Akuvox company has indicated to me that the owner opened an account in my name and then closed an account in my name; however I was never asked if I wanted to open an account and I never gave my permission for anyone to open an Akuvox account in my name. This is another example of abuse by the owner and harassment of me and identity theft.

“Making a mistake in the analysis of reasonableness can be costly.The DFEH negotiated a settlement with a San Francisco landlord which resulted in the landlord agreeing to pay damages in the amount of $1 million dollars for failing to accommodate a request for assignment of a more accessible parking space for a resident with a disability and for refusal to provide an extra key to the gated entry for the resident’s caregiver. Such frightening results underscore the importance of giving each and every accommodation request careful consideration.” (Source: DFEH)

The Department of Real Estate is requested via this email (via fax) to revoke the real estate broker licenses DRE# 01866167 and DRE #01443898.

Geary J. Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles. CA. 90035

Phone ( )

DRE #1-23-0217-015

Department of Real Estate 320 W. 4th Street Suite 350 Attention Lizette Castro

Los Angeles CA 90013-1105

Facsimile 213-620-6442

2023-7-12 Power Property Notice to Enter.pdf

310.9kB

July 3, 2023

Subject: Demand for $1 Million Dollars in Damages to CRD Complaint Case 202305-20745222- Owner Refuses Housing Modifications

From: GJohnson( )

To: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org

Date: Monday, July 3, 2023 at 04:42 PM PDT

Via email and CRD portal

Dear CRD per case number above: RESPONDENTS:

Racists Among Us

City of Los Angeles Housing Department including RSO, REAP, and code enforcement divisions 1200 W. 7th Street Floor 1, Los Angeles CA 90017- via email above
Meghan Hayner, Bold Partners, 520 Pacific Street #5, Santa Monica, CA 90405 – via email above
Skylight Real Estate Advisors 5600 W. Jefferson Blvd. LOS ANGELES, CA 90016
Power Property Management Inc., 8885 Venice Blvd #205, Los Angeles, California 90034- via
email

5. Hi Point 1522 LLC,
c/o Thomas Khammar,
Power Property Management Inc.,
8885 Venice Blvd #205, Los Angeles, California 90034- via email and facsimile

6. Mayor Karen Bass, staff, city council members,

City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles CA 90012 – via email

thomas@powerpropertygrp.com highpoint1522@gmail.com 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup
frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com;

OWNER MEGHAN HAYNER AT meghan@boldpartnersre.com

1. The City of Los Angeles government, Los Angeles Housing Department, Hi Point 1522 LLC, Power Property Management Inc. including Thomas Khammar, Brett Parsons, and Nisi Walton, have denied me a good faith interactive process and reasonable housing accommodation/modification for my disability, i.e the intercom unit in my apartment is still not working as intended, and I have still have not been provided a tandem parking stall even after a written request from my doctor.

2. The Civil Rights Department of the State of California is requested to access each party above $1 million dollars (one million) because they have denied me a good faith interactive process and reasonable accommodation for my disability, and denied me housing accommodations as requested.

3. In addition I have been denied full and equal housing services due to my race, Black, sex male, age over 45, and because I have a disability. Select white female tenants and not over the age of 45 residing at this address have been granted free Wi-Fi and internet, such services denied to me. My unit suffers from low water pressure at the kitchen sink faucet hot water which has been reported to the owner and city code enforcement. I have been denied full and equal housing services compared to those white tenants who have a properly operating kitchen hot water faucet. Two maintenance people from Power Property Management viewed the water pressure said it is normal for Black tenants to have improper water pressure. IMO this is NOT normal or operating as intended. See attached picture of low water pressure.

4. The statement of registration of rental units is not posted with the current information. This has been reported to code enforcement numerous times. See attached picture shows date 2021 alleging that the owner has not registered 18 units yet still continues to collect rent as well as charge select units utility charges when such units were only allowed a vacancy decontrol in rent amounts that does not authorize an increase in utility charges previously included in the rent. The city housing department is complicit in this violation of the Costa-Hawkins law.

5. I have requested information from the owner on the Akuvox system and have not received such information that was fully provided to white tenants; I have been treated in an arbitrary and less than full and equal manner because I am a Black male over the age of 45 with a disability.

6. The city government, as the causal nexus affect of my written complaints to them, have at all times refused to provide the housing services requested by me; their actions of not doing so are intentional to cause harm to me.

“James Byrd Jr. (May 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged him for three miles (five kilometers) behind a pickup truck along an asphalt road. Byrd, who remained conscious for much of his ordeal, was killed about halfway through the dragging when his body hit the edge of a culvert, severing his right arm and head. The murderers drove on for another 1+ 1⁄2 miles (2.5 kilometers) before dumping his torso in front of a black church.”

“(Re Emmett Till). Several nights after the incident in the store, Bryant’s husband Roy and his half- brother J.W. Milam were armed when they went to Till’s great-uncle’s house and abducted Emmett. They took him away and beat and mutilated him, before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Till’s body was discovered and retrieved from the river.”

“There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight. What I saw next gave me a fright: in the farther distance, beyond the listless crowd, the body of a lynched man dangling from a tree. The body was slender, dressed from head to toe in black, reflecting no light. It soon resolved itself, however, into a less ominous thing: dark canvas sheeting on a construction scaffold, twirling in the wind.”

― Teju Cole, Open City

ARTICLE

January 23, 2019 Contact: Fahizah Alim (916) 585-7076 For Immediate Release Fahizah Alim@dfeh.ca.gov

DFEH Settles Employment Disability Discrimination Case against Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc.

Security guard receives $87,000 and reinstatement after employer fails to engage in interactive process

Sacramento – The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) has reached settlement in an employment disability discrimination case with Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc. (Inter- Con) involving an employee who alleged that he was denied a good-faith interactive process and reasonable accommodation for his disability.

The employee, a security guard, filed a complaint with DFEH in February 2017, alleging that Inter-Con transferred him to a post that required more standing than his disability-related restriction permitted, and did not grant his request to return to a previous post where he could perform the duties successfully without accommodation. The complaint alleged that Inter-Con then placed him on unpaid leave, stating that Inter- Con is a “zero restriction” company.

DFEH found cause to believe a violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act had occurred and filed a civil complaint in March 2018 in Sacramento County Superior Court. The parties reached a settlement agreement in which Inter-Con agreed to pay $87,000 to the complainant and $5,000 to DFEH for attorneys’ fees and costs. Inter-Con has also reinstated the complainant to his position as a security guard.

“The law requires employers to engage in a meaningful, good-faith interactive process to see if a reasonable accommodation will allow an employee with a disability to continue working,” said DFEH Director Kevin Kish. “DFEH is committed to seeking the reinstatement of employees in appropriate cases.”

In addition to paying a total of $92,000 to settle the lawsuit, Inter-Con has agreed to monitor all requests for reasonable accommodation for the next three years and report compliance to DFEH, disseminate information about anti-discrimination laws to its employees, and develop and implement a written anti- discrimination policy as well as a written interactive process policy.

Staff Counsel Grace Shim and Assistant Chief Counsel Nelson Chan represented DFEH in this matter.

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The DFEH is the state agency charged with enforcing California’s civil rights laws. The mission of the DFEH is to protect the people of California from unlawful discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations and from hate violence and human trafficking. For more information, visit the DFEH’s web site at http://www.dfeh.ca.gov. 

ARTICLE

https://www.kts-law.com/reasonable-accommodation-or-undue-burden/ #:~:text=If%20the%20disability%20is%20not,the%20person%20qualifies%20a s%20disabled.

“Reasonable Accommodation or Undue Burden? Revised March, 2015”

(Editor Note: This is excerpt. Full article appears in the email)

Disability is the most common basis for the filing of housing discrimination complaints in California and nationally. Under federal and state fair housing laws, residents of rental housing who have disabilities are entitled to two rights that are not available to residents without disabilities. Residents with disabilities may make “reasonable modifications,” which are physical changes to the premises such as installing grab bars. They are also entitled to be granted exceptions to the normal rules, policies practices or services. Such exceptions are called accommodations and may include things such as granting a resident with a disability the opportunity to have a companion animal despite a “no pet” policy. Many disability-related cases involve an alleged failure of a landlord to grant a request for a reasonable accommodation.

The Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) defines discrimination as including “a refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services, when such accommodations may be necessary to afford [a person with a disability] equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling.” 42 U.S.C. §3604(f)(3)(B).

The threshold issue in determining whether a reasonable accommodation request must be granted is whether the resident in question meets the California definition of disability. If the disability is apparent, no verification of disability is required. If the disability is not apparent, the applicant or resident may be required to provide verification that he/she meets the California definition of disability. There can be NO inquiry into the nature or extent of the disability, but the landlord has the right to confirmation that the person qualifies as disabled. For an exception to the rules to be granted, the person with an apparent or verified disability must also have a disability- related need for the requested exception. That is, granting the request must be necessary in order for the resident to be able to use and enjoy the rented premises on an equal basis. If the disability-related need is not apparent, it may be required to be verified as well.

Assuming there is a showing of disability and disability-related need, a landlord may not refuse a request unless it is “unreasonable.” Accommodations are generally considered to be reasonable unless they would constitute an “undue” financial or administrative burden on the landlord, or would fundamentally alter the nature of the services rendered by the housing provider. Some burden or cost is expected to be borne by the landlord. The analysis of whether a burden is “undue” is expected to take into account the resources available to the particular landlord in question.

In 2006, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) entered into an $80,000 settlement agreement with a Los Angeles landlord who enforced a policy to not accept rent from parties other than residents. The director of DFEH is quoted as saying: “Something as reasonable as accepting a third-party check to pay the rent of a person with AIDS does not impose an economic hardship for a housing provider.” What if the third party missed a payment? Would advocates argue that a person with a disability should be allowed a delay in payment or that a landlord should waive late fees because of the third party’s default? Further, in government-subsidized housing, a landlord cannot evict a resident for a default in payment of the government’s portion of the rent. Would advocates try to argue that a person with a disability cannot be evicted if a private entity failed to pay the resident’s share of the rent? Hopefully, landlords should be able to distinguish government subsidies from private payment arrangements.

What if a resident requested a reserved parking space and the only available spaces are those which are ordinarily rented for a fee? Is a landlord expected to take less rent each month because he is unable to provide a space that would otherwise be free? Although at first glance, this may seem unreasonable, a landlord should always go through the analysis of whether the request constitutes and undue financial or administrative burden before making a final determination.

Making a mistake in the analysis of reasonableness can be costly. The DFEH negotiated a settlement with a San Francisco landlord which resulted in the landlord agreeing to pay damages in the amount of $1 million dollars for failing to accommodate a request for assignment of a more accessible parking space for a resident with a disability and for refusal to provide an extra key to the gated entry for the resident’s caregiver. Such frightening results underscore the importance of giving each and every accommodation request careful consideration.

Geary J. Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American
I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

(I note that the tenants above me in unit 18 are polishing their hard wood floor every two weeks. With all the daily banging, rolling, scraping and dragging of heavy objects across the floor not to mention the holes from alleged high heel shoes, there must be a lot of damage up there. Hard wood floors should only be polished every two to six months.)

Reference:

Request to City Los Angeles and Owner for Parking and Akuvox Costs

https://lahousingpermitsandrentadjustmentcommission.com/request-to-city-los-angeles-and-owner-for- parking-and-akuvox-costs/

(EDITOR NOTE: CRD stands for the State of California Civil Rights Department)

June 12, 2023 and June 15, 2023

Subject: Racism. RSO LAHD case number CE282421. Still without working intercom housing service. CRD Case 202305-20745222

From: GJohnson( )

To: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org

Date: Monday, June 12, 2023 at 03:10 PM PDT

Racists Among Us

RESPONDENTS:

City of Los Angeles Housing Department including RSO, REAP, and code enforcement divisions 1200 W. 7th Street Floor 1, Los Angeles CA 90017- via email above
Meghan Hayner, Bold Partners, 520 Pacific Street #5, Santa Monica, CA 90405 – via email above
Skylight Real Estate Advisors 5600 W. Jefferson Blvd. LOS ANGELES, CA 90016
Power Property Management Inc., 8885 Venice Blvd #205, Los Angeles, California 90034- via email

5. Hi Point 1522 LLC, c/o Thomas Khammar, Power Property Management Inc., 8885 Venice Blvd #205, Los Angeles, California 90034- via email
6. Mayor Karen Bass, staff, city council members, City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles CA 90012 – via email

At all times, the word “Respondents” refers to the listed entities, individuals, and companies above.

thomas@powerpropertygrp.com highpoint1522@gmail.com 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup ; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com

I believe the above persons/entitles (City of Los Angeles, et al) are racists and have taken intentional acts to deny me full and equal housing services and privileges based on my race Black, sex male, age over 45, and because I have a disability, based on the following facts:

I have not been provided the requested smartphone and internet/Wi-fi due to racism and because I complained (retaliation)
The previous intercom system (Artolier) was not repaired due to racism and retaliation against me by the Respondents.
I am entitled to “full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever”.
The Respondents are liable to provide “full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever”.
I cannot use the Akuvox and cannot receive quests or deliveries without the use of a owner supplied smartphone and internet. Breach of the rental agreement and false and deceptive business practice.
Malice, oppression, fraud by the property owner.
Unreasonable and bad faith by the property owner.
Reduction of housing services
Illegal increase in rent
The only current tenant complaining about the non-working intercom system was me
Others written complaints about the intercom included two other past tenants and two guests, and my roommate
The Intercom and keypad was primarily for the use of the tenants
The actions of Respondents’ were intentional and designed to cause harm
Intentional denial of smartphone, internet, wi-fi, to use the Smartphone enabled intercom Akuvox
Traditionally intercom systems are for the use of the tenants, not the owners, of multifamily dwellings
The attached old street view of 1522 Hi Point St 90035 shows the original intercom system that was available to tenants prior to 2010.
“As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disability Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability, and upon request will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities.” City of Los Angeles code violation program via employee David Wood.
Respondents had adequate notice that claimant had a qualified disability circa March 2023 and at this time claimant was denied accommodation of intercom maintenance and tandem parking.
Respondents had adequate notice that claimant had a qualified disability March 2023 and at this time claimant was denied interactive process
Claimant was denied the opportunity to participate in or benefit from the full and equal housing services
Respondents acted with intent to deny claimant housing services “no matter his race, sex…” in utter disregard to Respondent’s liability under the Unruh Act.
Claimant’s vision disability is obvious. For that reason, claimant does not need a letter from his doctor. For other disabilities, claimant has supplied Respondents with a letter from his doctor via email. November 2, 2022, claimant emailed the owner at 9:52 am requesting accommodation due to disability. Within 30 days the owner did not respond to the request, claimant believes owner did so in retaliation because claimant complained; claimant was injured. March 8, 2023 at 8:06 a.m. claimant emails all Respondents again requesting an accommodation due to disability. There was no response. Claimant believes that Respondents did not respond because claimant complained, and due to claimants race, Black, sex male, age over 45 and due to claimant stated disability. On April 13, 2023, at 4:03 pm via email claimant again requested to all Respondents a reasonable accommodation due to disability. Within 30 days, that request has been ignored; claimant feels the request has been ignored due to claimant’s protected status as stated herein, and in retaliation.
1. That Respondents denied/aided or incited a denial of/discriminated or made a distinction that denied full and equal accommodations/advantages/facilities/privileges/ services to GEARY J. JOHNSON 2. That a motivating reason for Respondents’ conduct is its adequate notice of GEARY J. JOHNSON’s age, race, sex, and disability; 3. That GEARY J. JOHNSON was harmed; and 4. That RESPONDENTS’ intentional conduct was a substantial factor in causing GEARY J. JOHNSON’S harm. (A) An individual GEARY J. JOHNSON is a member, or individuals are members, of a protected class, including under subsection 12955(m) of the Act; (B) The individual GEARY J. JOHNSON, was, or individuals were, subject to adverse action regarding a housing opportunity or may be subject to such adverse action; and (C) The member’s or members’ status as protected class members was or is a motivating factor for the adverse action. (Cal. Code Regs. tit. 2 § 12042) No legally sufficient justification has been offered by the Respondents for denial of intercom repair including smartphone, internet and/or WiFi, and denial of tandem parking and denial of housing modification.
Proving that discriminatory intent is a motivating factor, does not require proof of personal prejudiced or animus, only that consideration of any protected basis is a motivating factor and committing a discriminatory housing practice. (CCR Tit. 2, section 12041). Before taking its actions of denial of housing services requested, Respondents considered claimant’s race, sex, age, and disability because they had adequate knowledge of such protected categories based on the emails, city code violation complaints, city RSO complaints and city REAP complaints and mention of the Unruh Act.
Evidence that is relevant to either a prima facie case or to rebut an affirmative defense includes evidence related to the historic background of the decision, the specific sequence of events leading up to the challenged decision, departures from the normal procedural sequence or criteria for the decision, evidence that the housing opportunity remained available or was rented or sold to a person who is not a member of the complainant’s protected class, statements by decision makers, or evidence that the respondent’s treatment of others who are not members of the relevant protected class is different than treatment of the complainant. Detail relevant facts. This is circumstantial evidence probative of intent.
The evidence shows that Respondents’s have refused to engage in a prompt good faith interactive process regarding the intercom related need for owner supplied smartphone, internet/Wifi, and the tenant request for tandem parking. It has been over 35 days since GEARY J. JOHNSON has made the request for housing modification regarding the intercom and tandem parking.
The Respondents have failed to provide a reasonable accommodation as requested by GEARY J. JOHNSON. The Respondents have failed to engage in an interactive process. The Respondents’ failed to participate in a good faith interactive process to determine whether reasonable accommodation could be made. GEARY J. JOHNSON was harmed as result of Respondents failure to engage in a good faith interactive process in that JOHNSON is without a working intercom and the tools required to use AKUVOX and JOHNSON is still denied the full and equal use of a tandem parking stall.
Respondents have failed to make a prompt response to the request for accommodation
Respondents have acted in concert and installed an exterior Akuvox’s Video Doorphone but have not provided GEARY J. JOHNSON with a smartphone, internet/WiFi to operate the Akuvox device. The Respondent’s have not offered a reasonable alternative to GEARY J. JOHNSON to use the Akuvox system if no smartphone or internet is provided.
I believe the Akuvox system is designed to cut off tenants like GEARY J. JOHNSON from the peaceful enjoyment of the premises and full and equal housing services.

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )
I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American

I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

Racists Among Us

refererence

Akuvox R29C-B – (Data sheet)(excerpt)

Perfect Doorphone choice for daily life
The security that comes with being able to control who comes into your building along with the ability to verbally and visually confirm their identity is immeasurable. Akuvox’s Video Doorphone R29 Series enable you to easily monitor an entrance door or gate and gives you the peace of mind knowing that your facility is more secure.
At a Glance

Dual camera for anti-counterfeit, completely solve all kinds of photos and video deception on various carries;

Face verification accuracy >99% ; face comparison speed <0.6s per person; false recognition rate<0.1%;

Allows both audio and video communication to an IP phone, mobile client, or soft phone; Enables the ability to remotely control the door/gate;
Monitors the body temperature of people entering the building in real time;
Speeds response time to visitors, delivery and service personnel that require access;

(Editor: the above email was sent on June 12, 2023. It was sent again on June 15, 2023 at 11:09 am).

June 12, 2023

Subject: False and Deceptive Business Practices- RSO LAHD case number CE282421. CRD Case 202305-20745222

From: GJohnson ( )

To: support@akuvox.com

Cc: : patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org

Date: Monday, June 12, 2023 at 10:10 AM PDT

Shirley Huang at Akuvox

support@akuvox.com

1. The Akuvox smartphone-enabled intercom system requires a smartphone and internet to use it. Is there a way to use the Akuvox system if a tenant does not have a smartphone or internet?

2. I bring to your attention that I am getting zero response to my email inquiries about your system from the property owner and management company. As you know, the removal of the previous intercom-keypad system was done without notice and tenants like myself were damaged by not being able to receive USPS mail and other deliveries for a pretty lengthy time period. I still don’t know if the owner has established access to delivery persons. Numerous emails to the property owner and management company remain unanswered. In the meantime, I hear that some tenants talked with Power Property Management Inc. employee Nisi Walton and that she said that she was emailing tenants but when tenants received the email the only identifier is the name Akuvox and no mention of the property owner or management company. So my questions are being addressed by you to an extent but not by the owner at all. My question is how is the owner allowed to send out emails to tenants that have your company name Akuvox and no name of the sender i.e. Hi Point 1522 LLC? Isn’t this a false and deceptive business practice if indeed the property owner is sending emails to tenants and such emails represent they are from Akuvox? Even if you have a system that allows the property owner to send out an automated message (“AI”), there still should be the name of the property owner or agent, unless of course Akuvox is the agent for Hi Point 1522 LLC. What is your opinion?

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )

Reference

Council File: 23-1200-S91

Communication from Public 5/27/23

Cindy Panuco / Commission on Civil Rights / Commission Appointment

Click to access 23-1200-S91_pc_05-27-2023.pdf

Published May 27, 2023

Request 23-4254- City of Los Angeles

https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/23-4254

June 11, 2023

Subject: The property owner has not supplied the smart phone to use the Akuvox system-RSO LAHD case number CE282421. Still without working intercom housing service. CRD Case 202305-20745222

From: GJohnson( )

To: thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org

Cc: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; support@akuvox.com

Date: Sunday, June 11, 2023 at 11:24 AM PDT

Hi Point 1522 LLC

Meghan Hayner

Power Property Management Inc.

Kassandra Harris – resident manager

thomas@powerpropertygrp.com highpoint1522@gmail.com 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com

1. Failure to provide reasonable accommodations intercom and tandem parking
2. Failure to engage in interactive process
3. Disability discrimination
4. Since the owner has not provided me with a smart phone to use the Akuvox housing service, in order to abate the nuisance, I will consider leaving the front of building door open so my guests, friends, and relatives and delivery drivers will have access

5. I understand the owner supplies some tenants with free wi-fi but I am not. Violation state Unruh act denial of full and equal housing services. Please provide unit numbers where tenants or hotel guests are getting free wi-fi.
6. Failure to repair or replace intercom box in the unit 9 apartment.
7. My rent agreement says housing services are “included but not limited to”, which includes the intercom system installed prior to 2010. The intercom system was replaced in 2014 and I was charged additional rent for five years for the system and keypad, but the owner refused to connect my intercom box in my apartment to the outside front door unit.
8. The previous unit was an intercom system where all I had to do from inside the unit is press a button to open the front door or press a button to access guests at the front door. There was no other equipment I needed to use the intercom but between 2014 and May 18, 2023, the previous owner and current owner refused to make it operational, and continued to benefit from my rent money. There was also a keypad unit at the front door from 2010 – May 18, 2023 that allowed those with the code to enter the building without using a key.

9. Akuvox is a SmartPhoneApp based system. A smartphone is needed to use the Akuvox system. The owner has not supplied me with working smart phone to use the system.
10. According to my rent agreement, electricity is included in the rent payment. Therefore the owner cannot require us to use any device that causes us to incur electrical costs not included in the rent payment or any electrical costs outside the rent amount.

11. “Lets tenants open doors from anywhere. Make property access management easy from PC. Our smartphone-enabled intercom only requires power, internet, and door strike to install. Intuitive and Easy to Use. Easy Use and Installation. Wired or Wireless.”(Akuvox).
13. “To make login and setup as smooth as possible, have the following items available: An internet connection through a Wi-Fi network or cellular data service through a carrier. SmartPlus App. You can download and install this App on Google Play Store or App Store. Your SmartPlus account.” (Akuvox SmartPlus User Guide)

14. The owner has not supplied the smartphone, power, and internet to use the Akuvox system.

15. Has USPS, Amazon, Fed Ex, UPS, DHL and other delivery services been given access code to enter the building or is that the tenant responsibility? Apparently the Akuvox system was installed and used to cut off access of these delivery services to the tenant during the time period the system could not be accessed. Obstructing the delivery of US mail by anyone and those who act in concert is a federal offense.

16. The installation of the Akuvox system, and denial of access assumed, has caused the building to be vandalized. See attached picture of front of building door.
17. The owner of the property is requested to send me a copy of the email that was sent by Nisi Walton around June 3 that is addressed “Dear Valued Tenant” apparently sent to select white tenants and not myself.
18. I am also requesting again, based on the Akuvox emails, what is the monthly cost to the tenant to use the app of the Akuvox service?
19. At least one of the emails was sent by Nisi Walton on June 3, 2023. The title of the email is “Set Up My Q account/Intercom Set up”. Not sending me the email I consider to be a continuing denial of full and equal housing services due to my race, Black, age over 45, sex male, and because I have a disability, and in retaliation because I have complained. Please send me a copy of that email.
19. That I was not included on the email chain June 3, I consider harassment under the city Los Angeles Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance.
20. The costs for me to prepare and send this email is $44.00.
21. I continue to suffer due to your actions stated herein. Your actions are a proximate cause of the damages to me and due to my race, Black, sex male, and disability and denial of full and equal housing services herein.
22. The tandem parking stall denied is valued at $200 per month according to city RAC regulations. The emails seeking such tandem parking are valued at $44.00 each email.
23. This email holds the property owner liable. This email holds the city Los Angeles government and housing department liable.

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )
I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American

I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

(to City April Aguilar: I have fifteen days from June 9 to file more documents with the city for this complaint CE282421.)

REFERENCES

“When you download apps, they often ask for permission to access personal information like contacts, your location, or even your camera.” (Source: Google)

What is an app agreement?

A mobile app’s Terms and Conditions agreement (T&C) is where you set out the rules and restrictions for anyone who uses your mobile app. It helps limit your legal liability while managing user expectations. (Google)

As mentioned earlier, a cell phone is a two-way wireless communication device and needs both the inbound signal (reception) and the outbound signal (transmission) to work. (Google)

From Shirley Huang at Akuvox June 11, 2023 at 7:42 am

Hello Geary,
Good day to you!
We understand how frustrating that is. And we really would like to help you out.

Please let us explain that Akuvox is the manufacturer of the devices, we only sell devices via distribution channel, CCTV.NET is our local distributor, which he sells to installer, installer is the one who provides service and signs the contract with the Property manager, instead our Akuvox, nor distributor. If you do not want Akuvox service, you can inform your building property manager to cancel the service. Please take note that Akuvox does not charge the end user or property manager directly, the installer does. We are the device manufacturer, we don’t sign any contract with the property manager or building owner.

If you still have any questions, please do feel free to let us know. Thanks for your kind understanding.

From Shirley Huang at Akuvox June 11, 2023 at 7:42 am

June 10, 2023

Subject: Repeated request for information from Property Owner – file RSO case number CE282421- Attention city employee April Aguilar

From: GJohnson( )
To: support@akuvox.com; armen@cctv.net; boris@cctv.net; ken.wu@akuvox.com

Cc: thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris- dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com

Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 10:06 AM PDT

I have a rent agreement with Hi Point 1522 LLC which is managed by Power Property Management Inc. I do not have a rent agreement with Akuvox, although you appear to be in contractual agreement with Hi Point 1522 LLC.

Previously I have repeatedly asked for a copy of the email that was sent to select tenants advising them of a video to watch about Akuvox. There has been no response to my request from yourself or Power Property Management Inc.

Yesterday June 10, 2023, I received two emails to my herein email address, those emails from Akuvox. There is no indication they are from Power Property Management Inc or Hi Point 1522 LLC. I do not have any obligation to enter into a unilateral agreement with Akuvox. Nevertheless, I told you I already received those two emails. So that does not answer my questions and does not answer my questions about is there a monthly charge to access the Akuvox system.

Your actions are being reported to the California Civil Rights Department (re Unruh Act violations) and to city RSO case number CE282421.

It is apparent from these email exchanges that your company does not comprehend and understand English.

You have not provided to me the video link provided to other tenants and the email advising other tenants that Akuvox was being installed. You have not indicated the cost of the service. I consider these actions to be harassment because I complained about denial of housing services.

I need to see some property owner or Power Property Management Inc names on these emails from your company. I do not voluntarily seek to do business with your company. If I do not have a business relationship with your company, in that I have not voluntarily signed up for your Akuvox service, I consider your emails to also be SPAM.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )
I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American

I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

(to City April Aguilar: I have fifteen days from June 9 to file more documents with the city for this complaint CE282421.)

Redacted

Email Again Requested. Tandem Parking Requested. Cost of Intercom requested.

From: GJohnson( )
To: nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com

Date: Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 09:01 AM PDT

1. I understand from two white tenants that you wrote them a notice that directed them to a video on how to use the Akuvox system and why the system was installed at this address. I did not get that email. Please send the same email to me.

2. I consider this actionable neglect on the part of yourself and the owner.

3. My email address is tainmount@sbcglobal.net. Do not mail me at any other address unless I instruct you to.

4. As mentioned before, I did receive emails addressed from Akuvox. Those two emails did not mention this address, your company or yourself. Also, they were not sent to “tainmount@sbcglobal.net”.

5. I am really sick of the racist bullshit from your company and property owner.

6. You have not addressed what is the cost to tenants on a monthly basis for using the Akuvox system.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )
I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American

I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

c: support@akuvox.com

June 7, 2023

Don’t the Jewish brothers and sisters at this address deserve access to tandem parking stalls?

(Editor note: Black tenants first complained about loss of intercom service in 2014. At that time it was four Black men who submitted written statements to owner and city employees. Those complaints were ignored as well as hundreds of others. Over time more Blacks were added to the complaint list including two additional Blackmen who were not tenants. This represents a small victory for Blacks over white suppression of housing services to Blacks over an eight year period. This will not be the end of the chapter because certain Blacks are still seeking the use of a tandem parking stall at the same location. Tenants still can also sue for damages for the 3-4 year statute of limitations period for personal injury or breach of contract. Editor: The address in question is a rent controlled building at 1522 Hi Point St 90035, Los Angeles, California. There is a dispute. (Editor: The address in question is a rent controlled building at 1522 Hi Point St 90035, Los Angeles, California. There is a dispute. The intercom system installed is a SmartPhoneApp based system. The owner has not supplied the smart phones and internet for tenants to use the system. The previous intercom and keypad did not require tenants to use internet and smartphone to access it. What if a tenant does not have a smart phone or internet? Complaints have been filed with the city rent stabilization departments RSO LAHD case number CE282421as well as the State Civil Rights Department CRD Case 202305-20745222. Reduction in housing services. Illegal rent increase. Racial and disability discrimination.)

June 6, 2023

Subject: New RSO complaint CE 282421 requests damages against Hi Point 1522 LLC and Power Property Management Inc.

From: GJohnson( )

Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 02:46 PM PDT

To Los Angeles Housing Department, RSO Division.

Due to reduction in housing services and illegal increase in rent, I have filed a new RSO complaint your case number CE 282421 against Hi Point 1522 LLC and Power Property Management Inc.

I request the appropriate fine of 18 days x $2,000 per day or $36,000 against the property owner due to the obstruction and interference with the delivery of US mail as well as obstruction and interference with deliveries of UPS, Fed, Ex, DHL, medical supplies, guest and friends and emergency responders.

The owner has installed a new intercom and keypad system of which I do not have access in accordance with the six exhibits attached to the CE 282421 complaint.

The actions of the owner are intentional to cause harm and have caused harm and are a proximate result of the damages I have incurred of not being able to receive US mail, UPS, Fed Ex, DHL, friends and relatives, guests and other deliveries. The owner actions also violate the state Unruh Act, CC 51.52.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )
I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American

I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

June 5, 2023

Victory at 1522 Hi Point St But Jewish Tenants Suffer

June 3, 2023

Subject: Old Intercom and Rent Reduction Due – Contact with Akuvox- LAHD RSO complaint CE280933

From: GJohnson( )

CC: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; support@akuvox.com

Date: Saturday, June 3, 2023 at 08:56 AM PDT

Illegal rent increase rent controlled building

Dear Hi Point 1522 LLC and City of Los Angeles: This is to verify:

1. I had previously requested the repair or replacement of the intercom system that is in our unit that was previously usable. Since 2014 I have requested its repair or replacement. The unit is still in my apartment and still does not work. Picture have been forwarded to the owner and city employees.

2. On May 19, 2023, as reported, the intercom and keypad control unit were removed from the front of the building without any written notice or otherwise to use as tenants. For at least a week we were without any delivery of US mail, a violation of federal law, and we could not receive any other deliveries.

3. On May 19, as reported to you, I noticed the partial installation of the Akuvox system at the front of the building. Doing my own research at considerable cost, I learned that the Akuxov system is a wired system that is accessible through an application that must be downloaded to computer or cell phone. The Akuvox system will allow the front building door to be opened remotely and does have keypad functionality. Whether the US postal service has been given access to the building, I was told repeatedly the carrier did not have access. No one from the owner or post office has verified that the postal carrier has access. As reported before, we need access for UPS, Fed Ex, DHL, emergency responders and medical supplies, as well as other deliveries, friends and guests.

4. There has been no written communication from the property owner regarding the tenant relationship with Akuvox and what we are to expect from the system and what are tenant obligations. As previously reported, there are short term hotel guests living in the building also.

5. I took the time to contact Akuvox and they wrote me, redacted below. However in their emails, there is no mention of Power Property Management Inc., no mention of Hi Point 1522 LLC. I imagine if other tenants received the same emails, they would not have a clue and would probably trash the emails. I notice from the outside Akuvox unit, no tenants have registered. Email reference: Akuvox employee Shirley Huang.

6. Our rental agreement says that owner pays for trash, water, electrical, and gas, which means it is included in the rent paid.

7. We paid for the installation of the previous keypad system and intercom around 2015-2022 rent increase city capital improvements, but our rental unit intercom was never connected to the front of building unit. The owner and city benefitted from the capital improvement rent monies.

8. The Akuvox system requires the use of a computer, cell phone, or otherwise as well as internet electrical connection.The cost of the computer, cell phone, and internet are illegal rent increases. It does not appear the Akuvox can be operated manually. “Internet bills are considered a utility bill, just like telephone bills, because they provide services to the home or business that are considered necessary for daily activity.” (Source: Google)

9. In order to use Akuviox, unless the owner writes us otherwise, we have to use our own paid for computer, cell phone, or internet; all such devices are paid monthly. The owner is obligated to give us a reduction in rent to cover the cost of using our own electrical devices to access the Akuvox system.

10. A cell phone and laptop are electronic devices. I have to use electricity to operate the app to access and operate the Akuvox system.

11. I remind all that we still have not been assigned a tandem parking stall, as requested since 2015.

12. Your actions are an illegal unilateral change in terms of the rental agreement. We did not agree to such Akuvox usage and we do not waive any rights by using the system.

13. You have reduced the intercom and keypad services without a corresponding reduction in rent.

14. It is unreasonable to expect tenants to communicate directly with Akuvox while the owner has not provided us any information on our obligations under such system. The emails from Akuvox indicate there is a cost involved.

15. As of today’s date, I have been informed the US mail carrier still has no access to the building to deliver the mail.

To the Mayor and Council I ask: what are the qualifications to get a tandem parking stall at this location?

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035 Phone ( )

I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

c: support@akuvox.com

References:

Real Estate broker license complaint against Thomas Khammar. Petition for Writ case against LAHD City of Los Angeles.
CRD retaliation case filed against the parties.

City LAHD Harassment compliant CE280933. Court TRO file.

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May 28, 2023

City code enforcement employees accused of KKK practices

Subject: LAHD RSO complaint CE280933 and additional Reduction in Services/Reduction in Rent Complaint. Demand for rent reduction. Low hot water pressure

From: GJohnson(redacted)

Date: Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 12:44 PM PDT

City Los Angeles Housing Department
1200 W 7th Street Floor 1
Los Angeles CA 90017

To whom it may concern and City of Los Angeles Housing Department.

Your online portal for complaints (LAHD) is not working.
This complaint relates to the above city case number.
This complaint is also for reduction in services and reduction in rent.
The city housing department has adequate notice that an intercom system was installed at this address on or about 1973.
The city housing department has adequate notice that a door keypad entry system was installed at this address on or about 1973.
The city housing department was provided evidence of pictures on the internet showing the installed intercom and keypad system prior to 2010.
The city housing department has adequate notice that in city case Capital Improvements number 50505SM the intercom and keypads were at issue.
The intercom was available at the inception of my tenancy in 2010. This unit is a month to month rental agreement. The keypad system was available at the inception of my tenancy.
In 2015 city case 50505SM , the city granted a rent increase (capital improvements) to the owner for the keypads and intercom installation (pictures to city show they were installed as one unit) even though tenants testified the owner never supplied receipts for the alleged repairs.
As of May 19, 2023, the owner at this address removed the intercom and keypad systems at the front door. I was a witness to this about 9 am to 12 pm. See attached pictures of the new intercom system.
As of today at this time (May 28, 2023), the intercom and keypad system pictured have no signs of functionality. It appears to be an electrical device that is accessed by a phone app. It is attached to the front door and electrical system by two wires. I have not received any notice from the owner of how to use the device.
I received no advance notice that the old intercom and keypad would be removed.
Since the keypad removal we have not been able to receive deliveries, friends, or guests as most are used to using the keypad system. Based on a view of the new intercom system, the keypad for deliveries appears to be incorporated in the device. But I have no access to use it and damages are a proximate result of the actions of the landlord and city government employees.
Especially for the sake of the owner also (see owner emails above), since the install of the new intercom system and door apparatus, the front door is not shutting all the way as intended. Sometimes it shuts securely, sometimes it does not, especially when closed from a short distance. Health and safety issue.
As first written notice to the owner, the water pressure to the kitchen sink hot water is very low and is not operating as intended; I surmise it may be a piping problem or problem with the hot water tank. It had been sporadic, now the low pressure is constant. Please address this.
I demand a rent reduction because of the removal of the keypad and intercom system that was done on May 19, 2023. This rent reduction may apply to all tenants. The rent reduction should continue until the intercom and keypad is fully functioning.
Two tenants have already complained to me about not being able to get deliveries since they do not have the code for the keypad. This is an 18 unit rent controlled building being used in many instances for hotel and home sharing purposes without a hotel use permit.
The owner of the property is Meghan Hayner, Hi Point 1522 LLC, at 520 Pacific Street #5, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Phone 818-219-1587.

I remind all that we still have not been assigned a tandem parking stall, as requested since 2015.

I remind code enforcement that I have no legal obligation to be present for inspections by code enforcement even if I have made a code violation complaint. Code enforcement is liable to contact the property owner for access to the property. As code enforcement has vowed not to inspect the intercom system, I reserve the right not to be present or available for such KKK type attitude and practice. Prior to May 19, 2023 fifteen units had functioning intercoms. As of May 19, no unit has a functioning intercom or front door keypad access. The KKK code enforcement department can inspect the intercom system at the front of the building without needing access to the interior. The code enforcement department can get access from the owner to get into the property. Whether I am available or not, the LAHD is still liable to conduct a diligent inspection.

According to the State Building and Safety Department, the code enforcement department (and LAHD) has liability for all portions of the property including the intercom system and the striping for the parking stalls.

I remind LAHD that Costa Hawkins allows a vacancy de-control, as to rent increases to market rate, but does not authorize increasing the cost of utilities and passing on to tenants the cost of utilities previously paid by the landlord thru the total rent amount. This constitutes an illegal rent.

To the Mayor and Council I ask: what are the qualifications to get a tandem parking stall at this location?

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035 Phone (redacted)

I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52

References:
Real Estate broker license complaint against Thomas Khammar. Petition for Writ case against LAHD City of Los Angeles.
CRD retaliation case filed against the parties.
City LAHD Harassment compliant CE280933.
Court TRO file.

Mayor and Council Refuse to Reveal How a Black Tenant can Get Housing Services

May 26, 2023

Hi Point 1522 LLC, Meghan Hayner, “Just Bring Your Toothbrush”, Power Property Management Inc., Walter Barrett accused of violating federal law

“This is a 18 unit building. The mailboxes are on the inside of the building. The mailman needs a key or code to get thru the main door to get to the mailboxes. Usually there is a hidden key, keypad, or working intercom for some units. On Friday May 19, 2023 I witnessed the owner removed, the keybox for the carrier, keypad, and intercom system from the front of the building. No mail has been delivered to this day. There was no notice from the owner that this would happen and when it will be fixed. The owner is Meghan Hayner at 818-219-1587. The management company is Power Property Management Inc at 310-593-3955. This is not a carrier complaint. Obstruction of mail delivery. I reported this to USPS case number 51402317.” (2023-5-26)

18 USC Ch 83 – §1701. Obstruction of mails generally

Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

Racist Owner Stops Tenants

From Getting Postal Mail

(Los Angeles Mayor and Council, and property owner, notified via email on May 25, 2023 at 9:03 p.m.)

May 24, 2023

Intercom and Keypad Replaced but Not Working * Tenants Cannot Get Mail or Deliveries* Is this retaliation because Blacks Complained? No Mail Received for Six Days. Mayor and Housing Department Informed.

Subject: LAHD RSO complaint CE280933 and additional Reduction in Services/Reduction in Rent Complaint. Demand for rent reduction. Low hot water pressure

From: GJohnson (email redacted)

cc: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; tina.walker@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com

Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 12:12 PM PDT

City Los Angeles Housing Department 1200 W 7th Street Floor 1
Los Angeles CA 90017

To whom it may concern and City of Los Angeles Housing Department.

1. Your online portal for complaints (LAHD) is not working.
2. This complaint relates to the above city case number.
3. This complaint is also for reduction in services and reduction in rent.
4. The city housing department has adequate notice that an intercom system was installed at this address on or about 1973.
5. The city housing department has adequate notice that a door keypad entry system was installed at this address on or about 1973.
6. The city housing department was provided evidence of pictures on the internet showing the installed intercom and keypad system prior to 2010.
7. The city housing department has adequate notice that in city case Capital Improvements number 50505SM the intercom and keypads were at issue.
8. The intercom was available at the inception of my tenancy in 2010. This unit is a month to month rental agreement.
9. The keypad system was available at the inception of my tenancy.
10. In 2015 case 50505SM , the city granted a rent increase to the owner for the keypads and intercom installation (pictures to city show they were installed as one unit) even though tenants testified the owner never supplied receipts for the alleged repairs.
11. As of May 19, 2023, the owner at this address removed the intercom and keypad systems at the front door. I was a witness to this about 9 am to 12 pm. See attached pictures.
12. As of today at this time, the intercom and keypad system pictured have no signs of functionality. It appears to be an electrical device that is accessed by a phone app. I have not received any notice from the owner of how to use the device.

13. I received no advance notice that the intercom and keypad would be removed.
14. Since the keypad removal we have not been able to receive deliveries, friends, or guests as most are used to using the keypad system. Based on a view of the new intercom system, the keypad for deliveries appears to be incorporated in the device. But I have no access to use it. 15. Especially for the sake of the owner also (see owner emails above), since the install of the new intercom system and door apparatus, the front door is not shutting all the way as intended. Sometimes it shuts securely, sometimes it does not, especially when closed from a short distance.
16. As first written notice to the owner, the water pressure to the kitchen sink hot water is very low and is not operating as intended; I surmise it may be a piping problem or problem with the hot water tank. It had been sporadic, now the low pressure is constant. Please address this.

I demand a rent reduction because of the removal of the keypad and intercom system that was done on May 19, 2023. This rent reduction may apply to all tenants. The rent reduction should continue until the intercom and keypad is fully functioning.

Two tenants have already complained to me about not being able to get deliveries since they do not have the code for the keypad. This is an 18 unit controlled building being used in many instances for hotel and home sharing purposes without a hotel use permit.

The owner of the property is Meghan Hayner, Hi Point 1522 LLC, at 520 Pacific Street #5, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Phone 818-219-1587.

I remind all that we still have not been assigned a tandem parking stall, as requested since 2015. To the Mayor and Council I ask: what are the qualifications to get a tandem parking stall?

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( redacted)
I am a Black male, aged over 45, and with a disability.

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May 22, 2023

New CRD complaint filed against Hi Point 1522 LLC and City of Los Angeles Housing Department.

May 20, 2023

Breaking News Los Angeles: Intercom Replaced

Who is city employee Richard Brinson and

how does he get away with Racism?

Los Angeles City Government Housing Racism Reported to State Civil Rights Department

May 12, 2023

Subject: Unlawful Retaliation by Owner and City Government – Deprivation of Housing Services

From GJohnson (email redacted)

to: thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org

cc: patrice.doehrn@dfeh.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com

Date: Friday, May 12, 2023 at 09:48 AM PDT

Reference LAHD RSO complaint CE280933 Harassment by Landlord

CRD case 202201-15997931–Johnson/ City of Los Angeles HCIDLA and REAP Department

― Teju Cole, Open City
To whom it may concern:

1. This is a follow up to the email of May 11, 2023 at 12:07 pm. regarding continuing retaliation after my complaints about racial discrimination and denial of housing services.

2. I am a Black male, over the age of 45, with a disability, and entitled to

“All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.” The Unruh Act also establishes your liability as a property owner or government entity.

3. Due to the intentional acts of the owner, and the city housing department acting on concert, I am still being denied housing services working intercom, repairs to the intercom, and denial tandem parking stall. The parties have refused to engage in an interactive process regarding the request for accommodation/modification. Thirty days have passed since the requests for accommodation/modification and other requests for housing services. This is determined by law to be unlawful retaliation. The parties have adequate notice of my race, sex, age, and disability, and act intentionally because of those protected categories; separate complaints to the owner, city agencies, endorsed rent checks, code enforcement complaints alleging violations of Unruh, emails, prove the causal connection between the parties discriminatory intent and the denial of requested housing services and such denial of housing services results in me being harmed in that I do not have such housing services and do not have “full and equal” housing services. The parties can voluntarily follow the dictates of the Unruh Act; they can voluntarily provide the housing services requested; it is not by accident that the parties continue to deny myself the services requested. The intent of the parties is to make a distinction that causes harm to me. Such distinction by the parties is unlawful discrimination and unlawful retaliation because I complained.

4. This was written to you on May 6, 2023 but none of this was addressed by Nisi Walton on May 11, 2023 at the unit:

“While I am primarily concerned with the intercom and secured tandem parking, I have also complained about the other services denied to me as a Black male, over the age of 45, with a disability, and that denial of such services has caused harm to me in that (1) my rights under the Unruh Act have been violated and (2) I have been denied services provided to home sharing tenants/guests including but not limited to:

Mini split duct air conditioning and heating,
DACK app and entry code for smartlock,
Owner provided Wi-Fi and high speed Spectrum Internet,
Maid service,
Desk with chair and lamp,
Guest parking,
A full maintenance team, who can deal with most repairs with in 24 hour, A fully loaded kitchen, Bedding and towels,
Air purifier,
anti-allergic mattress encasement

& disposable slippers with your wellness in mind”
5. Nisi Walton, agent of the owner, on May 11, 2023 in person, intentionally refuses to address:

The intercom need for repair
The secured tandem parking need for assignment or extend striping The disability request for accommodation/modification

HVAC Mini-Ductless
Continuing obligations- rent agreement

Maintenance crews prevented from making repairs to intercom and parking REAP complaint (abatement of a nuisance)
Arbitrary and intentional discrimination
Illegal home sharing; host not in residences Concrete cracks behind kitchen sink backsplash Nuisance

General dilapidation, or lack of maintenance (intercom)

The below REAP complaint is supported by the December 28, 2022 order from the rent stabilization division. See attachment.

6. My rent checks April 1, and May 1, 2023, endorsed, benefits the owner as well as the city government of Los Angeles. My rent checks read (as they have for the last three years): “Paid under duress for rent, intercom repairs, parking tandem or two cars.”

7. Attached is the “2021-11-4 Written Notice Change for Parking by Johnson” which is the owner evidence that unit 9 tenants were assigned to stall #14 ( a tandem stall) and moved to stall #8 (under the threat of eviction). The form is signed by owner agent at the time Cliff Renfrew. The form is proof that parking was reduced from tandem to single. Nisi Walton, agent of the owner, intentionally refuses to enter a discussion of this parking issue.

8. . That these areas are not addressed, and as the owner and city have adequate notice of my protected status, is proof of the parties’ violation of the Unruh Act as their actions are intentional to cause harm. I have been harmed because my rights under Unruh have been violated, and I am harmed because I do not have the services requested.

9. Nisi Walton, as well as the city government, has adequate notice that the owner thru agent Thomas Khammar has said unit 9 tenants already have a tandem parking stall. Nisi Walton knows this is not true because current stall 8 is a single stall. Nevertheless, Walton does not address the assignment to a tandem stall nor what race qualifies for the unit 9 tenants to get a tandem parking stall. See picture of stalls 17-19 all occupied by white tenants who only have one car each. Nisi Walton does not answer the question due to her intentional discrimination against myself because of my race Black, sex Male, age over 45, and with a disability; Nisi’s actions are a proximate cause of the harm to me.

10. Not including emails, faxes, first class mail, the parties received adequate notice thru code violation complaints: two in 2020, eight in 2021, four in 2022, and four in 2023.

11. All parties have received adequate notice of their legal liability under the Unruh Act.

12. I have received a few recent calls from the code enforcement division requesting to set up appointments to inspect. I would be glad to be available if you tell me you are going to inspect and cite for the intercom and the tandem parking; so far I have been told you will not do so. Therefore there is no need for me to be available; if you need access to the unit or property, contact the owner. As long as the intercom remains unusable and the tandem parking is not supplied, I will continue to engage in a redress of my grievances.

13. The cost to prepare and email this is $42.00 in damages for housing services that were not addressed.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone (redacted)

The Power of Racism Is Among Us

“Invidious discrimination is the treatment of individuals in a manner that is malicious, hostile, or damaging.” (Javorsky .v Western Athletic Clubs, Inc. (2015) 242 Cal.App.4th 1386, 1404 [195 Cal.Rptr.3d 706].) The purpose of the Unruh act is to prohibit businesses from engaging in unreasonable, arbitrary or invidious discrimination. Howe v. Bank of America
N.A., 179 Cal. App.4th 1443, 1450 (2009) (quoting Sunrise Country Club Assn. v. Proud 190 Cal. App.3d 377, 381 (1987)).

City Council Agenda Links Submitted as “Communications from the Public”

20-0807

Click to access 20-0807_PC_AM_05-09-2023.pdf

COVID-19/ Charter Section 245(b) / Board of Harbor Commissioners Actions / June 18, 2020 / Danning Gill / Nossaman LLP / So. Cal Ship Services / Pacific Bell Telephone Company / Berth 182 Slope Repair Project, etc. Submitted May 5, 2023
Published May 9, 2023

20-1598
Submitted May 5, 2023
California Statewide Communities Development Authority (CSCDA) / Low-Cost Tax-Exempt Financing / Middle- Income Rental Housing / Community Improvement Authority Membership https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2020/20-1598_PC_AM_05-09-2023.pdf
Published May 9, 2023

21-1073-S1

Rail to Rail Corridor Project / Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Memorandum of Understanding / Payment
Submitted May 5, 2023
https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2021/21-1073-S1_PC_AM_05-09-2023.pdf

Published May 9, 2023

23-0900-S1 https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2023/23-0900-S1_PC_AM_05-09-2023.pdf

Tujunga Avenue / Calvert Street / Lighting District
Submitted May 5, 2023
Published May 9, 2023

From Code Complaint 851127; Code violation complaint 855304. Email March 13, 2023. Email March 17, 2023. Email Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 04:34 PM PDT. Email Monday, May 1, 2023 at 03:15 PM PDT

Electrical wiring, disconnected, and or abandoned
Defective, deteriorated or bare electrical wiring
Failure to obtain clearance from the housing and community investment department Lack of approved, electrical, lighting wiring, and or electrical equipment
Owner or responsible party not in residence and contact information not posted Unapproved

units
Change of use or occupancy without building, permit and certificate of occupancy

Additional Comments (excerpt)

Intercom not repaired or replaced

Tandem parking stall striping not extended

Ceiling to floor crack in wall in bedroom
Illegal home sharing;

host not in residences

Concrete cracks behind kitchen sink backsplash

Nuisance

General dilapidation, or lack of maintenance (Redacted from email May 6, 2023)

Complaint for Referral to REAP for inclusion of 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035- Continuing Wrongs and New Damages

From: GJohnson (redacted)
To: hcidla.reap@lacity.org; lahd.reap@lacity.org; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org

Cc: 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; councilmember.ridley-thomas@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.kevindeleon@lacity.org; meghan@boldpartnersre.com

Date: Friday, September 23, 2022 at 08:30 AM PDT
Complaint for Referral to REAP for inclusion of 1522 Hi Point St Apts

90035

Dear REAP department:

I am a tenant referring this building and residential unit(s) for inclusion in REAP.

“SEC. 162.03. REFERRAL TO REAP. (Added by Ord. No. 173,810, Eff. 4/16/01.)

Any City or County agency or any tenant may refer any building or residential unit within the scope of this article to the Department for inclusion in REAP if the following conditions are met:

i. The building or unit is the subject of one or more Orders;
ii. The period allowed by the Order for compliance, including any extensions, has expired without compliance; and
iii. The violation affects the health or safety of the occupants, or, if the unit is subject to the RSO, the violation results in a deprivation of housing services, as defined in Section 151.02, or a habitability violation, as defined in Section 153.02.

In its referral, the City or County agency shall indicate if the violations are of a nature or extent that they are likely to exist in or affect units that have not been inspected. The RAC shall promulgate regulations setting forth criteria for determining when that condition exists.

As below as it relates to 1522 S Hi Point Street zip 90035:

1. RSO building built prior to 1978 presumed to have presence of lead based paint and asbestos

2. RSO unit

3. Owner notified

4. HCIDLA notified

5. See work stop orders and notices to comply previously issued against the building
6. Deprivation of housing service: door entry intercom system for this apartment 9 and other apartments 8 and 5 since May 2015 and continuing
7. Deprivation of housing service tandem parking stall for this apartment 9 since May 2015 and continuing

8. Failure to provide tandem parking stall for this apartment 9 since May 2015 and continuing; health and safety violation 9. Tandem parking at 1522 Hi Point St is a housing service as defined by LAMC section below 151.02 Definitions: Housing Services.

10. Maintenance to the intercom system at this address is a housing service as defined by LAMC section below 151.02 Definitions: Housing Services.

11. The door entry intercom system at this address is a housing service as defined by LAMC section below 151.02 Definitions: Housing Services.

12. Fifteen units have undergone primary renovations in this building. All such units received a new intercom as part of the replacement of the previous intercom. Code enforcement inspectors issued finals for occupancy for all units that received new replacement intercoms.

13. The city government has assumed authority over the intercom system and the parking stalls as housing services.

14. The intercoms for units 9, 8, 5 remain un repaired and unusable.
15. These REAP violations are a violations of the tenants peaceful enjoyment of the premises.
16. The intercom door entry equipment on the outside front of the building replaced the previous door entry intercom system.

17. The building door entry intercom system is only partially functioning and thus is nuisance, maintenance, and electrical violations under the jurisdiction of REAP.

I hereby demand that 1522 S Hi Point St 90035 be placed into the REAP program on the following grounds, including but not limited to, and that all 18 tenants receive a rent reduction of 50%.

1. Peeling paint exterior timber clad letters and numbers

2. Rear inside hallway structural defect unsafe loose wobbly stair railing previously reported as structural defect 3. Intercom unit 9 not maintained;

4. intercom not fully functioning from front outside building;

5. (removed)

6. Deprivation of maintenance to intercom

7. Deprivation of housing services: tandem parking stall
8. Floors, stairways, or railing not maintained in good repair (rear stairway wobbly and unsafe)

I refer to a 2015 order from the Los Angeles County Public Health department in which they ordered the door entry intercom system repair by 2015 (corrected 2016) but the repair or replacement never occurred. The non-working intercom is still in units 9, 8, and 5. The non-working intercom box is on the outside of the building and for the use of all eighteen tenants and the Public.With the exception of the intercom in unit 9, all code violations herein are common to all tenants of the 18 units, i.e the Intercom is for the use of all 18 units and tenants as well as the Public.

The parking area is surrounded by a security gate, of which I as a tenant pay for but cannot use. (Revised: Denial full and equal benefits i.e tandem parking stall),

Some of these violations were the subject of a city Capital Improvements rent increase and may also constitute failure of a capital improvement.

The above violations are under the authority of city Los Angeles REAP as they are nuisance conditions, structural hazards, failure to manage, maintenance, electrical and lack of uniform compliance.

I refer to city notices to comply and SCEP notice indicate the building is not in uniform compliance and has been declared to be substandard.

I am told by code enforcement that these issues have been the subject of hundreds of city of Los Angeles code violation complaints. The period for compliance has expired; the building or unit is the subject of one or more Orders, the violations result in deprivation of housing services and/or habitability/health and safety violations.

The intercom system and parking stalls were available at the inception of the unit 9 tenancy. The intercom system was partially replaced in 2015 by the owner and subject to the city Capital Improvements program.

The owners of the property are:

Hi Point 1522, LLC

520 Pacific Street #5

Santa Monica CA 90405

meghan@boldpartnersre.com

Ph. 818-219-1587

Hi Point 1522 LLC

8885 Venice Blvd Suite 205 Los Angeles CA 90034
Hi Point 1522 Managers Holdco LLC 8885 Venice Blvd Suite 205, Los Angeles CA 90034

Hi Point 1522 Managers LLC 8885 Venice Blvd Suite 205 Los Angeles CA 90034 Hi Point 1522 TJ Entity LLC 8885 Venice Blvd Suite 205 Los Angeles CA 90034

The property is managed by:

Power Property Management, Inc. a corporation dba Power Property Group Agent Brent Parsons 8885 Venice Blvd Ste 205 Los Angeles, CA 90034

Kassandra Harris AKA Kassy Harris 1522 Hi Point St No. 12 Los Angeles CA 90035
(resident manager)

Phone numbers for the owner/manager are: 213-908-8008 or 310-593-3955.

This complaint is filed pursuant to a continuing Unruh complaint filed with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing against the city government of Los Angeles.

I understand a female tenant who was white asked for parking stall #13 to be extended which it was. I was denied a similar and equal privilege to the white tenant.

See attached Order from the County Health Department (Chen)(2015).

Since wrongs and damages are continuing, under the rent agreement, the law allows me to pursue this complaint again.

SEC. 151.02. DEFINITIONS.

(Amended by Ord. No. 184,822, Eff. 4/30/17.)

The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall be construed as defined in this section. Words and phrases not defined herein shall be construed as defined in Sections 12.03 and 152.02 of this Code, if defined therein. (Amended by Ord. No. 176,544, Eff. 5/2/05.)

Capital Improvement. The addition or replacement of the following improvements to a rental unit or common areas of the housing complex containing the rental unit, providing such new improvement has a useful life of five (5) years or more: roofing, carpeting, draperies, stuccoing the outside of a building, air conditioning, security gates, swimming pool, sauna or hot tub, fencing, garbage disposal, washing machine or clothes dryer, dishwasher, children’s play equipment permanently installed on the premises, the complete exterior painting of a building, and other similar improvements as determined by the Commission.

Provided, however, that the complete exterior painting of a building shall only be considered as an eligible capital improvement once every ten (10) years. (Amended by Ord. No. 165,251, Eff. 11/20/89.)

Housing Services. Services connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance, including painting. This term shall also include the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits privileges or facilities. (Amended by Ord. No. 154,808, Eff. 2/13/81.)

Landlord. An owner, lessor, or sublessor, (including any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other entity) who receives or is entitled to receive rent for the use of any rental unit, or the agent, representative or successor of any of the foregoing.

Primary Renovation Work. (Added by Ord. No. 176,544, Eff. 5/2/05.) Work performed either on a rental unit or on the building containing the rental unit that improves the property by prolonging its useful life or adding value, and involves either or both of the following:

1. Replacement or substantial modification of any structural, electrical, plumbing or mechanical system that requires a permit under the Los Angeles Municipal Code.

2. Abatement of hazardous materials, such as lead-based paint and asbestos, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Rent. The consideration, including any bonus, benefits or gratuity, demanded or received by a landlord for or in connection with the use or occupancy of a rental unit, including but not limited to monies demanded or paid for the following: meals where required by the landlord as a condition of the tenancy; parking; furnishings; other housing services of any kind; subletting; or security deposits. (Amended by Ord. No. 154,808, Eff. 2/13/81.)

REAP EXCERPT:

HabitabilityViolation. Any violation of Section1941.1 of the California Civil Code, or a reduction or elimination of the following services if contracted for by the tenant, or if provided to the tenant at the time the tenant moves into his or her rental unit: elevators, security gates, and air conditioners.

Order. Any order or notice to comply, correct or abate a condition or violation issued by the Department, the Department of Building and Safety, the Health Department, the Fire Department, or their successors.

2. Upon acceptance of the complaint from a tenant or an enforcement agency, if the complaint is supported by an Order, then the complaint shall be treated as a referral to the REAP and rent reduction under Section 162.03, and shall be processed under that section.

I am a Black male tenant entitled to all privileges and accommodations under the state Unruh Act, and under the rental agreement.

Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St Apt 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone (redacted)

2022-12-28 LAHD Closing CE273371.pdf

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2021-11-4 Written Notice Change for Parking by Johnson.pdf

May 11, 2023

Los Angeles City Government Ignores Racism Complaints

Subject: Opportunity to Repair for May 11, 2023- Memorialization- Intercom and Tandem Parking NOT addressed

from: GJohnson (redacted)

cc: susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com

Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 12:07 PM PDT

Reference LAHD RSO complaint CE280933 Harassment by Landlord

To whom it may concern:

This shall memorialize that this morning between 10:00 am and 11:15 am repairs were made to this unit. A crack in a bedroom wall was re-plastered; the bathroom toilet shut off valve was installed; the pump in the toilet bowl was replaced; a window screen was re-aligned to prevent insects entry.

Nisi Walton, Power Property Management Inc employee, was on site and I was able to meet with her in the unit.

I appreciate the repairs, but I note here that the intercom remains un-usable and not working. I am still without a tandem parking stall or maintenance has not extended the striping to create a tandem parking stall for stall #8. This means that the actions today of not addressing the intercom or tandem parking is intentional to cause harm, and the racial and otherwise arbitrary discrimination by the owner —and others in concert—-is the proximate cause of damages to me of not receiving full and equal housing services requested. I did not mention these items to Nisi or repairmen this morning because the owner already has adequate notice (monthly or weekly emails and endorsed rent checks).

The owner is aware that whites(non-Blacks) in tandem parking stalls 17-19 have parking for two cars while I do not have such privilege; the owner is aware that whites in stalls 17-19 have working intercoms while I do not.

I have previously forwarded to the owner five declarations under penalty of perjury regarding the intercom and/or parking; these declarations are from four Black males.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone (redacted)
I am A Black Male over the age of 45 with a obvious disability and disability

Ref. state Unruh Act, CC 51, 52
c: State Civil Rights Department

May 10, 2023

LOS ANGELES CITY GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF RACIAL AND DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION. ABUSE OF FEDERAL FUNDS.

(Published by LACityClerkConnect Council File Management System. File Number 23-0900-S10. “Communications from the Public” submitted 5/5/23)

May 8, 2023

SUBJECT: Upcoming Opportunity to Repair for May 8, 2023 at 1522 Hi Point St Unit 9 at 90035

FROM: GJohnson (redacted))

TO: thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; richard.brinson@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org

CC: susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com

DATE: Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 11:17 AM PDT

Reference LAHD RSO complaint CE280933 Harassment by Landlord

Dear property owner Meghan Hayner/Hi Point 1522 LLC:

1. I have the received the attached Notice to Enter Premises dated 5/5/23 and the previous 4/14/23 Notice to Enter Premises. These represent an “opportunity” on your part to address the requested repairs and housing services.

2. I attach the PCH notice of potential price award (“Publisher’s Clearinghouse”) that indicates some of the damages to me as a result of the failure to repair the non-working intercom.

3. As 30 days have passed since the original 2014 to current request for intercom repairs, the failure to rectify the intercom is retaliation on your part as defined under the state Unruh Act.

4. On March 13, 2023, an email from me was received by you entitled “Continued Request for Reasonable Accommodation and Continued Request for Housing Services Intercom Repair and Tandem Parking”. Within 30 days later, on April 13, 2023, the requested housing services had not been supplied. This is determined to be retaliation because I complained. Please remit the required monetary damages for retaliation.

5. The issues of the code violation complaint include but are not limited to:

The intercom need for repair
The secured tandem parking need for assignment or extend striping
The disability request for accommodation/modification
HVAC Mini-Ductless
Continuing obligations- rent agreement
Maintenance crews prevented from making repairs to intercom and parking REAP complaint (abatement of a nuisance)
Missing toilet shut off valve

Arbitrary and intentional discrimination

Window screens

Crack in bedroom wall
Illegal home sharing; host not in residences

Concrete cracks behind kitchen sink backsplash

Nuisance
General dilapidation, or lack of maintenance

6. I notice your Notice to Enter Premises says under “a. Necessary or agreed repairs or inspection”. That is a falsification of CC section 1954 so please remove the word “inspection” under section “a.” from future notices. CC section 1954 does not give the owner the right to an automatic inspection of the premises. Inspection is only allowed under certain circumstances like civil code section 1950.5(f), which does not apply to the notices from you attached. CC section 1954 states “To make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors or to make an inspection pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 1950.5.” Notice “inspection” is only allowed under 1950.5(f), so the manner in which your notice is written is incorrect.

7. As you know, (Unruh Act) “All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever. but you are not in compliance with that Unruh Act provision as there are “home sharing” tenants/guests in the building. While I am primarily concerned with the intercom and secured tandem parking, I have also complained about the other services denied to me as a Black male, over the age of 45, with a disability, and that denial of such services has caused harm to me in that (1) my rights under the Unruh Act have been violated and (2) I have been denied services provided to home sharing tenants/guests including but not limited to:

Mini split duct air conditioning and heating,
DACK app and entry code for smartlock,
Owner provided Wi-Fi and high speed Spectrum Internet,
Maid service,
Desk with chair and lamp,
Guest parking,
A full maintenance team, who can deal with most repairs with in 24 hour, A fully loaded kitchen,
Bedding and towels,
Air purifier,
anti-allergic mattress encasement & disposable slippers with your wellness in mind

(As advertised on home sharing website “Just Bring Your Toothbrush”)

8. I suspect on May 7, 2023, as is your custom, the intercom and tandem parking will not be addressed. I reserve the right to file a new code violation/RSO/REAP complaint on or about May 8, 2023.

9. I reserve the right to file a new state CRD (“Civil Rights Division”) complaint against you and those you act in concert with.

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035 Phone (redacted)

From Code Complaint 851127; Code violation complaint 855304. Email March 13, 2023. Email March 17, 2023. Email Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 04:34 PM PDT. Email Monday, May 1, 2023 at 03:15 PM PDT

Electrical wiring, disconnected, and or abandoned
Defective, deteriorated or bare electrical wiring
Failure to obtain clearance from the housing and community investment department

Lack of approved, electrical, lighting wiring, and or electrical equipment
Owner or responsible party not in residence and contact information not posted

Unapproved units
Change of use or occupancy without building, permit and certificate of occupancy

Additional Comments (excerpt)

Intercom not repaired or replaced

Tandem parking stall striping not extended

Ceiling to floor crack in wall in bedroom
Illegal home sharing; host not in residences

Concrete cracks behind kitchen sink backsplash Nuisance

General dilapidation, or lack of maintenance

“Under 42 U.S. Code § 1981 – Equal rights under the law (a) Statement of equal rights All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other. (b) “Make and enforce contracts” defined For purposes of this section, the term “make and enforce contracts” includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.”

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2023-4-10 Received PCH Alert Prize Potential Award.pdf

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(Editor Note: The management company for Hi Point 1522 LLC is Power Property Management Inc.)

April 29, 2023

Code Violation Complaint Filed 1522 Hi Point 90035

City of Los Angeles LAHD
RSO Code enforcement REAP -Bold Partners,
Hi Point 1522 LLC
Power Property Management Inc. – Silverlight Properties
All-time Maintenance
Just Bring Your Toothbrush

(Published to the Internet by the City Clerk’s office)

April 17, 2023

Subject: Kitchen Sink Repair but no Bathroom toilet repair. No Intercom and Parking Stall repair. Housing Rights for Black Americans

From: GJohnson(redacted)

Date: Monday, April 17, 2023 at 10:42 AM PDT

Meghan Haynes at Bold Partners Owner Hi Point 1522 LLC 520 Pacific Street #5 Santa Monica, CA 90405

Power Property Management, Inc.
8885 Venice Blvd Suite 205 Los Angeles CA 90034 Agent for Hi Point 1522 LLC

Richard Brinson Senior Housing Inspector
Ann Sewill Director
Mayor Karen Bass
LAHD West Office Los Angeles Housing Department City of Los Angeles

To Meghan Haynes and Power Property Management Inc. et al:

Jade Beck, Liliana Morales, Twyla Rucker, Jeanette Conway, Alva Corado, Jacqueline Gallardo, Brent Parson, Julia Gran, Kaleena Wiley, Carmen Joseph, Kristofer Gordon, Justice Walker, Fidel Medino, Shireen Davis, Jamie Swisher, Daisy Moreno, Javier Guevara, Alva Corado, Miquel Mercado, Danielle Herron-Wilson, Julia Gran, Cynthia Reynosa, Cameron Morse, Chris Thrasher, Monika Bohana, Gina Purgave, Stephen Leider, Nisi Walton (Power Property Management Inc employees as seen on the internet):

This shall memorialize that your maintenance crew was here this morning about 9:10 am to 9:50 am. The cover for the kitchen sink sprayer hose was repaired so that it is now water tight.

No attempt was made to address the following issues:

1. Unit intercom is not functioning as intended.
2. Parking stall striping stall #8 has not been extended to make a tandem parking stall.
3. The bathroom toilet is missing the knob for the shut off valve. Attached is a picture of the pipe missing the knob, which is a health and safety code violation.
4. No attempt was made to repair the window screen which is either ripped or not flush with the window, which is a health and safety code violation.

In addition, by mistake the door was unlocked. Otherwise the repair person would not be able to enter because he did not get the key from the office to get in the unit. I did not voluntarily let the repair person into the unit.

Again, please make sure to supply the repair person with the key to the unit so they have access to make the repair upon the section CC 1954 written notice to enter.

The repairperson said he was not told to repair the bathroom toilet pipe although I did show it to him.

Attached is a picture showing the bathroom toilet (shut off valve) missing knob area.
Attached is the housing agreement and change in terms dated 2021-11-4 “Written Notice Change for Parking by Johnson” which shows that landlord and myself agreed to supply me with a tandem parking stall.

Thousands of apartments and condos across the city are designed with intercom systems as a necessity. Thousands of apartments and condos across the city have onsite parking and/or secured parking and/or tandem parking stalls.

Attached is the city “2023-2-7 HP 1522 Notice and Order to Comply” in which the city government intentionally did not address the non-working intercom unit 9 to cause harm to myself as Black male American. Many white tenants across the city have the privilege of a working intercom.

Denying a tenant the use of parking spaces breaches the covenant of quiet enjoyment because the parking space is essential to the tenant’s use and enjoyment of the premises. Sierad v. Lilly (1962) 204 CA2d 770, 775, 22 CR 580, 583.

Termination or reduction in services breaches the covenant of quiet enjoyment. Public Employees Retirement System v. Winston (1989) 209 CA3d 205, 208, 258 CR 612, 613.

(This email is also intended as an amicable offer to settle court case Petition for Writ of Mandate

23STCP00644 filed Los Angeles Superior Court 2/28/23).

Geary J. Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )

c: James Cortes, CRD employee; Governor Gavin Newsom

Reference city clerk Records Request:

https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/23-3793

2021-11-4 Written Notice Change for Parking by Johnson.pdf

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2023-4-17 Pic Toilet Unit 9 with no Shut Off Valve.jpeg

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April 14, 2023

Subject: CC section 1954 Violation –

Intent to Arrest for Trespassing- Harassment By Owner

From: GJohnson(redacted)

Date: Friday, April 14, 2023 at 10:42 AM PDT

Please have your repair people–in house or otherwise—refrain from calling me or my roommate on the phone.

I see phone calls from you this morning that constitute harassment and interference with peaceful enjoyment of the premises.

If you need to enter the unit, AS I HAVE STATED NUMEROUS TIMES BEFORE, post the proper written notice under CC section 1954 and give the 24 hour written notice. I do not waive any rights.

If you appear at the door and attempt entry without the 1954 notice, or you continue to call me on the phone, I will file a police complaint for harassment and illegal entry of the premises and trespassing.

The police are being notified herein by email.

The police have advised me to defend myself by not opening the door.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone (redacted)

LAPD contact.lapdonline@gmail.com

April 13, 2023

Subject:Kitchen Sink Repair, bathroom Toilet Repair, Screen Repair, Housing Services Request for Accommodation at 1522 Hi Point St 90035

From: GJohnson ( redacted)

Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 04:34 PM PDT

California Code, Civil Code – CIV § 1954

Meghan Haynes at Bold Partners Owner Hi Point 1522 LLC

520 Pacific Street #5
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Power Property Management, Inc.
8885 Venice Blvd Suite 205 Los Angeles CA 90034

Agent for Hi Point 1522 LLC

Richard Brinson Senior Housing Inspector
Ann Sewill Director
Mayor Karen Bass
LAHD West Office Los Angeles Housing Department City of Los Angeles

To Meghan Haynes and Power Property Management Inc. et al:

1. There has been no response to my complaint that there is illegal home sharing occurring at this address. I have provided the evidence to the city Housing Department and Planning Department. Illegal home sharing tenants are being provided numerous housing services denied to me because I am a Black male.

2. The original agreement regarding tandem parking is that the cost was included in the rent. Without any waiver of that, I signed an agreement with the new owner which was a condition set down by the previous owner that I am “first come first served” for the tandem parking and that I should pay a separate $50 per month for the tandem parking. The current owner has refused to honor that agreement. I am first come first served for the tandem parking over many of the tenants/home sharing guests on the property. The owner continues to benefit financially and otherwise from my rent payments even though the rent checks state they are made “under duress.”

3. The intercom unit 9 still has not been repaired or replaced, an entitlement under the rent agreement and the state Unruh Act, which makes the owner and those who act in concert as Racists, and also makes them liable for harassment as denial of housing services is considered harassment. White tenants becoming new tenants do not have to wait eight years for a working intercom or available secured tandem parking.

4. Hundreds to thousands of tenants across the city have the use of parking and/or tandem secured parking stalls; hundreds to thousands of tenants across the city have the use of intercom front door to unit systems whether apartment dwellers or condominium owners. I as a Black, male tenant entitled to the protections of the Unruh Act, CC section 51, am not asking for anything unreasonable. I am sure as a former Senator, Mayor Karen Bass, a Black female, must have an inkling of these legal entitlements.

5. I attach a letter dated 4/12/22 from my doctor requesting an accommodation due to disability.
Under the Fair Housing Amendments Act, it is unlawful discrimination to deny a person with a disability a reasonable accommodation of an existing building rule or policy if such accommodation may be necessary to afford such person full enjoyment of the premises. Please keep this request for accommodation confidential, as required by federal law. Please contact me within the next ten days to discuss this important issue. I look forward to your response and appreciate your attention to this matter. I would like to have the equal opportunity to live in and enjoy this residence. This is at least my third request. This letter is provided to the property owner, management company, and the Los Angeles Housing Department which includes the RSO, REAP, and code enforcement divisions that have the power to restore services requested due to my disability. The owner and city have previously made up excuses why the services have not been provided. I view those reasons as pretextual and the real reasons are that the city and owner intentionally want me to be harmed and denied housing services because I am a Black male, over the age of 45 and have a disability. The city has represented that mathematically 2-1 is not a reduction, that 100%-90% is not a reduction. The city is incorrect. The owner has incorrectly alleged that in order for unit 9 intercom to work, the building has to be rewired. I witnessed 15 units receive working intercoms and the building was not rewired; my intercom wiring is already in the wall; each of the 15 units and tenants received working intercoms in less than 2 months each. The city and owner have made distinctions that deny me (and my roommate, another Black male American) the right to full and equal housing services and privileges no matter my race, sex, age, or disability. See attached declarations from Black Americans RB, CW and BW. (redacted)

6. Kitchen sink repairs. I memorialize that on April 11, 2023, in response to my request, repairs were made by “InHouse Handyman” by Benjamin and another worker. About 8:35 am to 10:40 am. The kitchen sink garbage disposal, previously replaced in 2019, was replaced. I engaged in a discussion with Benjamin about the intercom need for repair. This constitutes use of my time at $21 per hour which I hereby bill the owner and the city for still not making the repairs or extending stall #8 parking stall stripes. My labor here to research the intercom is $21/hour times 2 hours = $42.00 in damages. The sink still needs repair as it was previously reported (and noted by Benjamin) that the opening and line for the sink sprayer hose is not secure or operating as intended.

7. Bathroom toilet repairs needed. My records show the guts of the toilet were last replaced in 2019. Again the toilet water is running when it is supposed to be off. It is not operating as intended. Also, something which should have been handled in 2019 but was not then or recently, there is no shut off valve for the toilet. Either it was broken off or not ever there. A recent maintenance person who resurfaced the entire bathroom shower should have noticed the missing shut off valve as he worked in the area. The toilet running and need for shut off valve is not an emergency.

8. Re the secured parking lot. There are 18 one bedroom units and 20 parking stalls. Parking is assigned by number but the number does not correspond to the apartment units. Of the 20 parking spaces, seven are tandem therefore there are a total of 28 parking spaces. There are always extra spaces and the owner does frequently change parking assignments. There is no posted list of what unit is assigned to which parking stall. The tenant in unit 4 has one vehicle but has a tandem parking stall and working intercom; that tenant is a white female. I am being denied full and equal housing services and privileges that the tenant unit 4, a white female, has. The denial of housing services I have requested is intentional and intended to cause harm and has caused harm to me. For every emaiI I send and every code violation complaint that does not result in the entitled services, I will charge the city and owner labor of $42.00 for any and all communications past the original one.

9. Screen repair is needed to parking lot side screens. Either the screens are not flush to the frame or the screen is ripped open. This will be reported to code enforcement.

10. If management wishes to enter the unit, you must get the key from the resident manager or PPM office. There is no waiver of any rights under CC section 1954. If I have to be here for any inspections where I have not waived my rights, which has happened a few times, I will charge for the cost of my labor. Again if you need to enter the unit for something not an emergency, please contact the management office for the key. IF YOU FEEL YOU CAN OR MUST CALL ME ON THE PHONE TO GAIN ENTRY IN THE ABSENCE OF A POSTED WRITTEN NOTICE, OR OTHERWISE, I WILL PROMPTLY CONSIDER THIS LABOR ON MY PART AND CONSIDER A LAWSUIT TO RECOUP THE DAMAGES. It is not my job to explain the need for repairs over and over when management is negligent in inspecting their work or inspecting the outside screens or inspecting the intercom or parking lot. IF I SAY I AM NOT AVAILABLE, it means I am not available or paid to follow up or inspect repairs made or not made. If I choose to be in my apartment when repairs are being made, it is because I am exercising my right to peaceful enjoyment.

11. I asked Benjamin about repairs to the intercom on 4/11/23. He said he did not have information on that.

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St 9 Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( redacted)
c: (email) James Cortes, Civil Rights Department California; Governor Gavin Newsom

Ref:

“I believe that Mayor Karen Bass, Ann Sewill, Tricia Keane, Daniel Huynh, Anna E. Ortega, Luz C. Santiago, and the LA Housing Department, are racist and corrupt against me as a Black male because I have complained about denial of intercom repair and denial of tandem parking in a city rent controlled building”. Published to city documents at the link: https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2022/22-1509_PC_PM_01-09- 2023.pdf.

ref:

City Council President EUNISSES HERNANDEZ, First District PAUL KREKORIAN, Second District BOB BLUMENFIELD, Third District NITHYA RAMAN, Fourth District President Pro Tempore KATY YAROSLAVSKY, Fifth District CURREN D. PRICE, JR., Ninth District VACANT, Sixth District MONICA RODRIGUEZ, Seventh District MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON, Eighth District Assistant President Pro Tempore HEATHER HUTT, Tenth District VACANT TRACI PARK, Eleventh District JOHN S. LEE, Twelfth District HUGO SOTO-MARTÍNEZ, Thirteenth District KEVIN DE LEÓN, Fourteenth District TIM MCOSKER, Fifteenth District

References: city clerk published to the internet

https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/23-1320

https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-4904 https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-1672

https://lacity.nextrequest.com/requests/21-10536 https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/21-
10460 http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2012/12-0049-S26_PC_PM_09-21-2022.pdf

REFERENCE

To: Chief Michel Rey Moore Los Angeles Police Department 100 W. 1st Street

Los Angeles CA 90012-4112
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Director FBI
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Director FBI
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FBI Director Christopher A. Wray FBI
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE – HSC
DIVISION 13. HOUSING [17000 – 19997] ( Division 13 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60. )

PART 1.5. REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION [17910 – 17998.3] 17920 (e)

“Enforcement” means diligent effort to secure compliance, including review of plans and permit applications, response to complaints, citation of violations, and other legal process. Except as otherwise provided in this part, “enforcement” may, but need not, include inspections of existing buildings on which no complaint or permit application has been filed, and effort to secure compliance as to these existing buildings. “(emphasis added).

Termination or reduction in services breaches the covenant of quiet enjoyment. Public Employees Retirement System v. Winston (1989) 209 CA3d 205, 208, 258 CR 612, 613.

(This email is also intended as an amicable offer to settle court case Petition for Writ of Mandate 23STCP00644 filed Los Angeles Superior Court 2/28/23. Johnson v Los Angeles Housing Department.)

(Attachment to email:)

2023-4-12 Public Copy Dr Signed Request for RA G Johnson.pdf

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2017-5-17 B. 1522 Report re Intercom Unit 9.pdf

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2016-1-1 Declarations W. and Johnson re Intercom 1522.pdf

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2015-3-23 Amended … Signed Declaration re Parking to HCIDLA.pdf

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2022-9-6 Declare from Dr. Cloud on Intercom and Parking.pdf

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(The Press Release has been published by the city clerk office at https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2023/23-1200-S91_PC_PM_04-14-2023.pdf. Also may appear under council agenda items 13-1204-S7, 23-1200-S43, 23-1200-S86, 23-1334. Also see in a few days the city Records Request https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/23-3793.)

Who is Richard Brinson and

how does he get away with Racism?

(Editor Note: This past month, after the Johnson complaint, the rear door to the building was fixed and the abandoned vehicle was removed from the parking lot. After over five years worth of monthly complaints. Other requests for services are still pending.)

Re: Complaint 846533

From: GJohnson

To: richard.brinson@lacity.org

cc: gavin@gavinnewsom.com; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; susan.strick@lacity.org; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; cityatty.help@lacity.org; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; meghan@boldpartnersre.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com

Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 02:44 PM PDT

DFEH case number 202211-18897616 DFEH case number 202211-18872714 DEFH case number 202201-15997931

Richard Brinson
Senior Housing Inspector
Case Manager LAHD West Office Los Angeles Housing Department

Code violation Complaint 846533

Your response is unacceptable as a resolution.

As of today’s date, the rental agreement has been renewed by the payment of rent but we are still without a tandem parking stall or extended parking striping (jurisdiction of the city housing department) and the repairs to the intercom have not been completed, after almost eight years of complaining.

I am not aware that your department has given a legitimate business reason for the lack of housing services in this regard which continues to violate my right to full and equal housing services as enumerated under the state Unruh Act. No law gives you the right to arbitrarily and insidiously violate my rights in this regard. I am a Black, male, over the age of 45, entitled to:

“(b) All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.

(c) This section shall not be construed to confer any right or privilege on a person that is conditioned or limited by law or that is applicable alike to persons of every sex, color, race, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status, or to persons regardless of their genetic information. ” (CC 51)

52.1. (a) If a person or persons, whether or not acting under color
of law, interferes by threat, intimidation, or coercion, or attempts
to interfere by threat, intimidation, or coercion, with the exercise
or enjoyment by any individual or individuals of rights secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of the rights secured by the Constitution or laws of this state, the Attorney General, or any district attorney or city attorney may bring a civil action for injunctive and other appropriate equitable relief in the name of the people of the State of California, in order to protect
the peaceable exercise or enjoyment of the right or rights secured. An action brought by the Attorney General, any district attorney, or any city attorney may also seek a civil penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000). If this civil penalty is requested, it shall be assessed individually against each person who is determined to have violated this section and the penalty shall be awarded to each individual whose rights under this section are determined to have been violated. (CC 51)

Your actions in not remedying the non-working intercom and lack of tandem parking stall are illegal under the Fair Housing Act as they set different terms, conditions or privileges for the sale or rent of a dwelling, provide a person different housing services, our facilities, use different qualification, criteria or applications or sale or rental standards or procedures, harass a person, fail, or delay, performance, of maintenance or repairs, limit privileges, services, or facilities of a dwelling. In addition, as this is retaliation by you and your department, it is illegal to threaten a course, intimidate or interfere with anyone exercising a fair housing, right, and it is illegal to retaliate against a person who has filed a fair housing complaint, or assisted in a fair housing investigation. The CRD (DFEH) numbers quoted herein are the discrimination cases your department is named in. Your actions deny me the rights that I am entitled to under the Unruh Act stated herein, and under the rent agreement as the owner has said (as I quoted in email so to your department) that I am entitled to a working intercom and a tandem parking stall.

The city government (that is you) is liable to provide the services I have requested. Please do so without further delay.

As stated numerous times before, I am a Black male over the age of 45, and I will continue to redress my grievances and file code violation complaints until the services requested are received. Your lack of diligence in this matter is racist, and is abuse of discretion and authority.

Your email does not comply with Topanga because your decision was not based on the whole record as required under Topanga Association for a Scenic Community v. County of Los Angeles (1974) 11 Cal.3d 506. In addition Topanga requires that your decision “bridge[d] the analytic gap between the raw evidence and [its] ultimate decision or order”. Your department “must render findings sufficient both to enable the parties to determine whether and on what basis they should seek review and, in the event of review, to apprise a reviewing court of the basis”.

Since you are familiar with the file in this matter, you are aware that I am a Black, male, over the age of 45, and that your denial of services is intentional to cause harm: your actions are intentional because they are not accidental; your actions are intentional to cause harm because I am a Black male, over the age of 45, evidence that you are aware your actions damage me and “fail, or delay, performance, of maintenance or repairs, limit privileges, services, or facilities of a dwelling”. Your actions are intentional, done on purpose, and calculated to cause harm. You know that I am a Black tenant who pays monthly for the services requested, and you know that I am entitled to the services requested, and you know that I will be harmed by not having a working intercom and tandem parking stall, such services, in comparison, enjoyed by thousands of white tenants who have the privilege which you are aware of.

Your department has jurisdiction over general dilapidation, lack of maintenance, nuisance. Your department has jurisdiction to restore the services requested and bill the owner. Your department knows there are white tenants living here, and Black tenants living here, and irregardless, I am still entitled to the individual right of full and equal housing services BECAUSE I am Black, male, and over the age of 45.

As a Black male over the age of 45, and tenant, I am entitled to “all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship” yet your email unlawfully and intentionally strips me of those privileges. (42 USC section 1981).

Brinson, you and David Wood (of the LAHD) are racist.

1. LAHD Brinson and Wood have made a distinction that denied full and equal accommodations/advantages/facilities/privileges/services] to GEARY JOHNSON

2. That a substantial intentional motivating reason for BRINSON AND WOOD conduct was its perception/knowledge of GEARY JOHNSON’S RACE, SEX, AND AGE.

3. That GEARY J. JOHNSON was harmed IN THAT HE is without a working intercom and without the previously paid for tandem parking stall; and
4. That the LAHD conduct was a substantial factor in causing Geary Johnson’s harm, in that the LAHD has sole authority over code violation, REAP, and RSO complaints made by GEARY JOHNSON.
5. The causal link has been established between the discriminatory intent and the adverse action and there is a causal link between the adverse action and the harm.

I need a tandem parking stall today. I need a working intercom today so my white Jewish brothers and sisters will not be subjected to the delay, obstruction harassment, and nuisance of trying to reach me with medical supplies or deliveries.

Brinson, since you appear to understand English, other than paying rent on time and being a tenant, what are the other qualifications for me to receive maintenance to the intercom and to receive a tandem parking stall in the city of Los Angeles under Mayor Karen Bass?

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )

I am a Black male over the age of 45 reference:

Reference: Los Angeles Superior Court case Johnson v Los Angeles Housing Department, filed 2/28/2023, case 23STCP00644, Real party in interest Hi Point 1522 LLC

REFERENCE Code violation Complaint 846533

Feb 8, 2023. Words: 3778. ATTACHMENT TO CODE VIOLATION COMPLAINT.
As seen on Facebook: “LOS ANGELES. A SMALL CONSOLATION. Anyone remember Alabama Governor George Wallace? Remember how he stood in the schoolhouse door and was denying Black students access? (Wikipedia) But “In 1952, he became the Circuit Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit in Alabama. Here he became known as “the fighting little judge”, a nod to his past boxing association.[22] He gained a reputation for fairness regardless of the race of the plaintiff. It was common practice at the time for judges in the area to refer to black lawyers by their first names, while their white colleagues were addressed formally as “Mister”; black lawyer J. L. Chestnut later said that “Judge George Wallace was the most liberal judge that I had ever practiced law in front of. He was the first judge in Alabama to call me ‘Mister’ in a courtroom.” (Source Wikipedia). So yesterday 2023 I was in my apartment in Los Angeles. I had called city code enforcement out and I complained about an abandoned vehicle with three flat tires and how the car had been sitting there since 2015 (yes 2015) and how I made written complaints every month or so. So the inspector is white, older, somewhat pleasant but befuddled looking and we stood face to face. As part of my written complaint, I reminded him that my unit intercom (to front of the building) has not been working since 2014. As he looked me in the eye and said quite falsely, “Oh, that has been adjudicated and I will not address it” and I almost begged: I really need that intercom to be working because I pay my rent on time and I need my deliveries. All I could think about at that moment as I faced off with a white government worker is how those Black students were denied equal protection and how it must have felt to look George Wallace in the face in 1963. He did cite the owner for the abandoned vehicle and the car was moved today after sitting there for eight years.”

FROM: GJohnson( email)
TO: susan.strick@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov; cityatty.help@lacity.org . Monday, February 6, 2023 at 01:26 PM PST . To whom it may concern: I spoke with city employee inspector David Wood today between 11:15 am and 11:45 am. He came out to the building in reference to my code violation complaint city number 844729.
I indicated to him that I had prepared a written summary —listed below—because numerous times in the past code inspectors seem clueless as to my concerns and did not even have a copy of my complaint. He refused a copy of my summary below. I also offered a copy of the LAHD decision CE273371 in which IMO the city says that those who deny me housing services and those who conspire with them are engaged in illegal harassment. Wood also refused a copy of that document saying that code enforcement has nothing to do with the rent stabilization department. Without reading from any notes he had on file as to my written complaint, or his city issued tablet, he proceeded to ask me my concerns. So I used the list below to express my concerns.
This email is meant to be indicative but not all inclusive.
I will recall from the bottom of the list and save the intercom and parking for last. At all times, Wood, an older white male, appeared professional, calm and courteous, although at times he did admit certain things he did not know. That indicated to me if he had read the complaint in advance, he would have taken time to do some research on certain areas. There was no shouting from either party although I insisted on an explanation why the intercom lack of repair is not being addressed as new evidence of nuisance and lack of housing services repair. I do not have in my possession any document where the city specifically told the owner not to repair the intercom; the city cannot deny that it authorized the permits (Capital Improvement Program decision 2015) and the installation of the intercom system; is the city saying that such city authorized housing service intercom is not subject to maintenance? It has not been maintained and is not working in my unit.
SMOKE ALARMS
I indicated the owner has not inspected the smoke alarms since 2019. He said the owner is not obligated to inspect the smoke alarms on a periodic basis. But note here: “What are other landlord responsibilities regarding smoke alarms? The landlord is responsible for testing and maintaining the smoke alarms in all units even in single family dwellings. The tenant cannot be made responsible for this, but the tenant has a duty to notify the owner if the tenant becomes aware of an inoperable smoke alarm.” (Source Google California Association of Realtors).
UNIT 9 KITCHEN SINK GAP AT WALL
Wood said he plans to cite the owner for the gap behind the sink and will return to check on the repairs.
STOVE AND HEATER UNEXPECTED GAS SHUT OFF
No attempt was made to ascertain if the 12 year old stove is working properly. Wood said his department has no jurisdiction over stoves. ( I was tempted to ask does his department have jurisdiction over explosions). He surmised that due to the multitude of construction in the area, the main gas line may have been shut off without advance notice.

REAR BUILDING EXIT DOOR
I asked him to note that the door appears to be operating as intended.
UNSTABLE REAR INTERIOR STAIRS
He checked the sway in the railing. He did not attempt to walk down the stairs. He said the railing is legally permitted to sway at least six inches in either direction. A previous repair person had told me the stairs sway because they have a design defect. I pity anyone who walks down and is comfortable swaying six inches as they walk.
PIPE EXTRUSION NEAR APARTMENT 5
Wood said the pipe is a plumbing “cleanout”. He said it is capped so it is ok. I wondered to myself why there are not more in the building. Woods never answered if they had a permit.
GAP AT TOP OF FRONT DOOR
He said the gap is ok and that there is no local law that there has to be a door there. (But note:
SEC. 91.6708. DOORS – GENERAL. (Amended by Ord. No. 185,587, Eff. 7/16/18.) Every door in a security opening shall be constructed, installed and secured as set forth in LAMC
Sections 91.6709, 91.6710, 91.6711 and 91.6712. Glazing in doors shall comply with LAMC Section 91.6713. Every door in a security opening for an apartment house shall be provided with an incandescent light bulb (minimum of 60 watts) at a maximum height of 8 feet (2438.4 mm) or lights on the exterior side of the unit that have a minimum surface illumination of 0.2 footcandles (2.15 lx) at the security opening. Where, in any specific case, different sections of the LAMC specify different requirements, the most restrictive shall govern.
FRONT CURB NEEDS REPAIR
Wood said the repair is the liability of the general street services department, not the owner. I told
him that Building and Safety told me the opposite. But see my code complaint as I quoted “Per the City of Los Angeles municipal code 62.104, property owners are responsible for the maintenance of curb adjacent to property. SEC. 62.104. REPAIRS TO SIDEWALKS, DRIVEWAY APPROACHES, CURB RETURNS AND CURBS. (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 184,596, Eff. 1/16/17.) (b) Responsibility for Maintenance. The owner of a Lot shall maintain any Sidewalk, Driveway Approach, Curb Return or Curb on the Lot in such condition that the Sidewalk, Driveway Approach, Curb Return or Curb will not endanger any Person or property passing thereon or violate the Americans with Disabilities Act”. I noted that twice I almost suffered injury from the broken curb (my foot got caught as I walked past. I have told the city that white Jewish students walking by may also suffer injury.)
DISABLED VEHICLE AT STALL 4
Wood appeared to be in the process of citing the vehicle as it told him it has not been running since 2014 and has been cited in other complaints to the city.
PARKING STRIPING
Wood said he did not know if the city has jurisdiction over striping. I discussed that stall #13 had been extended from single stall to tandem and I believed that needed a permit. I also questioned could my assigned stall #8 be extended to tandem stall. He just said the city COO mandates the minimum number of stalls, not the maximum. But see LAMC “Striping. All parking stalls, other than those serving a one-family dwelling, shall be striped substantially in accordance with the illustrations set forth on Chart No. 5 of this section. (Amended by Ord. No. 179,191, Eff. 11/5/07.)”.
HVAC MINI DUCTLESS FOR SOME UNITS
This is in the original code complaints as to permits. No discussion.
INTERCOM
Wood said he read the notes and that the issue has already been adjudicated so he will not address it. I mentioned this as new damages, new complaints, and that I continue to be damaged by the non working intercom and denial of tandem parking (which are under the jurisdiction of the REAP department). I again mentioned the LAHD December 28 decision that denial of such services such as maintenance is harassment. Wood was not fazed by my position. The LA County Public Health department previously cited the owner repair, replace, or remove the intercom (2015) but this adjudication has been ignored by code enforcement.
CONCLUSION
Either a claim for damages against the city or petition for writ of mandate seem to be my only option. Certainly the city employees act in conspiracy and without deference to the dictates of the rent agreement re maintenance and parking. All rights reserved.
Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone 323-807-3099
Feb 6 2023

DFEH case number 202211-18897616 DFEH case number 202211-18872714 DEFH case number 202201-15997931

FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT

EXTERIOR
front building gravel and water hoses underneath – permits? HVAC Mini Ductless A/C for some units – were permits pulled? Disabled white vehicle flat tires stall #4
Parking – can striping stall #8 be extended?
Parking – stall 13 extended- permit pulled?
Parking – quest parking stalls not allowed?
Intercom not connected to unit #9
Curb needs repair

HALLWAY
Front door of building – gap at top
Pipe extrusion near apartment 5- were permits pulled? Unstable rear stairway inside building
Rear EXIT door building not operating as intended – DONE

INTERIOR UNIT 9
Smoke alarms – last inspection by owner was 2019
Unit 9 Kitchen sink gap at wall
Intercom not connected to outside unit; not working
Is stove too old? pilot must be lit above and in broiler- GAS LEAK TWICE

MORE ATTACHED TO CODE VIOLATION COMPLAINT 2/8/23. This complaint is being filed because there are continuing damages at this address. This type of retaliation by a government official is outrageous and unlawful. This complaint is about continuing obligations under a rent agreement between all parties; this complaint is about continuing damages. This is a rent controlled building. I am without parking for two vehicles and suffering damages because by having to park on the street and my auto is damaged by debris from construction; I had to spend $100 to have my car detailed as a direct result of the owner and city intentional refusal under the REAP program to address the request for tandem or two car parking. As regards the intercom, as previously noted, I am unable to receive certain deliveries and guests and friends not able to reach me due to the non-working intercom, a direct result of the actions of the owner and the city government in not ordering the intercom repair. The actions of the owner and city in this regard are intentional to cause harm to myself as a Black, male, tenant. THE INSPECTOR David Wood made no attempt to address illegal home sharing in the building even though that is part of the complaint 844729, city number. Wood made no attempt to address if there are permits for the HVAC ductless Heater AC units only provided to certain tenants, and intentionally denied such housing service to myself as a Black male. It is not my job to force feed the inspectors if I have already made a written complaint; they should come prepared to read and comprehend English. This complaint is filed based on my rights under law and obligations under the rental agreement. My rent agreement says that maintenance is “including but not limited to”. This means that the owner and the city have NO authority to limit maintenance or exclude the intercom from repair or replacement. The only exceptions are if the repair need was caused by the tenant abuse or if the repair item is personal property; these exceptions do not apply in this case. The rent agreement also provides that the tenant can arrange for repairs but only by using the owner maintenance crews; the owner and city have not responded to this part of the agreement and maintenance crews have been prevented from making the repairs. City filed code violation complaints since 2014 and complaint to management have not resulted in the parking for two cars being provided or in the intercom being repaired or replaced. The intercom in the unit 9 was available upon the inception of tenancy in 2010. The control unit was available in 2010. In or around 2015 the owner replaced the control unit as new and under the authority of the city Capital Improvements Program of which the tenant myself was forced to pay additional rent for the wiring of the intercom and keypad system to the front door of the building but the apt 9 unit was not replaced. So when David Wood maintains that the matter was “adjudicated” is he talking about the old intercom i unit 9 or is he talking about the new intercom on the outside of the building that the city authorized that has my apartment 9 clearly listed implied as working? It is two different intercoms and two different issues. The last court hearing on this matter was dismissed without prejudice which means there was no adjudication on the merits. If Wood had such alleged adjudication, he did not provide me with a copy. This info has been forwarded to that State CRD under a housing discrimination complaint naming city employees. Nevertheless, Wood’s assertion does not apply when as in this case there are continuing obligations and new and continuing damages, renewed upon the monthly payment of rent. A REAP complaint was filed with the city regarding the lack of intercom maintenance and lack of assignment to a tandem parking stall for tenants unit 9, both who are Black Americans; DATED August 9, 2021 at 12:11 pm. Another REAP complaint was filed by email September 23, 2022 at 8:30 am. There has been no response from the City but the REAP complaint is mentioned in the code violation complaint 844729. One previous court decision already mentioned to the city ruled about $600 in judgment in my favor proving that that decision adjudicated the matter in my favor, although the court did not order the services restored. Los Angeles Superior Court Case 21STSC04574. As told to Mr. Wood, the city decision LAHD CE273371 ruled that the denial of housing services that I have requested amounts to illegal harassment by the owner and those acting in concert, i.e. Wood, etc. This complaint is also against (if not already named) city employees Mayor Karen Bass, Gilbert Cedillo, Paul Krekorian, Bob Blumenfield, Nithya Raman, Paul Koretz, Nury Martinez, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Mitch O’Farrell, Kevin DeLeon, and any new council members not listed. State law prohibits city employees from requiring tenants to be present for city inspections of units. The state law says “including but not limited to” and “general dilapidation or improper maintenance.”The city law LAMC says housing services are “including but not limited to”. State law also gives the code enforcement authority over “any nuisance”. “Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services).”HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE – HSC SUBSTANDARD HOUSING 17920.3. Any building or portion thereof including any dwelling unit, guestroom or suite of rooms, or the premises on which the same is located, in which there exists any of the following listed conditions to an extent that endangers the life, limb, health, property, safety, or welfare of the public or the occupants thereof shall be deemed and hereby is declared to be a substandard building: (a) Inadequate sanitation shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (12) Infestation of insects, vermin, or rodents as determined by a health officer or, if an agreement does not exist with an agency that has a health officer, the infestation can be determined by a code enforcement officer, as defined in Section 829.5 of the Penal Code, upon successful completion of a course of study in the appropriate subject matter as determined by the local jurisdiction. (13) General dilapidation or improper maintenance. (c) Any nuisance. (d) All wiring, except that which conformed with all applicable laws in effect at the time of installation if it is currently in good and safe condition and working properly. These local and state laws I have quoted expressly do not authorize the local government to improperly use federal housing funds to deny me the housing services requested. See the movie Power Property Management and city employees say Black tenants not entitled to Fair Housing.
https://youtu.be/VbFj__JK1QE . The Unruh civil rights act provides protection from discrimination by all business establishments in California, including housing and public accommodations. The term “business establishments” may include governmental and public entities as well. The Act is meant to cover all arbitrary and intentional discrimination by a business establishment on the basis of personal characteristics similar to those listed above. (Source:Google). City HCIDLA employees include Ann Sewill, Catherine Taylor-Gomez, Luz Santiago, Bessy Corrales, Kim Ly, Claudia Castillo, Veronica McDonnel, Sean Spear, Roberto Aldape, Daniel V. Gomez, Mathew Holen, David Zaitz, Anna Ortega, Valeria Steffens, Marcella D. Shurley. Tenants at this address include Carolyn Estevez, Vivian Depree, Daniel (unit 5), Jennifer Pesce (unit 6), M. Baney, T. Ruggieri, Kenny, R. Reyna, Kassandra Harris, M. Brown, C. DeLeon and B. Sohn, B. Bellio, C. Peterson, T. Cammasano. This building 1522 Hi Point St 90035 has new owners that I have been told. The new owner is Hi Point 1522 LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers Holdco LLC, managed by Todd Jacobs, associated with Hi Point 1522 TJ Entity LLC, managed by Anthony Jaffe, and Meghan Haynes of Bold Partners Investors. The property management company for this site is Power Property Management which is at the same address as the other 1522 Hi Point LLC entities above. Thomas Khammar, agent of the owner, claims that parking stall #8 is a tandem stall; that is a fraudulent statement as stall #8 is a single car stall. A new owner is liable for any nuisance conditions not addressed by the previous owner. Date: July 28, 2022. How many code violation complaints does a Black Man such as myself have to file before he can get an extra parking stall and a working intercom or maintenance? Maintenance is what I pay for monthly so the city government is without grounds to assist the owner in denying me rights under the rent agreement. Since the rent agreement says maintenance is “including but not limited to”, the city has no authority to use federal funds to deny me repair or replacement of the intercom. Further the rent agreement does not say the intercom is to be excluded from maintenance. I have offered to make the repairs myself but the owner and city is unresponsive. “Per the City of Los Angeles municipal code 62.104, property owners are responsible for the maintenance of curb adjacent to property. SEC. 62.104. REPAIRS TO SIDEWALKS, DRIVEWAY APPROACHES, CURB RETURNS AND CURBS. (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 184,596, Eff. 1/16/17.) (b) Responsibility for Maintenance. The owner of a Lot shall maintain any Sidewalk, Driveway Approach, Curb Return or Curb on the Lot in such condition that the Sidewalk, Driveway Approach, Curb Return or Curb will not endanger any Person or property passing thereon or violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.All rights reserved.” Wood seemed unaware of the owner liability for repairing the curb. I believe he said General Services should handle it. There is a conflict here as to which department handles it. In the meantime any person who walks down the street can file a claim against the city for the curb not being addressed. I believe units 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2,3,4,6,7 are being used for illegal home sharing. Wood did not address what are the qualifications needed for me to get the old intercom repaired or replaced? What are the qualifications for me to get the 2015 new intercom hooked up to my unit 9? What are the qualifications for me to have my single auto parking stall striping extended to make a tandem parking stall? What are the qualifications for me to received an extra parking stall? What are the qualifications for me to receive full and equal housings services as a Black male tenant in the city of Los Angeles? I should only have to ask these questions once; the restoration of services should take less than an hour and not more than 35 days. Negligence. Tortious interference. Yet I continue to pay rent. 2/8/23. GJ Johnson. Words: 3778.

On Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 11:03:02 AM PST, Richard Brinson <richard.brinson@lacity.org> wrote:

Mr Geary Johnson, Please be advised I have received and reviewed the new complaint you filed on 2-8-2023 for your unit 9 at 1522 Hi Point. After reviewing the complaint I determined it is a duplicate to complaint 844729 which you filed on 1-25-2023 and for which we performed an inspection on 2-6-2023 and issued a Notice to Comply(NTC) to the owners to make corrections to the observed deficiencies in your unit. Complaint case 844729 will be closed as a duplicate and no further activity will be performed. The NTC included a compliance date of 3-16-2023 and re- inspection date and time of 3-20-2023 at 8:30 am.

Richard Brinson
Senior Housing Inspector
Case Manager LAHD West Office Los Angeles Housing Department E: richard.brinson@lacity.org

September 11 2022

All about racism practiced by Hi Point 1522 LLC

“Why does a Judge not want Black tenants to have an intercom?
Why does a Judge not want Black tenants to have secured tandem parking?”

August 24, 2022

“Housing Services Denied by Nisi and Francisco and City”

“In a perfect world, free of racism from Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Ethiopians, etc. I would only have to request housing services once, or at the most twice.”

July 28, 2022

New code violation complaint filed

From: GJohnson(tainmount@sbcglobal.net)

To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; controller.galperin@lacity.org; gilbert.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; contactcd4@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.ridley-thomas@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.kevindeleon@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; info@housingrightscenter.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; jivar.afshar@lacity.org; fred.wong@lacity.org; lisa.yancey@lacity.org; joe.velasquez@lacity.org; bruce.todd@lacity.org; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; cynthia@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

Date: Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 12:37 PM PDT

Thomas Khammar, agent of service for Hi Point 1522 LLC
Brent Parsons, agent of service for Power Property Management, Inc. City government of Los Angeles Housing and REAP departments

This email represents continuing damages, proposed petition for writ of mandate, proposed court lien against the property.

The intercom still has not been repaired at this location unit 9. We have still not been provided with the requested and paid for tandem parking. I notice some tenants have been provided with central HVAC air conditioning while such housing privilege has not been offered to unit 9, as in housing discrimination. There is also illegal criminal home sharing at this property.

The new owner is Hi Point 1522 LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers Holdco LLC, managed by Todd Jacobs, associated with Hi Point 1522 TJ Entity LLC, managed by Anthony Jaffe. The property management company for this site is Power Property Management which is at the same address as the other 1522 Hi Point LLC which is 8885 Venice Blvd Los Angeles 90034.

“A recent brief call from Richard Brinson did not resolve the issues and the issues remain. I am not sure of Brinson’s position because on the phone he was a raving lunatic, unintelligible, and kept complaining about me calling his decision racist, at which point he hung up the phone. This type of retaliation by a government official is outrageous and unlawful. “

Due to the un-repaired intercom system, lack of parking for two vehicles (or tandem parking), and the refusal to respond of city employees as well as property owner, a new code violation complaint has been filed, city number 825343, five pages, regarding unit 9.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone (redacted)
This property is being advertised by

SKYLIGHT RESIDENTIAL LLC

Company Number 202105710842 Status Active Incorporation Date

22 February 2021 (about 1 year ago)

Jurisdiction

California (US)

Agent Name

NORTHWEST REGISTERED AGENT, INC

Directors / Officers

JASON S SHENITZER
MICHAEL D ASPINWALL
NORTHWEST REGISTERED AGENT, INC, agent

Registry Page

https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/CBS…

Abigail Vosper Nishila Sabharwal

July 29, 2022 – Request 22-7668

To the city clerk: “Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including but not limited to utilities (including light, heat, water, and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services).” The city Housing, Rent Stabilization Department, Code Enforcement, and REAP program, consistently have a pattern and practice of denying such services as intercom, repairs, and tandem/extra parking to Black tenants. The city clerk is asked to provide copies of documents within the last three years that indicate the extent of how widespread housing discrimination is practiced by city government employees in concert with racist, millionaire developers, United States Justice Department, and Office of the City Attorney, as regards the denial of above housing services. Thank you. Geary J. Johnson. July 29, 2022.

July 28, 2022 – Request 22-7602

To the City Clerk: The Housing Department, Rent Control Department, REAP departments are unresponsive: at this address 1522 Hi Point St 9, Los Angeles, 90035, we are still without a tandem parking stall even though agent Thomas Khammar (Power Property Management Group and Hi Point 1522 LLC) told the Public that we already have a tandem parking stall. Stall 8 is a single car stall. At this address (since 2014) we are still without repair to the intercom system. In our rent agreement, there is no limitation to the repairs we receive and pay for thru the rent because the rent agreement says maintenance is “including but not limited to”. The control box on the outside of the building clearly represents to the Public that we have a working intercom, but we do not. Thomas Khammar (for Power Property Management and Hi Point 1522 LLC) told the Public that in order to have a working intercom, the entire building needs to be rewired, but that has not been done yet. Code enforcement inspector Richard Brinson, a KKK racist, has refused to cite the owner for needed curb repair (and) other housing services requested. The city clerk is asked to supply copies of any and all housing discrimination complaints that have been forwarded to the city clerk’s office (or any other department) against the city government and Housing Department dated within the last three years and including any damage claims against the city government. Thank you. Geary J. Johnson. https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-7602

July 27, 2022 – Request 22-7560

To the city clerk: You are requested to provide acopy of the city document that states “XIV. EqualEmployment Opportunity” and “Code of EthicsStatement of Approved Principles for PublicService in the Government of the City of LosAngeles” or any document that references thesame. Thank you. G. Juan Johnson.

https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-7560

July 26, 2022 – Request 22-7504

I reported to city code enforcement Richard Brinson recently that curb repair is needed at 1522 Hi Point St 90035. Code violation complaint 823529. Brinson called me and said that the curb is a street repair issue and I imagine would not address it as a code violation issue. I communicated to Bureau of Street services and they wrote me: “Per the City of Los Angeles municipal code 62.104, property owners are responsible for the maintenance of curb adjacent to property. SEC. 62.104. REPAIRS TO SIDEWALKS, DRIVEWAY APPROACHES, CURB RETURNS AND CURBS. (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 184,596, E. 1/16/17.) (b) Responsibility for Maintenance. The owner of a Lot shall maintain any Sidewalk, Driveway Approach, Curb Return or Curb on the Lot in such condition that the Sidewalk, Driveway Approach, Curb Return or Curb will not endanger any Person or property passing thereon or violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.” Why did Brinson refuse this as a code violation complaint against the property owner Hi Point 1522 LLC/ Skylight Properties? The city clerk is requested to provide copies of any and all documents in the clerk’s possession that would indicate why Brinson has not been terminated from employment or transferred to another department? Brinson and the REAP department have refused to address housing services and maintenance reductions at this address (reduction in parking, parking stall striping, refusal to grant repairs to intercom of Black tenants).

https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-7504

July 25, 2022- Public Records Request 22-7489

“To the property owner Hi Point 1522 LLC , agent Thomas Khammar, you are ordered to repair or replace the intercom of tenants unit 9, at 1522 Hi Point St 90035 within 15 days. You are ordered to provide tenants unit 9, a tandem parking stall , at 1522 Hi Point St 90035 within 15 days.” As a law abiding citizen and Black American, it takes me 25 seconds to say the previous two sentences. How long does it take the KKK racists at the city Housing and Community Investment Department, rent control department, REAP department, code enforcement, to say the same two sentences? The oce of the city clerk is requested to provide copies of any and all documentation that indicates how much time it takes for racist city employees above departments to say “To the property owner Hi Point 1522 LLC , agent Thomas Khammar, you are ordered to repair or replace the intercom of tenants unit 9, at 1522 Hi Point St 90035 within 15 days. You are ordered to provide tenants unit 9, a tandem parking stall , at 1522 Hi Point St 90035 within 15 days.” https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-7489

December 26, 2021

“Klan members served

in all levels of American government”

Subject: DFEH intake 202009-11339723 and Intake against Hi Point 1522 LLC

From: GJohnson( )

To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; controller.galperin@lacity.org; gilbert.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; contactcd4@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris- dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.ridley-thomas@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.kevindeleon@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org

Date: Sunday, December 26, 2021, 12:47 PM PST

Ann Sewill, Director, Catherine Taylor-Gomez, Tricia Keane, Mike Feuer:

The filing of a complaint with HCIDLA, RSO, REAP, or code enforcement gives them jurisdiction over all matters in the complaint.

The HCIDLA and others claim they do not have jurisdiction over the intercom system in this building. FALSE. They have jurisdiction by nature of my complaints.

The city claims the Intercom system was not functioning at the time I moved in in 2010. FALSE. I already provided a note to the city which indicates by 2014 the intercom had stopped working. The note — from the owner and management—indicates the intercom was working prior to 2014, because the note says it had stopped working, which means it had to be working in order for it to stop working. This note attached is again provided to the city and the DFEH.

Other than racism and retaliation, the city government departments have not raised a legitimate reasons for their failure to address the intercom and the parking requested. The intercom and 2 car tandem parking were available at the inception of my tenancy.

The intercom control box on the outside of the building show my unit number which is number 9. This box and entry code box was approved by the city government in 2015 (re “capital improvements”) thus the city authorized the installation of the new 2015 intercom system which has my unit number on it. Under the state Unruh act, I am entitled to full and equal housing services, which I am not getting the benefit of such services, a privilege freely afforded to white tenants.

“In the 1920s, during what historians call the KKK’s “second wave,” Klan members served in all levels of American government.” (Source: Google).

“Klan members served in all levels of American government”

1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )

2014-4-25 Note Doorbell Intercom 1522 to Inspect Door Entry.pdf

December 19, 2021

Subject: Continuing Damages at 1522 Hi Point St- DFEH case number

202009-11339723

From: GJohnson( )

To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; controller.galperin@lacity.org; gilbert.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; contactcd4@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.ridley- thomas@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.kevindeleon@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; lafdrequest@lacity.org; manuel.a.alvarado@hud.gov

Cc: contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; stephanie.watts@dfeh.ca.gov; steve.lopez@dfeh.ca.gov; info@housingrightscenter.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com

Date: Sunday, December 19, 2021, 10:55 PM PST

I make reference to HCIDLA Case CE208134 and a letter from June 30, 3015 from Armida

Olguin-Flores. Yes, 2015, and the issues persist.

I intend to be illustrative here, but not all inclusive.

The 2015 letter from the city government is attached.

I continue to disagree with that decision and the damages are continuing, and do so every month I pay my rent monies.

PARKING

The city document alleges “you confirmed that you were provided a single parking space upon inception of your tenancy.”

FALSE.

I told the city employee that upon inception of tenancy unit 9 tenants were provided two car tandem stall #14. The statement of the city employee is based on and motivated by racial bias and retaliation because I complained. The rent agreement clearly shows parking for two cars i.e Parking space 1 and Parking space 2. The manager in 2010 put stall #8 in the parking space 2 to indicate we were receiving parking for two cars. For four years we were assigned to stall #14 (a tandem stall) and I gave pictures to the HCIDLA which the HCIDLA ignored the documentation that proves we were assigned and parking in a two car stall. Further, the HCIDLA alleges the tandem parking stall was not “available” at the inception of the tenancy.

FALSE.
Meriam Webster dictionary defines “available as ” easy or possible to get or use”.
Also “free and able to do something at a particular time: should be available to meet next Tuesday.” Also “obtainable”. As I told the investigator for the city, we moved into the unit on the grounds we would have parking for two vehicles. The manager agreed and told us two car parking would be available in a few days. In a few days he assigned us to parking stall 14. I gave pictures to the city HCIDLA showing that another tenant was parking in stall #8, further proof documentation that we were assigned to stall #14. The biased HCIDLA employee ignored this information. Stall number 8 was meant to be temporary and by the conduct of the parties, stall 8 was not part of the agreement. It is physically impossible to have parked in stall 8 if another car was parked there. This is bias on the part of the HCIDLA.

The HCIDA claims the landlord can contract the “tandem” as an additional service. Since my rent agreement says that parking for two cars is included in the rent, the landlord cannot charge the tandem as an additional service. Since 2015, I have never seen the landlord advertise to the Public that the tandem stall is an added fee, even telling the city every year “rent registration statement”, that all parking is included in the rent and no mention of a fee for tandem parking.

It has been contradictory and arbitrary discrimination over tandem parking because while the owner said the tandem parking could be “first come, first served” and “$50 per month” (2014), no one has ever done that, i.e no one who had a tandem stall is paying $50 extra/separate fee per month. If they are, it is not advertised to the public.

The problem is I have met both of those qualifications since 2015 yet I have not been assigned a tandem parking stall; the $50 is included in my rent since all parking is included in my rent.

Nevertheless, I did within the last six months fill out written applications for the $50 parking tandem as the city alleges I am entitled to if I pay the $50. I have not received the tandem parking, such parking provision which is under the jurisdiction of the HCIDLA, REAP, and code enforcement as a housing service, and under the REAP complaint I filed.

INTERCOM

The issue is maintenance. Everything in the unit for the use of the tenant should be working in the unit. From 100% maintenance, the owner reduced the amount of maintenance by not repairing the intercom and thus not giving us 100% maintenance. Maintenance was reduced therefore we are entitled to a rent reduction. That the city alleges the intercom was not maintained upon the inception of the tenancy, is further proof we did not receive 100% maintenance and repairs paid for by our rent monies.

There is nothing in my rent agreement that says if something is not working at inception of tenancy, that I am not entitled to repairs. Again, the issue is it is in my unit for my use and it needs to be maintained. This issue grew in intensity when in 2015 the city authorized the replacement of the intercom system (“capital improvements”) and the new control box on the outside of the building says unit 9 but ours is not working inside the unit. That is a maintenance issue. The city RSO has jurisdiction over housing services “including but not limited to” maintenance; the RSO and RAC does not say the jurisdiction does not include something not working at the inception of tenancy; indeed the intercom is “available” meaning “present” at the inception of the tenancy. There is no indication in the RAC or RSO regulations that the intercom had to be “working” at the inception of the tenancy. By replacing the intercom system in 2015 — but not our unit—-the owner was by his conduct indicating we should have one “available”, as one is “available” in our unit, but has not been maintained. Thus the HCIDLA has jurisdiction. The word “available” meaning “present”.

The HCIDLA claims the rent agreement is silent on the topic of the intercom. FALSE. The rent agreement speaks of housing services and items needing maintenance as “including but not limited to”, meaning the intercom, working or not, is included as part of the unit at the inception of the tenancy. Thus the intercom working or not, since it is in the unit at the inception of the tenancy, is part of the tenancy. I note that the bathroom sink, shower, heater, garbage disposal, are probably not mentioned specifically in the rent agreement but they are still subject to “maintenance.” I have been denied maintenance and for that I should get a rent reduction.

BTW, my intercom was working at the inception of tenancy. All alleged letters from other long term tenants did not address my unit as the management told me mine was working. If I had moved into the unit, and the refrigerator was not working, the refrigerator would still be available subject to repair. Rather than other tenants, only tenants unit 9 and the manager could verify was the intercom working at the inception of tenancy. There is no dispute that the intercom is in the unit and was “available” (present) at the inception of the tenancy. HCIDLA has not alleged it has any authority to deny maintenance to any housing service that was not working at the inception of the tenancy, as HCIDLA alleges.

I remind you that the previous owner told the DFEH that we do not have a working intercom because (1) we are long term tenants, (2) he only gives new intercoms to vacant units, and (3) he has not had the opportunity to repair the unit. The only part of that in the rent agreement is the “opportunity to repair”. With previous intercom replacement in 15 units taking less than 2 months each, since 2014 the owner has had plenty of opportunity to repair ours. The owner statements to the DFEH were never told to me by the owner directly or his management company. The statement to the DFEH indicates the owner was intentionally and maliciously denying me maintenance to the intercom.

My complaints under the city Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance have been ignored by the HCIDLA. The ordinance refers to “and thus interfered with my peaceful enjoyment of the rental property; disclose information about a tenant to any government entity for engaging in legally protected activities; Engaging in an activity prohibited by federal, state, or local housing anti- discrimination laws, i.e denying housing services in retaliation because I complained; repeated acts or omissions that disturb my peace and quiet and are caused to make me waive my rights to maintenance and parking.”

Due to the full definitions of available, the tandem parking, intercom, and maintenance was available at the inception of the tenancy.

Since the HCIDLA RSO, RAC, REAP, and code enforcement can order the housing services, other than racial bias and retaliation, what is the other reason for the malicious, oppressive, and fraudulent conduct of the HCIDLA employees?

Geary J. Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )

c: City attorney Mike Feuer.

2015-6-30 RAC denial closure LAHCID case.pdf

(Editor Note: The filing of a complaint by a resident gives the city agency jurisdiction over the entire contents of the complaint).

December 17, 2021

Subject: Maintenance is on the Property at 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035

From: GJohnson( )

To: 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; controller.galperin@lacity.org; gilbert.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; contactcd4@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.ridley- thomas@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.kevindeleon@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; lafdrequest@lacity.org; francisco.ortega@lacity.org

Date: Friday, December 17, 2021, 03:30 PM PST

Dear Hi Point 1522 LLC, Power Property Management Group, Inc., and Kassandra Harris Manager:

I notice maintenance on the property all week painting interior and exterior, installing synthetic grass, and an electrician installing new light fixtures in the hallways and exterior. Are those the maintenance crew responsible for the repair of the intercom system?

What is the chance the intercom unit 9 can be repaired or replaced this week?

I believe your lack of response to the maintenance (intercom) and parking complaints/requests represent malice, oppression, or fraud.

Geary Juan Johnson

Unit 9 tenant

(1522 Hi Point St, Los Angeles 90035)

November 13, 2021

City and Owner told of new code violation complaint

Subject: Code Violation Complaint Number 799574 with over 2222 words

From: GJohnson ( )

To: mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; controller.galperin@lacity.org; gilbert.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; contactcd4@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.ridley-thomas@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.kevindeleon@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; lafdrequest@lacity.org; francisco.ortega@lacity.org; ethics.commission@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org

Cc: 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com

Date: Saturday, November 13, 2021, 09:32 PM PST

To:

Power Property Management Inc. Brent Parsons/Hi Point 1522 LLC Kassandra Harris/Hi Point 1522 LLC

Summary:

Interior electrical
Exterior and Interior and parking lot Zoning Violation
Interior maintenance

Electrical service requires maintenance
Electrical wiring disconnected or abandoned
Defective, deteriorated, or bare electrical wiring
Premises not maintained in a safe and sanitary condition Stairway, walkway, or decking material requires maintenance Guardrail or handrail missing, unsafe, leaning, or in disrepair Structural defect
Inoperative vehicles or major auto repair on property

Intercom system unit 9 unusable
Lack of assignment to tandem parking stall
Rear inside stairs unstable
Rear inside door does not operate as intended; does not shut securely when released Un-permitted mini-split ductless HVAC air conditioners
Abandoned vehicle at stall number four with flat ries

This may post to the internet by the City clerk at CPRA request 21-10270.

Geary J. Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )
2021-11-13 Scanned Code Complaint 799574.pdf

(Editor: The owner was forwarded by attachment a complete copy of the 2222 word complaint. There has been no response from the owner, manager, or city council employees. This complaint represents continuing damages and continuing performance. The public can access the complete copy by city case number 799574. Omitting to respond by landlord may be considered harassment under the city Landlord Anti-Harassment Ordinance.)

November 4, 2021

“It is my belief that no matter

what Khammar’s racial bias,

that he neither can read

nor understand English

since he does not profess to understand

the provisions of the fair housing laws,

he does not know what an intercom is

and does not know what a parking stall is.”

Subject: Request for additional available parking (and reference DFEH cases 202109-14875226; 202109- 14667204 (Johnson vs Hi Point 1522 LLC). Unruh Act)

From: GJohnson ( )
To: brent@powerpropertygrp.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; highpoint1522@gmail.com; cynthia@powerpropertygrp.com

Cc: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; selena.wong@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; stephanie.watts@dfeh.ca.gov; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; contactcd4@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.ridley-thomas@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.kevindeleon@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; francisco.ortega@lacity.org; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; askdoj@usdoj.gov

Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021, 11:36 PM PDT

How a Los Angeles landlord can discriminate

against Black tenants who engage in protected activity

(by Thomas Khammar)

To whom it may concern/Power Property Management Inc:

I attach a “notice of change in terms of tenancy” signed today in order to be assigned a tandem parking stall for $50 per month. This form was previously forwarded to me by management.

Omitting to respond is considered unlawful “harassment” under the Los Angeles anti-harassment ordinance. If not for racism and retaliation because I opposed racism, what is your reason for not responding to my inquiries over the neglect of intercom maintenance and request for additional parking?

I believe that the actions of the landlord and agents herein constitute unlawful harassment as defined under city ordinance 187109.

I believe that the actions of the law firm named herein (see attachment) violate the California Rules of Professional Conduct; i.e. the law firm has participated in actions that are (2014) and beyond the statute of limitations; four of the named defendants did not file cross complaints signed under penalty of perjury (“fraud on the court”), and even though defendants Kassandra Harris and Cynthia Reynosa complain of my actions in 2014, I had no knowledge of Reynosa and Harris until 2019, indeed during the years 2016 thru 2018 I had no contact with Thomas Khammar or Power Property Management Inc.

I ask that the city and state employees cc’d to, support this action against Hi Point 1522 LLC. I ask that the city and state employees read the attachment which is a redacted copy of what Thomas Khammar and law firm presented to the court :”Declaration of Thomas Khammar re : Small claims appeal” which I believe is Thomas Khammar explaining how landlords can discriminate against Black tenants who engage in protected activity. The full copy of Khammar’s declaration and exhibits has been forwarded to city officials (under different cover) since many city employees are named in Khammar’s documents. Khammar claims that his company and friends have lost rent monies due to me engaging in protected activity; the Court previously denied this argument of Khammar as not having any validity; I suggest Khammar and his klan are at the least incompetent and that is why they lost money. Khammar’s exhibit list seems to be incomplete because I am told by the previous owner that there are over 200 complaints I filed involving this property.

It is my belief that no matter what Khammar’s racial bias, that he neither can read or understand English since he does not profess to understand the provisions of the fair housing laws, he does not know what an intercom is and does not know what a parking stall is. He is damn sure some pretty ignorant doofus who I could not imagine knows how to run a property management company. He must be really really stupid since he does not know how to get an intercom repaired and does not know how to assign parking. I suppose he is assigned to a number of buildings and he just does not know. “Khammar” nationality is Iran. “Koskhol”.

Urban Dictionary: koskhol persian for idiot. It is a vulgar way (street language) of saying stupid. it litteraly means crazy pussy. I don’…

Geary J. Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )

LAMC Article 5.3- Ordinance 187109

TENANT ANTI-HARASSMENT ORDINANCE
F. Landlord Notice. A civil proceeding or small claims case initiated under this article alleging any violation of Section 45.33 (2) may be commenced only after the tenant provides written notice to the landlord of the alleged violation, and the landlord fails to remedy the repair or maintenance issue within a reasonable period of time.

Reference: The California Unruh act.

(The DFEH intimidates and harasses Blacks to keep them from filing Unruh complaints.)

2021-11-4 Written Rental Change for Parking by Johnson.pdf

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2021-11-3 Redacted Excerpt Khammar Court Document.pdf

3.6MB

(Editor: This document had been redacted from the original. Attachments are not included herein. The Public can write the editor if they want copies of what exhibits the defendants put before the Court.)

October 7, 2021

Refrigerator replaced but no word

on Intercom or Parking

Subject: Memorialize Refrigerator repair at 1522 Hi Point Apartments 90035. Intercom and extra parking still not addressed.

From: GJohnson ( )

To: 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; councilmember.ridley-thomas@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.kevindeleon@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; hcidla.reap@lacity.org

Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021, 04:11 PM PDT

To: Hi Point 1522 LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers LLC, managed by Hi Point 1522 Managers Holdco LLC, managed by Todd Jacobs, associated with Hi Point 1522 TJ Entity LLC, managed by Anthony Jaffe; Power Property Management, Inc.

This shall verify that the refrigerator stopped working on September 27, 2021, as reported to Power Property Management Inc.

As of about 1:20 pm today, the frig was replaced with a new one. Thank you. (That old reconditioned refrigerator had been here over 10 years.)

OTHER HOUSING SERVICES CONCERNS

No attempt was made to repair, replace, or remove the non-working intercom. The box on the outside of the building implies that our intercom is working. The intercom has needed repair since 2014.

Also, no attempt was made to assign us with a second or tandem parking stall. The previous owner of the property, Walter Barrratt, said recently that extra parking stalls are available for $50 dollars per month on a first come first served bases. We have been first in line for extra parking since 2015. I spend a lot of money on electricity/gas having to move my car every week or so for street sweeping, or riding around the block searching for available parking, and I spend money writing and sending this email, and mailing post cards and letters seeking the extra parking stall.

Geary J. Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone ( )
c: city REAP department

June 12, 2021

City Clerk Asked to

Identify Racist City Employees

Subject: As submitted to City Clerk CPRA 6/9/21 at 10:02 am – file number 21-4543 From: GJohnson(tainmount@sbcglobal.net)

To: holman@holmanumc.com; pastorsauls@holmanumc.com; info@lwvlosangeles.org; ed@lwvlosangeles.org; attorneygeneral@dojca.gov; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; empowerla@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; cityclerk@lacity.org; clerk.election@lacity.org; ethics.commission@lacity.org; councilmember.harris- dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.deleon@lacity.org; senator.chang@senate.ca.gov; councilmember.ridley-thomas@lacity.org

Cc: holman@holmanumc.com; senator.chang@senate.ca.gov; senator.wolk@senate.ca.gov; senator@feinstein.senate.gov; info@lwvlosangeles.org; lwvdc1920@gmail.com; karen.baggio@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; angelo.shannon@lacity.org; steve.ongele@lacity.org; richard.horn@lacity.org; mark.salazar@lacity.org; crystal.otero@lacity.org; corey.hupp@lacity.org; paula.hudak@lacity.org; terry.herr@lacity.org; michael.hughes@lacity.org; jonathan.hom@lacity.org; info@da.lacounty.gov; emily.hu@lacity.org; maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org; scott.matsunaga@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; robert.hughes@lacity.org; charles.v.garcia@lacity.org; wanc@empowerla.org; k.dibiase@whcouncil.org; adozal.wcknc@gmail.com; sresnick@wwnc.org; mary@caldelle.com; jamie@westlasawtelle.org; teri@westlasawtelle.org; info.wattsnc@gmail.com; wimwilltam@yahoo.com; norma.chavez@svanc.com; vahe.grigoryan@svanc.com; lorichoi@prnc.org; christinedemirtshian@gmail.com; josefelixlarios@gmail.com

Date: Saturday, June 12, 2021, 12:30 PM PDT

“…harassment by landlords and the politics of exclusion by city funded NC’s (some of them are landlords)…”

City workers refuse to investigate health and safety complaints of Black tenants. Do you feel safe?

“Attention City Clerk: I understand in September 2020 the city mandated diversity training for all Neighborhood Councils. Does your office have any information on why NC’s discriminated against me as a candidate in the March 2020 CD10 District election and why no one has contacted me as to a resolution and why the city attorney’s office has not responded? I was physically assaulted by Church security guards and intimidated by event co-sponsors. (Unruh Act, CC section 51). On another note, I believe city employees Marcel Nicolas and Luis Tolentino should be fired for their racial discrimination and retaliation against me after I made valid code violation complaints re 1522 Hi Point St 90035, as reported to the Mayor and Council. Please provide a list of which city employees have been determined to be racist or retaliatory against Blacks who make housing complaints. Please provide a list of any and all city code violation inspectors who are racist. Please see the attached 36 page documents that was forwarded (June 7, 2021) to the City clerk for file number 14-0268-S13 as they relate to the relationship between harassment by landlords and the politics of exclusion by city funded NC’s (some of them are landlords). G. Juan Johnson, candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles 2022. ” (City Los Angeles CPRA 21-4543 submitted June 9, 2021 at 10:02 am).

Geary Juan Johnson

(reference: This email may be posted to the worldwide web as it is a communication to government officials.)

April 18, 2021

Code enforcement complaints re 1522 Hi Point Street 90035

“This complaint is also against city employees Mayor Eric Garcetti, Gilbert Cedillo, Paul Krekorian, Bob Blumenfield, Nithya Raman, Paul Koretz, Nury Martinez, Monica Rodriguez, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Mike Bonin, Mitch O’Farrell, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Kevin DeLeon.”

November 11, 2020

See the new issue below of Tenant News Nov-Dec 2020

Does Martisa know?

A death on Hi Point St 90035

October 1, 2020

Subject: Vacancies at 1522 Hi Point St 90035

From: G Johnson (email redacted)

To: mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; answers@hud.gov; fairhousing@usdoj.gov; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 10:17 AM PDT
“Come on Down!” New vacancies at 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035

Pros and Cons:

Pros: The rents have come down from an average of $2100 last year. Parking is included in the rent, sort of. Utilities are included in the rent, sort of. This is a rent controlled building.

Cons:

1. This street is the subject of city government authorized overbuilding which means incredible overcrowding and increased street parking density. This building was up for sale within the last two years.
2. This is a rent controlled building, so you may be subject to discriminatory, retaliatory, and arbitrary treatment from city government housing and other employees.
3. Hundreds of code violation, rent control, and discrimination complaints have been filed against this property owner. The owner has named some of the tenants in his response to complaints, so new tenants may run the risk of being named in housing complaints.
4. The building is poorly managed to say the least.
5. This past year the hot water has stopped working nearly every other month, sometimes for days at a time.

6. The resident manager has been accused of ignoring numerous tenant complaints.

7. From the website link attached showing rents, you can barely make out that the front of the building intercom is in disrepair. This means tenants may be subject to unwanted intruders walking the hallways. You can also see that the timber clad lettering is in a state of disrepair.
8. The intercom system has not been functioning as intended since 2014.
9. The front and rear entrance and exit doors frequently do not function as intended.
10. City code violation inspectors and rent control employees frequently ignore complaints about the property.
11. Interestingly, while many of the units were renovated in 2014-2018, the building has still suffered a high turnover rate.

“This is one of those issues that management refuses to respond to. Big red flag.”

12. Currently available for rent are units 10, 6, 16, 4, and 7. (Subject to verification).
13. With the exception of three units not renovated, all units of 18 have hardwood floors, which means tenants on the bottom floors may have noise complaints.
14. By state law, each unit is entitled to 1.5 parking stalls. There are 20 stalls including seven tandem parking stalls on the property (this is not covered parking) but tandem stalls is mysteriously not mentioned in the advertisement. Parking appears to be assigned on an arbitrary basis, and there is no house rule posted as to how one can apply for the two car tandem parking stalls, i.e for those who have only one vehicle or if a tenant has two vehicles. This is one of those issues that management refuses to respond to. Big red flag.
15. Many of complaints about the building have centered on lack of maintenance, denial of housing services, discrimination, and denial of rent reductions after removing housing services. Some housing complaints have concerned the discriminatory and arbitrary assignment of parking stalls.
16. The ad claims there is a $100 charge for utilities. Applicants should be wary of this. First, all tenants in the building are not being charged the $100. Second, is the $100 a deposit or is it monthly? Third, the building is master metered for the gas and electric meaning there is only one meter for the whole building. Fourth, for those of you who pay the $100, are you paying for someone else’s electric and gas? Last, before you sign to pay the $100 for utilities, I would ask to see the copies of the electric and gas bills.
17. If I wanted to move into this building, before signing an agreement, I would want to know when will the timber clad letters and intercom be repaired. Depending on the property management’s answer, this may save you some trouble down the line if you choose to move in or not.

“…before you sign to pay the $100 for utilities, I would ask to see the copies of the electric and gas bills…”

(This email is intended to help others as well as myself to exercise or enjoy the right to non-discriminatory treatment in the “terms, conditions, or privileges” or “services or facilities” provided in connection with housing. This email is not intended to make any false, misleading, or derogatory statements nor is the email intended to defame or slander any person or entity or to express any opinions or facts not already disclosed to the Public or to government entities or officials. This email constitutes protected activity. All rights reserved.)

Geary (“G”) Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

2020-9-29 Show me the Rent Vacancies Page re Hi Point.pdf

Vacancies for Lease at 1522 Hi Point St 90035

(Note from editor: 1522 Hi Point St (90035) is owned by Hi Point Apts, LLC, not be to confused with Highpoint Real Estate Property Management and not to be confused with Hipointapts.com.)

(Note from Editor: picture updates below:)

2020-10-5 For WP Intercom Letters Back Up 2020-10-5 Timber Clad Repaired 1522

September 27, 2020

SUBJECT: Maintenance is not permitted on a Sunday. Intercom still not repaired

FROM: G Johnson (email redacted)

TO: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; answers@hud.gov; fairhousing@usdoj.gov; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

DATE: Sunday, September 27, 2020, 02:09 PM PDT

Maintenance is not permitted on a Sunday. Intercom still not repaired

To whom it may concern:

I witnessed two sets of workers on the property today around 10:30 am to 11:30 am. I witnessed two vehicles of workers.

No attempt was made to repair or replace the intercom at unit 9 nor was any attempt made to extend stall #8 into a tandem stall, as has been the owner’s past practice for another tenant request.

The workers on the property made a lot of noise. It appeared they were throwing debris into the back of a truck, perhaps from unit number 4. The loud noises disturbed my peaceful enjoyment of the property. It did not appear the workers were addressing an emergency.

According to city LADBS, Permitted Construction/Demolition Hours are as follows:

Monday through Friday 7:00 A.M. – 9:00 P.M.
Saturday or National Holidays 8:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.
Sunday No Work Permitted

However, as regards occupied residential multi-family dwellings such as this address, such work is prohibited on Saturday as well as Sunday. (Otherwise M-F 8-5).

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles, CA 90035

Subject: Continuing Damages due to non-working intercom Unit 9

FROM: G Johnson (EMAIL REDACTED)

Sunday, September 27, 2020, 01:45 PM PDT

To whom it may concern:

On or around September 24, 2020 I received notice from FedEx that they had attempted delivery but there was no one available to sign and receive the package. I was available and waiting for a Fed Ex delivery but they were not able to notify me because the intercom unit 9 does not work.

I spent an hour waiting for the delivery September 24. I had provided my email and phone to Fed ex but those devices were not used to contact me. My normal rate of pay for work is $19.00 per hour, which is the time I spent at home waiting for the Fed Ex package.

My expected Fed Ex was delivered Friday at 10:45 am for which I signed. In order to get the package. I had to wait at home for 1.5 hours from about 9:00 because the truck was late, the driver did not use my phone or email to contact me, and the intercom system did not work. Not only did I spend an hour and half waiting, but I had to do so outside the building in order to get the package. My normal rate of pay is $19.00 per hour.

Total damages: $19.00 x 2.5 = $47.50.

The owner has been notified separately.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035

P.S. Regarding the failure by the city to assign tandem parking to unit 9 at this location (see the REAP complaint filed with the city), at one time a tenant in stall number 13 was parked in a single stall. The tenant had two vehicles and asked for an additional stall so the owner extended the painted striping and the tenant, an Asian, received the privilege of parking for two cars. The city government RSO/code enforcement by denying me a tandem stall has acted in an biased, arbitrary, capricious, and unjust manner and continued to deny me full and equal housing services.

(Note from editor: the body of this email was also sent to the property owner. 1522 Hi Point St 90035 is owned by Hi Point Apts, LLC, not be to confused with Highpoint Real Estate Property Management and not to be confused with Hipointapts.com.)

September 10, 2020

LA Housing and Community Investment Dept Charged with Racism

September 10, 2020

Feuer and LA Commission Ignore Race Complaints

September 7, 2020

LA Messob Ethiopian Restaurant Charged with Election Racism

The power of racism is among us: how government perpetuates racism

August 10, 2020

Governor Newsom asked to fire ‘racist’ state employee over refusal to investigate housing discrimination

Intractable, systemic racism persists

FROM: GJohnson (REDACTED)

TO: pamela.phimmasenh@dfeh.ca.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; answers@hud.gov; askdoj@usdoj.gov; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org

Monday, August 10, 2020, 10:02 AM PDT
SUBJECT: DFEH case JOHNSON/KISH 2020006-10405912 – Full and Equal Under Unruh

Dear DFEH:

Your closure of the intake against Kevin Kish is not acceptable as a resolution. There is also a pending complaint against state employee Colleen Janatpour so it would not be appropriate to appeal one racist decision from you to another racist like Colleen, on the grounds that Newsom’s employee Janatour is not capable of rendering an unbiased decision.

As to your closure letter reasoning that the current information is a duplicate of a previous DFEH case, two federal Judges have ruled that your previous alleged cases are not res judicata in this case because there is a continuing relationship between the parties and because damages are continuing. There is also no previous case against state employee Kevin Kish under the DFEH or HUD numbers, as you allege.

I do appeal this matter under duress. However I will be filing another complaint on the grounds that a fair and unbiased appeal process is not available to me.

In addition, you are also a bold faced liar. During our conversation during the interview, and you said in your voicemail left to my phone, that you would be filing a complaint in the DFEH case number based on the tandem parking stalls being denied. You did not keep your word as left to me on the voicemail. You need to be terminated from your position with the DFEH because you are a liar and a racist. You are one of the many racist people that Black Lives Matter is talking about. You need to be fired Pamela for participating in denial of full and equal privileges to myself as Black American.

“Again I ask to you personally as you are a racist, how do I as a Black American male, in this United States of America, qualify for housing services requested at this location? Pamela, how many hoops do I have to jump thru to get full and equal housing services?”

If your voicemail to me is that the parking issue would be made into a DFEH authorized complaint, then your intake closure reason based on duplicate, is false based on your own voicemail to me.

New damages means that this current complaint is not a duplicate of a previous complaint. New damages means I can continue to file complaints.

Again I ask to you personally as you are a racist, how do I as a Black American male, in this United States of America, qualify for housing services requested at this location? Pamela, how many hoops do I have to jump thru to get full and equal housing services?

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone (redacted)

On Monday, August 10, 2020, 07:43:11 AM PDT, Phimmasenh, Pamela@DFEH <pamela.phimmasenh@dfeh.ca.gov> wrote:

Good morning Mr. Johnson,
Please see attached notice of intake form closure for the above matter.

Best Regards,

Pamela Phimmasenh

Associate Governmental Program Analyst
Department of Fair Employment and Housing
Enforcement Division/Housing Unit
2218 Kausen Drive, Suite 100, Elk Grove, California 95758 Pamela.Phimmasenh@dfeh.ca.gov

Telephone: 916.585.7078 Toll Free: 800.884.1684 Fax: 916.405.4228

(EDITOR: This email chain has been redacted)

(Editor note: this is a communication regarding a DFEH Unruh Complaint. The email was sent to various state as well as city Los Angeles officials. Also, the names of all tenants have been turned over to the City and DFEH.)

Subject: Need for Intercom repair – DFEH case 2020006-10405912 – to Racist Pamela

From: GJohnson (redacted)

To: pamela.phimmasenh@dfeh.ca.gov

Cc: contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; answers@hud.gov; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; askdoj@usdoj.gov; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; nai.saechao@dfeh.ca.gov; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov

Date: Saturday, August 8, 2020, 09:45 AM PDT

pamela.phimmasenh@dfeh.ca.gov

Dear Pamela/DFEH:

You are an employee who works under the authority (of) Governor Gavin Newsom.

Pamela, I believe you are a racist.

Certainly you must know what an intercom is because in city of Los Angeles only about 40% of housing stock is single family homes, so the rest is to a good degree multi-family apartment buildings that have intercoms. Even box building condos have intercom systems.

An intercom also must be important because this property owner, rather than remove the intercom system, installed a brand new one in 2014. Certainly the placement of the intercom on the outside of the building indicates to the Public that the intercom is important. Did you see the pictures I sent you of the intercom and parking at this location?

I realize that the DFEH in a biased illegal manner has stated that only white females at this location are entitled to a new intercom. All white females at this location have a working intercom.

Government agency Los Angeles County Public Health Department previously in 2015 ordered the owner and thus the city HCIDLA, to repair, replace, or remove the intercom. If the owner and the city HCIDLA had followed the order of the county Health Inspector, that would have given me a new intercom in 2015. That did not occur. Certainly in these times of Black Lives Matter/RONA/Medieval Times, an intercom is a needed housing service.

As I have asked numerous times before, to Pamela the KKK racist, how do I as a Black, male American, get “full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever”; how do I as a Black, male American get maintenance to my intercom?

(This communication may be posted to the worldwide web.)

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone (redacted)

2020-8-8 Env Return City Civil Rights Commission

Is the city civil and human rights commission real or a scam?

Update June 21, 2020

Click here for June 16 forward video of voicemail to city

“You’re nothing but a bunch of animals”

Update June 16, 2020

Subject: Housing Services have still not been restored – rent controlled building 1522 Hi Point St 90035

From: G Johnson

To: mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; david.ryu@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org

Cc: councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org

Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 12:58 pm

To whom it may concern:

Below is the text of a voice message that was received yesterday in part to about 20 city employees; today the full message was received by about 20 city employees at 9:00 am, 9:30 am, and 10:00 am, indicative but not exhaustive.

“Today is June 9, 2020. This call is to city code enforcement employees Joseph and Grant and to whom it may concern of the city Los Angeles government. This is tenant 9 at 1522 Hi Point St 9, Los Angeles California. There seems to be some hesitancy on your part when it comes to enforcing the law on maintenance to intercoms. I may have to get the help of the Black Lives Matter movement. Under the city safe at home order, “services to maintain the safety, sanitation, and essential operation to properties and other essential activities” is permitted. Call boxes and intercoms as such are for security purposes and their maintenance is considered to be essential business under city law and thus you have no authority to delay such services until the stay at home order is lifted. The intercom needs to be working today. In the meantime, maybe you are not aware because of lack of intelligence, but there are numerous buildings in Los Angeles that have intercoms. I want you to research this for me and let me know approximately how many buildings in Los Angeles have either call boxes, intercoms, or intercoms connected to a fire safety alarm system. All I should have to do is report this one time. That is my only obligation. The city since it approved the CFO for the building and the capital improvements rent increase, and under rent control law, has the authority to rectify all these matters and if necessary bill the owner. You don’t need my permission or cooperation. The thing is you like dealing with a bunch of animals. But animals don’t put in written complaints or make calls to code enforcement. They say it is animals who loot and steal. Those who loot and steal don’t believe in the government process. They don’t believe in authority figures or the regular channels of communication. But they are not the animals, you are. This is tenant #9 at 1522 Hi Point St and you have the contact information.”

I am a supporter of Black Lives Matter.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black

reference

City Code violation number 763827 subject to complaint to be filed with city Department of Civil and Human Rights. DFEH COMPLAINTS 202003-09560610, etc al.

Click to hear video of Voice Message to City Employees

June 7, 2020

Subject: Code Violation Complaint Filed Against Hi Point Apts LLC

From: GJohnson

To: walter.barratt@gmail.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com

Cc: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; hcidla.contact@lacity.org; empowerla@lacity.org; councilmember.harris- dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org

Date: Sunday, June 7, 2020, 10:32 AM PDT

To whom it may concern:

A code enforcement violations complaint has been filed with the city of Los Angeles for the following reasons regarding 1522 Hi Point St 90035:

Parking lot electric security gate not closing all the way
Rear building exit door to parking lot does not close securely as intended
Rear steps inside building are structural defect and wobble unsafely when tenants walk on them

These are health and safety issues. Code enforcement employees Joseph and Grant said to me via phone/voicemail that they will be contacting the property owner on these matters. These lack of repairs have been pending since January 2020 and may have been the subject of previous code violation complaints.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

P.S.

Property management company is Power Property Management Group

Power Property Management 8885 Venice Blvd. Suite 205
Los Angeles, CA 90034 brent@powerpropertygrp.com

Staff: Brent Parsons, Thomas Khammar, Jackie Gallardo, Jeanette Conway, Alva Corodo, Fidel Medina, Joel Murrillo, Javier Guevarra, Liliano Morales, Edi Hernandez, Justice Walker.

Property owner is Hi Point Apts, LLC, Walter Barratt, owner

Hi Point Apts LLC
Walter Barratt
226 Carrol Canal
Venice CA 90291 walter.barratt@gmail.com

Resident manager Kassandra Harris
1522 Hi Point St Unit 12 Los Angeles CA 90035 highpoint1522@gmail.com

City Councilperson Herb Wesson staff is:

Shawn Love ,Wallace Deron Williams, Andrew Westall, Edward Johnson, Justin Wesson, Jordan Beroukhim, Michael Tonetti ,Sophie Gilchrist , Jasmyne Cannick, Gladys Espinoza ,Alvinette Strong, Joe Torres, Sylvia Lacy, Kimani Black, Elizabeth Carlin, Vincent Burditt ,Billie Green, Albert Lord ,Cairo Rodriguez, Jamie Hwang ,Jeff Camp, Jonathan Mitchell.

March 23, 2020

Coronavirus: support rent moratorium

February 20, 2020

Los Angeles city council told of denial of housing services; denial equal opportunity from neighborhood councils; election fraud

The letter given to the city council members appeared in the Random Lengths news, January 23, 2020, page 19, and also the online edition, entitled “Denied a Turn at the Podium“.

January 19, 2020

(Note: this email also appears on another page on this site)

Seven city funded $42,000 each groups block candidate from speaking

THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION. Not all people who practice denial of equal opportunity are white. For those who practice it, it is business as usual. This is an example of Elite Blacks discriminating against their own kind. This is disheartening. I wonder why I paid $300 to the city government to be a candidate. With such a welcoming committee, these people might as well just throw me in the Auschwitz ovens. If you want to express an opinion, you can contact the city department of neighborhood empowerment (sponsor of this event) at 213-978-1551 or FAME Church at 323-735-1251.

FROM: G Johnson (REDACTED)

DATE: Sun 1/19/2020 11:20 AM

SUBJECT: RE A New Rep for CD-10? Come Meet The Candidates This Saturday!

To: United Neighborhoods Neighborhood Council (info@unnc.org); EmpowerLA@LACity.org; voicesncchair17@gmail.com; john.arnold@unnc.org; garykasbarian@soronc.org; realtorericajung@gmail.com; cerdan.bhnc@gmail.com

Cc: Clerk Election; Mayor Garcetti; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; City of Los Angeles; City of Los Angeles; City of Los Angeles; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; Councilmember Harris-Dawson; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; Councilmember John S. Lee; councilmember.smith@lacity.org [councilmember.smith@lacity.org]

Dear UNC and seven other groups and FAME church:

Your email and FB ad claims you will hold a candidate forum for the “5 candidates running” on January 25. Your announcement is incorrect because there are six candidates including myself running for council District 10. I have asked the mayor and city council, as well as the ethics and election divisions, to disqualify all candidates who participate in forums that have denied me equal opportunity to speak as a candidate. I also feel your denial of equal opportunity could constitute grounds for invalidating the election.

I have also made a complaint to the mayor and council that neighborhood councils, since they receive $42,000 in city tax dollars, should not be allowed to use tax dollars to deny myself equal opportunity in this regard. This complaint herein is against the City Department of Neighborhood Development as well as against all Neighborhood Councils individually, their officers and members, et al.

Please let me know that I will be equated equal opportunity and be allowed to speak as a candidate on the podium on January 25. Allowing me to speak as a candidate Jan 25 is not a waiver of any damages that have occured to my campaign as a result of your FB and email announcements of the candidate forum. My campaign email and phone number are a matter of public record. You may also contact me at my personal mobile below or thru this email.

G. Juan Johnson

Qualified and certified candidate for council district 10

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

On Sunday, January 19, 2020, 09:45:40 AM PST, United Neighborhoods Neighborhood Council <info@unnc.org> wrote:

A New Rep for CD-10? Come Meet The Candidates This Saturday!

This Saturday, January 25th is your chance to hear directly from the 5 candidates running to represent District 10 in the LA City Council. Herb Wesson has termed out as our representative and a primary election in March will be the first step to determine who succeeds him in office.

UNNC has partnered with 7 neighboring Neighborhood Councils and a local block club to fund and plan this Candidate Forum. An open Q&A session will allow you to directly ask questions of the candidates. Spanish and Korean translation services will be provided as well as an ASL interpreter. More details about the forum are directly below along with flyers about the event that we encourage you to share with your neighbors, family and friends!

DATE: Saturday, January 25, 2020

TIME: 9:30AM Continental Breakfast; 10AM-12PM Forum (Doors open at 9AM)

LOCATION: First African Methodist Episcopal Church (FAME), 2770 S Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018

FREE to attend. RSVPs are encouraged at: https://cd10-forum.eventbrite.com

Moderated by:

Dr. Jody Armour, Professor of Law, University of Southern California

Alex Cohen, Anchor, Spectrum News One

Candidates:

Channing Martinez, Community Organizer

Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Angeles County Supervisor, 2nd District

Melvin Snell, Human Rights Activist

Aura Vasquez, Former Los Angeles City Commissioner

Grace Yoo, Community Leader/Attorney

You are receiving this email because you signed up for our mailing list at a community event, one of our meetings or at our website http://www.unnc.org/
Our mailing address is:

United Neighborhoods Neighborhood Council P.O. Box 19219
Los Angeles, CA 90019

(EDITOR: THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN REDACTED DUE TO THE GRAPHICS.)

January 16, 2020

SUBJECT: Does city employee Joseph HCIDLA comprehend English?

From: GJohnson (redacted)

To: mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.smith@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; info@piconc.com; holman@holmanumc.com; empowerla@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org

Cc: 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; cynthia@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com

Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020, 07:21 AM PST

Does Joseph comprehend English?

To whom it may concern:

Housing services maintenance to the intercom and tandem parking still have not been restored at this location per the complaints in this matter. These complaints have been pending for years. Please restore the services today without further delay.

DO NOT CLOSE THE COMPLAINTS UNLESS SERVICES HAVE BEEN RESTORED AND RENT REIMBURSEMENTS PROVIDED.

G. Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Phone (REDACTED)

reference:
January 3, 2020 HCIDLA case number CE249404
January 5, 2020 City Code Violation 750967 Complaint (over 2873 words)

(January 19 Commentary not in the above email:)

LOS ANGELES GOVERNMENT HAS TO CHANGE THE WAY IT DOES BUSINESS. I am a renter. I pay rent every month on time. After a new owner purchased the building, by 2015 I had complained repeatedly about a reduction in parking and reduction in maintenance to a non-working intercom in the unit. I would eventually place over 100 RSD code enforcement complaints, inspectors would meet with me about six times, I appeared in two city public hearings and filed numerous other public documents mentioning the intercom repair over 42 times. I am tired of jumping thru hoops. I have told the city to correspond by mail because talking on the phone is not solving the problem. The building has a resident manager. Here we are four years later and still no working intercom and still no tandem parking stall. I am sure most of you reading this know these issues could be resolved in less than a day. So the city insists I jump thru more hoops. Citizens will say I need to talk more with city employees on the phone. I have done that and it does not work. Why do I need to complain more than 142 times? I will place complaints until the issues are resolved or hell freezes over, whichever occurs first. But I will not continue to jump thru hoops. I will not keep calling city employees on the phone ad infinitum for city employees who don’t comprehend English. I will not continue to take off work. Let the city employees communicate in writing. These type of housing complaints are happening all across the city and county. Other candidates for office seem oblivious to the problem. We need to change the way government does business. No more housing discrimination and retaliation by city employees.

Updated September 29, 2019

Los Angeles government says Blacks not entitled to maintenance of this intercom. Why you should not move into rent controlled building.

August 8, 2019

SUBJECT: Intercom – Parking – Stairs – Tree

From: (TENANT NAME AND EMAIL REDACTED)

To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; cynthia@powerpropertygrp.com; jade@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; walter.barratt@gmail.com

Cc: cityclerk@lacity.org; adam.lid@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; daniel.lee@culvercity.org; goran.eriksson@culvercity.org; thomas.small@culvercity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; steve.ongele@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; info@da.lacounty.gov; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.englander@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; mike@11thdistrict.com; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org

Date: Thursday, August 8, 2019, 10:20 PM PDT To whom it may concern:

TO: Cynthia Reynosa, Jade

Beck, Kassandra Harris, Hi

Point Apts LLC, Walter Barratt,

Courtney Doran Gloria Torres Mariana Lamb Lisa Romero– Martinez Marina Lem Roberto Aldape Lydia Perez Lydia Pena Daniel B Gomez, Erika Garcia Donya Plazo Jorge de la Torre Robert Galardi Javier Melendez Brian Beltran Norman Koplan ; David Zaitz; Nell Dizon; Glender Chu; Elva Valdovinas; Marcella DeShurley ; Emma Garcia; Susan Gosden ;Rushmore Cervantes, Lilly Fuentes Claudia Monterrosa Laura K Gugliemo, Bessie Corrales, Sally Richman, Alfonso Perez, Sharon Lowe, Luz Santiago, Lyndon Salvador Zachary Millet Rosa Benavides, Greg Kung

Communication from the Public – Regarding Los Angeles Housing Committee Item No. 14- 0268-S13 – Community Impact Statement

Harassment Complaint against Hi Point Apts LLC and Power Property Management

Denial of housing services

* The intercom system unit 9 and outside the building is unusable. The intercom needs repair

* Unit 9 tenants are still being denied a tandem parking stall

* The back interior stairs remain unstable and need repair as they are dangerous wobble when walking on them

* These areas have previously been reported to city code enforcement with no abatement ordered

In addition the bush at the front sidewalk

The bush at the front door is blocking part of the sidewalk. I have previously reported this but the branches have not been cut. A guest of mine has been injured as a result of the branches obstructing the sidewalk. Please forward me the contact information for the insurance company of Power Property Management group so I may file a claim against the insurance policy.

I propose the Tenant for Life ordinance

TENANT FOR LIFE – Often we are going up against property owners who have millions of dollars at their disposal and an insurance policy that will pay for their lawyers. Even though we have some government agencies as a resource, and some laws at our disposal, it is not enough because the laws are not being enforced in a consistent and fair manner. We need to push for stronger penalties against slum landlords. I am proposing to the city council the “Tenant for Life” ordinance: if a tenant suffers a reduction in housing services (including lack of maintenance), whether substantial or non-substantial need for repairs or a nuisance, if a landlord does not abate the conditions within 30 days, the tenant will become a “tenant for life”; the tenant can only be evicted for one reason: non-payment of rent. Also, the tenants rent will be capped at their current rent for the life of the tenant. This would apply to all tenants and all apartment buildings across Los Angeles. The penalties would be mandatory and not subject to city employee discretion. I ask that you join me in supporting such ordinance.

Illegal Rent

We still pay an illegal rent based on the May 25, 2019 email complaint to the owner and City government.

1522 Hi Point St #9

90035

JULY 3 2019

SUBJECT: The tree

From: (TENANT NAME AND EMAIL REDACTED)

To: jade@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com

Cc: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.englander@lacity.org; mike@11thdistrict.com; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; adam.lid@lacity.org; cityclerk@lacity.org; cynthia@powerpropertygrp.com; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov

Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2019, 07:09 PM PDT

Attention Jade Beck, Power

Property management group,

Kasandra Harris resident

manager, Hi Point Apts LLC:

See the picture of the tree at the front door. Can you see the two criminals hiding behind the tree? No one else can see them either.

(tenant name redacted)

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

cc: DFEH complaint re Hi Point Apts LLC and PPMG

P.S. redacted attached is the note attached with the rent that you accepted on June 1, 2019 “What race do you have to be to get a working intercom, what race do you have to be to get a tandem parking stall, back stairs unstable.”

2019-7-3 Tree Covering Hi Point.jpg

2019-6-1 Note with Rent paid Redacted Unit 9.pdf

JUNE 3 2019

Fw: Power Property Management, Inc. – Unpaid Charges Reminder

From: (TENANT NAME AND EMAIL REDACTED)

To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.englander@lacity.org; councilmember.harris- dawson@lacity.org; mike@11thdistrict.com; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; adam.lid@lacity.org; cityclerk@lacity.org

Cc: info@da.lacounty.gov; daniel.lee@culvercity.org; goran.eriksson@culvercity.org; thomas.small@culvercity.org; jade@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com; cynthia@powerpropertygrp.com

Date: Monday, June 3, 2019, 9:03 AM PDT
Los Angeles Housing Committee Item No. 14- 0268-S13 – Community Impact Statement-

ILLEGAL RENT COMPLAINT RE HI POINT APTS – a rent controlled building

Dear LA Housing/Rent Control/Code enforcement:

We paid the rent on the June 1. Everytime we pay the rent on the 1st, the PPMG sends us a notice email attached that the rent had not been paid.

Under any applicable current ordinances regarding harassment, and under any new ordinances regarding harassment, please penalize the property owner and management company $500,000 (five hundred thousand dollars) each for every act of harassing emails. I have asked the PPMG to stop sending me such emails and they have continued to send the emails as evidenced below. I feel harassed by the emails.

I feel the emails are for the purposes of harassment especially in light of the fact the emails sent by PPMG have negligently not answered my concerns re housing services intercom maintenance and tandem parking. This conduct of the owner and agents amounts to malice, oppression, or fraud.

I also ask that civil penalties be imposed against the city government of Los Angeles for enabling the acts of harassment of the property owner and management company.

1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035

c: LA County District Attorney; resident manager Kasandra Harris

—– Forwarded Message —–
From: Power Property Management, Inc. <donotreply@appfolio.com>

To:
Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019, 8:02:38 AM PDT
Subject: Power Property Management, Inc. – Unpaid Charges Reminder

Hello (TENANT),
This is a reminder that you have unpaid charges due.
Want to make your payment online? Activate your online portal.

Thank you for choosing Power Property Management, Inc..

Power Property Management, Inc. (310) 593-3955 http://www.PowerPropertyManagement.com

May 25, 2019

Los Angeles Housing Committee Item No. 14- 0268-S13 – Community Impact Statement- ILLEGAL RENT COMPLAINT RE HI POINT APTS – a rent controlled building

From: [tenant name and email redacted]
To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; cynthia@powerpropertygrp.com; jade@powerpropertygrp.com; highpoint1522@gmail.com

Date: Saturday, May 25, 2019, 6:39 PM PDT

ILLEGAL RENT COMPLAINT RE HI POINT APTS – a rent controlled building

From: [tenant name redacted]

To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org

Cc: cityclerk@lacity.org; adam.lid@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org

TO: Cynthia Reynosa, Jade Beck, Kassandra Harris, Hi Point Apts LLC, Walter Barratt, Courtney Doran Gloria Torres Mariana Lamb Lisa Romero– Martinez Marina Lem Roberto Aldape Lydia Perez Lydia Pena Daniel B Gomez, Erika Garcia Donya Plazo Jorge de la Torre Robert Galardi Javier Melendez Brian Beltran Norman Koplan ; David Zaitz; Nell Dizon; Glender Chu; Elva Valdovinas; Marcella DeShurley ; Emma Garcia; Susan Gosden ;Rushmore Cervantes, Lilly Fuentes Claudia Monterrosa Laura K Gugliemo, Bessie Corrales, Sally Richman, Alfonso Perez, Sharon Lowe, Luz Santiago, Lyndon Salvador Zachary Millet Rosa Benavides, Greg Kung

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

General Manager, Rushmore D. Cervantes ………………. 9th Floor 213 Executive Administrative Assistant, Lily Fuentes …………….. 213

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Director, Daniel V. Gomez ……………………………………… 8th Floor Secretary, Erika Garcia……………………………………………………….

􏰁 Administration / Program Support: Donya Plazo ……………….. 􏰁 Case Analysis Legal: Jorge De La Torre………………………….. 􏰁 Complaints & Special Enforcement / SCEP: Robert Galardi .. 􏰁 Code Hearings: Javier Melendez ……………………………………. 􏰁 Emergency Management / TRIP / URP: Brian Beltran ………..

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􏰁 REAP / UMP: Nell Dizon ………………………………………………..

958 Rent Stabilization Division
Director, Anna Ortega ……………………………………………. 8th Floor Secretary, vacant……………………………………………………………….

􏰁 Case Analysis: Glender Chu …………………………………………..
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DEAR Garcetti RSD LA, et al:

Tenants unit 9 still have not received rent reimbursements for reduction of maintenance to the intercom system, and reduction parking from tandem stall to single stall. In addition, the city government has refused to explain what are the qualifications for getting maintenance to the intercom system —“equal privileges and services”— and refused to explain what are the qualifications for being assigned tandem parking —“equal privileges and services”.

Those issues above mean we continue to pay an illegal rent.

In addition, there is the matter of capital improvements increase of $17.08. City decision Issued May 8 2015. That increase included the replacement of the intercom system (of which ours was not replaced or repaired). We are paying an increase for an intercom system that only benefits other tenants. That increase also included the installation of exterior lights to the building. Those exterior lights have since recently failed in their entirety, thus we pay an illegal rent for the exterior lights. The increase for the exterior lighting was .89 cents per unit. The increase for the intercom-door entry was $.44 cents per unit. We pay for the replacement of the building intercom system, but ours was not repaired or replaced. We are owed rent reimbursement of $.44 cents per month since 2015 May. Our rent must be reduced by $.89 cents forward per unit for the total failure of the exterior lights. . (Previously attached to the City email March 25, 2019).

The 2015 Capital Improvements decision of the city stated, “proper statutory notice must be given to tenants before any rent increase can become effective.” The attached 2019-1-12 PPM Notice of Unpaid rent does not constitute proper statutory notice. In addition, the owner accepted rent which he alleges was the incorrect amount; since he cashed the checks (and money orders), he waived any right to complain that the rent amount as submitted was not correct. We are entitled to rent reimbursement for the owner not serving the proper statutory notice, such rent reimbursements to go back within the last three years. (Previously attached to the City March 25, 2019).

In addition, I attach selected rent checks for the time period 6/1/17 thru Mar 1, 2019. The owner can only demand a rent increase —under rent control ordinance—every 12 months. Any increase that occurs less than 12 months is illegal rent. A rent increase can only be demanded thru the proper statutory 30 day notice. On June 21 2017, the owner served a rent increase notice of $1398.65 due. Less than 12 months later, the owner served another notice dated 4-7- 2018 for $1464.40 rent. On 1-12-2019 the owner served an illegal notice of unpaid rent due for $1467.55; the notice of January 12 did not comply with statutory requirements of 30 days notice; the Jan 12 notice was served less than twelve months from the notice of April 7, 2018. We seek rent reimbursements for paying an illegal rent. (Previously attached to the City March 25, 2019).

The owner did not serve the 30 day notice required to claim the rent of $1467.55

1. Attached is the Notice of Rent Increase to $1554.36 served by mail on May 21 by Hi Point Apts LLC agent Power Property Management.
2. Attached is the “Statement of Registration of Rental Units” for 2019-2020. The 2018-2019 for the previous year, was was never served on us, as indicated in my emails of August 18, 2018 and March 25, 2019. I demand rent reimbursements for all tenants who were not served with the “Statement of Registration of Rental Units” for 2018- 2019 for address 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035.

3. I cannot understand why the city allows landlords a rent increase when housing services have been denied, as in this case herein. Our parking was reduced at a city value of $200 per month for the last 36 months look back, but we have not received that money rent reimbursement.

Please remit today to the address below 36 x $200 = $7,200.

4. The city needs to pass an ordinance that when housing services are denied, a property owner will be prohibited from demanding or collecting a yearly rent increase.

5. The owner notice of 2018 demanded rent of $1464.40 on June 1, 2018.
6. On January 12, 2019 the owner management company demanded rent of $1467.55, however no 30 day notice was ever served on us for that amount.
7. From June 1, 2018 to January 12, 2019, the required 12 month period had not passed, making the January 12 demanded rent an “illegal rent”.
8. May 21, 2019, the owner has demanded $1554.36 by notice, claiming the previous (base) rent was $1446.86. However, the owner never served us a notice that the base rent was $1446.86.
9. Twelve months have not elapsed since the January 12, 2019 (illegal) notice of rent increase, making the May 21 2019 notice (attached) illegal.
10. RSO is requested to please site the owner for an illegal rent increase.
11. The city is asked to penalize Cynthia Reynosa $10,000 for serving an illegal notice of rent increase, that she served for purposes of harassment.
12. The city is asked to penalize Kassandra Harris $10,000 for being involved in the service of illegal rent increase served for purposes of harassment.

13. The city needs to stabilize rents and eliminate yearly rent increases.
If you need additional information, please contact me by first class mail.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

[tenant name redacted]

1522 HI POINT ST 9

LOS ANGELES CA 90035

Reference: all code violation complaints regarding this property; David Lee

Communication from the Public – Regarding Los Angeles Housing Committee Item No. 14- 0268-S13 – Community Impact Statement

Harassment Complaint against Hi Point Apts LLC and Power Property Management

cc: Culver City : Councilperson Daniel Lee; vice mayor Eriksson; councilmember Small

(Reference: A similar email was sent to out on March 25, 2019 at 1:56 pm with attachments.) 2019-5-21 Recd 2019-2020 Statement of Registration of Units 1522 Renewal.pdf )

March 15, 2019

Continued Denial of Housing Services at 1522 Hi Point St Apartments 90035

From: [tenant]

To: jamie.hwang@lacity.org; cairo.rodriguez@lacity.org; albert.lord@lacity.org; billie.j.green@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org

Cc: complaints_office_00@hud.gov; manuel.a.alvarado@hud.gov; contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; highpoint1522@gmail.com; info@da.lacounty.gov; adam.lid@lacity.org; cityclerk@lacity.org

Date: Friday, March 15, 2019, 9:45 AM PDT

To whom it may concern/Rushmore Cervantes:

1. I have received a few phone calls over the past few weeks presumably from city government employees. This email shall act as a response to those city communications. If you need to respond, please do so by first class mail.

2. The object of my communications to the city is to get the issues resolved. It is not my purpose to engage in a ceaseless barrage of communications without a legitimate purpose. The purpose is to get the repairs, the purpose is to get the housing services, the purpose is to get reimbursement for denial of housing services and damages due to housing discrimination and retaliation.

3. The rent stabilization department already has actual and constructive knowledge of the issues here. They have the evidence needed, and they have had this information for YEARS. The same goes for the code enforcement department because they have the request for REAP complaint of August 2018 as well as numerous code enforcement complaints.

4. Thus, if these city departments already have the information needed to arrive at the resolution requested, why for God’s sake do they keep calling me and stalling me?

5. For reduction of housing services maintenance and parking, how long does it take to order the parking restored or assigned? How long does it take to order or make maintenance to an intercom system?

6. The answer is that it should not take FIVE YEARS. For what I am requesting should take minutes. It should take minutes to order intercom repair. It should take minutes to order parking assignments and rent reimbursements. The many whites and those with high incomes coming into this city to the high density housing, is this the response they can expect from government officials?

7. Numerous times I have been at the building, and code enforcement employees did not show; numerous times I was at the building and code enforcement arrived but did not inspect or did not cite the owner.

8. Numerous written and email communications have been made by me to the rent stabilization department (and claims filed against the city) but this has not resulted in the issues being resolved.

9. Housing department employee Chad has called me numerous times about the damages requested against him but I have not received any damage monies from him, etc.

10. The city needs to pass an ordinance that will fine property owners for not making timely responses to tenant complaints.

11. I realize that many government employees want to exclude the intercom in my unit from maintenance. An intercom that primarily white tenants benefit from but unit 9 Blacks tenants do not. The Health and Safety code under “sanitation” uses the phrase “including but not limited to”; my rent agreement uses the same phrase; the city RAC definition of housing services uses the same phrase. Thus, the city does not have the authority to exclude the intercom from maintenance. Is this what the high rent tenants can expect from the city government of Los Angeles?

12. My rent agreement, which the city has numerous copies of, includes parking for two vehicles. There are spaces written in the agreement for two vehicles. The CFO shows the tandem stalls available in the parking lot. Yet why can’t Black tenants in unit 9 be assigned a tandem parking stall? Is this what the high rent tenants can expect from the city government of Los Angeles?

13. The landlord cannot demand or collect rent unless they have served a copy of the rent registration renewal. Unit 9 has never been served with a copy as required under RAC regulations LAMC.

14. We pay $17.08 per month capital improvement increase yet the intercom does not work, and recently all outside exterior lights failed so they were replaced. This is grounds for the $17.08 increase to be cancelled from Unit 9 rent amounts.

15. I did call the Chad city employee phone number repeatedly the last three days but the phone system on his end kept cutting me off after fifteen seconds. Numerous calls from and to Chad have not resulted in the requested housing services being supplied. A waste of taxpayer monies.

16. Under the rent agreement, and local, state, federal law, it is my duty/right to complain about denial of housing services as I do so herein.

17. Code enforcement is able to ascertain from the outside of the building that the intercom system is not functioning correctly. Code enforcement has the authority to subpoena the maintenance records for the building.

I attach a copy of the latest code violation complaint/REAP. Your number 715404 dated March 4, 2019.

I attach a copy of the 30 day notice of rent increase because that notice does not match the rent we currently pay, which is an illegal rent increase. That is a rent stabilization department complaint.

Please respond by first class mail.

[Tenant name redacted]

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

cc: Kasandra Harris, Resident Manager, Hi Point Apts LLC and Power Property Management Group

reference:

FIRST AMENDED CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. § 1983 [“The Ku Klux Klan Act”] AND REQUEST FOR DECLARATIVE AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF Defendants: CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, [et al.] and DOES 110 inclusive. Case : 2:16CV03236JLSAJW, Central District Los Angeles, filed May 11, 2016.

LAMC 41.33 Peaceful Enjoyment

SEC. 41.33. LANDLORDS – DISTURBING TENANTS.

No person, except a duly authorized officer pursuant to the authority of legal process, shall interfere with the peaceful enjoyment, use, possession or occupancy of any premises by the lawful lessee or tenant of such premises either by threat, fraud, intimidation, coercion, duress, or by the maintenance or toleration of a public nuisance, or by cutting off heat, light, water, fuel or free communication by anyone by mail, telephone or otherwise, or by restricting trade or tradesmen from or to any such tenant.

2019-3-4 Code Violation Complaint LA 715404.pdf

2018-4-7 Walter Notice of Unit 9 Rent Increase.pdf

March 12, 2019

Racism at Hi Point Apts malice oppression and fraud

Power Property Management Group Jade Beck via email

Kasandra Harris, Resident Manager via email
Walter Barratt, owner of Hi Point Apts LLC via email of record

Power Property Management Group Agent for Hi Point Apts LLC
PO Box 472
Culver City, California 90230

To:jade@powerpropertygrp.com,highpoint1522@gmail.com,Hi LLC,Mayor Garcetti,councilmember.wesson@lacity.org,Councilmember Harris-Dawson,City of Los Angeles,councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org,City of Los Angeles,Councilmember Rodriguez,councilmember.martinez@lacity.org,councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org,City of Los Angeles,RSO Contact, AliMaintenance, adam.lid@lacity.org, cityclerk@lacity.org,Da Lacounty Info

1. The Los Angeles Housing Committee on March 27 will hear testimony on the Landlord Anti- Harassment Ordinance. I ask that the committee subpoena Walter Barratt, Jade Beck, and Kasandra Harris to appear.

2. Chad from LA Housing has called me. This was my response to him today.
“You have reached Chad with HCIDLA code enforcement. (2132522810). Please leave a message representing your name, telephone number, and a brief description of why you’re calling. And I will return your call as soon as possible.” March 12, 2019 at 10:09 am. “Good morning. G. Juan Johnson calling. 323319xxxx in reference to Hi Point St Apts and the payment of damages by yourself. You’re named in a damage claim, code enforcement complaint. So let’s talk about those damages against you. 323319xxxx. Thank you very much. And its about 10 o’clock in the morning.” (Voicemail: your message has been sent).

3. I ask that Chad give testimony on March 27, 2019 at the LA Housing Hearing.
4. According to the city REAP procedures, maintenance and parking is housing services.

5. The city has not resolved the illegal rent increases that have occurred to unit 9, since the rent amount does not comply with the last served Notice of rent increase. Tenants have also not been served with the 2018-2019 rent registration for the building which means the owner is illegally demanding and collecting rent. This has been told to the City numerous times.

6. The phrase “including but not limited to” appears in the city RAC definition of housing services, the same phrase occurs in the Health and Safety Code, the same phrase occurs in the rent agreement with Hi Point Apts LLC. This means that the intercom and intercom maintenance cannot be excluded from repairs as the owner and city has done.

7.Punitive Damages
Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. Punitive damages, also known as exemplary damages, may be awarded by the trier of fact (a jury or a judge, if a jury trial was waived) in addition to actual damages, which compensate a plaintiff for the losses suffered due to the harm caused by the defendant. Punitive damages are a way of punishing the defendant in a civil lawsuit and are based on the theory that the interests of society and the individual harmed can be met by imposing additional damages on the defendant. Since the1970s, punitive damages have been criticized by U.S. business and insurance groups which allege that exorbitant punitive damage awards have driven up the cost of doing business. Punitive damages have been characterized as “quasicriminal”because they stand halfway between the criminal and Civil
Law. Though they are awarded to a plaintiff in a private civil lawsuit, they are noncompensatory and in the nature of a criminal fine. punitive damages. The Free Dictionary.

8. California Civil Code 3294 allows a jury to award punitive damages in a personal injury case. The plaintiff must prove by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant’s conduct amounted to malice, oppression, or fraud. Punitive damages are not intended to compensate a plaintiff for his or her losses.

9. In response to a request for repair of the bathroom toilet yesterday, maintenance was here today about 8 am and repaired the toilet.

10. The issues of the lack of maintenance to the intercom, and the assignment of tandem parking stall, and rent reimbursements, remain unresolved. THE INTERCOM HAS NOT BEEN REPAIRED. NUMEROUS WHITES AT THIS PROPERTY HAVE A WORKING INTERCOM, WHILE THE BLACKS IN UNIT 9 DO NOT.

11. The intercom system, embraced by the city in its capital improvements decision (2015) and by the certificate of occupancy, is the same housing service as a toilet plumbing, kitchen sink garbage disposal, lighting, smoke detector, etc.

Racial segregation in the United States

Communication from the Public – Regarding Los Angeles Housing Committee Item No. 14-0268-S13

I again request fines of $50,000 each against said mentioned parties, and against the two employees who conducted the illegal inspection today that did not comply with CC section 1954.

The intercom unit 9 needs repair.

(This is a Public communication and many of these documents may have appeared on the worldwide web or local newspapers.)

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

42 USC 1981 42 USC 1983

LAMC 41.33 Peaceful Enjoyment

SEC. 41.33. LANDLORDS – DISTURBING TENANTS.

Racial segregation in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States

December 1, 2018

A new DFEH complaint has been filed against 1522 Hi Point St Apts LLC

the AAGLA, and the city government of Los Angeles- USPS proof of delivery number 9510 8142 4680 8309 1715 17; City claim for damages USPS 9510 8142 4680 8309 1715 24; and Department of Real Estate USPS proof of delivery 9510 8066 6481 8303 0030 01. All tenants are named in all complaints. All complaints are considered to be Public documents accessible thru Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council President Herb Wesson, etc. Herb Wesson has encouraged G. Juan Johnson to run for Council District 10.

October 13, 2018

All city council members named in code violation complaint

SUBJECT: You are named in a new code violation complaint against Hi Point Apts LLC

FROM: [tenant 9 name and email redacted]

TO: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.englander@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; david.ryu@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.Krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; controller.galperin@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org;

CC: Dan@aagla.org; matt@aagla.org; Janet@aagla.org; nia@aagla.org; Karen@aagla.org; jessica@aagla.org; Alex@aagla.org; dee@aagla.org; Maureen@aagla.org; Jennifer@aagla.org; diana@aagla.org;

DATE: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 8:26 PM

Director, Finance & Operations

Matthew Farghum
Ext. 315
Director, Government Affairs & External Relations Janet Gagnon
Ext. 309
Manager, Accounting
Karen Truong
Ext. 312
Manager, Membership & Sales
Jessica Garcia
Ext. 311
Coordinator, Membership & Sales
Alex Paladin
Ext. 308
Coordinator, Events & Seminars
Dee Travillion
Ext. 307
Manager, Member Services
Maureen Farrell, Notary Public
Ext. 319
Manager, Member Services
Mona Begum
Ext. 304
Manager, Member Services, Spanish Liaison Maria Arnold
Ext. 314
Manager, Member Services, Korean Liaison Jennifer Lee
Ext. 303
Reception & Office Manager
Diana Alcaraz
Ext. 301
Sacramento Advocates
Jonathan Arambel, Steve Carlson

councilmember.wesson@lacity.org councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org councilmember.huizar@lacity.org councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org

councilmember.englander@lacity.org councilmember.bonin@lacity.org councilmember.price@lacity.org councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org councilmember.martinez@lacity.org paul.koretz@lacity.org david.ryu@lacity.org councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org councilmember.Krekorian@lacity.org councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org controller.galperin@lacity.org mayor.garcetti@lacity.org

To whom it may concern:

Attached is a copy of code violation complaint city case number 693721 dated 10/9/2018.

This complaint shall be against all properties owned by Walter Barratt.

[TENANT 9 name and phone redacted]

Attachments: 2018-10-9 Scanned Code Violation Complaint City LA 693721.pdf (6.82MB

[Editor: a redacted copy of this code violation complaint appears on this site under the page “Code enforcement” or click

City Los Angeles Employees who Deny Blacks Fair Housing

August 18, 2018

SUBJECT: Violation LAMC Section 151.05 at 1522 Hi Point Apts 90035 ‐ Rent Reimbursements Demanded

FROM: (TENANT 9)

DATE: Sat 8/18/2018 2:35 PM

To:tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com <tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com>; Hi LLC <walter.barratt@gmail.com>; diana@aagla.org <diana@aagla.org>;

Cc:mayor.garcetti@lacity.org <mayor.garcetti@lacity.org>; karen.baggio@lacity.org <karen.baggio@lacity.org>; presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org <presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org>; robert.galardi@lacity.org <robert.galardi@lacity.org>; angelo.shannon@lacity.org <angelo.shannon@lacity.org>; steve.ongele@lacity.org <steve.ongele@lacity.org>; richard.horn@lacity.org <richard.horn@lacity.org>; mark.salazar@lacity.org <mark.salazar@lacity.org>; crystal.otero@lacity.org <crystal.otero@lacity.org>; corey.hupp@lacity.org <corey.hupp@lacity.org>; paula.hudak@lacity.org <paula.hudak@lacity.org>; terry.herr@lacity.org <terry.herr@lacity.org>; michael.hughes@lacity.org <michael.hughes@lacity.org>; jonathan.hom@lacity.org <jonathan.hom@lacity.org>; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org <councilmember.wesson@lacity.org>; info@da.lacounty.gov <info@da.lacounty.gov>; emily.hu@lacity.org <emily.hu@lacity.org>; maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org <maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org>; scott.matsunaga@lacity.org <scott.matsunaga@lacity.org>; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org <hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org>; robert.hughes@lacity.org <robert.hughes@lacity.org>; charles.v.garcia@lacity.org <charles.v.garcia@lacity.org>; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org <councilmember.wesson@lacity.org>; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org <councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org>; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org <councilmember.huizar@lacity.org>; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org <councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org>; councilmember.englander@lacity.org <councilmember.englander@lacity.org>; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org <councilmember.bonin@lacity.org>; councilmember.price@lacity.org <councilmember.price@lacity.org>; councilmember.harris‐dawson@lacity.org <councilmember.harris‐ dawson@lacity.org>; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org <councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org>; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org <councilmember.martinez@lacity.org>; paul.koretz@lacity.org <paul.koretz@lacity.org>; david.ryu@lacity.org <david.ryu@lacity.org>; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org <councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org>; councilmember.Krekorian@lacity.org <councilmember.Krekorian@lacity.org>; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org <councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org>; controller.galperin@lacity.org <controller.galperin@lacity.org>;

Dan@aagla.org; matt@aagla.org; Janet@aagla.org; nia@aagla.org; Karen@aagla.org; jessica@aagla.org; Alex@aagla.org; dee@aagla.org; Maureen@aagla.org; Jennifer@aagla.org; diana@aagla.org;

Executive Director

Ext.322

General Counsel

Craig Mordoh

Director, Finance & Operations

Matthew Farghum Ext. 315

Director, Government Affairs & External Relations

Janet Gagnon Ext. 309

Manager, Accounting

Karen Truong Ext. 31

Manager, Membership & Sales

Jessica Garcia Ext. 311

Coordinator, Membership & Sales

Alex Paladin Ext. 308

Coordinator, Events & Seminars

Dee Travillion Ext. 307

Manager, Member Services

Maureen Farrell, Notary Public Ext. 319

Manager, Member Services

Mona Begum Ext. 304

Manager, Member Services, Spanish Liaison

Maria Arnold Ext. 314

Manager, Member Services, Korean Liaison

Jennifer Lee Ext. 303

Reception & Office Manager

Diana Alcaraz Ext. 301

Sacramento Advocates

Jonathan Arambel, Steve Carlson

LAMC Section 151.05 Violation at 1522 Hi Point Apts 90035

The Power of Racism is Among Us

AAGLA cuts off tenants from repairmen

AAGLA says Black tenants not entitled to housing services

Hi Point Apts LLC (tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com <tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com; Hi LLC <walter.barratt@gmail.com>;) 11693 SAN VICENT BLVD SUITE 351 LOS ANGELES CA 90049-5105; Hi Point Apts LLC 14 Ozone Avenue Venice CA 90291

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

SEC. 151.05. REGISTRATION, NOTIFICATION OF TENANTS, POSTING OF NOTICE AND PAYMENT OF FEES.

(Title Amended by Ord. No. 180,769, Eff. 8/16/09.)

A. “(Amended by Ord. No. 157,572, Eff. 4/1/83.) On or after July, 1979, no landlord shall demand or accept rent for a rental unit without first procuring and serving on the tenant or displaying in a conspicuous place a valid written registration statement from the Department or its designee. On or after April 30, 1983, no landlord shall demand or accept rent for a rental unit without first serving a copy of a valid registration or annual registration renewal statement on the tenant of that rental unit.”

The rent was demanded and accepted by the owner including but not limited to the period July 1 and August 1, 2018. However, we have not been served with the “valid registration or annual registration renewal statement “, in violation of LAMC section 151.05 above.

Please order rent refunds for all tenants, estimated at 15 units x $1800 x 2 months = $54,000 and 3 units x $1400 x 2 months = $8,400 to total $62,400. These figures are estimates subject to verification.

Please order the owner to serve the required “valid registration or annual registration renewal statement ” on all tenants.

(TENANT 9 NAME REDACTED)

P.S. UNIT 9 intercom is still unusable and we have not been provided a tandem parking stall or rent reductions, and double or treble damages per the LAMC, etc.

A MEMBER OF THE LA TENANTS UNION

August 8, 2018

SUBJECT: Wide angle peephole needed to see threatening animals- 1522 Hi Point Apartments 90035- Intercom still not repaired or replaced

FROM: (TENANT 9 email and name redacted)

TO: walter.barratt@gmail.com; tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com; ali4servicing@gmail.com; diana@aagla.org; ani.wlafield@lacity.org; mark.salazar@lacity.org;

CC:mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.englander@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; david.ryu@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.Krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; controller.galperin@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org;

DATE: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 1:42 PM

To whom it may concern/Jade Beck/Hi Point Apts LLC/AAGLA:

I notice someone planted poisonous mushrooms in the front grass to presumably kill the dogs.
A recent news story says a man’s limbs were removed after being licked by a dog. See link below
Numerous times I have been threatened by animals at 1522 Hi Point St as animals threaten me or come close enough to lick me because their dog owners do not curb their dogs
I am afraid of dogs
All dogs need to be removed from the property
Fifteen units/tenants in the building have wide angle peepholes to they can safely see up and down the hallways before exiting their unit
Unit 9 minehas the old style peephole does not allow wide angle access and I cannot see up and down the hallway before exiting
The wide angle peephole is a health and safety housing service denied to unit 9 Black tenants while freely provided to primarily white tenants who have the privilege
Please install a wide angle peephole in unit 9 door since it is for security reasons provided to Whites and so we may be able to see dangerous dogs/persons in the hallway before exiting
I would not like to face having my limbs cut off because free roaming dogs at 1522 Hi Point Apts lick me

(Tenant 9 name email phone redacted)

Member of the LA Tenants Union

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nationnow/2018/08/01/manslegshands amputatedafterdogslick/877895002/

July 10, 2018

Los Angeles code enforcement accused of racism and corruption

Subject: Response to City Lam Letter: Please fire Lam, Cervantes, Gomez, Aldape ‐ Failure to Comply with “any building or portion thereof”

From: (tenant 9 name redacted)

Date: Tue 7/10/2018 6:52 PM

To: (email addresses listed at the end of this email)

Lam, Garcetti, Cervantes, Gomez, Aldape: if your Mother lived at 1522 Hi Point St 90035, would you want her to have a working intercom?

To whom it may concern:

Attached is a letter I received from city employee Kenneth Lam dated June 20, 2018. The letter which I consider to be racist and retaliatory, is not acceptable as a resolution to the issues at hand. ( The letter is copied to Daniel V. Gomez, Roberto H. Aldape, Rushmore Cervantes. The names of Eric Garcetti and Daniel Nahaku also appear.)

A new code violation complaint was submitted by me and received by you on June 24, 2018, number 679404, which addresses your June 20 letter which was postmarked June 21.

I disagree with the allegations of your letter. Damages are continuing as noted in the code violation complaint 679404 and any and all email and letter communications and voicemails to city employees.

As long as the repairs have not been made, your obligation is to keep the code violation complaints open, and I request all complaints be reopened as repairs requested have not been made.

The RSD related complaints have not been responded to in your letter.

You have also not addressed the issue of the Capital Improvements decision by the city which gave the city jurisdiction over the intercom system; you have failed to mention the THP application for unit 9 which also gives the city jurisdiction over the intercom system.

Fifteen units have working intercoms and three units do not and for all fifteen units where the power supply is connected to the breaker boxes to the front door and the intercom and door entry system your department code enforcement gave the final approval for occupancy which all fifteen units have intercoms, approved by your department.

Why does a Los Angeles tenant have to file over 100 complaints and cannot get repairs ? Do not move into a rent controlled building**

The county of Los Angeles Public Health Department also ordered the intercom system repaired, replaced, or removed, in 2015-2016, another fact you fail to mention.

You state, “all of the complaints related to code issues had been responded to” and “found no violation”; I disagree as this is not acceptable in a rent controlled building.

The reason I continue to file complaints is because the issues have not been responded to or addressed and my intercom has not been repaired and the parking stall striping for stall 8 has not been extended; your department has jurisdiction over parking stall striping.

OPEN STORAGE INOPERABLE VEHICLE STALL 13

This vehicle has not moved for the past three years. Please note that you disregard the city jurisdiction under VEHICLE CODE VEH
DIVISION 11. RULES OF THE ROAD [21000 23336] ( Division 11 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. ) CHAPTER 10. Removal of Parked and Abandoned Vehicles [22650 22856] ( Chapter 10 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3

SMOKE DETECTOR INSTALLATION

The SCEP was a lack of due diligence inspection because the intercom system was not cited. His report also cited smoke detectors are supposed to be in the hallways, yet there are none in the hallways. The SCEP also cited units which previously had been approved by the city as new primary renovations so I wonder why the inspector did not cite all units for the proper smoke detectors; half the apartments were not cited. The intercom system is for purposes of Health and Safety. I pay a fee for the SCEP inspections and the nonworking intercoms should have been cited. The SCEP inspector should be fired.

OUTSIDE SECURITY LIGHTING

The light outside my bedroom window is not functioning at night. I am not aware the inspector checked the light at night nor have I been told by the owner that the light was fixed. It is a sensor light that can only be checked at night. (Editor: It is now July 10 at 9:19 pm and I looked out the window and the security light is still flickering and not working as intended. The lies of the City employees.)

BUILDING INTERCOM

As previously explained, based on the HCIDLA LAMC RAC definition of housing services, HCIDLA has jurisdiction over the intercom system; HCIDLA has jurisdiction over unsanitary conditions and lack of maintenance. The Health and Safety code and Building Code gives HCIDLA jurisdiction over all portions of the building, including the intercom. If your Mother lived here, would you want her to have a working intercom?

“…such exclusion and limits are prohibited…”

1. Your jurisdiction to investigate comes from numerous sources as you are a law enforcement agency authorized to investigate complaints.
Health and Safety Code 17920. As used in this part: (e) “Enforcement” means diligent effort to secure compliance, including review of plans and permit applications, response to complaints, citation of violations, and other legal process. Except as otherwise provided in this part, “enforcement” may, but need not, include inspections of existing buildings on which no complaint or permit application has been filed, and effort to secure compliance as to these existing buildings.

Thus, the filing of a code violation complaint by me is what gives you jurisdiction to investigate the intercom system.
You have never stated in any of your documentation any federal, state laws, or local ordinance that gives you the authority to not order the intercom system repair or replacement. In all of my complaints I have quoted from the areas of jurisdiction on your own website.
You have said that you can exclude intercom repair, replacement, or removal from your jurisdiction or limit such repairs to exclude the intercom; such exclusion and limits are prohibited for three reasons at least (a) H & S code below gives you jurisdiction over “any building or portion thereof” (b) LAMC RAC 410.4 states housing services as “including but not limited to” and (3) the H & S code below also uses the phrase “including but not limited to”.

I have gone over the issue of jurisdiction many times with city employees and other than racism and retaliation, such employees have no legitimate reason for not comprehending the Health and Safety code and enforcing maintenance to the intercom system at this location.

City Asked to Fire Racist Workers **

ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS

You state the LADBS has jurisdiction over building permits in a residential multifamily dwelling; I am not sure that the LADBS website says this.

You also failed to mention the dilapidated rear stairs railing.

Lam, Garcetti, Cervantes, Gomez, Aldape: If your Mother lived here, would you want her to have a working intercom?

Your letter is not acceptable as a resolution to the claim for damages against the city government, et al.

I request that the city government terminate from employment Lam, Nahaku, Gomez, Aldape, and Cervantes on the grounds the June 20, 2018 letter admits that they do not intend to follow their job duties under the Health and Safety code stated herein, and because said persons violate LAMC 41.33 below in cutting off my free communication thru the non working intercom system.

I will continue to file code violation complaints until the parking stall striping is extended and until the intercom is repaired or replaced, etc. or until hell freezes over, whichever occurs first; this is what would be helpful and productive to me.

The city council/city clerk is requested to place this email onto the next available city council agenda under “Communications from the Public”.

(tenant name redacted) 1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035

cc: owner Walter Barratt, Cynthia Ogan, Jade Beck, Mozannar Contruction, via email “tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com”

If your Mother lived here, would you want her to have a working intercom?

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE HSC
DIVISION 13. HOUSING [17000 19997] ( Division 13 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60. ) PART 1.5. REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION [17910 17998.3] ( Part 1.5 added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1844. ) CHAPTER 2. Rules and Regulations [17920 17928] ( Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1844. )

17920.3.

Any building or portion thereof including any dwelling unit, guestroom or suite of rooms, or the premises on which the same is located, in which there exists any of the following listed conditions to an extent that endangers the life, limb, health, property, safety, or welfare of the public or the occupants thereof shall be deemed and hereby is declared to be a substandard building:

(a) Inadequate sanitation shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(5) Lack of hot and cold running water to plumbing fixtures in a dwelling unit.
(12) Infestation of insects, vermin, or rodents as determined by a health officer or, if an agreement does not exist with an agency that has a health officer, the infestation can be determined by a code enforcement officer, as defined in Section 829.5 of the Penal Code, upon successful completion of a course of study in the appropriate subject matter as determined by the local jurisdiction.
(14) General dilapidation or improper maintenance.
(b) Structural hazards shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Deteriorated or inadequate foundations, embers of ceilings, roofs, ceiling and roof supports, or other horizontal members that are of insufficient size to carry imposed loads with safety.
(c) Any nuisance.

HSC section 17920.3.

(k) Any building or portion thereof that is determined to be an unsafe building due to inadequate maintenance, in accordance with the latest edition of the Uniform Building Code.

LAMC RAC 410.4

Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services).

LAMC 41.33 “Peaceful Enjoyment”. LANDLORDS – DISTURBING TENANTS. “No person, except a duly authorized officer pursuant to the authority of legal process, shall interfere with the peaceful enjoyment, use, possession or occupancy of any premises by the lawful lessee or tenant of such premises either by threat, fraud, intimidation, coercion, duress, or by the maintenance or toleration of a public nuisance, or by cutting off heat, light, water, fuel or free communication by anyone by mail, telephone or otherwise, or by restricting trade or tradesmen from or to any such tenant.”

Lam, Garcetti, Cervantes, Gomez, Aldape: if your Mother lived at 1522 Hi Point St 90035, would you want her to have a working intercom?

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The power of racism is among us

(Editor: **The bolded headings herein do not appear in the original email and are added for affect. Just a short background on the intercom at this location because it is covered extensively on this site: The building was built in 1973 with an intercom system in this box building of 18 units. At some point the intercom stopped working or was disconnected. In 2014 when the current owner purchased the building, he assumed responsibility for the intercom and decided to replace it. But in 2015 the city approved a $17.00 per month rent increase which was passed down to mostly Black tenants, and part of the increase was for the new intercoms that most Blacks never received. But for almost thirteen Black tenants he would not replace the intercom until after they moved out. At that point most of the new intercoms were received by tenants who were white, with two Black tenants being skipped over. In other documents the city approved the THP for unit 9 [two Blacks] which includes intercom repair, but since 2015 the intercoms for those Blacks is not repaired or replaced. The intercom is connected to front door and power supply for the building. July 10, 2019.)

You be the Judge. If you agree or disagree that Blacks should be denied housing services, call code enforcement at 213-275-3493.

Fighting admitted KKK racism of city employees David Whitehurst, Robert Galardi, Ian Yeom, Manual Hernandez, Walter Barratt, Greg De Rubeis. At Mayor Eric Garcetti’s City Hall. LOS ANGELES AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND RENT CONTROL.

(Editor note: A rent agreement/lease is a legally binding document that spells out the duties and obligations of the tenant as well as landlord. Every agreement must be signed by mutual consent. “Contract” has protections under federal as well as state law. If either side does not fulfill their obligations, one can sue for “breach” of the agreement. Usually breach of the agreement falls under state law but the tenant may also have rights under federal civil rights laws. Local laws (like rent control to use a bad example) may say the tenant is entitled to rent reductions/reimbursements if housing services are reduced. Thus the rent control ordinance places a monetary $$$$$ value on housing services. For example, the rent control spells out manager duties like maintaining the property. If your property requires a resident manager, and no manager is hired for example six months, then you as a tenant are entitled to a rent reduction for six months. Remember that if you must exercise your right to file a lawsuit, a court is considered a fact finding body. But if you decide to forgo court and try your hand at an administrative body, like rent control, remember they are NOT a fact finding body, and they may base their decisions on “arbitrary, capricious, and unjust” opinion and bias. A housing service like intercom and parking may not seem like much—available at the time you signed your rent agreement—but besides the money value, parking and intercom is no different than the white privilege of a seat on a bus, a stool at a lunch counter, a bathroom, or a drinking fountain— because they all are Public Accommodations as in Discrimination in Public Accommodations. Please also remember that no matter what city government employees tell you about “jurisdiction”, at all times the government has the authority to abate a nuisance or make repairs (and bill the property owner); if they lie and cheat and steal —and you see examples of race based substandard housing across Los Angeles—they are using taxpayer dollars to do it. The taking of tenants’ rent money for fraud is a criminal offense.)

The Power of Racism is Among Us

(Editor: The power of racism is among us. Two federal Judges —- both whites—-were asked in 2016 to order intercom repairs and tandem parking assignment to Black tenants; the Judges refused. The power of racism is among us. Why do you think a federal Judge would not want a Black man to have a housing service? Why do you think a federal Judge would not want a Black man to have a parking stall? This is a summary of the 1522 Hi Point St 90035 code complaints that appear elsewhere on this site under “Code enforcement complaints”: (1) Rear inside hallway structural defect unsafe stair railing previously reported as structural defect; (2) intercom unit 9 not maintained; (3) outside security lights not working properly under unit 9 outside window; (4) intercom not fully functioning from front outside building; (5) abandoned vehicle in stall 13. The same complaint copies from the city HCID web page drop down menu listing the following corresponding sections that the City claims they have jurisdiction over: “Electrical service requires maintenance; Electrical wiring disconnected and/or abandoned; defective, deteriorating or bare electrical wiring; Guardrail or handrail missing, unsafe, leaning, or in disrepair; Trash, debris, or rodents on premises; Stairway, walkway, or decking material requires maintenance; Premises not maintained in a safe or sanitary condition; Building and/or premises unsafe, or unclean; Trash, debris, or rodents on premises; owner contact information not posted; inoperative vehicles or major auto repair on property; sale of animal services on residential zoned property.”

The city says it refuses to cite the owner for the above violations.

About fifteen white tenants on the property have working intercoms while two white tenants have parking for five vehicles.

The power of racism is among us. Racist whites will hurt their own kind just to retaliate against Blacks. The damages continue to Black Americans.

July 8, 2018

Subject: Intercom Still Not Useable ‐ Tandem Stall not assigned at 1522 Hi Point St 90035

From: (Tenant 9 name and email address redacted)

Date: Sun 7/8/2018 10:36 PM

To:ali4servicing@gmail.com <ali4servicing@gmail.com>; Ali Maintenance <amozannar@gmail.com>; Hi LLC <walter.barratt@gmail.com>; tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com <tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com>;

Mozannar Construction Inc.; 10721 Bloomfield Street Apartment 1 North Hollywood, CA 91602

To Hi Point Apts, LLC, Keller Williams, Inc; Jade Beck, Ali Mozannar at Mozannar Construction, and Cynthia Ogan and Darren Navis:

I witnessed that Ali Mozannar was at this address on Saturday around 3:00 pm working in unit #2. Ali made no attempt to lengthen the parking striping number 8 to provide for a tandem stall nor did he repair or replace my nonworking intercom. Mozannar’s actions are intentional to cause the harm and damages to me that are continuing. Ali also made no attempt to reimburse me for the rent money I have paid, which amounts to about $43,000 over the past three years, during the time I have reported the intercom and it has been addressed.

As Mozannar is an agent of Hi Point Apts, LLC, he is liable under CCC section 1942.5 for $2,000 for each day/act where the intercom and parking remain unaddressed which is $2,000 times 1157 days = $2,314,000 (two million three hundred fourteen thousand dollars). I understand from Walter’s written documents, that he says Mozannar Construction is 100% responsible for all repairs requested by me as tenant. Ali Mozannar is also liable under the law of negligence. Mozannar has acted towards me with fraud, oppression, and malice.

The reason why I believe you are a racist KKK who acts in retaliation, Mr. Mozannar, is because you have failed to provide a legitimate business reason for your actions.

Please extend the striping for stall number eight without further delay. Please repair or replace the intercom without further delay. Please provide the rent reimbursements without further delay.

(from Tenant 9 – name and email address redacted)

California Civil Code §1942.5 (Retaliation)

(f) Any lessor or agent of a lessor who violates this section shall be liable to the lessee in a civil action for all of the following:
(1) The actual damages sustained by the lessee.
(2) Punitive damages in an amount of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) for each retaliatory act where the lessor or agent has been guilty of fraud, oppression, or malice with respect to that act. (g) In any action brought for damages for retaliatory eviction, the court shall award reasonable attorney’s fees to the prevailing party if either party requests attorney’s fees upon the initiation of
the action. (h) The remedies provided by this section shall be in addition to any other remedies provided by statutory or decisional law.

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June 30, 2018

Nightmare City Los Angeles Employees Continue to Deny Fair Housing to Blacks

Subject: Request to reopen code violation complaints and claims for damages re 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035

From: Tenant #9 (name and email redacted)

To: mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; karen.baggio@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; angelo.shannon@lacity.org; steve.ongele@lacity.org; richard.horn@lacity.org; mark.salazar@lacity.org; crystal.otero@lacity.org; corey.hupp@lacity.org; paula.hudak@lacity.org; terry.herr@lacity.org; michael.hughes@lacity.org; jonathan.hom@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; info@da.lacounty.gov; emily.hu@lacity.org; maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org; scott.matsunaga@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; robert.hughes@lacity.org; charles.v.garcia@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.englander@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; david.ryu@lacity.org;

cc: ca_webmanager@hud.gov; tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com; ali4servicing@gmail.com; diana@aagla.org; alex@aagla.org; info@smchamber.com;

Date: Saturday, June 30, 2018 6:46 PM

Dear city clerk, Mayor and Council, code enforcement and Rushmore Cervantes:

Your closure of my code violation cases and your denials dated June 27, 2018 of claims for damages against the city government are not acceptable as a resolution of the damages that are continuing and damages I continue to suffer related to the city rent control building at 1522 Hi Point St 9, zip code 90035.

I object to the closure of all code violation cases, without limitation, and I object to the denial of any and all related claims for damages, on the grounds that requested maintenance and requested parking stall striping and housing services denied have not been resolved and repairs have not been completed nor rent reductions issued for reduction of services, as detailed in numerous rent control complaints, and including but not limited to code violation cases 674370, 675834, and 679404; I ask that all code violation cases, and all related claims for damages city denials, be reopened since the requested repairs have not been made, and the related rent reimbursements requested have not been made.

Please place this email onto the next available city council agenda under Communications from the Public.

Tenant 9 (name and phone redacted)

cc: Ben Carson- HUD
Los Angeles Field Office
300 North Los Angeles Street
Suite 4054
Los Angeles, CA 90012 Facsimile (213) 894-8107 ;

cc: Maintenance Ali Mozannar at ali4servicing@gmail.com

The Power of Racism is Among Us

May 28, 2018

Herb Wesson and Eric Garcetti, et al. ignore rent obligations rent control site

SUBJECT: Rent agreement obligations
FROM: [TENANT NAME AND EMAIL REDACTED]
TO: walter.barratt@gmail.com;
CC: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; thefirstjew@yahoo.com;

DATE: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 3:14 PM

Dear Hi Point Apts LLC/ Jade Beck:

There is still a lot of annoying and disturbing dog barking on the property that creates a nuisance and disturbs my peaceful enjoyment of the premises. I have not been told that Jade Beck has taken any efforts to stop the excessive dog barking from various dogs whose owners reside here and some dogs whose owners do not reside here. The dog barking is coming from, including but not limited to, the dogs that are in unit one and in unit eighteen.

Per your house rules, I have informed yourself of violations of the house rules in that tenants are not parked in their assigned parking stalls, i.e unit 1 tenants are parking five vehicles in the lot, while I am sure they are only assigned parking for two vehicles at the most because the other three stalls they occupy are assigned to other units/extra. Per the house rules, I have informed you about dogs that are on the property and grounds without their owners.

“…I have informed you of the inoperable vehicle in stall #13, which has been there for over three years, a storage privilege and benefit denied to myself as a Black, and denied because I am a Black tenant…”

Per the rent agreement compliance, I have reported to you unit one tenant’s annoyance and operation of an illegal Dog Boarding business on the premises. I have informed you of the inoperable vehicle in stall #13, which has been there for over three years, a storage privilege and benefit denied to myself as a Black, and denied because I am a Black tenant.

Per the rent agreement, I have advised you of equipment malfunction and items requiring repair, such complaints about the intercom system in unit 9 have been ignored.

I have advised you with my questions asking what are the qualifications for tandem parking stalls, as you have requested as part of the rent agreement. I have advised you with my questions asking what are the qualifications for a working intercom and maintenance to the intercom, but those questions have been ignored. I have advised you about my request for rent reductions and damages and those requests have been ignored.

I pay my rent every month on time, and my rent is paid as part of my obligation under the rent agreement to act in a reasonable and good faith manner, and provide to you the services herein that you have requested. The rent payments to you since 2014 as part of unit 9’s rent agreement obligations and our services provided to you total around $48,240, but you have not complied with your obligations under the rent agreement for the services I have provided to you, as stated herein.

[Tenant]

1522 Hi Point St #9

Los Angeles CA 90035

“…to Jade Beck…”

(Editor: the city of Los Angeles charges a rent registration fee for each rent control unit about $3.61 monthly the tenant pays as reimbursement; the tenant also pays as reimbursement about $12.00 yearly city SCEP inspection fee. Yet the city refuses to grant Black tenants a tandem parking stall, working intercom, and rent reductions. Rent Control is a scam.)

May 15, 2018

Tenant rent reimbursements demanded

SUBJECT: Failure to Comply with California Civil Code section 1954

FROM: [Tenant and email]

TO: Dan@aagla.org; matt@aagla.org; Janet@aagla.org; nia@aagla.org; Karen@aagla.org; jessica@aagla.org; Alex@aagla.org; dee@aagla.org; Maureen@aagla.org; Jennifer@aagla.org; diana@aagla.org; info@smchamber.com; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org; councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org; councilmember.englander@lacity.org; councilmember.bonin@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org; councilmember.martinez@lacity.org; paul.koretz@lacity.org; david.ryu@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.Krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org; controller.galperin@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; karen.baggio@lacity.org; presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; angelo.shannon@lacity.org; steve.ongele@lacity.org; richard.horn@lacity.org; mark.salazar@lacity.org; crystal.otero@lacity.org; corey.hupp@lacity.org; paula.hudak@lacity.org; terry.herr@lacity.org; michael.hughes@lacity.org; jonathan.hom@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org; info@da.lacounty.gov; emily.hu@lacity.org; maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org; scott.matsunaga@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; robert.hughes@lacity.org; charles.v.garcia@lacity.org;

CC: thefirstjew@yahoo.com;

DATE: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:03 AM

AAGLA
621 So Westmoreland Avenue Los Angeles , CA 90005 Fax 888-384-4131
Daniel Yukelson
Mathew Farghum
Janet Gagnon
Mona Begum

This is a city rent controlled building

The Lynching of Blacks is Unlawful
The participation in deprivation of fair housing and housing services by city employees is unlawful

Racism and retaliation by city employees against Blacks is Unlawful

I have received a Notice to Enter Premises dated May 14, 2018 which alleged that someone will enter the premises on May 16 2018 between 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. The notice was posted to our door after 2:00 pm. There is no indication as to who posted it nor did I see who posted it. There is a lot of animal activity and dog barking so maybe one of the animals posted it.

While there appear to be initials in the signature line, there is no identifiable signature on the notice.

“…You don’t even have the balls to put your signature on the notice…”

Since there is no identifiable signature, the notice does not comply with CC section 1954. This is at least the second notice I have received with your name on it but no identifiable signature so this is a pattern and practice for you.

The only identifiable contact name on the notice is AAGLA, http://www.aagla.org, and Apartment Owner Association of Greater Los Angeles.

I have previously asked that the owner’s contact information be clearly identified on the notice. The only contact info on the notice is your name.

Your members like to play games with tenant rights and not comply with the civil codes.

You don’t even have the balls to put your signature on the notice.

“…new tenants were forced to pay rent increases not allowed under the LAMC since there were no THP applications filed or served…”

An RSO complaint will be filed naming your organization since you represent that you are the owner of the property.

Please provide the contact information for your insurance agent, bond, and a full contact list of your members.

Please provide your full contact information to all tenants.

Please compensate all tenants who are paying illegal rents at this location 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035 and who are paying rents not allowable under the LAMC due to the fact that numerous tenants vacated but never received the THP application, which the city employees have admitted, and new tenants were forced to pay rent increases not allowed under the LAMC since there were no THP applications filed or served on previous tenants.

Tenant [name redacted]* 1522 Hi Point St 9* Los Angeles CA 90035 *[Phone redacted]

“The entire premises must be in full compliance with the Los Angeles Municipal Code. Any and all units are subject to re-inspection and require the same uniform compliance throughout the premises.” Garcetti inspector Alejandro Viramontes.

“Why aren’t all the intercoms working? Why is the rear stairway unsafe guardrail or handrail missing, unsafe, leaning, or in disrepair ? Why are there dogs in the hallways not on a leash? ” HamJew- DNAKushite/Black

[Editor: the following is added here but does not appear in the above email/fax]

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 17920-17928

17920. As used in this part:

(a) “Approved” means acceptable to the department.

(b) “Building” means a structure subject to this part.

(d) “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development.

(e) “Enforcement” means diligent effort to secure compliance, including review of plans and permit applications, response to complaints, citation of violations, and other legal process. Except as otherwise provided in this part, “enforcement” may, but need not, include inspections of existing buildings on which no complaint or permit application has been filed, and effort to secure compliance as to these existing buildings.

“…we cannot find that the City has done anything unlawful”. Mayor Eric Garcetti speaking thru city employees Mike Feuer and Deborah Breithaupt, by letter dated April 10, 2018.

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May 9, 2018

SUBJECT: Notice to Enter of today’s date – Hi Point Apts at 1522 Hi Point St

ALEX PADILLA TOLD TO REVOKE BUSINESS LICENSES

FROM: (Tenant name and email redacted)

TO :tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com; walter.barratt@gmail.com; Dan@aagla.org; tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com; walter.barratt@gmail.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; karen.baggio@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; angelo.shannon@lacity.org; steve.ongele@lacity.org; richard.horn@lacity.org; crystal.otero@lacity.org; corey.hupp@lacity.org; emily.hu@lacity.org; paula.hudak@lacity.org; terry.herr@lacity.org; michael.hughes@lacity.org; jonathan.hom@lacity.org; maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org; scott.matsunaga@lacity.org; info@smchamber.com; robert.hughes@lacity.org; amozannar@gmail.com; ali4servicing@gmail.com;

CC: thefirstjew@yahoo.com; 1ccanary@gmail.com; membership@smchamber.com; Alex@Alex-Padilla.com; lilyeploski@yahoo.com;

DATE: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:58 AM

AAGLA
621 So Westmoreland Avenue Los Angeles , CA 90005
Fax 888-384-4131
Daniel Yukelson
Mathew Farghum
Janet Gagnon
Mona Begum

This is a city rent controlled building.

TO: Jade Beck, Walter Barratt, Mozannar Construction, city Code enforcement, AAGLA , Hi Point Apts LLC re 1522 Hi Point St Apts, Jade Beck, Gilbert Cedillo, Paul Krekorian, Bob Blumenfield, David E. Rye, Paul Korentz, Nury Martinez, Monica Rodriquez, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Curren D. Price, Jr., Herb J. Wesson, Jr., Mike Bonin, Mitchell Englander, Mitch O’Farrell, Jise Huizar, Joe Buscaino, Mayor Eric Garcetti, et al:

The building must need some pretty extensive repairs that you need to be here for three consecutive days for a total of 24 hours, based on your previous notice to enter. That is a lot time needed to disturb tenants’ peaceful enjoyment of the premises. You are basically shutting the building down for 24 hours based on your notice: cooking, having company, sleeping, etc will all be disturbed by your repairs. Previous repairs in this unit of new garbage disposal, new bathroom copper tubing, new bathroom sink faucet, resurfacing bathroom sink, patch bathroom wall holes—all took between one to four hours. What kind of repairs would take three days and twenty four hours?

Now today I have received another Notice to Enter (attached) for May 10, which references date of entry as May 11. I may be mistaken, but while the notice says to “all units”, I only saw it posted on our unit door. Your notice states 9:30 am to 5:30 pm; this is extremely broad and is simply a repeat of “normal business hours”.

How about your just comply with CC section 1954 in the first place? (see the code excerpt below). If you are allowed entry into unit 9 without complying with the CC 1954, it does not act as a waiver of the disturbance of quiet enjoyment and failure to comply with CC 1954. I do not consent to a waiver of CC 1954 under any circumstances; if I allow or anyone allows you to enter, it shall not constitute a waiver damages due to your non-compliance with CC 1954.

I am sure you read English, but perhaps you do not comprehend it. And I have gone over this before, and you intentionally choose to ignore the law, for which you should have your business license revoked. The code states: “(d) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (e), or as provided in paragraph (2) or (3), the landlord shall give the tenant reasonable notice in writing of his or her intent to enter and enter only during normal business hours. The notice shall include the date, approximate time, and purpose of the entry. ” So your notice says “9:30 am and 5:30 pm” and that constitutes normal business hours requirement. But no where in your notice do you state “approximate time”. The CC 1954 states normal business hours in one sentence. A completely separate sentence requires you state “approximate time” and within normal business hours, since it is two separate sentences. Your notice of today does not comply with CC section 1954. I cannot consider one way or the other the bearing of “necessary or agreed repairs” because your use of the term is vague and lacking in specificity as to what repairs will be attempted.

“….notice to enter does not indicate who to contact…”

Since your stated “9:30 am to 5:30 pm” is defined as normal business hours, you have failed to indicate the required CC section 1954 “approximate time”. Please act

in reasonable, good faith manner and issue a Notice to Enter that indicates approximate time of entry.

Finally your notice does not indicate who to contact about the notice other than AAGLA. That is the only identifiable company name on the notice; if there is an “owner/agent” name, it is not printed or identifiable; there should be a clear contact info like name, address and phone. I assume AAGLA (and your website advertiser Williams Real Estate Advisors, Inc.) is not the owner of this property.

“…AAGLA and member refuses to comply with CC 1954…”

(tenant name redacted)

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035
CC: Alex Padilla; resident manager Cynthia Ogan

Reference: Pending damage claims, rent stabilization department and code enforcement complaints. Some sources say that a lease agreement in a rent controlled building does not revert to a month to month rent agreement, but will continue as a lease agreement ad infinitum.

(Editor: This email has been redacted as the lower portion is the same as the lower portion of the May 8 email below.)

May 8, 2018

SUBJECT: Your Notice to Enter of Today Does Not Comply with CC section 1954 — Abuse of right of access

FROM: [TENANT name and email redacted]

TO: tenantrelationsatyourapt@gmail.com; walter.barratt@gmail.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; karen.baggio@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; angelo.shannon@lacity.org; steve.ongele@lacity.org; richard.horn@lacity.org; crystal.otero@lacity.org; corey.hupp@lacity.org; emily.hu@lacity.org; paula.hudak@lacity.org; terry.herr@lacity.org; michael.hughes@lacity.org; jonathan.hom@lacity.org; maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org; scott.matsunaga@lacity.org; info@smchamber.com; robert.hughes@lacity.org; amozannar@gmail.com; ali4servicing@gmail.com;

CC: 1ccanary@gmail.com; membership@smchamber.com;

DATE: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 3:54 PM

This is a city rent controlled building.

To whom it may concern Hi Point Apts LLC re 1522 Hi Point St Apts, Jade Beck, Gilbert Cedillo, Paul Krekorian, Bob Blumenfield, David E. Rye, Paul Korentz, Nury Martinez, Monica Rodriquez, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Curren D. Price, Jr., Herb J. Wesson, Jr., Mike Bonin, Mitchell Englander, Mitch O’Farrell, Jise Huizar, Joe Buscaino, Mayor Eric Garcetti, et al:

“… three consecutive days of 24 hours worth of repairs…”

I have received your Notice to Enter (attached) for May 9 thru 11th. The building must need some pretty extensive repairs that you need to be here for three consecutive days for a total of 24 hours. That is a lot time needed to disturb tenants’ peaceful enjoyment of the premises. You are basically shutting the building down for 24 hours based on your notice: cooking, having company, sleeping, etc will all be disturbed by your repairs. I cannot imagine what kind of repairs would take three days and twenty four hours.

You claim in your notice that “if we need to work with you on the scheduling, we will do our best to accommodate”. How about your just comply with CC section 1954 in the first place? (see the code excerpt below).

If you are allowed entry into unit 9 without complying with the CC 1954, it does not act as a waiver of the disturbance of quiet enjoyment and failure to comply with CC 1954. I do not consent to a waiver of CC 1954 under any circumstances; if I allow or anyone allows you to enter, it shall not constitute a waiver damages due to your non-compliance with CC 1954.

[tenant name redacted]

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035

Los Angeles CA Apt Owner’s Association Arden Hardson, Manager Mon Thu from 10 AM 4 PM (323) 9378811 Phone (323) 9378897 Fax
5455 Wilshire Blvd., #1009 Los Angeles, CA 90036

CC 1954.

(a) A landlord may enter the dwelling unit only in the following cases:
(1) In case of emergency.
(2) To make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors or to make an inspection pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 1950.5.
(3) When the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the premises.
(4) Pursuant to court order.
(5) For the purposes set forth in Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 1954.201).
(b) Except in cases of emergency or when the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the premises, entry may not be made during other than normal business hours unless the tenant consents to an entry during other than normal business hours at the time of entry.
(c) The landlord may not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant. (d) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (e), or as provided in paragraph (2) or (3), the landlord shall give the tenant reasonable notice in writing of his or her intent to enter and enter only during normal business hours. The notice shall include the date, approximate time, and purpose of the entry.

THP primary renovations: this is the city ordinance scheme where tenants are to receive the choice to temporarily relocate and receive a renovated unit or choose to permanently relocate in exchange for relocation monies. The THP is not strictly enforced by the city with certain landlords evicting tenants without filing the THP application; the THP also prohibits renovations from starting to 60 days after the THP is filed and served; but the city government has participated in making sure applicable tenants never received the THP application and options before vacating; the city code enforcement participated in allowing landlords to proceed with repairs without the required THP. Some tenants were never told about their rights under the THP. For some tenants subject to the entitlement of primary renovations, the city needs to pass an ordinance that requires landlords to complete announced primary renovations within a set time period because in some cases the tenant never benefits from the primary renovations, in this case valued at $17,000 per unit. If a tenant takes the renovations option, the rent will stay the same except for a possible 10% rent increase, but that increase will only last two years. For a tenant that has a low rent, staying in the unit and allowing renovations may be the cheaper option to get a brand new unit than moving out. Remember, the buyout option can be an option at any time during tenancy, not just during renovations.

“…everything in your unit must be in useful condition…”

Everything in your unit must be in useful condition: Landlord and Tenant–Eviction–Landlord’s Failure to Repair. — –In a lessee’s action to recover a security deposit paid defendants, as lessor, at the inception of a lease, and for damages for breach of the lessor’s covenant to maintain the leased premises in useful condition, the evidence was sufficient to support a finding of constructive eviction…. KARL R. GROH et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. KOVER’S BULL PEN, INC., 221 Cal. App. 2d 611; 34 Cal. Rptr. 637; 1963 Cal. App. LEXIS 2194.

California Constitution Article I Declaration of Rights (excerpt) Section 7(a). “A person may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or denied equal protection of the laws”…7(b) A citizen or class of citizens may not be granted privileges or immunities not granted on the same terms to all citizens…”.

Attachments

[Editor: This public communication has been redacted]

April 8, 2018

Subject: Potpouri New Management Company at Hi Point Apts and Intercom Remains in Disrepair

From: [tenant name redacted]

TO: mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; karen.baggio@lacity.org; angelo.shannon@lacity.org; steve.ongele@lacity.org; presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; crystal.otero@lacity.org; To: richard.horn@lacity.org; corey.hupp@lacity.org; emily.hu@lacity.org; paula.hudak@lacity.org; terry.herr@lacity.org; michael.hughes@lacity.org; jonathan.hom@lacity.org; maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org; info@smchamber.com; scott.matsunaga@lacity.org; robert.hughes@lacity.org;

Cc: contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov; info@da.lacounty.gov;

Date: Sunday, April 8, 2018 11:47 PM

Who Is Jade Beck?

Garcetti’s Citizen’s Council Authorizes Lead Paint Poisoning

To whom it may concern/ Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Citizen’s Council:

1. Damage claims were delivered to the HCIDLA, City of Los Angeles City Clerk, DFEH, and LADBS on March 6 and March 7, 2018. The name Jade Beck is added to all claims, if not already named.

“…tenants move out due to racism and retaliation…”

2. I believe tenants move in and out of this building for various reasons including racism, retaliation, because they know the building is substandard and not in uniform compliance, and because tenants object to paying rent and the SCEP fee and the yearly rent increase for an intercom system that has lacked maintenance since 2014.

3. On or about March 27, 2018, it was reported to the code enforcement inspector, Jade Beck, and maintenance Mozannar Construction that a lead hazard exists at this unit. No action has been taken by this date, probably another reason tenants vacate their units.
4. I believe Jade Beck has now been placed in charge of racism and retaliation at this property.

5. I am attaching a April 7 notice of rent increase and I ask that rent control RSD check it for accuracy. I make this request without waiving the outstanding complaint for a rent reimbursement/reduction due to reduction in services i.e maintenance and parking.

“…is WREA still leasing the building?…”

6. I also attach a April 6, 2018 letter from Hi Point Apts LLC that Williams Real Estate Advisors is no longer managing the property and that WREA’s former employee Jade Beck is assisting with tenant inquiries. The letter does not indicate if WREA is/is not still the leasing agent for the property for leasing of units.

7. Both notices from Hi Point Apts, with malice, do not indicate when our intercom will be repaired or replaced or when tandem parking will be restored. Included in the one letter are the phones and emails for Mozannar and for Beck.
8. Jade Beck needs to face jail time for criminal fraud.

9. I continue to pay my rent for over four years, and I have incurred rent increases each year, but still have not been provided maintenance to the intercom system. The State Building Code, Health and Safety Code, and LAMC all give the City code inspectors jurisdiction over housing services which includes maintenance to the intercom.

“…the property owner takes in over $30,000 per month in rent monies but still no intercom repair…”

10. The racially biased Ali Mozannar and Jade Beck benefit from my rent monies but still I am maliciously denied maintenance to the intercom.
11. The property owner takes in over $30,000 per month in rent monies.

12. The city claims the new rent registry program costs annually $1,416,000 [over one million] yet I still cannot get maintenance to my intercom in this rent controlled building.
13. The actions of the code inspectors, Mozannar, and Beck, are intentional to cause harm to myself and other tenants.

Jade Beck Now in Charge of Racism and Retaliation at Hi Point Apts

[Tenant name redacted]

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035
CC: Department Fair Employment and Housing

Attachments

2018-4-7 Walter Notice of Unit 9 Rent Increase.pdf (615.11KB) 2018-4-7 Letter Recd from Walter re WREA and Jade.pdf (667.93KB)

March 30, 2018

Links to this site appear in the March 29 2018 issue on page S12 of the USC Daily Trojan Housing Guide 2018

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE DETAILS CITY LOS ANGELES SUED OVER HOUSING DISCRIMINATION “Will this Court order all Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Blacks across America to be lynched because this Court feels Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Blacks are not entitled to protection under the United States Constitution and all laws?” Court document 120, filed 10-11-17, page ID 2747-2748.

See the online issue of Random Lengths news [of San Pedro], Feb . 22 issue and page 17.

http://www.randomlengthsnews.com

To see additional discussions about what is fair housing and to see copies of posted Videos, click Youtube channel “Davey GJuanvalldez”

January 30, 2018

[Editor: Within the last few months, in one unit a bathroom faucet was replaced, a kitchen garbage disposal was replaced, and now a smoke detector was replaced. But the city and the owner refuse to replace the non-working intercom of Black tenants FOR OVER THREE YEARS. The owner claims it is not due to racism and retaliation. THE NEW FACE OF RACISM.]

Mayor Eric Garcetti Told of Illegal Retaliation and

Substandard Housing Conditions

Subject: Smoke and CO2 Detector Repaired – Intercom Still NOT repaired at 1522 Hi Point St 90035- Illegal Lack of Uniform Compliance — Substandard Conditions

From: [tenant name and email redacted]

To: walter.barratt@gmail.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org;

CC: 1ccanary@gmail.com; robert.galardi@lacity.org; info@smchamber.com; karen.baggio@lacity.org; angelo.shannon@lacity.org; steve.ongele@lacity.org; crystal.otero@lacity.org; richard.horn@lacity.org; maria.a.hernandez@lacity.org; corey.hupp@lacity.org; emily.hu@lacity.org; jonathan.hom@lacity.org; paula.hudak@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org;

Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:49 AM

To whom it may concern:

As Matt Williams and Walter Barratt said, at this city of Los Angeles rent control building under Mayor Eric Garcetti, the intercom has remained unmaintained and unusable and neglected for over three years,

This shall verify that the smoke alarm/CO2 detector was replaced today about 4:10 pm.

I did mention to the electrician that the intercom does not work and he appeared surprised; I mentioned the owner-city THP to him and I suggested he may be the one to be assigned the repairs.

…The anti-retaliation law: “I remind the owner, et al, that California Civil Code section 1942.5(a) was invoked by me by email dated June 28, 2017 at 11:34 pm.”…

In 2014 city code enforcement stated Notice and Order to Comply: “The Housing Department has determined this building to be substandard per section 24436.5 of the State Revenue and Taxation Code.” and “Any and all units are subject to re-inspection and require the same uniform compliance throughout the premises.” Due to the non-working intercom system, this building is still not in uniform compliance throughout the premises, thus the building is still substandard, under Mayor Garcetti, et al.

I remind the owner, et al, that California Civil Code section 1942.5(a) was invoked by me by email dated June 28, 2017 at 11:34 pm.

“Any disturbance of a tenant’s possession by a landlord or by someone acting under his authority, whereby the premises are rendered unfit for occupancy for the purpose for which they are demised, or the tenant is deprived of the beneficial enjoyment of the premises, amounts to constructive eviction.(Riechhold v. Sommarstrom Inv. Co., 83 Cal. App. 173 [256 P. 592] “Partial Eviction by Landlord: General Rule. When the eviction is of a part of the premises only, and is by the landlord himself, this, according to the generally accepted view, will relieve the tenant from liability for future rents,though he remains in possession and enjoyment of the balance of the premises and the law will not in such a case apportion the rent.” (Citing Halligan v. Wade, 21 Ill. 470 [74 Am. Dec. 108]; Royce v. Guggenheim, 106 Mass. 201 [8 Am. Rep. 322]; Kuschinsky v. Flanigan, 170 Mich. 245 [136 N.W. 362, [29 Cal. App. 2d 548] Ann. Cas. 1914A, 1228, 41 L.R.A. (N. S.) 430]; Briggs v. Hall, 4 Leigh (Va.), 484 [26 Am. Dec. 326].) “

I also remind you that it is criminal fraud to make us write the rent check to WREA when WREA is not listed on the rent agreement as the payee to.

“The Housing Department has determined this building to be substandard per section 24436.5 of the State Revenue and Taxation Code.”

[tenant name redacted]

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA 90035
CC: Resident Manager Cynthia Ogan via email; Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce

COURT RULING BETWEEN SEPTEMBER AND NOVEMBER 22, 2017. DOCKET ENTRY 117 [redacted from 19 page ruling]:

“It is hereby adjudged that plaintiff’s federal claims against all defendants except Walter Barratt and Cliff Renfrew are dismissed with prejudice, plaintiff’s state law claims are dismissed without prejudice, and the action is dismissed without prejudice as to defendants Baratt and Renfrew.”

CC 1942.5. [excerpt]

(a) If the lessor retaliates against the lessee because of the exercise by the lessee of his rights under this chapter or because of his complaint to an appropriate agency as to tenantability of a dwelling, and if the lessee of a dwelling is not in default as to the payment of his rent, the lessor may not recover possession of a dwelling in any action or proceeding, cause the lessee to quit involuntarily, increase the rent, or decrease any services within 180 days of any of the following:

(c) It is unlawful for a lessor to increase rent, decrease services, cause a lessee to quit involuntarily, bring an action to recover possession, or threaten to do any of those acts, for the purpose of retaliating against the lessee because he or she has lawfully organized or participated in a lessees’ association or an organization advocating lessees’ rights or has lawfully and peaceably exercised any rights under the law. In an action brought by or against the lessee pursuant to this subdivision, the lessee shall bear the burden of producing evidence that the lessor’s conduct was, in fact, retaliatory.

Updated May 18, 2017

HATE CRIME. Allegedly bent fork used at 1522 Hi Point St to threaten a Black tenant who complained about racism. As reported to the Los Angeles Police department on May 18, 2017.

[A white tenant tried to kick in the door of a Black who complained about racism. Police called out said next time call us at the exact moment it happens and refused to speak with the white tenant. Health and safety at risk at Hi Point Apartments.]

Protests Against Racism Break Out All Across Los Angeles

Subject: How many city employees do I have to talk to before my intercom can be repaired? At 1522 Hi Point Street Apartments

From: [tenant name and email redacted]

To: welcomehome@williamsrea.com; walter.barratt@gmail.com; 1ccanary@gmail.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; amozannar@gmail.com; robert.galardi@lacity.org; presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org; lee.smith@lacity.org; daniel.williams@lacity.org; bryan.kirkness@lacity.org; james.blythe@lacity.org; naacpla@sbcglobal.net;

DATE: MAY 16 2017

This is a rent controlled building under authority of Mayor Eric Garcetti, Rushmore Cervantes, Frank Bush

Dear HCIDLA code enforcement, Mayor, property owner Walter Barratt, Williams Real Estate Advisors, Abady Holdings, designated owner Cynthia Ogan, Ali Mozannar, LADBS et al:

1. This email shall further memorialize that I was visited yesterday by three code enforcement employees at about 1:30 p.m.

2. After the visit, the city employees exited the building and were seen talking with a older Caucasian gentleman outside. I presume that person was one of the owners or an employee of Williams Real Estate Advisors.

3. During the visit, none of those present [including Ali Mozannar] indicated when the intercom in my unit will be repaired or replaced.

4. One inspector indicated that he had not issued his final report yet and that the issues were still being reviewed.

5. It is now 54 days from the time of the March 23 2017 inspection. It does not take 54 days to fix or replace an intercom, and it does not take 54 days to order intercom repair.

6. None of the inspectors yesterday indicated they had cited the owner or talked with the owner about any of the issues of the March 23 inspection which was based on previous code enforcement complaints submitted by myself.

Protesting Racism in Los Angeles. At the federal building 300 North Los Angeles Street on May 10, 2017.

7. City employees have failed to tell me how many code enforcement complaints I need to file in order to have my intercom repaired. [SCEP regulations, etc.]

8. State of California law states that 35 days is a reasonable amount of time for the intercom repair to occur. The city employees thus act in an unreasonable manner.

“…Two of the three inspectors present were PRINCIPAL INSPECTOR, LADBS, BRYAN KIRKNESS at 213-473-3231 [reported salary $94,078.00] and LADBS senior inspector JAMES BLYTHE [reported salary $84,869.28] at 213-473-3231….”

9. I remind you that there is a pending damage claim against HCIDLA dated February 13, 2017; there is a pending DFEH complaint dated May 11, 2017 against HCIDLA, et al.

10. Due to the fact the intercom remains unaddressed and unrepaired, the city employees etc. have failed to exert the “diligent effort” required under state H & S code 17920 (e) [below].

11. Two of the three inspectors present were PRINCIPAL INSPECTOR, LADBS, BRYAN KIRKNESS at 213-473-3231 [reported salary $94,078.00] and LADBS senior inspector JAMES BLYTHE [reported salary $84,869.28] at 213-473-3231.

12. Everything in the unit for the use of the tenant should be in working order. I wonder why Jim and Bryan, were not able to say that yesterday?

13. The three city employees failed to state their duty under state law to enforce the Building and Safety code over all portions of the building including the intercom system; that they failed to cite the building as substandard housing because part of the intercom system is inoperable, i.e units 9, 8, 5.

14. There are intercom systems in building all across Los Angles so I am sure city employees know what they are.

15. LADBS and general manager Frank Bush is added to all claims/complaints for damages.

“…None of the inspectors mentioned the sewer checkout valve at the rear of the building that empties into the walkway. …”

16. None of the inspectors inquired about the tenant #1 running the unlawful dog boarding out of unit 1.

17. None of the inspectors mentioned the sewer checkout valve at the rear of the building that empties into the walkway. The checkout valve in documents to the city show that the valve was installed after the permit had expired for repairs to unit 6.

18. None of the inspectors addressed the inoperable vehicle at stall #13 and the debris underneath it. Also, the striping for stall #13 differs from the CFO and the striping was extended without a permit or approved adjustment to the CFO.

19. The inspectors failed to give the property owner a date as to when the bathroom sink repairs should be completed.

20. Was the second floor hallway window fixed?

This is not a joke or game here. Fair housing is real and the LAW OF THE LAND. Yesterday, including but not limited to, I incurred expense of $45.00 placing an ad seeking a repair estimate for the intercom. That $45.00 is added to the damage claims against all parties.

[Tenant name, address, phone redacted]

cc: NAACP

Protesting racism in Los Angeles. Outside City Hall East on May 10, 2017.

[March 23 2017] AREAS OF INSPECTION INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Unmaintained, unusable, and not operating housing service intercom for units 9,8,5
Substandard building conditions ;Debris under inoperable vehicle at parking stall #13 Debris in front of vehicle at stall #13; Inoperable vehicle at stall #4; Inoperable vehicle at stall #13 ; Sewer checkout valve emptying into tenant walkway; Sewer checkout valve needs permit on file; Parking stall striping stall #13 extended from original CFO without permit on file; Dog Kennell/animal facility operating without dog kennel/facility license Miscellaneous articles stored on premises; Trash, debris on premises ; Premises not maintained in safe and sanitary conditions; Unsafe work practices during bathroom sink repair unit 9 lead dust contamination into bedroom area with tenants area unprotected Bathroom sink remodeling needs further repair; Second floor hallway common area stick holding window open; examine window not properly staying open; stick in window creates hazard

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE – HSC

DIVISION 13. HOUSING [17000 – 19997] ( Division 13 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60. )
PART 1.5. REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION [17910 – 17998.3]

( Part 1.5 added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1844. )
CHAPTER 2. Rules and Regulations [17920 – 17928] ( Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1844. )

17920. As used in this part:
(a) “Approved” means acceptable to the department.
(b) “Building” means a structure subject to this part.
(c) “Building standard” means building standard as defined in Section 18909.
(d) “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development.

(e) “Enforcement” means diligent effort to secure compliance, including review of plans and permit applications, response to complaints, citation of violations, and other legal process. Except as otherwise provided in this part, “enforcement” may, but need not, include inspections of existing buildings on which no complaint or permit application has been filed, and effort to secure compliance as to these existing buildings.

This is a rent controlled building under authority of Mayor Eric Garcetti, Rushmore Cervantes, Frank Bush

[Editor note: The tenant Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black has been without a working intercom for over three years while the owner spent about $86,000 to provide working intercoms to other mostly white tenants. The owner allegedly told the state DFEH that the Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black would not get a working intercom until he vacates the unit.]

Outside Central District Courthouse, Los Angeles.

“…Two of the three inspectors present were PRINCIPAL INSPECTOR, LADBS, BRYAN KIRKNESS at 213-473-3231 [reported salary $94,078.00] and LADBS senior inspector JAMES BLYTHE [reported salary $84,869.28] at 213-473-3231….”

[The crowd chants, “The power of racism! The power of racism! The power of racism! ]

Updated May 11, 2017

Resident Manager Ogan Under Fire at Rent Control Building

SUBJECT: Memorialization of today’s harassment, violation peaceful and quiet enjoyment, intent to commit illegal trespass– at 9:50 a.m.

FROM: [Tenant name and email redacted]

TO: welcomehome@williamsrea.com; walter.barratt@gmail.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; 1ccanary@gmail.com; thefirstjew@yahoo.com; amozannar@gmail.com; robert.galardi@lacity.org; presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org; lee.smith@lacity.org; daniel.williams@lacity.org;

Thursday, May 11, 2017 4:34 PM

This is a rent control building under the corrupt Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Department

Dear owner Hi Point Apts, LLC et al:

1. In today’s conversation with owner Ogan* and Mozannar, I reiterated that my intercom is unusable and needs repair.

2. I told Ogan and Mozannar that by attempting to enter the unit, they were unlawfully disregarding the provisions of California Civil code that the CC 1954 notice must state “approximate time” that entry will be attempted. I did not in any way waive that part of CC 1954, or orally agree otherwise, and I should not have had to waste my time on something she could have handled PROPERLY.

3. Excerpt CC 1954 clearly states, “the landlord shall give the tenant reasonable notice in writing of his or her intent to enter and enter only during normal business hours. The notice shall include the date, approximate time, and purpose of the entry.”

4. Ogan maintained that she had complied with the CC 1954 by stating on the notice “normal business” hours; I stated that she had not stated the “approximate time”. She maintained that we had already talked about the need for maintenance to return to the sink repair. But I state here there was no conversation about day or time or proper notice if there was an oral agreement, which there was not.

5. Ogan maintained that she could not state an approximate time because the sink refinisher could not give her a time. I told her she should put that in the CC 1954 notice.

6. Ali maintained he was there because he needed to remove the faucet, which was never discussed before today. I remind you that Mozannar Construction has the same duty to comply with CC 1954 provisions.

7. Obviously if Ali was here at almost 10 o’clock am, then that is a time that could have been put in the CC 1954 notice.

8. I consider the actions of Ogan and Ali as harassment and retaliation as well as violation CC 1954 and intent to commit illegal trespass.

9. Owner Ogan is of course insincere. It is Ogan who signed previous recent CC 1954 notices where an approximate time of 12 noon or 12-3 pm was stated, so she cannot all of a sudden claim ignorance of the law and its consequences for non- compliance.

10. Neither Ogan nor Mozannar had any excuse not to comply with CC 1954 today.

11. By Mozannar and Ogan intentionally refusing to comply with CC 1954,
it violations my right to quiet enjoyment of the premises. First of all, I am always prepared with a BUTCHER KNIFE if someone appears at my door unannounced or without an appointment or for unlawful purposes. Second, I am always prepared with a BUTCHER KNIFE if I am cutting up a squirrel/chicken/sausage for breakfast, as I was this morning. Since I had not been given an approximate time for entry, I was caught off guard (“WTF”) and was forced to come to the door with the BUTCHER KNIFE in my hand. Could not see shit thru the old style peephole. I just don’t know what happened to that BUTCHER KNIFE once I opened the door.

12. Ogan said she will prepare another CC 1954 notice, I trust with the approximate times.

13. Ogan said, “We’re trying to help you and you won’t let us.” If she wants to help me, she can repair my intercom and give me some $$$$$$ for rent reimbursement; if she wants to help me, she can comply with CC 1954 and not try to get me to follow her illegal shenanigans. I am not the one responsible for owner Ogan engaging in unlawful activity. I am not physically stopping Ogan, or anyone, as I told them today, from repairing the sink and the intercom.

14. I understand that Williams Real Estate Advisors, Inc., as the management company*, is responsible for Ogan’s lack of training in this regard.

2017-5-10 Sign Protest Police Headquarters

Protests break out all across Los Angeles. Pictured outside Los Angeles Police Headquarters May 10 2017.

15. I don’t care much what happened to that BUTCHER KNIFE. However, I do care about the deprivation of housing services and deprivation of rent reduction/reimbursement by Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Nazi storm troopers. Or has Garcetti’s Klan only reserved those housing privileges for Asians and Latinos?

16. As I said today, REPEATEDLY, the door is open and I am not stopping you from entering the unit.

17. Ogan made the decision on her own that Ali and her should come another day because she thought I would charge her with trespassing even if I let them enter the unit today.

18. In a way, Garcetti’s Goons are like little kids: you warn them NOT to do something, and they go ahead and do it anyway.

19. Ogan said “I don’t want there to be a problem between you and I.” Too late for that and I know Ogan is not blind; she passes by the partly operating building intercom multiple EVERY DAY, EVERY DAMN DAY. The INTERCOM is the PROBLEM between us: in broad daylight.

20. In know some people may feel bothered by these emails—which I personally would pay attention to—but I am 100 times more “bothered” by not having a working intercom because my guests and visitors suffer the same humiliation and lack of security housing privileges that I suffer.

[TENANT NAME AND ADDRESS REDACTED]

To: Williams Real Estate Advisors, Inc via email; HCIDLA; Cynthia Ogan via email, etc.

“The housing department has determined this building to be substandard per section and 24436.5 of the State Revenue and Taxation Code. When a building is determined to be substandard as defined under Section 17920.3 of the Health and Safety Code, a notice of non-compliance is recorded at the Los Angeles County Recorders Office (Health and Safety Code section 17985).” September 22, 2014. Issuing inspector Richard Brinson, city of Los Angeles. “Notice and Order to Comply.”

* From my rent agreement, Designation of parties. “The term owner includes a “manager” “agent of the owner” “management company”.

This is a rent control building under the corrupt Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Department

[Editor note: The right to complain about fair housing and racial discrimination is a federally “protected” activity.” The tenant herein is a Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black. ]

2017-5-17 Sign Dog Boarding 1522 Closeup

Resident Manager and Dog Boarder at 1522 Hi Point Street cited by City Animal Control for having an unlicensed pit bull and over three dogs on the premises. Numerous witnesses described six dogs on the premises, an “illegal activity” according to city employees. [Based on public documents].

Updated May 8, 2017

Supporting racism and standing in the way of fair housing

SUBJECT: The faces of ugly segregation under Mayor Eric Garcetti— Racists stand their ground against entitlement of Black Tenant to Civil Rights

FROM: [tenant name and email redacted]

TO: walter.barratt@gmail.com; welcomehome@williamsrea.com; 1ccanary@gmail.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; amozannar@gmail.com; robert.galardi@lacity.org; presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org; lee.smith@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; daniel.williams@lacity.org;

CC: info@da.lacounty.gov;
Date: Monday, May 8, 2017 2:21 PM

This is a rent control building under Mayor Eric Garcetti

Dear Parties:

This shall memorialize today’s entry into the unit 9 by resident manager Cynthia Ogan, Maintenance Ali Mozannar of Mozannar Construction Inc., at about 12 noon. Both were accompanied by another gentleman, Caucasian with eyeglasses, currently unidentified.

1. The unit is identified as being under surveillance by the posting of the Police Commission Permit right inside the unit door.

2. The bathroom sink was inspected and Mozannar said he will schedule further repair to the resurfacing of the sink as it was not sealed properly behind the faucet. Mozannar did not indicate why no one had verified the repairs in the first place and checked the work for correctness. Ogan asked did I have the receipt for the repairs and I told her I was not given a receipt. [I trust I am not going to be charged for routine maintenance as I was not responsible for the damage to the bathroom sink nor did I contract for repair to the sink.]

3. I asked all three was the intercom repair going to be addressed. Ogan said she did not know anything about it and Mozannar said he was only told to address the sink area.

“…This does not excuse Ogan or Mozannar from the fact that they prior to today have actual and constructive knowledge that the intercom unit 9 is unusable, such knowledge over the last two to three years…”

4. Both Ogan and Mozannar appeared ignorant of the fact I have emailed them because that is what I have been told to do, that they should be contacted at their emails (same emails above).

5. Today is evidence that I have told Hi Point Apts LLC’s agents Ogan and Mozannar in person that the intercom needs repair. This does not excuse Ogan or Mozannar from the fact that they prior to today have actual and constructive knowledge that the intercom unit 9 is unusable, such knowledge over the last two to three years.

6. None of the three in the unit today offered me a rent reduction because the intercom is unusable. The intercom damages include but are not limited to $57.00 per month continuing plus double and treble damages, and any other damages entitled to me under federal, state, and local law for illegal discrimination.

7. Today’s visitors to unit 9 are the faces of ugly segregation under Mayor Eric Garcetti and the city Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department. The denial of intercom maintenance today is the continuing wanton, willful, deliberate, and intentional attack on the fair housing rights, civil rights, peaceful and quiet enjoyment of this Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black, tenant Geary Johnson.

8. Today’s three visitors are committing illegal criminal activity against this Ham- Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black senior citizen, of which I am authorized under law to document.

9. It is not good enough to ask these Racist Whites (and many other racists) for fair housing and maintenance; it is not good enough to confront these RACISTS face to face in person.

10. I am treated like a second class citizen by the likes of Mayor Eric Garcetti.

“…Today’s three visitors are committing illegal criminal activity against this Ham- Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black senior citizen, of which I am authorized under law to document…”

11. It is illegal criminal activity for the owner and agents to continue to take my rent money and not repair the unusable intercom.

12. Today I stood face to face with the three faces of ugly segregation and housing discrimination under Mayor Eric Garcetti.

13. Again I ask: when will the intercom be repaired or replaced and when will I receive a rent reimbursement for the non-working intercom?

14. The rental agreement and fair housing laws obligate me to report the non- working housing service intercom.

15. Under separate cover I will forward you video documentation of today’s failure to repair the intercom.

16. The city is directed to make sure this email is preserved for a Public Open Records Act Request.

[The office of the LA Country District Attorney is copied on this because the DA’s office is full of shit.]

This is a rent control building under Mayor Eric Garcetti

Racists Among Us: names and phones to ask about the KKK, Holocaust, and Black Lynchings

Eric Garcetti 213-978-0600 , Walter Barratt 310-895-6693 , Williams Real Estate Advisors 310-987-7978, Cynthia Ogan 310-406-4075 , Ali Mozannar 818-335-8175 , Robert Galardi 213-252-2849, Presiliano Sandoval 213-252-2849 , Lee Smith 213-252-2849, HCIDLA 213-252-2849 , Daniel Williams 213-252-2849.

“…The faces of ugly segregation under Mayor Eric Garcetti— Racists stand their ground against entitlement of Black Tenant to Civil Rights …”

Updated May 6, 2017

Again Mayor and Owner Told of Non-Working Intercom

SUBJECT: Your notice of today’s date “Intent to Enter Premises” for apt 9 at 1522 Hi Point St

FROM: [tenant name and email redacted]

TO: walter.barratt@gmail.com; welcomehome@williamsrea.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; amozannar@gmail.com;

CC: thefirstjew@yahoo.com; 1ccanary@gmail.com; robert.galardi@lacity.org; presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org; lee.smith@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; daniel.williams@lacity.org;

DATE: Saturday, May 6 2017 at 7:17 p.m.

This is a rent control building under authority of Mayor Eric Garcetti

Dear Manager Cynthia Ogan/Williams Real Estate Advisors, Inc. et al:

1. The Intercom unit 9 is not in useful/unusable condition. [I understand intercoms in units 5 and 8 are also unusable and would be connected to the same electrical wiring system as the rest of the building, lighting, etc.]

2. I have received your Intent to Enter Premises [pdf copy attached] dated May 6, 2017.

3. Please identify the first and last name of the first person who signed the May 6 notice [and please indicate is this person a government employee]. This is my second time noting this information has not been provided.

“…This puts me in an uncomfortable position because I would have to call a dog boarding service I do not want to call…”

4. The phone number listed on your notice is 310-406-4075. That is the same
phone number for the dog boarding service that the city Animal Control/code enforcement employees have told me is engaged in illegal activity [pet boarding] at this location [since pet boarding is not allowed in this zone and Ogan has been witnessed to have control of four dogs or more on the property at various times, so says Animal Control]. Also, it is my understanding from the state Labor Commission’s office that the property owner is responsible for providing a phone to the resident manager and that the phone should be strictly for resident manager business; it presents a conflict of interest in that if I have 1522 Hi Point St business that I am forced to call “Doggone Cindy’s Dog Walking Service” since the phone number is the same, and it appears from the phone number that Hi Point Apts LLC dba 1522 Hi Point Apartments and the pet boarding service at this address are one and the same. This puts me in an uncomfortable position because I would have to call a dog boarding service I do not want to call.

“…is this May 6 notice another one of those times when the intercom repair will be ignored? “

5. While the CC 1954 may not state that the owner must “specify” the “necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements” the owner will address, the owner is still under a duty to act in a reasonable and good faith manner, which means considering the numerous over 25 times maintenance has been in unit 9 or in the building over the past three years for other issues and NOT addressed the unit 9 intercom repair, these circumstances qualify me to ask is this May 6 notice another one of those times when the intercom repair will be ignored? It only takes a few seconds to provide the good faith reasonable specifics I have requested for months.

All rights reserved. I reserve the right to modify, revoke, or amend this email at any time. It is not intended as a remedy or resolution of any claims against any of the persons named herein or agents or employees of.

[TENANT NAME ADDRESS PHONE REDACTED]

c: code enforcement/HCIDLA Robert Galardi, Presiliano Sandoval, Lee Smith, Daniel Williams; Al Mozannar, maintenance

This is a rent control building under authority of Mayor Eric Garcetti

CC section 1954 [full copy]

HEADNOTES CALIFORNIA OFFICIAL REPORTS HEADNOTES

(1a) (1b) Landlord and Tenant–Eviction–Landlord’s Failure to Repair. — –In a lessee’s action to recover a security deposit paid defendants, as lessor, at the inception of a lease, and for damages for breach of the lessor’s covenant to maintain the leased premises in useful condition, the evidence was sufficient to support a finding of constructive eviction…. KARL R. GROH et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. KOVER’S
BULL PEN, INC., 221 Cal. App. 2d 611; 34 Cal. Rptr. 637; 1963 Cal. App. LEXIS 2194.

[Editor: this email has been redacted]

Email Questions Mayor Eric Garcetti on Housing Racism and Corruption

Subject: INTRACTABLE WHITE PRIVILEGE– WHERE IS THE THP FOR UNIT #11 — Hi Point Apts 1522 Hi Point St

From: [tenant name and email redacted]

To: robert.galardi@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; presiliano.sandoval@lacity.org; walter.barratt@gmail.com; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; lee.smith@lacity.org; daniel.williams@lacity.org; welcomehome@williamsrea.com; amozannar@gmail.com;

cc: info@da.lacounty.gov

Date: Monday, May 1, 2017 8:27 AM

THIS IS A RENT CONTROLLED BUILDING

Dear Parties:

You have not answered my concerns about the lack of THP’s, for example the lack of THP for apt 11, formerly held by tenant [name redacted].

According to city ordinance and rent control regulations, so says Mayor Eric Garcetti, [the tenant] should have received over $7,000 if she chose to permanently end her tenancy. [The tenant] did end her tenancy. She did not receive the THP application nor did she receive the $7,000. [The former tenant] is an African American. If she chose to temporarily relocate and move into a renovated apartment #11, which it appears she may have, the owner was required to file an application for rent increase of 10%. No THP was filed with the city according to various city employees, and no application was filed for the rent increase. These all should have been publicly accessible documents in the Public Interest. I assume Garcetti knows who the Public is. For the sake of the District attorney, all names in the “to” line above should be questioned about the THP’s. By not getting the THP, [the tenant] was denied due process by the property owner and government officials.

The District attorney and the Police are asked to investigate which city employees profited from the money that did not got to [the tenant] ? Or where did the money go that was supposed to go to [another] tenant [in unit #15]?

The city employees and the property owner/agents are asked the same question: why was the THP not filed and served since units #11 and #15 were occupied sixty days before the primary renovations started on those units?

I question why for the last three years the Police and District Attorneys office have been unable to investigate the criminal activity of government employees regarding this property and the illegal diversion of THP monies into the pockets of city employees and the city authorized contractors.

Let the District Attorney forward this matter to the Los Angeles Police so they can investigate and forward it to the District Attorney. Over the years I have given the DA enough names and sufficient evidence for them to take efforts to protect the rights of the tenants from criminal fraud; they should be questioning the city employees and not trying to harass me for reporting this crime.

[Tenant name and address redacted]

c: Williams Real Estate Advisors via email; State Bar of California; Mayor Eric Garcetti via email above; Mozannar Construction;

Mozannar Construction Inc. is a California Domestic Corporation filed on October 17, 2016 . The company’s filing status is listed as Active and its File Number is C3955208.

The Registered Agent on file for this company is Ali Mozannar and is located at 10721 Bloomfield Street Ste1, North Hollywood, CA 91602. The company’s mailing address is 10721 Bloomfield Street Ste 1, North Hollywood, CA 91602.

THIS IS A RENT CONTROLLED BUILDING

[Editor note: in a March 6, 2017 letter from city employee Robert Galardi, Mayor Eric Garcetti, and others, Galardi admitted that numerous tenants across the city may not have been provided due process THP applications before vacating their units in face of primary renovations. Galardi has refused to reveal how many tenants were effected and how much money was involved. Galardi claimed the units were vacant but the facts show many units were NOT vacant at least 60 days before primary renovations started. Galardi did not explain why there is no record of these transactions being that primary renovations are supposed to be a matter of Public Record. Portions of this email have been redacted.]

Hiding Corruption Under the Rug

Inside Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Idea of “Fair Housing”

Under Mayor Eric Garcetti, why is there a Housing Inspector who doesn’t know the hours of primary renovations in a rent control building?

“When a tenant makes a complaint that there has been a reduction in housing services in violation of housing codes related to habitability of a dwelling under California Health & Safety Code 17920.3 or 17920.10, the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investments Department will determine a corresponding reduction in rent under the Rent Escrow Account Program regulations (RAC Regulations 1200.00 et . seq).” City Los Angeles LAMC claimed by Mayor Eric Garcetti and Director Rushmore Cervantes.

For example, the city has declared that in a densely populated area like Koreatown or Faircrest Heights, the value of parking will require the apartment owner to reduce/reimburse the renter at $200 per parking space per month. That is what the regulations say on paper of course.

Updated April 10, 2017

Garcetti’s Whitehurst Adds Employees Lee Smith and Presiliano Sandoval to List of Corruptors with Robert Galardi

Subject: April 10 2017 Amendment to Claim for Damages dated February 13, 2017 against HCIDLA and employees; against City government of Los Angeles

From: [Tenant name and email redacted]

Mon 4/10/2017 4:40 PM

To:RSO Contact ; David Whitehurst ; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org ;

Cc: Julie Cross ; Robert Galardi ; Ian Yeom ; Da Lacounty Info ; Lee Smith ; Presi Sandoval ;

HCIDLA Regulatory and Compliance & Code Bureau

3550 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1500

Los Angeles California 90010 Eric Garcetti, Mayor Rushmore D. Cervantes, General Manager

Dear HCIDLA:

Klan Imperial Wizard David Whitehurst Retaliates Against Black Tenant Who Complained of Racism

Mr. Whitehurst: Your email of 9:59 a.m. today is unintelligible as regards the failure of Kristine Ritzke to comply with her mandatory duty under state law regarding the animal shelter that operates in an area not zoned for an animal shelter, etc. You state in your email, “Any further attempts to reach inspector Ritzke may be considered harassment.” I was contacting her in response to her phone calls to me telling me to contact her. Your email of 9:59 am is further violation of my rights [see below] to petition the government for a redress of my grievances. Kristine Ritzke has information that I requested as part of a complaint, and she needs to supply that information to me, Pronto. If you like, without waiving any rights, I will address you as “Kristine Ritzke” so you can answer the questions posed to her. Your email is not acceptable as a resolution to the illegal animal shelter, unuseable intercoms, and other issues at Hi Point Apts. I have a legitimate purpose in contacting Kristine Ritzke and I will continue to do so, your claims of “harassment” are unfounded and constitute illegal retaliation, racism, because I complained of housing discrimination, and complained of uninhabitable conditions. This amended claim for damages is against each individual city employee, as individuals, without limitation.

Get the intercom fixed today, Whitehurst, and stop your bullshit.

Let Ritzke do her job and answer my questions. Both of you should consider resigning your positions rather than continue your abuse of tax dollars. Within the past thirty days I have received emails and voicemails from city Los Angeles employees. Those communications are not acceptable as a resolution to the code enforcement complaints and issues before the HCIDLA including the zoning complaint against the animal facility operating on the property. I reserve the right to supply further responses to all communications from the City. This does not constitute an acceptable resolution of claims against contractor Ali Mozannar Contractors/Construction for conspiracy to commit unlawful retaliation against myself. This claim concerns a rent control building owned by Hi Point Apts LLC. I received voicemails from Kristine Ritske, code inspector, on Jan. 4 at 4:12 p.m., Jan. 5 at 1:23 pm, February 17 at 1007 am, March 8 at 7:30 a.m., Mar 20 at 8:48 a.m., and April 4 at 7:19 am. I left voicemails for Ritske on January 4, January 9, January 19, Feb. 16, March 7, March 19, April 3. The animal kennel/pet boarding operating out of unit 1 still is not in the correct zoned area and a license is not posted on the front of the building. The phone calls from Kristine Ritske are not acceptable as a resolution. Under GC 815.6, you have failed to exercise reasonable diligence to discharge your duty; your mandatory duty is spelled out in the California Constitution: “Under CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SEC. 31. (a) The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. (f) For the purposes of this section, “State” shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the State itself, any city, county, city and county, public university system, including the University of California, community college district, school district, special district, or any other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of or within the State. (g) The remedies available for violations of this section shall be the same, regardless of the injured party’s race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, as are otherwise available for violations of then- existing California anti-discrimination law.” Under CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SEC. 26. The provisions of this Constitution are mandatory and prohibitory, unless by express words they are declared to be otherwise.” Code enforcement inspection March 23, 2017 for the following at Hi Point Apts, 1522 Hi Point St: “This shall memorialize the inspection today at about 10:45 a.m. I gave the inspector a full copy of the six page 617730 code numbered complaint. AREAS OF INSPECTION INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Unmaintained, unusable, and not operating housing service intercom for units 9,8,5 Substandard building conditions Debris under inoperable vehicle at parking stall #13 Debris in front of vehicle at stall #13 Inoperable vehicle at stall #4 Inoperable vehicle at stall #13 Sewer checkout valve emptying into tenant walkway Sewer checkout valve needs permit on file Parking stall striping stall #13 extended from original CFO without permit on file Dog Kennell/animal facility operating without dog kennel/facility license Miscellaneous articles stored on premises Trash, debris on premises Premises not maintained in safe and sanitary conditions Unsafe work practices during bathroom sink repair unit 9 lead dust contamination into bedroom area with tenants area unprotected Bathroom sink remodeling needs further repair Second floor hallway common area stick holding window open; examine window not properly staying open; stick in window creates hazard City code enforcement has jurisdiction under [over] all portions of the building under the state Building Code ” Emails to HCIDLA dated March 23, 2017, at 4:21 p.m., March 16, 2017 at 4:46 pm, March 23, 2017 at 9:17 am, are hereby incorporated by reference, indicating unresolved issues for this amended claim, and shall constitute date of continuing injuries and damages. Location of injuries is 1522 Hi Point St Los Angeles CA 90035. The intercom at apt 9 remains unusable, and unrepaired as of today’s date, rent reductions, and reimbursements, and failure to provide unit 9 tenants a tandem parking stall. In addition, the conditions cited at the March 23 2017 inspection by HCIDLA by code enforcement cited above, remain uncorrected. Damages: [amounts redacted] against HCIDLA, Rushmore Cervantes, Director, City Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti [amounts redacted] against David Whitehurst, as individual and city employee [amounts redacted] against Kristine Ritsky, as individual and city employee [amounts redacted] against Robert Galardi, as individual and city employee [amounts redacted] against Lee Smith, as an individual [amounts redacted] against Presiliano Sandoval, as an individual This amendment may also be sent to HCIDLA by first class mail. This amended claim shall be a response to all phone calls and emails received from HCIDLA and its employees to date, without waiving any rights to make a modified response to any such voicemails and emails received. All rights reserved. [Tenant name address phone redacted] c: Office of Los Angeles County District Attorney; Julie Cross of LB Property Management

Klan Imperial Wizard David Whitehurst Retaliates Against Black Tenant Who Complained of Racism

CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SEC. 3. (a) The people have the right to instruct their representatives, petition government for redress of grievances, and assemble freely to consult for the common good. In the United States the right to petition is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which specifically prohibits Congress from abridging “the right of the people…to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”. Although often overlooked in favor of other more famous freedoms, and sometimes taken for granted,[1] many other civil liberties are enforceable against the government only by exercising this basic right.[2] The right to petition is regarded as fundamental in some republics, such as the United States, as a means of protecting public participation in government.

Update March 21 2017

Garcetti’s David Whitehurst Retaliates Against Black due to redress of grievances

[Editor: this email has been redacted] SUBJECT: Garcetti’s Whitehurst Retaliates Against Black due to redress of grievances – Response to your March 20 2017 Email FROM: [Tenant Name and email redacted]

TO: david.whitehurst@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; jcross@lbpm.com;

CC: thefirstjew@yahoo.com; robert.galardi@lacity.org; ian.yeom@lacity.org; walter.barratt@gmail.com; info@da.lacounty.gov;

Monday, March 20, 2017 7:51 PM

Garcetti’s Whitehurst Retaliates Against Black due to redress of grievances

Garcetti’s Whitehurst admits his English comprehension problem

To whom it may concern: 1. You state in your email below: “Hopefully the future communications that you send forward for my reading will be brief and to the point.” Mr. Whitehurst, you don’t have the authority to tell me to do that, and neither does Director Rushmore Cervantes. My emails have been brief and to the point from my standpoint. 2. Unless someone asks me to write them [as you asked me to file a complaint], I write for my own benefit. I don’t need your approval one way or the other.

“If you don’t want to read my complaints then I suggest you resign your position…”

3. I consider your classification of my complaint as a “missive” as retaliatory because I complained about fair housing and because I sought redress of my grievances to government officials. Your retaliation is unlawful under federal laws and the United States Constitution.

“In Turner v. Safley, #85-1384, 482 U.S. 78 (1987), the U.S. Supreme Court stated that ―Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the Constitution. Hence, for example, prisoners retain the constitutional right to petition the government for the redress of grievances. Prisoner‘s protected First Amendment rights include the ability to have access to the courts, to file lawsuits and prison grievances, to write letters to public officials, agencies, and the media, to practice their chosen religion, to read newspapers and books, and to exercise their right of free speech. “ http://www.aele.org/law/2010all03/2010-03MLJ301.pdf 4. Mr. Whitehurst, your duties towards me are MANDATORY under the California Constitution which states: Under the CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SECTION 1. “All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.” [Emphasis added] Under CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SEC. 31. (a) The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. (f) For the purposes of this section, “State” shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the State itself, any city, county, city and county, public university system, including the University of California, community college district, school district, special district, or any other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of or within the State. (g) The remedies available for violations of this section shall be the same, regardless of the injured party’s race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, as are otherwise available for violations of then-existing California anti-discrimination law.” Under CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SEC. 26. The provisions of this Constitution are mandatory and prohibitory, unless by express words they are declared to be otherwise.

“I don’t know how many email complaints it would take to make a Klansman like yourself enforce my rights to fair housing and my rights to health and safety.”

5. I would copy and paste to you the Bible —- over 1200 pages —- and the Los Angeles Municipal Code if I thought it would get you to comply with THP/LAMC/SCEP regulations and order Housing Services restored to me. I don’t know how many email complaints it would take to make a Klansman like yourself enforce my rights to fair housing and my rights to health and safety. 6. My record of my contact with city employee Hector does not support your version alleging that he called me to reschedule the March 17 inspection. Hector called me on March 14 at 7:25 am and 12:48 pm. The first call was where he set the inspection for March 17 and asked me to confirm.

7. I emailed Hector at 10:04 am on March 14 2017 to confirm. I called Hector three times on the evening of the 14th confirming the inspection as March 17. I received no phone calls or other communication from Hector after the 14th and nor before the 17th.

8. The conspiracy to commit criminal retaliation on your part to call my legitimate housing complaints a “missive” while benefitting financially from rent payments is not acceptable.

9. If you don’t want to read my complaints then I suggest you resign your position or go to Google on the internet and see what comes up after you Google your name.

10. I should not have to do the job of the owner and maintenance and the resident manager because it interrupts my quiet and peaceful enjoyment of the premises. There may be many areas of inspection that I should not have to be present, as I told Hector, when you have a property owner, maintenance company, and Resident manager who are PAID to address many if not all of these issues I have raised.

11. According to your own city RAC regulations, the intercom is a housing service, and authorized by the city provided code enforcement CFO in 1973. Do you agree with that, Mr. Whitehurst?

12. The new replaced intercoms has further been authorized by code enforcement finals to all units in the building except for units 5, 8, and 9, and a certificate of occupancy FOR THE BUILDING that covers all wiring and plumbing. Do you agree with that Mr. Whitehurst that the CFO covers all “portions” of the building?

13. The Animal Facility vehicles of tenant #1 have been spotted here and the common area around 7 a.m. 9:45 a.m. overnight 2 o’clock p.m. and around 6:15 p.m. the Animal Facility Vehicles can be seen from the street. 14. Proposed Order #1: “We order the owner to repair or replace the intercom by date and RSD we order the owner to provide a rent reduction/reimbursement to tenant number 9” 15. Proposed Order #2: “We order the owner to provide tenant number 9 with a tandem parking stall without extra rental charge and provide a rent reduction or reimbursement and or the owner shall extend the striping on stall number 8 to a tandem stall” 16. Chemical reaction. Action and reaction I’m sure you learned about this in high school. Would there be a need for me to make the complaints/emails if you [HCIDLA] did your job and issued the Orders 1 and 2 above? 17. Summary of complaints: unsafe work practices bathroom sink at unit 9; two inoperative vehicles creating hazard; miscellaneous article stored on premises; animal facility operating on the property without license, no dog boarding license posted, non permitted in this zoned area; parking stall #13 no permit to extend striping [continuing complaint]; the sewer check valve empties into the walkway at rear building door creating a slip and fall hazard [continuing]; no construction site notice at the property during renovations to unit #15 ; unmaintained intercom unit #9, the intercom is a housing service that is unusable [continuing] ; as code enforcement has authority over the striping of parking stalls, code enforcement is requested to order my stall #8 striped into a tandem parking stall [continuing]. 18. Am I as a Black American entitled to housing services? The white plantation owner et al says “no”; as a Black American I say “yes” I am entitled to “full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments.” 19. Everybody and their mother knows what an intercom system is. You can look up and down the street and you will see numerous apartments/condos that have a working intercom system.

20. Other than racial discrimination, retaliation because I complained, and corruption, Mr. Whitehurst aka Eric Garcetti, are you able to say:

Order #1: “We and RSD order the owner to repair or replace the intercom by [date ] and we order the owner to provide a rent reduction/reimbursement to tenant number 9” Order #2: “We order the owner to provide tenant number 9 with a tandem parking stall without extra rental charge and provide a rent reduction or reimbursement and or the owner shall extend the striping on stall number 8 to a tandem stall”.

23. Mr. Whitehurst, it took me 30 seconds to dictate proposed orders 1 and 2. So if you would just use those 30 seconds as your “action”, then the “reaction” from me would be minimal. Don’t you agree, Mr. Whitehurst?

24. At the inspection, the first word out of my mouth Thursday will be “Intercom”. I hope that will be the first word from the Inspector(s). I hope.

25. To LB Property Management: which tenant was assigned to and parking in stall #8 from April 2010 thru March 2014?

26. Mr. Whitehurst: I asked you a question in my March 17, 2017 at 8:03 a.m. email: "How many hours would it take a White person to repair or replace an intercom?" Please answer the question.

All rights reserved. [Tenant name, address, phone redacted] c: Hi Point Apts LLC Walter Barratt at walter.barratt@gmail.com; LB Property Management Inc.; Los Angeles County District Attorney [full of bull]

Redacted From email dated March 20, 2017 at 4:23 pm

[To Tenant] Thanks for getting back to me with the information for the case numbers that you were expecting us to investigate on 3/17/2017. I was able to speak to Hector this morning and he stated he regrets that you did not receive his voicemail that he left for you before 3/17/2017 explaining that the date and time of the inspections for the two cases was changed from 3/17/2017 to 3/23/2017 at 10:45 am. We will also attempt to schedule your latest complaint (once it receives a case number) for 3/23/2017 at 10:45 am to address the rest of your concerns. If possible, please advise me once you receive the latest complaint case number. Please note that your claims for damages will have to be handled at the City Attorney level and that I can make no comment about them. Please also be aware that I will no longer attempt to read in entirety the very lengthy missives you write. Hopefully the future communications that you send forward for my reading will be brief and to the point. Thanks.

David Whitehurst, Principal Inspector

Systematic Code Enforcement Program [SCEP] Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department - HCIDLA Central Regional Office 3550 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1500 Los Angeles, CA 90010 (213) 252-2882 - desk / (213) 252-2801 - fax

[Editor note: City Code enforcement/LADBS employees include David Whitehurst, Richard Brinson, Robert Galardi, Rushmore Cervantes, Ian Yeom, Kristine Ritzke, Raymond. Chan, Frank Bush, Steve Davey, Ifa Kashefi, Steve Ongle, Ken Gill, John Weight, Richard Garcia, Manuel Hernandez, Alan Yochelson. [Some of these inspectors make over $100,000 dollars per year to sit on their ass.] [LB Property management employees who act for building owner Hi Point Apts LLC/Abady Holding LTD. include Walter Barratt, Julie Cross, Robert Lopata, Gregg Bernstein, Brandon Stein, Brian Theobald, Ccam, Salle Yerumyan, Greg De Rubeis.]

Update March 19, 2017

"Boy, this is Klan Territory"

[Editor: do you think the hours of renovation for a vacant lot should be the same as a tenant occupied building with children and senior citizens? The mayor thinks they should be the same. Shame on KKK Mayor Eric Garcetti. Below what follows is an exchange with the management company who doesn't mind tenants being exposed to untenantable conditions that violate health and safety.]

Julie Cross, Robert Lopata, Gregg Bernstein, Brandon Stein, Brian Theobald, Ccam, Salle Yerumyan, Greg De Rubeis

[Editor: this is an email chain. Start at February 4 at the bottom *]

SUBJECT: Re: Workers on property illegally doing primary Renovations on a Saturday- 1522 Hi Point St Apartments

FROM: [Tenant name and email address redacted]

TO: jcross@lbpm.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; info@da.lacounty.gov; david.whitehurst@lacity.org; ian.yeom@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org;

CC: walter.barratt@gmail.com; thefirstjew@yahoo.com; 1ccanary@gmail.com; Sunday, March 19, 2017 6:44 PM

This is a city rent controlled building

Dear LBPM Julie Cross, Robert Lopata, Gregg Bernstein, Brandon Stein, Brian Theobald, Ccam, Salle Yerumyan, Greg De Rubeis, et al : I have been over this issue a million times with the City. Catherine Gaba was/is an employee with the LADBS. The hours you quote, JULIE, are from the city "noise" ordinance, not a construction ordinance. I suggest you read the ordinance and the city clerk notice of the ordinance and you will clearly see it is a noise ordinance. You will also see that the hours you are quoting are not stated as such in the ordinance. I believe I already forwarded Catherine Gaba's email to you. I have also quoted Charles Garcia to you who is also a city employee who appeared at a city hearing along with Cliff Renfrew in 2015 where Garcia said the hours are 8:00-5:00 pm Mon-Friday in a rent control building primary renovations; this was agreed to by the hearing officer and by Renfrew at the PUBLIC hearing. No Saturdays are allowed for primary renovations. Again Caherine Gaba at the time talked to manager [previous manager] at the time [which I verified with the manager just the other day] and maintenance and all were told they would be fined if they did not comply with Gaba stated hours of renovations. I am sure the city can forward you the CD from the 2015 hearing as well as the written documentation from the hearing officer and Charles Garcia. If you happen to read a THP application, you will also see the hours of primary renovations [8-5 M-F] Are you calling Charles Garcia a liar?

"Or why don't you ask the WHITE tenants if they like being treated like TRASH?"

I am sure you would agree that the WHITE tenants at the building should not be treated like they live in a vacant lot and their right to private enjoyment of the premises should be respected. Or why don't you ask the WHITE tenants if they like being treated like TRASH? Are you calling the white tenants in the building WHITE TRASH? Further, as already shared with you, Richard Brinson, on September 22, 2014, city case 491005, ISSUED a Notice and Order to Comply against 1522 S HI POINT due to Apartment 1 and Apartment 10. Both units were occupied at the time I believe. The citation was for unapproved plumbing and as a result Brinson stated "the housing department has determined this building to be substandard"; "the entire premises must be in full compliance with the Los Angeles Municipal Code"; as in full compliance with the THP hours of primary renovations. At least two Orders to Stop Work were issued against this building---all PUBLIC documents---and the owner was ordered to comply with the THP requirements by filing and serving the application and complying with the hours of primary renovation as 8-5pm Mon-Friday. Last, and these are PUBLIC documents, HI POINT APTS LLC presented a THP application September 15, 2015, approved by the City, in which the hours of primary renovation are stated as 8-5 M-F and any work outside of those hours will make the building untenantable. Are you calling BRINSON a liar? Are you calling Catherine GABA a liar? Are you calling me a LIAR?

"...you weren't born in a vacant trash lot, were you?..."

I am sure the people at 311 did not know this is a rent control building and that you were speaking of primary renovations, not demolition in a vacant lot. I assume you know what a vacant lot is presumably because you weren't born in a vacant trash lot, were you? Your email is not acceptable as a resolution. I AM SICK OF THE BULLSHIT FROM YOU LBPM. Do you comprehend English?I AM SICK OF THE BULLSHIT!

This is a city rent controlled building

All rights reserved. [Editor: Tenant name and address redacted] From: Julie Cross Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 11:15 AM To: [Tenant name redacted] CC: Hi LLC; Charles Floyd; Hi Point Resident Manager Cynthia Ogan Subject: Re: Workers on property illegally doing primary Renovations on a Saturday- 1522 Hi Point St Apartments

Mr. [Tenant #9]:

I just called 311 information to confirm my understanding of the hours renovation work is allowed on the property. They confirmed that the hours are actually Monday to Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The hours are regulated by LAPD Noise Enforcement.

This has been my understanding of renovation hours for some time now. Where are you getting your information about said hours? Thank you. Julie Cross, Portfolio Supervisor Cal BRE# 01904769 Direct: (818) 793-2033 Main: (818) 981-1802 x240 Concierge: (855) 800-LBPM (5276) Fax: (818) 986-1214 After Hours Emergency: (818) 832-6201 Website | Service | Feedback | Referrals For immediate assistance, if I'm unavailable, please call our Concierge Line at (855) 800-5276, during regular business hours.

* On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 11:33 AM, the Black tenant wrote:

Dear LBPM:

Workers are on the property again today working on apt 15, loud banging. Primary renovations work is not allowed on a Saturday. Please instruct the maintenance immediately that the hours of primary renovation work are Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m. -5:00 pm and this does not include Saturdays or Sundays. This comes from Catherine Gaba of the Building and Safety department which I have already informed you of. In Oct 2015 Cliff Renfrew testified in a city hearing that primary renovation work is not allowed on Saturdays. I called and left a message with the operator for your emergency line a few minutes ago. I understand that tenant apt 6 was given a rent reduction because the renovations are disturbing his quiet enjoyment of the premises. I would also like a rent reduction for any work occurring after the permitted hours and days of primary renovations. Also you continue to spell my name incorrectly on the invoice for rent. All rights reserved. [Editor: Tenant contact information redacted] c: Resident Manager Cynthia Ogan

Julie Cross, Robert Lopata, Gregg Bernstein, Brandon Stein, Brian Theobald, Ccam, Salle Yerumyan, Greg De Rubeis

Update March 17, 2017

Racism and Corruption: City Inspector Says He Will Not Perform His Job Duties

Subject: Re: Mayor Eric Garcetti told of Housing Services Conditions at Hi Point Apts- The Intercom unit 9 remains not useable- A city rent control building From: [Tenant name and email redacted] To: david.whitehurst@lacity.org; cc: robert.galardi@lacity.org; ian.yeom@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; jcross@LBPM.com; thefirstjew@yahoo.com; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; info@da.lacounty.gov; Friday, March 17, 2017 8:03 AM Mr. Whitehurst: The emails and voicemails and letters I have received within the last three weeks from any and all city and county employees are not acceptable as a resolution to the damages that have occurred due to lack of useable intercom, denial of tandem parking stall, and denial of the corresponding rent reductions/reimbursements entitlements. Your signature on your email says "Systematic Code Enforcement Program". First, that means you DO have authority to assist with the concerns I have raised. Second, you don't have authority to extricate yourself from this building since every year tenants like myself pay/reimburse the SCEP fee as part of the rent which I currently pay as part of the rent $3.61 per month. What is the SCEP and why is it important? I will quote from your own city website and the full copy is below*: "A tenant does not need to wait for the regularly scheduled inspection if a unit or common area needs repairs that the property owner is aware of, and fails to make. In such cases, a complaint may be filed with the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department. Tenants cannot be evicted for filing complaints, and there is no fee for filing a complaint." Thus you have authority to assist with the concerns I raise. You are benefitting from my rent money every month [which also pays for the renovation permit fees] , and the fees I reimburse as well as the yearly registration, that clearly also establishes the liability of the city government for criminal fraud for taking my rent monies under SCEP and not ordering the owner to make the intercom repairs, etc. Further, your authority includes, "The Hearing Officer may also determine that the case be recommended for criminal prosecution. [I hope the District Attorney can read that.] Other enforcement measures include Rent Reduction, Rent Escrow Account Program, and Property Management Training classes."

If your email is alleging you have no ability to perform your duties under the SCEP program, I suggest you resign your position immediately.

"A tenant does not need to wait for the regularly scheduled inspection if a unit or common area needs repairs that the property owner is aware of, and fails to make. In such cases, a complaint may be filed with the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department. Tenants cannot be evicted for filing complaints, and there is no fee for filing a complaint." [I repeat this is case you don't comprehend English]. Mr. Whitehurst, you obviously are intelligent enough to write an email; answer me this: how many hours should it take a White person to repair or replace an intercom? I am in a unit that needs repairs that the property owner is aware of, and has failed to make.

The intercom/parking stalls is a code enforcement ,RSD, and SCEP issue. Please order the intercom unit 9 repaired or replaced, without further bullshit.

All rights reserved. [Tenant name address phone redacted] c: Los Angeles County office of District Attorney * SCEP (pronounced "skep"), requires that multi-family rental properties with two or more occupied units be inspected on a scheduled basis (current schedule is once every five years). Inspections are done to ensure that the units are safe and habitable. Inspectors from the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department schedule each property for a thorough inspection and those properties that do not meet City and State codes are cited. Inspectors identify habitability problems which fall under Section 1941.1 of the California Civil Code, the Uniform Housing Code of the State of California, or the Los Angeles Municipal Code. The Department attempts to provide a 30-day notice for scheduled inspections. Shorter time frames may be imposed for properties referred by an inspector or other enforcement agency. If the inspector finds that a property does not meet City and State codes, a "Notice to Comply" is issued. Property owners are given 30 days (or less depending on severity of the violations) to have the needed repairs completed. A re-inspection is done to verify that the corrective work was done. If deficiencies are not corrected in the time specified on the Notice to Comply, the owner will be summoned to an administrative hearing (known as a "General Manager's Hearing") to determine the reason for non-compliance. Based on the determination and the Los Angeles Municipal Code, the owner may be required to refund the Department for all inspection and administrative costs after the first re-inspection. The Hearing Officer may also determine that the case be recommended for criminal prosecution. Other enforcement measures include Rent Reduction, Rent Escrow Account Program, and Property Management Training classes. A tenant does not need to wait for the regularly scheduled inspection if a unit or common area needs repairs that the property owner is aware of, and fails to make. In such cases, a complaint may be filed with the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department. Tenants cannot be evicted for filing complaints, and there is no fee for filing a complaint. Property owners are charged $35.52 per unit, per year whether or not the units are inspected during that year. The fee is paid to the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department once every year. The fee covers a rental housing habitability inspection and one re- inspection if a Notice to Comply is issued. Additional fees may be charged for owners who fail to comply and cause the Housing and Community Investment Department to incur additional staff time and costs for services. For information on preparing property for inspection, please read Preparing Residential Property for Housing Habitability Inspection (.pdf). For more information about the Systematic Code Enforcement Program, call the Housing and Community Investment Department's Information and Complaint Line at (866) 557-RENT or send an email to the ceuemail@lahd.ci.la.ca.us, our Code Enforcement Unit. http://hcidapp.lacity.org/cris/informationcenter/code/scep.htm Systematic Code Enforcement Program (SCEP) routinely inspects the City's residential rental units to verify compliance with State health and safety codes and building codes. http://hcidla.lacity.org/regulatory-compliance-and-code Regulatory Compliance and Code | HCIDLA hcidla.lacity.org “The Regulatory Compliance and Code Bureau serves as a resource to landlords and tenants, to provide information on their rights and responsibilities under the Rent ... “ From: David Whitehurst Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 4:29 PM To: [Tenant Unit #9 name redacted] Cc: Robert Galardi; Ian Yeom Subject: Re: Mayor Eric Garcetti told of Housing Services Conditions at Hi Point Apts- The Intercom unit 9 remains not useable- A city rent control building Thanks for you email. However, I am unable to assist you the concerns you raise. Please continue to honor the resolve of the stated issues with our RSO unit. Thanks.

David Whitehurst, Principal Inspector Systematic Code Enforcement Program [SCEP] Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department - HCIDLA Central Regional Office 3550 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1500 Los Angeles, CA 90010 (213) 252-2882 - desk / (213) 252-2801 - fax

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:31 PM, [from tenant name redacted] [Editor: This email has been redacted. Mr. Whitehurst responds on March 14 to the email written to him on March 14 below]

Update March 15 2017

From: [tenant name and email redacted] To: mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; jcross@LBPM.com; david.whitehurst@lacity.org; Cc: thefirstjew@yahoo.com; info@da.lacounty.gov; Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 12:31 PM

Subject: Mayor Eric Garcetti told of Housing Services Conditions at Hi Point Apts- The Intercom unit 9 remains not useable- A city rent control building

This is a city rent control building.

To whom it may concern: Mayor Eric Garcetti, HCIDLA, David Whitehurst, LB Property Management, LA County District Attorney et al: “Every tenant in Los Angeles should understand their rights, especially in a tight housing market, and landlords should know their responsibilities,” said Mayor Garcetti. “The RSO is the most powerful tool we have to keep families and neighborhoods together, and this ordinance will help protect vulnerable populations — like senior citizens and immigrants — from displacement. As we work to build new affordable housing, we also must make sure that residents know about protections that are already in place.” December 15 2016 [Editor: from City of Los Angeles website article] “As Chair of the Housing Committee, I am proud to add another layer of protection for tenants with the Tenant Buyout Notification Program amendment to the City's Rent Stabilization Ordinance,” said Housing Committee Chair Councilmember Gil Cedillo, who was key in ensuring the ordinance’s passage. “This program requires landlords to inform tenants of their RSO rights before executing a buyout agreement, giving them full disclosure of their rights and protections under the RSO.” December 15 2016 [Editor: from City of Los Angeles website article] “Los Angeles municipal code section 151.02 defines Housing Services as services connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light heat water and telephone) , ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance, including painting. This term shall also include the probation of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, Refuse removal, furnishings, food-service, parking and other benefits privileges or facilities. Chapter XV of the Los Angeles municipal code Rent Stabilization ordnance, effective in the city of Los Angeles, requires that where there is a reduction in housing services there must be a corresponding decrease and equal to the reduction in the monthly cost to the landlord of the service, divided by the number of units deprived of that service.” I attach a copy of the December 11, 2015 email exchange with LA County Alan Chen inspector where he orders the intercom repair for unit 9 at Hi Points Apts: "The compliance deadline was 3 weeks. However, after speaking with the management, I have granted a time extension. The new compliance deadline is January 13, 2015. "As a reminder, the management has 3 options to remedy the problem: repair, replace, remove. Provide a minimum 24 hour notice to the tenant before performing the work." My rental agreement states "parking space #1" and "parking space #2". The emails and voicemails and letters I have received within the last three weeks from any and all city and county employees are not acceptable as a resolution to the damages that have occurred due to lack of useable intercom, denial of tandem parking stall, and denial of the corresponding rent reductions/reimbursements entitlements.

This is a city rent control building.

All rights reserved. [Tenant name address phone redacted] Note: The LA County District Attorney is contacted because the Los Angeles election Voter Pamphlet sent to thousands of residents said that the LA Times said the DA is investigating the criminal fraud and corruption surrounding the city Ellis Act and THP Programs and criminal actions of city employees. Attachments 2015-12-11 Email from Chen and My Response re Intercom.pdf (120.52KB) [Editor: This email has been redacted]

Update March 10, 2017

[Editor: We just received word of a letter from city Code Enforcement re "Alleged THP Violations at 1522 Hi Point St #15". We don't know what the word "alleged" means since you are aware in December 2016 the city issued additional rent control regulations re THP and Ellis act voluntary evictions. Such new ordinances indicated that for years property owners and city employees were not following/enforcing rent control regulations. It was in 2015 that city employee Code Enforcement Charles Garcia said that for eleven tenants at 1522 Hi Point St, that no THP application was ever filed or served. This was also reported to the county office of the District Attorney charging criminal fraud because tenants also did not receive the required permanent relocation monies. It was also reported that code enforcement issued finals to repairs where no repair work had ever occurred. City code enforcement Richard Brinson and others issued numerous written "Notice to Comply" to Hi Point Apts ordering THP applications to be filed [none were ever filed for the eleven tenants and units]. Thus far after speaking to at least three city employees there is no THP application for tenant at unit 15 and the tenant moved out without receiving the THP application and the required permanent relocation monies. In a recent Public Records Act release there is no indication that the owner filed the THP or that the tenant received the THP. In 2015 October the city recognized an appeal of the THP served on the tenant apt 9; the tenant is still in possession of the apartment but no primary renovations have occurred. So the city is aware of what a THP is.

In a few days we will share with you the contents of this letter from Mayor Eric Garcetti's city employees so you can figure out why the THP regulations hours of work and THP applications are still not being enforced by city employees.

Interestingly, based on information and belief, the city and the LA County District Attorney were told that various city employees have told property owners they can cheat tenants out of relocation monies by circumventing the THP regulations and making tenants sign agreements that do not comply with the THP application process. But this is what the city LAMC and rent control regulations says about those agreements : “Ordinance 176544 Chapter XV Sec 152.07 F. Any agreement, whether written or oral, waiving any of the provisions of this article shall be void as contrary to public policy.”

So what will Mayor Garcetti say about that?

Is Mayor Eric Garcetti calling his own employees liars and thieves?

Stay tuned.] "Urban planners in Los Angeles do not have renters' best interests at heart. By pitting "new renters" against "old renters," collectives like Abundant Housing and the armchair planners found in local media embrace gentrification and ignore the systemic issues of race, history, and displacement in urban development." L.A. Tenants Union

Update March 8, 2017

Subject: Voicemail to Hi Point Apts LLC LB Property Management re Bathroom Sink and Intercom and Where is THP for Apt 15 since Unit was Occupied when Permits were Applied for

From: [Tenant named redacted] To: jcross@LBPM.com; CC: mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; thefirstjew@yahoo.com; david.whitehurst@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; walter.barratt@gmail.com; lee.smith@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; Wednesday, March 8, 2017 1:08 PM "Voicemail to Hi Point Apts LLC LB Property Management re Bathroom Sink and Intercom and Where is THP for Apt 15 since Unit was Occupied when Permits were Applied for" * Via email and Facsimile

Dear LBPM Julie Cross, Robert Lopata, Gregg Bernstein, Brandon Stein, Brian Theobald, Ccam, Salle Yerumyan, Greg De Rubeis, et al:

March 7, 2017- Call to LB Property Management and extension 240 for Julie Cross Voicemail: "Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system. 818-438-1637 is not available. At the tone, please record your message. When you finish recording you may hang up or press 1 for more options.” Me: “Hi, this message is for Julie Cross. This is tenant #9 at 1522 Hi Point St and today’s date is March 7, 2017 about 11:00 pm. Number one, you seem to be very confused about the laws in the State of California regarding tenant rights. I have the right under law to not have to be in the apartment for any inspection or repairs by the property owner, the right not to be present, that is my right under law not to be present for any inspection by the property owner or repairs by the property owner or his agents or employees. I am just trying to figure out why LB Property Management has a real estate license and is not able to comply with that state law. Second, there is an animal facility being run out of this property, it is an animal facility, advertised on Thumbtack, Yelp, Facebook, as a boarding service for dogs. They need an animal facility license. As far as I know, no one has told me they have one. And I have talked to the code enforcement numerous times, and I assume they do not have an animal facility license. They have two vehicles on the property, [signs on the vehicles] clearly advertising the business, and the business phone number is the same phone number as the resident manager who lives here. So it is not hard to figure out what is going on here. If not for discrimination and corruption, the code enforcement would be requiring them to have an animal facilities license. Again, this area is also not zoned for an animal facility. So you are responsible for them because you’re the management company working with the owner. You need to take some action. And your property people have been on the site for two months now and more and the bathroom sink is still not repaired. I am sure it only takes maybe a half hour to fix it so what is the reason for your excuse in this regard? Are you a Klan member, Ku Klux Klan member, what’s your reason, who are you, what’s going on that this cannot be taken care of? Again, this is tenant #9 at 1522 Hi Point St. Today is March 7, 2017 at 11:03 p.m. I’ll be calling you again Julie Cross to see what is actually going on there.” Recording: “Thank you. Your message has been sent” A response in writing by first class mail is requested. All rights reserved. [Tenant name and phone redacted]

Ku Klux Klan Members:

Julie Cross, Robert Lopata, Gregg Bernstein, Brandon Stein, Brian Theobald, Ccam, Salle Yerumyan, Greg De Rubeis, David Whitehurst, Kristine Ritzke, lee.smith@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org, Richard Brinson, Robert Moore, John Wolhof, Charles Garcia, Norman Koplin, Robert Gugajew, Arshak Melik-Jahanian, Aydin Akbarut, et al * A THP is required under LAMC. No permit clearance can be granted by RSD unless a THP has been filed and served on the tenant. Out of 18 units, at least twelve units were occupied with tenants when the owner applied to the City for permits and announced in writing that the work would begin; the owner never filed THP's for those units. Units 15 and 18 were occupied at the time permits had been applied for the primary renovations. In compliance with THP regulations, after the owner files and serves the THP, only then can he proceed with the primary renovations after the tenant chooses permanent relocation or chooses temporary relocation. There is no provision in the LAMC that corrupt city employees under Mayor Eric Garcetti can advise owners to circumvent the THP regulations; there is no provision in the LAMC or RAC regulations that property owners can circumvent the RAC and THP regulations under authority of Mayor Eric Garcetti. The THP is supposed to be served, and permits cleared, before RENOVATIONS can begin. The THP application process is the mandatory duty of the owner, city HCIDLA RSD, and tenant. CC: Mayor Eric Garcetti via email

"There is no provision in the LAMC that corrupt city employees under Mayor Eric Garcetti can advise owners to circumvent the THP regulations"

[Editor: this email has been redacted] [Editor: March 13, 2017. The bathroom sink at apt 9 was resurfaced at 9:30 am today. No effort was made to repair the non-working intercom]

Update March 5 2017

Subject: HCIDLA : please order the intercom in my apt 9 repaired or replaced without further excuses

From: [Tenant name redacted]

To: david.whitehurst@lacity.org; lee.smith@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org;

cc: thefirstjew@yahoo.com; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org;

Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017 2:59 PM

Dear City Los Angeles HCIDLA/Code enforcement: 1. This is a rent control building. 2. I reimburse the owner yearly for the registration fee for my apartment. 3. I reimburse the owner monthly for the SCEP fee. 4. The hearing decision re capital improvements to the building is indicative of problems in the building that should be subject to review. The city case number 50505 and decision dated May 8, 2015. In part, the decision indicates that as of May 8, 2015, seven apartments were occupied at 1522 Hi Point St, and on a separate matter of the THP, then seven apartments were required to have THP's since they were occupied at the time the owner started construction/renovations and applied for permits. 5. At the May 8, 2015 hearing decision, it was decided that I should reimburse the owner for $17.08 per 72 months, for timber clad, such timber clad that does not benefit me as tenant, a clear violation of LAMC regulations in this regard. 6. In addition, the hearing officer decided that the intercom and keypad entry were NOT one and the same, however photographic evidence shows that the keypad and intercom at the front of the building were installed in 2014 at the same time as ONE unit. The keypad and the intercom serve the same function: to allow tenants and guests to open the front door remotely for tenants/guests and without using a key. So I pay part of $17.08 per month increase for an intercom that is not available to me since mine has not been repaired or replaced. The owner also removed one of my two parking stalls, so I cannot park my car on the property, thus I pay part of the $17.08 for a security gate that I do not use. 7. Based on information and belief, tenant #1 operates an animal facility on the property, without an animal facility license, clearly advertises it on the internet, clearly has two cars on the lot with the business advertising, clearly operates in an area not zoned for an animal facility. The customers and the customer's dogs of the animal facility get to use the security gate and parking lot and intercom, but such housing services are denied to me. Code enforcement Kristine Ritzke has declared they cannot find photo evidence of the dogs on the property; code enforcement has failed to verify the animal license permits and whether there is a zoning violation; the code enforcement has failed to verify with the owner and the tenant #1 and other tenants that they indeed have over five dogs on the property. Code enforcement has failed to diligently search the web or call the owner for evidence of the animal facility. Code enforcement is complicent in the violations, as is typical. [Editor note: it appears the code enforcement inspector called the dog facility owner ahead of time, told them what time to "disappear", came out to the property but no one was home, reported back and said no evidence of dogs. They never called other tenants, never called the property owner, never looked at the ads on the internet. That is Eric Garcetti 's corruption.] 8. On November 13, 2015, in another decision re THP appeal, issued by city employee Andre L. Brown, in part, the city ruled that the owner would move me apt 9 temporarily into apt 18 or 15, due to primary renovation of apt 9. I have been damaged because both apts 15 and 18 have been renovated, but such renovated apartments is not available to me temporarily, or after renovation, because the owner has not proceeded with the temporary relocation of apt 9 tenants as a result of the THP, which the owner said he had no intention of following anyway. 9. If the owner proceeded with the primary renovations to apt 9 as scheduled, I would have benefitted from a renovated apartment "with all new fixtures" at a temporary rent increase of 10% possibly. 10. Parking stall #13 was changed to a tandem stall by the owner. The tandem stall is a single stall in the original CFO. I am not aware the owner applied for a permit to change the striping for stall #13. 11. The owner, authorized by the city, failed to offer me the opportunity to have my parking stall extended into a tandem parking stall. 12. A sewer check valve was installed near the back door of the building. I am not aware the owner secured a permit for the check valve. The valve also presents a safety hazard in that it has emptied into the walkway exposing tenants to a slip and fall hazard. There should be some type of basin installed to catch the sewer wastes. 13. My rent agreement, as well as the city RAC regulations, state that housing services are "including but not limited to" meaning that the intercom is a housing service and the parking stalls are housing services. [Editor note: Housing services, according to the city LAMC and RAC regulations, ARE under the jurisdiction of the city government. But numerous code employees claim the city government does NOT have jurisdiction over all "portions" of a building and over the electrical wiring for the intercom system. Stupid is as Stupid Does.] 14. Lack of THP's for select units can cause the entire building to be declared "substandard"; this was the case on September 22 2014 by inspector Richard Brinson Case number 491005. There were no THP applications for twelve units occupied at the time primary renovations permits were secured. Where is the CFO for this building? 15. "the city has consistently shown bias for developers, landlords and management companies". LA Tenant's Union 16. The code enforcement jurisdiction, HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE - HSC DIVISION 13. HOUSING [17000 - 19997] ( Division 13 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60. ) PART 1.5. REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION [17910 - 17998.3] ( Part 1.5 added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1844. ) CHAPTER 2. Rules and Regulations [17920 - 17928] (Chapter2addedbyStats.1961,Ch.1844.) 17920.3. Any building or portion thereof including any dwelling unit, guestroom or suite of rooms, or the premises on which the same is located, in which there exists any of the following listed conditions to an extent that endangers the life, limb, health, property, safety, or welfare of the public or the occupants thereof shall be deemed and hereby is declared to be a substandard building..." 17. The city code enforcement/RSD has jurisdiction over the non-working intercom in my apartment. The city granted a CFO to the 1522 Hi Point St in 1973, such CFO that included the working intercom and wiring. Since that time, particularly 2014-2017, the city code enforcement has continued to give final approval to "new" electrical wiring and plumbing in fifteen units at 1522 Hi Point St, such units that have new intercoms. The city code enforcement, and RSD, have continued to give final approval to the keypad entry system which is wiring connected to the intercom system. The city Los Angeles code enforcement has jurisdiction over the intercom in apt 9. 18. Please investigate the possible unlicensed animal facility on the property apt 1 that may operate in violation of zoning ordinances. One ad they say "boarding" [kennel] the dogs. Here is websites for them: “Doggone Cindy's Dog Walking Service - Los Angeles, CA"

19. Please order the intercom in my apt 9 repaired or replaced, without further excuses.

All rights reserved. [Tenant name and address redacted] [Editor note: The requirements for an animal facility are Los Angeles County Code Sec. 10.20.038 "Up to three licensed and altered dogs may be kept at any residence. Keeping animals in excess of these amounts requires an animal facility license." The facility owner claims to be housing five dogs on the property. City housing and community investment inspector Kristine Ritsky (sic)/co-worker claims she came out to the property and could not find evidence of the animal facility even though she has the phone number of the property owner and the animal facility. The animal facility, called a "dog walking service" by the owner, is listed on Facebook, Thumbtack, and Yelp with the address and phone number but I guess the city inspector is not capable of reading and comprehending the internet. In addition, the property for the Animal/Boarding Facility is zoned for R3. Animal facilities are not allowed in Zone R3. Apparently, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Mike Feuer's code enforcement are not going to enforce the zoning codes. Business as usual.]

c: Mayor Eric Garcetti via email

[Editor: this email has been redacted from the original]

Update March 5 2017

REPLY Re: Property Watch at 1522 Hi Point St Apartments- Intercom and Sink Still Not Repaired Apt 9 [tenant name and phone redacted] Sun 3/5/2017 5:37 PM To:Julie Cross ; Cc:Charles Floyd ; RSO Contact ; david.whitehurst@lacity.org ; lee.smith@lacity.org ; robert.galardi@lacity.org ;

Dear LBPM: I have replied to this in an email sent to you today at 12:55 p.m.

I take this opportunity to quote Civil Code 1954 which addresses your request to have a "vendor look" at the bathroom sink. The owner has a key to the apartment, the resident manager has a key, and you have a key. I do not need to be present for you to have a vendor look at the sink; it is your responsibility to coordinate that with the vendor and post the 24 hour WRITTEN notice to us; I do not orally or otherwise agree to any other procedure. You ask: "Could you please let me know some times that would be good for you to have a vendor take a look at it?"; there is nothing in CC section 1954 below that requires me to do that. "California law does not authorize landlords to enter rental premises purely for the purpose of inspecting them. Civil Code Section 1954 does not list "general inspections" as one of the reasons for entry, and Section 1953 specifically prohibits any lease provision in which a tenant agrees to modify or waive any right or remedy under Section 1954. A landlord may, however, enter the unit for the purpose of an inspection if it is connected to an improvement, repair, decoration, or some other service agreed to by the tenant for entry. Inspections of occupied units by code enforcement officials may also be required by local rental housing inspection programs. Two recent court decisions confirm that while the owner cannot be required to open the unit for code enforcement or any other type of law enforcement official in the absence of the tenant’s consent (or a warrant/court order), the owner can be required to ask for the tenant’s consent to a code inspection, as long as the owner is not penalized if the tenant does not consent. (Griffith v. City of Santa Cruz (2012); Rental Housing Owners Association of Southern Alameda County v. City of Hayward (2011)". I request you comply with section (d)(1) below. However, if you feel that you operate under section(a)(2) below, it may appear that you do not need to give the 24 hour written notice if you engage in "necessary or agreed repairs". However, there is nothing I have said to you that should be interpreted that the repairs to the sink or intercom are "necessary or agreed" from my standpoint because I do not know specifically what needs to be done nor am I paying for it. I think I am "entitled" to a bathroom sink that is not in disrepair, and I am "entitled" to a working intercom, but whether that constitutes "necessary" is a matter of interpretation because "necessary" implies somewhat of an urgency. For example, the sink and intercom, since the time frame of "reasonableness" has long passed, constitute to me more of a housing service denied and nuisance issue, without waiver to any other claims including but not limited to reimbursement/rent reduction etc. That the owner has a legal "obligation" to repair the bathroom sink and the intercom, does not in any way obligate me to define what is "necessary" and does not obligate me to agree/disagree with the repairs or services in order for you to make the "repairs, decorations, alterations, or improvements". Therefore, I neither agree nor disagree with your request to have a vendor look at the bathroom sink, and make repairs; and I do not agree to a mutual appointment time for the vendor to enter or for maintenance to enter, and I do not agree to a mutual time to be available to unlock the door for a vendor or maintenance. I request that you comply with the intent of civil code section 1954. And as I have said numerous times before, unless the law requires it, I will do nothing to prevent the vendor or maintenance from entering the unit as permitted under CC 1954.

CC section 1954 (a) A landlord may enter the dwelling unit only in the following cases: (1) In case of emergency. (2) To make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors or to make an inspection pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 1950.5. (3) When the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the premises. (4) Pursuant to court order. (b) Except in cases of emergency or when the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the premises, entry may not be made during other than normal business hours unless the tenant consents to an entry during other than normal business hours at the time of entry. (c) The landlord may not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant. (d)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (e), or as provided in paragraph (2) or (3), the landlord shall give the tenant reasonable notice in writing of his or her intent to enter and enter only during normal business hours. The notice shall include the date, approximate time, and purpose of the entry. The notice may be personally delivered to the tenant, left with someone of a suitable age and discretion at the premises, or, left on, near, or under the usual entry door of the premises in a manner in which a reasonable person would discover the notice. Twenty-four hours shall be presumed to be reasonable notice in absence of evidence to the contrary. The notice may be mailed to the tenant. Mailing of the notice at least six days prior to an intended entry is presumed reasonable notice in the absence of evidence to the contrary. (2) If the purpose of the entry is to exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, the notice may be given orally, in person or by telephone, if the landlord or his or her agent has notified the tenant in writing within 120 days of the oral notice that the property is for sale and that the landlord or agent may contact the tenant orally for the purpose described above. Twenty-four hours is presumed reasonable notice in the absence of evidence to the contrary. The notice shall include the date, approximate time, and purpose of the entry. At the time of entry, the landlord or agent shall leave written evidence of the entry inside the unit. (3) The tenant and the landlord may agree orally to an entry to make agreed repairs or supply agreed services. The agreement shall include the date and approximate time of the entry, which shall be within one week of the agreement. In this case, the landlord is not required to provide the tenant a written notice. (e) No notice of entry is required under this section: (1) To respond to an emergency. (2) If the tenant is present and consents to the entry at the time of entry. (3) After the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the unit.

[Tenant name and address redacted]

From: Julie Cross Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 3:56 PM To:[Tenant named redacted] Subject: Re: Property Watch at 1522 Hi Point St Apartments- Intercom and Sink Still Not Repaired Apt 9

Mr. [Tenant]: We would like to repair your sink as soon as possible. Could you please let me know some times that would be good for you to have a vendor take a look at it? We can then serve you your 24 hour notice to enter for that time. Julie Cross, Portfolio Supervisor Cal BRE# 01904769 Direct: (818) 793-2033 Main: (818) 981-1802 x240 Concierge: (855) 800-LBPM (5276) Fax: (818) 986-1214 After Hours Emergency: (818) 832-6201 For immediate assistance, if I'm unavailable, please call our Concierge Line at (855) 800-5276, during regular business hours. [Editor Note: In the email from Julie Cross, agent of Hi Point Apts LLC and Abady Holdings, notice that she does NOT mention repair to the intercom. As for the sink, it was reported in November 2016 but maintenance had first looked at in November 2015.]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:36 PM, [tenant] wrote:

Dear LBPM/Hi Point Apts LLC/HCIDLA: In passing, I noticed either renovation workers/LBPM management/code enforcement on the property about 10:45 a.m. 1. My bathroom sink remains unmaintained. 2. My intercom remains unmaintained or replaced. It was in 1973 that the city code enforcement issued a CFO for this building that authorized the installation of the wiring and the intercom system. Since 2014, the city has again presumably given final permits to this building for installation of wiring for an intercom system, such system that must be installed by state licensed contractors, installed in about fifteen apartments.

On September 22, 2014, code enforcement inspector Richard Brinson issued a "Notice and Order to Comply". In such notice he declared that the entire building was substandard due to unapproved plumbing for units 1 and unit 10.

It is my conclusion that this entire building is substandard due to the lack of repair/replacement of the intercom in unit 9.

I remind you that I am not only a tenant in the building that lives about 50 feet from apt 15 (Apt 15 that is currently under primary renovation) ; I am also the tenant who the city hearing officer Andre L. Brown declared in November 13, 2015 ["THP appeal hearing"] that I would be moving temporarily into apt 15, according to the THP application submitted by Hi Point Apts, LLC.

Please order the bathroom sick and intercom repaired without further delay; both housing services are required to be in working order, and the intercom is NOT in working order.

[Tenant name, address, phone redacted]

Update March 5, 2017

Inside Mayor Eric Garcetti's Idea of "Fair Housing"

Subject: Re: My Opinion on Rent Payment Location at Hi Point Apts, etc. From: [tenant name redacted] To: jcross@lbpm.com; Cc: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; thefirstjew@yahoo.com; david.whitehurst@lacity.org; 1ccanary@gmail.com; lee.smith@lacity.org; robert.galardi@lacity.org; hcidla.rso@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org; Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017 12:55 PM This is a rent control building. I reimburse the owner every year and every month for the CITY OF LOS ANGELES "special relationship" yearly registration fee and monthly SCEP inspection fee and I still cannot get maintenance. I have been a tenant here since February 2010.

"I remind you that between approximately January 1 and March 1 2017, your maintenance crew have been on the property nearly every day Monday thru Saturday working on apt 15"

I remind you that between approximately January 1 and March 1 2017, your maintenance crew have been on the property nearly every day Monday thru Saturday working on apt 15, and other maintenance duties; that was ample time to put a 24 hour notice on my door and enter the next day to repair the bathroom sink. That is well over 35 days since I reported it and a reasonable amount of time of which LBPM and the owner do not have an excuse. This bathroom sink was reported to you by email on November 18, 2016 and that maintenance was aware of the sink in 2015. I don't know if I can adequately express my frustration and anger in this regard in this email but I have repeatedly in writing and by voice mail asked you to comply with government code 1954. Your maintenance people have key access to the apt 9, and so does the resident manager. You don't have an excuse that the bathroom sink has not been addressed. I do not have to be present nor do I have to orally agree to be present for you to address the sink. Does LBPM have a comprehension of the law in this regard? It is harassment because you don't have a f-----g g-d d--n reason to ask me to make an appointment when I have repeatedly asked you to comply with Civil Code 1954 and give me the 24 hour written notice; the civil code does not require me to give you an appointment nor do I waive my rights under civil code 1954. I am not agreeing orally to an entry/repair nor am I agreeing to compensate the owner for repairs or inspection to his own property (civil code 1954). I am sure you know what Civil Code 1954 is because you gave us a "Notice to Enter Dwelling (Civil Code section 1954)" on February 12 2017 for "insect spraying". That was ample opportunity for you to address the sink and the intercom. And your agent did enter the apt 9 and the sink was not repaired, etc.

" I have repeatedly asked you to comply with Civil Code 1954 and give me the 24 hour written notice; the civil code does not require me to give you an appointment nor do I waive my rights under civil code 1954"

Do you comprehend English? Other than discrimination and corruption, why do you keep insisting on an appointment when I have clearly asked you to comply with Civil Code 1954 and give us 24 hour written notice? If I come to your office face to face, and ask to speak to your supervisor, would that help you to comprehend English? All rights reserved. [tenant name, address, phone redacted] c: City government inspector David Whitehurst, et al.

Does Julie Cross comprehend English?

On Thursday, March 2, 2017 9:18 AM, Julie Cross wrote: Mr. [Tenant]: Thank you for letting us know about the doors. I'll put in maintenance requests to adjust them right away. Regarding your sink, I did email you last week regarding making an appointment to fix same, but I have not heard back from you. Thanks. On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:42 PM, [tenant] wrote: Dear LBPM/Hi Point Apts LLC: [this portion as regards tenant security has been redacted] This is a RENT CONTROL building. Thank you for your time. (The city and the owner maintain that the owner has installed NEW wiring in fifteen apartment units out of 18, at a cost the owner says of about $17,000 per unit (total $255,000), yet the city and the owner maintain in writing that the wiring to the replaced hallway and exterior lights is the SAME wiring from 1973 and was NOT replaced with new wiring.) All rights reserved, i.e. needed repairs to the intercom, repairs to the bathroom sink peeling lead based paint emptying into the sewer, rent reimbursements/reductions, tandem parking stall availability per the rental agreement, and rent reductions due to denial of tandem parking and denial of working intercom/maintenance privileges. I remind you that the intercom system and wiring, and parking stall striping, was approved by the city Los Angeles code enforcement issued CFO in year 1973. [from tenant name redacted]

c: HCIDLA David Whitehurst

[city employee] ; Mayor Eric Garcetti

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Updated February 18, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti Named in Damage Claim

Los Angeles- A damage claim has been filed against HCIDLA and naming Mayor Eric Garcetti. The damage claim details the City involvement in rent control owner Hi Point Apts LLC refusal to comply with rent control regulations and refusal to comply with hours of primary renovations. The complaint is based on communications with various employees of HCIDLA and code enforcement and Housing Inspector Christopher Ewing. Also named in the claim is Ali Mozannar and Phoenician Contractors/Construction. The claim details how the owner failed to file THP applications for numerous units while the city inspectors granted permits anyway, a violation of the rent control ordinance. The complaint names LB Property Management and was dated February 13, 2017 and received by the city February 14 2017. The property owner and other city employees defy a directive from city employees Charles Garcia and Catherine Gaba that the property owner will be fined if workers are on the property outside the hours of Monday thru Friday 8:00 -5:00 pm. More details later....

Updated February 16, 2017

From: [Tenant name and email address redacted] To: christopher.ewing@lacity.org; Cc: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; jcross@lbpm.com; Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017 6:52 PM

Subject: Re: Your case HCIDLA 611735- Mayor Eric Garcetti Says Owner Does Not Have to Follow Rent Control Regulations

Re: Your Authority at 1522 Hi Point St Mr. Ewing: I wonder if you realize that the RSO and the Code enforcement are in the same department: HCIDLA? I also wonder if you realize that as a code enforcement inspector, you have the authority to issue an "Order to Stop Work" on the grounds that work has generated "health and safety hazards that impact the continued habitability of the unit(s) within the building, at the above address." You also have the authority that if there is no tenant habitability plan, then you can order it submitted, which was the essence of my code enforcement complaint regarding apt 15, etc. In an "order to stop work", YOU, CHRISTOPHER EWING, not the RSO, has the authority to stop all work until a THP "is submitted and approved by the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department (HCIDLA)".

Are you aware that the HCIDLA is the department that YOU work in?

Please issue the "Order to Stop Work" as there does not appear to be a THP for apt 15. Attached is an example of the "Order to Stop Work" that was issued for this building in August 2014, to give you an idea of what one looks like. I am copying the RSO department on this at the email above. All rights reserved. [tenant name address phone redacted] c: via email to LB Property management Inc.

On Thursday, February 16, 2017 2:46 PM, Christopher Ewing wrote:

Mr. [tenant name redacted]: For any further questions the RSO hotline is 213-275-3493.

[Editor: Confusion or Corruption? You be the Judge]

Updated February 16, 2017

From: [tenant name redacted]

To: christopher.ewing@lacity.org; Cc: jcross@lbpm.com; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org;

Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017 9:57 AM

Subject: Your case HCIDLA 611735- Mayor Eric Garcetti Says Owner Does Not Have to Follow Rent Control Regulations

Christopher Ewing Housing Inspector Code Enforcement Division 3550 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1500 Los Angeles CA 90010 [via email above] Re: 1522 Hi Point St Apartments This email shall further review our talk of yesterday about 3:30 p.m. inside the address common area hallway. While you appeared to be courteous and cordial, you expressed lack of awareness of the hours of primary renovations relating to the THP application and the rent control ordinance and the LAMC. It seems you should have researched that before coming out to the property. You indicated that while at the building you talked to one of the contractors who indicated that they were only on the property 8:00 am. to 4:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday. You indicated, however, that primary renovations were allowed on Saturdays and I replied that the ordinance on primary renovations and related work does not allow such renovations on Saturdays. I believe the manager apt 1 indicated to you yesterday about 3:40 p.m. that primary renovation workers have been on the property apt 15 until 7 pm at night; this is a clear violation of the rent control THP regulations. I have observed and reported them on the property apt 15 past 9 p.m. at night.

"...this building ...is not a vacant lot..."

This is a building under the jurisdiction of the city rent stabilization department. It is not a vacant lot; this is a box building with seventeen units occupied with tenants during the primary renovations. It is not a construction site. I am attaching documents already in the possession of the City: 10-5-2015 email exchange with Catherine Gaba; 10-20-2015 email from Charles Garcia where he states no THP's were filed for numerous apartments at 1522 Hi Point St; 10-28-2015 letter from Charles Garcia where he quotes the hours of primary renovations as 8-5 M-F. "no Saturdays or Sundays". Gaba also says the hours are M-F 8-5 and No Saturdays or Sundays. She says the owner/contractor will be fined if they are on the property outside those hours. I realize the documents are from 2015 but I am not aware the regulations have changed. I realize that the owner has unnecessarily dragged out the primary renovations over an almost three year period, and other routine and emergency maintenance issues do arise, and three other units may be subject to primary renovations, but that in no way waives the requirements under primary renovations to only conduct primary renovations under certain hours and days. My complaint is not about maintenance/emergency repairs that occur during authorized hours.

...The THP, in part, verifies "hazardous material abatement", "untenantable conditions" "exposure to hazardous materials at any time" "mitigation measures" "mitigation of impact on individual or similar rental units"...

I am not aware there is a THP application on file for apt 15, that is the subject of the primary renovations. The THP [form] , in part, verifies "hazardous material abatement", "untenantable conditions" "exposure to hazardous materials at any time" "mitigation measures" "mitigation of impact on individual or similar rental units" (emphasis added). No THP for apt 15 means no permit clearance means no renovations can proceed and no CFO can be issued. "Similar rental units" such as mine, and myself as tenant, are being impacted by the primary renovations. The owner of the property is Hi Point Apts LLC. Abady Holdings Ltd. may also be an owner. The property is managed by LB Property Management of which they are cc'd above to Julie Cross. As indicated to you, previous email, mail, and phone communications with the owner and management company have not resulted in the matter being resolved. Please take steps to enforce the THP regulations as requested in my code enforcement complaint, as Mayor Eric Garcetti has said the THP regulations WILL be enforced, and let me know the required actions have been taken. All rights reserved. [Editor: Tenant name address phone redacted] attachments: 2015-10-20 Email from Garcia re No THP's.pdf (105.82KB) 2015-10-28 Garcia THP Recommendations.pdf (1009.30KB) 2015-10-5 Email Gaba Verifies Hours Renovations.pdf (100.19KB) ATTORNEY FOR COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, AND ALAN CHEN Renee E Jensen lduarte@fwhb.com, rjensen@fwhb.com ATTORNEY FOR WILLIAMS REAL ESTATE ADVISORS, Inc. Thomas L Watters twatters@hartwattersandcarter.com ATTORNEY FOR STATE OF CALIFORNIA Martin Ageson martin.ageson@doj.ca.gov, marsha.petty@doj.ca.gov ATTORNEY FOR CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CHARLES GARCIA, BARBARA BRASCIA, RICHARD BRINSON, ARMIDA-OLGUIN FLORES Robert P Moore robert.p.moore@lacity.org, julie.martinez@lacity.org ATTORNEY FOR HI POINT APTS, LLC, WALTER BARRATT, CLIFF RENFREW Jared A Barry jared@barrylawgroup.com [Editor: in every rental agreement, there is the duty of all parties to act in a reasonable, good faith manner. City employees have mandatory duties as well under the law. This email has been redacted and is subject to a Open Records Act request.]

Updated February 15, 2017

[Editor: This email is to Los Angeles City Housing Inspector Code Enforcement Division of the Housing and Community Investment Department Christopher Ewing. Ewing can be reached at 213-252-2849. Portions have been redacted]

"I told Chris there should be some consideration of other tenant's habitability since this 1522 Hi Point property is not a vacant lot"

Subject: Your Case number 611735- Talk with city employee Christopher Ewing, Housing Inspector

From: [Tenant name and address redacted] To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; jcross@lbpm.com; walter.barratt@gmail.com;

Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 4:19 PM

To whom it may concern: I spoke with city employee Chris today briefly around 3:30 p.m. about Mayor Eric Garcetti's vowed greater enforcement of primary renovation regulations. I mentioned the required need for THP applications and rent control department clearance for all permits. Chris said he was here to inspect 3-4 apartments, but when he asked me about renovations, I told him I was only aware of apt 15 and related repairs to apt 6, and that there had been numerous water shuts offs to the whole building.

"I spoke with city employee Chris today briefly around 3:30 p.m. about Mayor Eric Garcetti's vowed greater enforcement of primary renovation regulations"

He said he talked with the renovation contractor in the building and that the worker said they were working Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 p.m. only. Chris asked me was that my experience and I said "no", that the contractors have been here numerous times until 9 p.m. at night and also on Saturdays. I quoted to Chris the hours of 8 am - 5 pm Monday thru Friday that were emailed/letter to me from Catherine Gaba and Charles Garcia. I told him I was told by Gaba that workers would be fined if they were on the property doing primary renovations outside the hours of 8 a.m. to 5:00 pm Monday thru Friday. This was also told to the resident Manager who was [name redacted] at the time. I told Chris there should be some consideration of other tenant's habitability since this 1522 Hi Point property is not a vacant lot.

"...the contractors have been here numerous times until 9 p.m. at night and also on Saturdays..."

Chris said he was not aware of the exact hours that govern primary renovations in the building, but he would check on it. He was not aware of who Catherine Gaba or Charles Garcia are. All rights reserved. [Tenant name and address redacted]

[Editor: Under Mayor Eric Garcetti, why is there a Housing Inspector who doesn't know the hours of primary renovations in a rent control building? Do not re-elect Garcetti]

[Editor: This email was sent to property owner Walter Barratt of Hi Point Apts , LLC, LB Property Management's Julie Cross, and the rent stabilization department. ]

Updated Feb. 8, 2017

[text of voicemail left for city employee Hector at HCIDLA Los Angeles]

"This call is for Hector at Los Angeles HCID your phone number is 213-252-2807 and I'm returning your call of February 6 at 10:21 a.m. . This is [tenant #9] at 1522 Hi Point Street 90035 and my phone number is [redacted] . The history of Los Angeles code enforcement is a history of racism." "You did not say in your voicemail but I assume you're calling about code enforcement complaint 611735. My question to you and since you did not leave it on your voicemail to me is , is there a CFO certificate of occupancy for 1522 Hi Point Street Apartments 90035? There were 18 Apartments five of them were vacant that left 13 Apartments - 3 so that's about 10 Apartments minus one = nine apartments that were renovated in this building, about 2 years ago, the permits were applied for while the tenants were still living here, but there were no THPs I assume your know that THP means tenant habitability plan. Now apartment 15 is being renovated. Is there a thp for apartment 15 I will be seeking a public records act request but until I do so I need to know from you does this building have a certificate of occupancy , number 1, and number 2 is there a THP for the tenant and for the apartment number 15 thank you. I'm pretty sure I have this other information correct but I need you to also verify are the hours of primary renovation 8 o'clock to 5 o'clock p.m. Monday through Friday 8 o'clock a.m. to 5 o'clock p.m. Monday through Friday in this tenant occupied building per the instructions of Catherine Gaba of the Los Angeles building and safety department , I need you to verify are those the hours that the primary renovation crew has been told they are to adhere to in this building thank you and in apt 15. This message is being left February 8th 2017 at about 10:35 p.m. thank you."

Updated December 24 2016

“Certainly tenants who are white at the property, and the non-Blacks, have the use and benefit of intercom and parking stall, and certainly those tenants reasonably and justifiably place significant and substantial importance on such housing services since they signed the lease and pay over $1700 per month for such housing services. I can hear the voices of those now long dead Blacks in Alabama, ‘Oh, Mister Charlie, I just want me an Intercom boss, and some maintenance, and maybe a parking spot for my car, I am on my knees begging you boss.’ And the white plantation owner smiles down on the Darky and whips him for daring to ask a question. Well what year was that? 2015? The plantation owner continues, ‘And don’t even think of going to court, Boy, cause we gonna lynch you before you get there!’ Taken from "How does a Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite Black American qualify for intercom?" Click here to see page

Update June 14 2016

5. One of the purposes of the intercom system is for security and safety. Why does the owner, city, county, and state government entities continue to allow and create unsafe conditions at 1522 Hi Point Street Apartments due to the lack of fully operational intercom system?

6. Please verify. On or about November 26 2014, tenants [apt 9] occupied apartment 9. On or around that date the apt 9 tenants experienced a kitchen sink blockage of which the owner maintenance agent came out and repaired. On that date of November 26, 2014, the apartment 9 was occupied; maintenance crews had a chance to make repairs. 7. Please verify. On or about May 26 2015, tenants [apt 9] occupied apartment 9. On or around that date the apt 9 tenant [apt 9] witnessed an electrician at the front of the building working on the intercom system. On that date of May 26 2015, the apartment 9 was occupied; maintenance crews had a chance to make repairs. 8. The owner of the property has failed in his duty to act in a reasonable manner. 9. It is recognized under state civil code 1942.4 (a) (3) an owner generally has about 35 days to "abate the nuisance or repair the substandard conditions." 10. That the owner has had well over 35 days to abate the nuisance or repair or replace the non- working intercoms. 11. The owner has failed in his duty to act in good faith. 12. The owner of the property has failed to offer to apt 9 tenants an additional services contract for the intercom and tandem parking that complies with all applicable laws and is not an illegal and unilateral rent increase. 13. Please list any members of the Los Angeles city council who are Ku Klux Klan members. 14. Please list any members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors who are Ku Klux Klan members.

15. Please list any members of the cabinet of Governor Edmund G. Brown who are Ku Klux Klan members.

16. Will there be any objection to Rev. Al Sharpton visiting 1522 Hi Point St 90035? 17. Will there be any objection to "Black Lives Matters" members visiting 1522 Hi Point St 90035? 18. "410.04 Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services). " 19. Do all of you understand quoted RAC regulation 410.04 definition of Housing Services? 20. Which persons disagree with RAC regulation 410.04?

21. Please list on what dates tenants who are white moved into apartments, by number, between April 2014 and June 2016.

22. What is the relationship of Hi Point Apts LLC to Abady Holdings LLC? 23. Does Walter Barratt, as manager of Hi Point Apts LLC, have an ownership stake in Hi Point Apts LLC? 24. Please provide dates as to when apt 9 will be (1) provided with a working intercom/repair and (2) a tandem parking stall.

25. Please provide an estimate of how many hours would it take to repair/replace the intercom in apartment 9.

26. Please indicate where it says in the rental agreement with apt 9 tenants and/or any city, state, or federal law, ordinance or regulation, that Black "long term tenants" are not entitled to housing services in America. 27. Please indicate where it says in the rental agreement with apt 9 tenants and/or any city, state, or federal law, ordinance or regulation, that Black tenants in America are not entitled to receive "working intercoms" until tenants vacate "the premises and" the owner has a "chance to renovate the empty units". 28. What state contractor permit or certification is needed to install an intercom system at 1522 Hi Point St? 29. How are the owner rules on the intercom installation and receiving parking stalls applied to all tenants in a fair manner? 30. How are rules made for the purpose of the owner complying with his legal obligations? A response from all parties, in writing by non-electronic means, is requested. All rights reserved. [tenant name, address, phone redacted] Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black c: Department of Fair Employment and Housing [re English Comprehension Unit]

Youtube Video "The Torture Chamber at Hi Point Apts Los Angeles Rent Control Building "

Update March 19 2016

Hi Point Apts is Unsanitary, Substandard, and Unsafe

LA county Public Health Feb 10 2016 have said they have no authority over the wiring in the 1522 Hi Point St 90035 building. Health and Safety code 17920.3 sections(a)(13) and (d) and (i) give the city and county employees jurisdiction, but as of March 16 talk with city code enforcement, and after over two years of defective security system intercom wiring, government employees maintain they have no jurisdiction under H & S code 17920.3. City employee Richard Brinson, Le Taun J. Cotton, Veronica Bauchman, David Burkhead, Richard Jackson, and Udo O. Nwachuku all claim the city and county employees have no jurisdiction to enforce defective and improperly maintained wiring. click here to read "Tenant News" Since there is general dilapidation abandoned vehicle and improper maintenance of the wiring and construction materials, the Health and Safety code 17920.3 declares the building to be "unsanitary" and "substandard" and "unsafe". Tenant security is at risk.

Click for Youtube Video on Hi Point Apts

Update March 16 2016

Talk with Los Angeles Code Enforcement

Call to HCIDLA Lateesha and John at 11:11 a.m. city Los Angeles employees. March 16 2016. Seven minutes and fifteen seconds call. HCID: Code enforcement. How may I help you? TENANT #9: Good morning. [Tenant] calling. I am trying to reach Lateesha. HCID: Speaking. How can I help you? TENANT #9: Uh, this is in reference to code enforcement complaint 562623. And you are not rent control. You are code enforcement? HCID: Correct. TENANT #9: Ok, well I have been trying to get an inspector out to the property. We do have a manager that is available ; she has the keys to get in. That is what I am calling about. I gave you the code [complaint] number. HCID: Is this regarding the intercom system? TENANT #9: It is regarding the wiring system to the building, yes.

HCID: That is not something we would address. You have to speak with rent stabilization in regards to that. TENANT #9: Are you saying code enforcement does not have jurisdiction over wiring under the [state] Health and Safety code? HCID: What I am going to do is transfer you to the senior inspector and you can speak with him. Hold on. TENANT #9: Ok. Thank you. HCID: Good morning. This is John. How can I help you? TENANT #9: John, I understand you are the senior inspector. JOHN: I am one of them. TENANT #9: Ok. This is [tenant name and phone redacted] and I just talked to Lateesha, she referred me to you, and I guess we are having a little dispute here because she said that she was going to refer me to you and you were going to tell me that your department does not have jurisdiction over the [state] Health and Safety code in terms of wiring in the building. JOHN: That is all gonna depend on what we are talking about as far as the wiring goes. Do you have an address or case number? TENANT #9: Well, we are actually talking about wiring to the intercom system to cut to the chase here so I can give you the code enforcement case number yes.... JOHN: Okay.

TENANT #9: The code enforcement case number is 562623. JOHN: Ok. Hold on just a second. It is not coming up under that number. Let me try a different way. Is it on Hi Point? TENANT #9: Yes sir. JOHN: 1522? TENANT #9: Yes sir. JOHN: Ok. TENANT #9: I might just tell you that I did have an inspector come out from the county and he said the wiring was under the jurisdiction of the city and he did witness that the intercom to certain apartments does not work. It is not an intercom for the apartment itself [room to room]; its an intercom that connects to the front of the building, connected to the wiring, it is not battery operated or anything, connected to the wiring for the entire building..... JOHN: I am reading notes here. I am not ignoring you. TENANT #9: That is ok. JOHN: Have you been talking to Mr. [Richard] Brinson, Mr. Vane, Mr. Escobar? TENANT #9: I have been in touch with them [Brinson] in the past but I have not talked to them directly. They have been out to the building for other apartments, other repairs, but I have not talked to them directly myself.

JOHN: I kinda remember this. This complaint came past our desk not too long ago. Our chief inspector said we do not enforce the intercom system. TENANT #9: Ok, but you do enforce the wiring. I am just disagreeing with you here because I am going to put in a complaint every month that the intercom is not addressed because it is the wiring to our apartment and the intercom is at the front of the building, other apartments have a working intercom so, I have read the Health and Safety code backwards and forwards and it does not say that you guys do not have jurisdiction. JOHN: It doesn't say we have jurisdiction? TENANT #9: No, I said it doesn't say you don't have jurisdiction over all wiring. JOHN: Uh, huh. TENANT #9: I know you are saying to me that you don't have jurisdiction but I don't see that in the Health and Safety code. JOHN: ...when our principal inspectors and our chief inspectors and they tell us we are not going to enforce the intercom system then no matter how many complaints you put in, they are just going to close the case, they are not going to be enforcing it..... TENANT #9: Do you enforce the wiring to the building would be the question? JOHN: That would more than likely be the wiring in the building for the outlets, lights, and things like that. TENANT #9: Right, but I am saying to you--- JOHN: ---we are not going to enforce that----- your intercom system is going to be a low voltage system and we are not going to enforce that--- TENANT #9:

It is the same wiring sir. It is not separate wiring that goes outside the building, goes across the street, its the same wiring system going to the lights and the electrical outlets--- JOHN: Well, the intercom system is going to be a low voltage system, not a wired system---- TENANT #9: Yes, I understand that you are making that up, but that is not in the Health and Safety Code. JOHN: Well, I am just telling you too what was talked about here in the office and we have even went and talked to rent investigators on the other side of the office and we have been told we are not going to enforce the intercom system on this building. TENANT #9: Well, I am just clarifying that you are saying you are not enforcing the Health and Safety code. I just need to clarify that--- JOHN: I am not saying the Health and Safety code. I am saying the intercom wiring system for this property. TENANT #9: I know that sir but when I read the Health and Safety code, it specifically mentions that you have jurisdiction---- JOHN: What is your name? TENANT #9: My name is [name and phone redacted], its on the complaint sir. So I am just clarifying, I mean you are telling me that you guys are not going to come out and inspect the wiring because you feel you don't have jurisdiction under the health and safety code--- JOHN: ---we are not going to inspect the intercom system---- TENANT #9: ---yes, and I am disagreeing with that. Just documenting what you are saying. JOHN: Ok. TENANT #9:

As long as I pay my rent, and as long as the intercom system is there, I am going to put in a complaint if it is not working. JOHN: That is your choice and we will just keep closing the complaint because I already told you that we are not going to inspect that. TENANT #9: I have talked to you and I have put you on notice. Have a good day.

Update August 2 2015

as emailed and posted to the internet: “My question to [Los Angeles] Mayor Eric Garcetti, Raymond Cervantes, Agassi Topchian* and Ian Yeom*, et al, is in these times of racial strife across this country of the United States, should any Black American be denied a housing service?” “...in these times of racial strife across this country of the United States, should any Black American be denied a housing service?”

Update July 15 2015

"City of Los Angeles Housing Admits Role in Discriminatory Parking Assignments"

[Redacted Email]

"Request for Info to LAHCID and Property Owner- Supplement to HUD Case Number 25453FW- Internet Complaint & Derivative Complaint"

[Tenant name redacted] Wed 7/15/15 11:32 PM Hi LLC (walter.barratt@gmail.com); RSO Contact (hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org); LAHD RSO (hcidla.rso@lacity.org); Cliff Renfrew (cliffrenfrew@gmail.com); Ali Maintenance (amozannar@gmail.com); Marilyn London (marilynlondonml@gmail.com) Debbie L. Harmon (debbie.l.harmon@hud.gov); councilmember.wesson@lacity.org (councilmember.wesson@lacity.org); Charles Floyd (thefirstjew@yahoo.com); Ambassador Charles Linder Floyd (thekushite@gmail.com); Justice Department (askdoj@usdoj.gov); contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov (contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov); HRC Info (info@housingrightscenter.org) To: Cc:

From:

Sent:

Dear Parties: These sections are listed on the Rent Adjustment Commission regulations website: "410.04 Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services)." "411.01 When a tenant makes a complaint that there has been a reduction in housing services in violation of housing codes related to habitability of a dwelling under California Health & Safety Code 17920.3 or 17920.10, the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investments Department will determine a corresponding reduction in rent under the Rent Escrow Account Program regulations (RAC Regulations 1200.00 et . seq)." "411.02 When a tenant makes a complaint that there has been a reduction in housing services and those services do not correspond to the habitability of a dwelling under California Health & Safety Code 17920.3 or 17920.10, the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department will determine a corresponding reduction in rent under regulations 413.00 et seq. and 414.00 et. seq. below." [Emphasis Added] Your decision also proves the city government's admitted jurisdiction over the discriminatory assignment of parking lot stalls.

"I consider your statement as racial discrimination...."

The June 30 2015 notice of case closure from Raymond Chan's Armida Olguin-Flores states "habitability issues are outside the scope of the RSO". This is untrue according to your own RAC regulations 411.01 above. Why would you lie to the Public? I consider your statement as racial discrimination as well as abuse of authority; abuse of discretion and non-compliance with RSO regulations, and making you liable under government code 815.6.

"...you don't care who you hurt, do you?"

I remind you that the habitability complaint regarding the intercom, and intercom rent reduction complaint, also affects tenants in units 5, 8, 15, 18, 10, as well as myself #9. It is a crime that your decision to harm tenants includes the welfare of a child and a senior citizen; you don't care who you hurt, do you?

"...notice of case closure from Raymond Chan's Armida Olguin-Flores..."

The June 30 2015 notice of case closure from Raymond Chan's Armida Olguin-Flores states as your jurisdiction over discriminatory allocation of parking stalls, and your concerted directive to the owner: "The Landlord may opt to contract the "tandem" housing service as an additional housing service a rate determined by the landlord." I would like the owner of the property and Armida to post at the common area of the property a list of all parking stall assignments by apartment number. I also request that Armida and the property owner provide to me within 10 days a notarized declaration under penalty of perjury that provides the following: 1. What are the qualifications for a tenant to be assigned a tandem parking stall? 2. Which tenants by apartment number do not qualify for a tandem parking stall? 3. Which tenants by apartment number had their rent reduced because only single parking stalls were available? 4. How much was the rent reduced for tenants who did not receive a tandem parking stall? 5. Specify the fee for parking in the 1522 Hi Point lot and detail by corresponding apartment number, i.e apartment unit and fee for parking for that unit.

"...Are there any other qualifications for parking in the lot, i.e race, color, sex, source of income, etc.?"

6. Are there any other qualifications for parking in the lot, i.e race, color, sex, source of income, etc.? 7. What is Cliff Renfrew's employment title? 8. What employee is responsible for the assignment of parking stalls? 9. List any tenant(s) whose assigned parking stalls were changed at the tenant's request and the date of that change. 10. How is first come first served applied to the assignment of parking stalls? 11. Why does the LAHCID call the "tandem"an "additional housing service"? Additional to what? 12. Is LAHCID aware that parking enforcement has already established a definition for the "tandem" stall? 13. Which tenants qualify for an additional housing service and which tenants do not qualify for an additional housing service?

"...What are the specific rates for this "additional" housing service?

14. What are the specific rates for this "additional" housing service? 15. What city regulation authorizes the city LAHCID to bestow such authority on the owner stating that he can establish rates that are not authorized under the 3% and 1% and 1% annual rent increases? 16. When, where, and what date has the owner posted the additional housing service tandem stall rates for all tenants to see? 17. Which parking stall(s) by number at 1522 Hi Point is the "additional" housing stall? All rights reserved. Due to the June 30 intentional acts of LAHCID to cause harm to tenants, I am adding additional damages to the claim against the city government of Los Angeles. /s/ [Tenant Name redacted] 1522 Hi Point St ref: "City Los Angeles Housing Admits Role in Discriminatory Parking Assignments" c: Karen Bass, Lois Wolk [Editor Note: Even President Barack Obama speaks of increased racial discrimination in America. Talk is cheap. What is the President going to do to end discrimination at 1522 Hi Point St [Hi Point Apts LLC? The President should put his money where his mouth is.]

Update June 25 2015

"If Not for Racism-"

Complaints Against LAHCID and Hi Point Apts LLC

From: [Tenant] Sent: Thu 6/25/15 1:07 PM To: RSO Contact (hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org); LAHD RSO (hcidla.rso@lacity.org); councilmember.wesson@lacity.org (councilmember.wesson@lacity.org); Marilyn London (marilynlondonml@gmail.com) Cc: Charles Floyd (thefirstjew@yahoo.com); Ambassador Charles Linder Floyd (thekushite@gmail.com); Noah DFEH (noah.frigault@dfeh.ca.gov); Ali Maintenance (amozannar@gmail.com)

Dear LAHCID/Code enforcement/City government of Los Angeles:

Raymond Chan, Director. If Not for Racism. 1. I am still denied a housing service/privilege tandem parking stall. 2. I have still not received a reduction in rent due to loss of parking stall from stall #14 to stall #8, a tandem stall to a single stall 3. I am still denied a housing service and habitability working intercom 4. The owner miscalculated the annual 3% rent increase for June 1 and I have notified him and LAHCID. I will forward you a copy of the rent check cashed June 1 2015. The owner has not made the correction or provided a rent reduction. 5. I am still denied a rent reduction due to loss of working intercom. 6. Each month I pay rent on the 1st is an illegal rent increase 7. I have not received a rent reduction due to shared utilities. 8. I have not received treble damages due [to] the rent stabilization ordinance violations stated herein. 9. I have also been damaged by illegal cumulative rent increases 10. A lack of response from all parties to these issues has violated my quiet enjoyment of the apartment unit

I believe the reason why the owner has refused to comply with the above and the reason why the LAHCID has refused to protect me from the risk of injury in this regard above is because I am Black, and because I have complained that the RAC and property owner/agents are racist towards me.

I have written LAHCID numerous times over the past 13 months, as well as left voicemails, and first class mail. There still has been no good faith response/resolve. How do you suggest we resolve this matter? If I call you every hour, will that help resolve this? If I come to LAHCID headquarters every hour, will that help resolve this matter? If I come down to LAHCID and picket in front with a poster that states "LAHCID Racist Against Blacks", will that help resolve this matter?

If not for racism, what is the reason why the LAHCID has refused to enforce the city rent stabilization regulations as regards the above complaints?

Please respond in writing by first class mail today. All rights reserved. [Tenant- name and address redacted] c: Mike Feuer, City attorney; State Bar Complaint; Site manager Marilyn London, via email above Mayor and City Council via email to council president Wesson above; California Department of Fair Employment and Housing

Update June 17 2015

[Via Email June 11; Via voicemail June 17; Via voicemail on assorted other dates] "This is tenant apt 9 on June 18 2015 to Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council, Hi Point Apts LLC, and LAHCID. Under 42 USC 1983, the Ku Klux Klan Act, “Every person who, … subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress”. Under the California Unruh Act, “all persons are entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments, including both private and public entities. The Unruh Civil Rights Act protects all persons against arbitrary and unreasonable discrimination by a business establishment.” I am a person that is "entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments.” As a person, I have been denied, and continue to be denied, "full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services” due to the arbitrary and unreasonable denial of a tandem parking stall, denial of working intercom, and denial of rent reduction due to loss of housing services, and due to illegal rent increases by Hi Point Apts LLC in conspiracy with the LAHCID. My quiet enjoyment and habitability of the premises, which habitability is under the jurisdiction of LAHCID, has also been damaged. I need the intercom to be fixed today and rent reductions today. T-O-D-A-Y. Today is June 18 and this is tenant Apt 9 at 1522 Hi Point St 90035. All rights reserved. Please respond by first class mail." [There has been no written response after numerous communications like the above one over the last 12 months. "None Dare Call It Conspiracy."] Try this voicemail link of the message left at Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department. Voice message June 17 -18 to LAHCID

Update May 20 2015

[The following redacted letter was received by the city Housing and Community Investment Department ("HCID"), Mayor and Council, and code enforcement Inspector Green. There has been no written response from the City government.] MAY 20 2015 Code Enforcement Inspector Green LAHCID 1200 West 7th Street 8th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 VIA USPS PRIORITY MAIL _________________________________________________________ 42 U.S.C. § 1983, commonly referred to as "section 1983" provides:

The Ku Klux Klan Act

"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia." Inspector Green: I received your voicemail of May 12, 2015 left at about 10:13 a.m. You referenced the inspection that was set for May 26, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. and you said that inspecting the intercom wiring is outside of your jurisdiction. You referred me to your supervisor Garcia and gave the phone number 310-996-1725. I disagree with your position. I hope to have some news media out here Tuesday May 26 and I will be videotaping so I hope you can attend. The keypad intercom is your jurisdiction because it is a housing service that needs to be maintained. An HCID hearing officer has established that HCID does have jurisdiction over the intercom wiring. HCID case 050505. I have also asked HCID to investigate is the wiring for the hallway lighting common area and the outside lighting existing wiring or new wiring. Further: If you come out to the property on May 26, and not for the purpose of inspection but harassment and retaliation because as a Black tenant I complained of housing discrimination, I will consider calling the police to charge trespassing.

"...landlords cannot circumvent their obligations under the RSO..."

Someone has been calling various tenants saying that they represent the city of Los Angeles and that they are trying to get tenants to accept a buyout, such buyout I believe to be void under the LAMC. “Generally, landlords cannot circumvent their obligations under the RSO through the tenant's acquiescence or agreement.” (Gombiner v. Swartz (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 1365, 1372 [85 Cal.Rptr.3d 83].). If said person does represent the city of Los Angeles government I consider such action to be conspiracy to violate tenant’s rights prohibited under 42 USC section 1983. LAMC SEC. 151.10. REMEDIES. [re Rent Stabilization Ordinance] D. Any agreement, whether written or oral, waiving any of the provisions contained in this Article shall be void as contrary to public policy. (Added by Ord. No. 181,744, Eff. 7/15/11.) I quote below your department’s mission statement. Your voicemail indicates that such mission statement does not apply to me as a Black Kushite male, but it should apply to my tenancy.

Your department has jurisdiction over “all wiring”

Your department has jurisdiction over “all wiring”; H&S code “17920.3 (d) All wiring, except that which conformed with all applicable laws in effect at the time of installation if it is currently in good and safe condition and working properly.” Thus, your statement that you do not have jurisdiction is incorrect. If you have a city, county, state or federal law or regulation that supports your position, Mr. Green, please supply it to me. California Code of Regulations Title 19 Public Safety I believe mentions intercoms and cites as authority the Health and Safety Codes of California. The Los Angeles County Code mentions that a “permit shall be obtained for the power supplies required” for intercoms; it also states that all electrical “materials, devices, appliances” shall be in conformity. Sections 82-3 and 83-2. As well as wiring, an intercom is considered a housing services essential to habitability; your website LAHCID lists a habitability complaints under the code enforcement section; thus you do have authority to investigate and inspect the intercom under a habitability complaint. Your voicemail is not acceptable as a resolution. All rights are reserved. Sincerely, [Tenant- name redacted] May 20 2015 "It is the mission of the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department Code Enforcement Division to identify and facilitate the abatement of physical conditions and characteristics of substandard and unsanitary residential buildings and dwelling units which render them unfit or unsafe for human occupancy and habitation, and which conditions and characteristics are such as to be detrimental to or jeopardize the health, safety and welfare of their occupants and of the public." "The existence of such substandard buildings and dwelling units threatens the physical, social and economic stability of sound residential buildings and areas, and of their supporting neighborhood facilities and institutions; necessitates disproportionate expenditures of public funds for remedial action; impairs the efficient and economical exercise of governmental powers and functions; and destroys the amenity of residential areas and neighborhoods and of the community as a whole." "For these reasons it is the policy of the Code Enforcement Division to protect and promote the existence of sound and wholesome residential buildings, dwelling units and neighborhoods by enforcement of such standards, regulations and procedures that will remedy the existence or prevent the development or creation of dangerous, substandard, or unsanitary and deficient residential buildings and dwelling units."

The Ku Klux Klan Act

Update May 9 2015

Police Called After Tenant

Claims "Racism" at Hi Point Apts

May 9 2015 Via email: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council c/o City Clerk The Office of the City Attorney 800 City Hall East Claims section 200 N. Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 Via Email Address and US Mail Via LAHD RSO (hcidla.rso@lacity.org); RSO Contact (hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org) Los Angeles Housing Department Rent Stabilization Division-Case Analysis Rushmore D. Cervantes, General Manager Javier Nunez Raymond D. Chan Frank Bush Jeffery J. Daar, Chairperson Tai Glenn, Vice Chairperson Jose Oliva Carole Brogdon Leonora Gershman PittsPaula Leftwich Jane Paul Armida Olguin-Flores, Investigator Araceli Sophia Gonzalez, Supervisor HCIDLA PO Box 57398 Los Angeles CA 90057-0398 Via email: teri.houston@dfeh.ca.gov Via email: contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov Department of Fair Employment and Housing 2218 Kausen Drive, Suite 100 Elk Grove, CA 95758

Hi Point Apts LLC Retaliates

Against Tenant Who Claimed Racism

Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council at al.: On Friday, May 8, 2015, about 10:30 a.m. Los Angeles Police were called to 1522 Hi Point Street after a tenant fell victim to the effects of racial discrimination. Cliff Renfrew, a white, called the police after an African American tenant made repeated claims of racism that Hi Point Apts LLC had refused to respond to. Renfrew’s action is viewed as retaliation because the African American tenant complained to the city government housing department of racial discrimination. No charges were filed by the Police. Renfrew is an employee of Hi Point Apts LLC’s Gianni Capaldi and Walter Barratt. Do you live at 1522 Hi Point Street? Vous habitez à 1522 Salut Point de rue ? Sincerely, [Name redacted] Tenant c: Select tenants, Housing Rights Center

Update April 28 2015

The Whites Only Intercom*

at 1522 Hi Point St 90035

*Based on the fact that 80% of tenants that are white have a working intercom while 80% of Blacks have been denied a working intercom. The owner of the property Hi Point Apts LLC Walter Barratt and Cliff Renfrew can be reached at 310-895-6693 or walter.barratt@gmail.com or 310-339-4475 or cliffrenfrew@gmail.com.

Mayor Eric Garcetti and all council members have also been asked for assistance to fight racism at the property. What do you think Mayor Garcetti has done to combat gentrification discrimination in Los Angeles?

Walter Barratt and Cliff Renfrew et al. seem very proud of the fact they can deny housing benefits and inflict so much pain on Blacks at the property. Racism seems fun to them.

The owners and agents and maintenance have been aware since April 2014 that all intercoms are not in working order. See elsewhere on this site a review of today's inspection by Los Angeles code enforcement LADBS of the property. Lawyers anticipate that across the country in a few short years riots over housing discrimination will become as commonplace as riots over police brutality. It seems that government agencies are unable to adequately address housing discrimination. "Bought and Paid for".

Secretary of State California ID for Hi Point Apts is 201406410177.

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April 27, 2015

[redacted]

Illegal Rent Increase

[The Slum Lord is Unresponsive]

Hi Point Apts LLC Walter Barratt and Cliff Renfrew 226 Carroll Canal Venice CA 90291-4578 Via Email Address and US Mail Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council c/o City Clerk 200 N. Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 Via Email Address and US Mail Los Angeles Housing Department Rent Stabilization Division-Case Analysis Rushmore D. Cervantes, General Manager Javier Nunez Raymond D. Chan Frank Bush Jeffery J. Daar, Chairperson Tai Glenn, Vice Chairperson Jose Oliva Carole Brogdon Leonora Gershman PittsPaula Leftwich Jane Paul Armida Olguin-Flores, InvestigatorAraceli Sophia Gonzalez, Supervisor HCIDLA PO Box 57398 Los Angeles CA 90057-0398

Re: HCIDLA case CE 128 134 re Illegal Rent Increase

All rights and remedies are reserved. I reserve the right to modify, revoke, or amend this email at any time. This email is not intended as a remedy or resolution of any claims against the parties named. Pending Claims against this property Hi Point Apts include but are not limited to, as of April 1, 2015:

1. 1. 1. Owed rent reduction due to non-working intercom

- - Owed rent reduction due to reduction in parking stalls

- - Illegal rent increase that occurs less than 12 months from the last rent increase

- - Owed rent reduction due to payment of common area electric outside apartment to hallways and outside of building. CC 1940.9

THE INTERCOM As of April 1, 2015, this lack of repaired housing service has not been resolved. Code enforcement has been to the property numerous times over the last year, made inspections, issued at least two work stop orders, yet the intercom wiring remains un repaired.* Code enforcement has been in the apartment #9 at least two to three times in the last year. It is anticipated that code enforcement complaints will continue to be filed until the repair is completed. The owner and his agents have been repeatedly contacted and made no response; some courts have determined a lack of response on the owner’s part as violation of the tenant’s right to quiet enjoyment of the apartment; that the landlord’s lack of response creates an unreasonable interference with the tenant’s comfort, safety, or enjoyment of the rental unit. ILLEGAL RENT INCREASE The owner served a rent increase dated April 24 2014 for $1193.96, as copied to HCIDLA. On Feb 19, 2015, less than 12 months from the 2014 rent increase, the owner agent served a “30 day notice change of terms in tenancy”, demanding rent of $1211.04, about a 1/2 percent increase in rent; an increase less than 12 months from the last rent increase is prohibited under rent stabilization regulations. On April 21, 2015, the owner served another rent increase notice for 5% to bring the rent to $1274.35. The April 21 rent increase is further illegal because it raises the rent over the allowed 5% since the rent had already been raised on February 19, 2015. The owner is requested to make the proper refund or reduction in rent, not withstanding the illegal rent increase regarding the parking stalls and lack of working intercom. A March 31, 2015 city government response to public records act request does not show that the owner acquired the rent control certificate renewal prior to the February 28 2015 deadline, nor has he served such certificate on Apt 9 prior to the April 21, 2015 demand for rent increase due June 1, 2015. Municipal Code section 151.05.A. Further the owner’s calculation of the rent is incorrect. The attached notice, without waiver of any other objections herein, demands $1274.35. The correct calculation, without waiver of any other objections herein, should be $1270.56. Even if the owner corrects the calculation to $1270.56, it will still be an illegal rent increase based on the objections stated herein. California Civil Code Section 1940.9 [Shared Utilities ] As of rent demanded and paid April 1, 2015, Hi Point Apts LLC still is not in compliance with civil code section 1940.9. A local government like HCIDLA does not have the authority to deny Apt 9 tenants the protection of state law in this regard herein. A local government like HCIDLA does not have the authority to take any actions that violate state law civil code 1940.9. “If the landlord pays all the costs of electricity and/or gas services for a rental unit” then he can increase the rent an additional 1% for each service. RAC 151.06. Written evidence was previously provided to HCID that the owner advertised that “all units are master metered. However, a $100 per month fee applies.” This was enough evidence previously provided to RAC that someone other than the landlord was paying the utility bills. I note that this notice was never given to me, I only saw it on the internet. It is also clear under CC 1940.9 that the state law does not intend for me as a tenant to pay for any electric and gas service outside of my dwelling unit and that the owner has to make “mutually agreed in writing” arrangements, yet the owner has made no attempt to reimburse me or reduce the rent in view of the requirements of state civil code section 1940.9. The owner is requested to make the rent reduction in accordance with state civil code section 1940.9. All rights and remedies are reserved. I reserve the right to modify, revoke, or amend this email at any time. This email is not intended as a remedy or resolution of any claims against the parties named. Sincerely yours, Tenant 1522 HI POINT STREET LOS ANGELES CA 90035 attached: Notice of Change in Terms of Tenancy dated April 21, 2105 from Hi Point Apts LLC. * Excerpt California Health and Safety Code: 17920.3. Any building or portion thereof including any dwelling unit, guestroom or suite of rooms, or the premises on which the same is located, in which there exists any of the following listed conditions to an extent that endangers the life, limb, health, property, safety, or welfare of the public or the occupants thereof shall be deemed and hereby is declared to be a substandard building: (a) Inadequate sanitation shall include, but not be limited to,the following: (10) Lack of required electrical lighting. (b) Structural hazards shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (c) Any nuisance. (d) All wiring, except that which conformed with all applicable laws in effect at the time of installation if it is currently in good and safe condition and working properly.[emphasis added]

[City Code Enforcement inspectors Green and Garcia claimed circa May 20 2015 that LAHCID has no authority over "all wiring", a non-compliance with their obligations under the Health and Safety Code.]

Update April 19 2015

Tenants Call Rent Increase "Discrimination"

Tenants appeared April 15 2015 at a Public Hearing to protest rent increases at 1522 Hi Point Apts 90035. Key issues concerning the rent increase are door entry system keypads, exterior building paint, automatic security gate, timber clad, and exterior and interior lighting. Hi Point Apts LLC agent Walter Barratt thru Cliff Renfrew testified the door entry system is not connected to the intercom, that the exterior of the building is about 11,000 square feet, that the owner did not need a permit to install an electric automatic security gate, that timber clad was installed to highlight the building address, and that the owner installed new light fixtures inside and out. Tenants objected saying that the owner claimed the keypad-intercom system is only for select tenants providing photo evidence that the intercom is not connected to all of the eighteen apartments and that the keypad code was only provided to select tenants 10 months after the alleged repairs, that the exterior of the building is only 7316 square feet per the CFO, that the owner did not get a permit for the brick wall or security gate motor before the repairs were completed, that the timber clad does not primarily benefit the tenants, and that the installation of light bulbs is routine maintenance and not entitled to capital improvement increase. City regulations provide that the owner provide "evidence of the actual purchase price of the improvement." Tenants complained that the owner did not supply documentation of the actual purchase price of materials for any of the improvements, and that the building already had light fixtures in and out. The city government housing analyst Scott Matsunaga failed to determine the average cost in the designated zip code for repairs, excluding the exterior painting of the building. The appeal hearing officer decision is pending. This was an administrative hearing. Tenants called the actions of the owner and the actions of the city government "discrimination" , presumably under the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.

UPDATE APRIL 18 2015

Dated: April 18, 2015 via email to HCIDLA

City Govt Denial of Equal Protection

To Araceli Sophia Gonzalez:

I understand you are the supervisor of Armida Olguin-Flores, and also work under Raymond Chan.

I have not received anything further from you regarding complaints against Hi Point Apts LLC:

1. Illegal rent increase due to rent increase less than 12 months from last increase

2. Rent reduction due to removal of parking stall

3. Rent reduction due to lack of repaired intercom

In addition, select tenants in apartments 10, 18, 8, 15, 5, and 6 complain:

1. Illegal rent increase due to failure of owner to provide refund due to lack of resident manager

2. Illegal rent increase due to non-working intercom

3. Lack of working intercom

These issues have been brought to your attention repeatedly.

Your failure to act on behalf of the tenant complaints constitute [actionable] violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution which states:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

It is clear that this matter needs federal intervention.

Is there some part of this email that you do not understand?

The tenants at this building want immediate relief without further delay and unlawful discrimination from your department.

Please contact me by mail today. A phone call is not acceptable as a resolution.

From Tenant at 1522 Hi Point

Update March 25, 2015

Mayor and City Council of Los Angeles- told of Racism at Hi Point Apts

[The property owner and Mayor and Council have been unresponsive.

Code enforcement unable to get the intercom fixed. ]

March 25, 2015 Board of Building and Safety Commissioners Department of Building and Safety Javier Nunez Raymond D. Chan Frank Bush HCIDLA Rent Adjustment Commission Jeffery J. Daar, Chairperson Tai Glenn, Vice Chairperson Jose Oliva Carole Brogdon Leonora Gershman Pitts Paula Leftwich Jane Paul Armida Olguin-Flores, Investigator Araceli Sophia Gonzalezso P.O. Box 17340, Los Angeles, CA 90017-0340 Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council at al.:

Failure by Property Owner to Maintain and Repair Intercom System

Request for Court Injunction and Rent Reduction

This issue has been previously brought to the attention of the Mayor and Council, the rent control department HCID, and to the attention of the property owner Walter Barratt of Hi Point Apts LLC. There has not been a resolution. Taken from an email to you HCID RSO August 24, 2014, “Based on a notice received April 25 2014 by tenants in apartment number nine, engineers were inspecting the door entry system at 1522 Hi Point Street. According to the complaint of the tenant, the door entry system has not been maintained and has not been fixed.” “Pursuant to the RAC (Regulations Adjustment Commission) section 413.01, in evaluating the amount of rent reduction that may be reasonable only compensated for the loss of the specific housing services, HCID will consider the extent to which the rent and housing service affects the tenant given rent and rent paid.” “Los Angeles municipal code section 151.02 defines Housing Services as services connected with the use of occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light heat water and telephone) , ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance, including painting. This term shall also include the probation of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, Refuse removal, furnishings, food-service, parking and other benefits privileges or facilities. Chapter XV of the Los Angeles municipal code Rent Stabilization ordnance, effective in the city of Los Angeles, requires that where there is a reduction in housing services there must be a corresponding decrease and equal to the reduction in the monthly cost to the landlord of the service, divided by the number of units deprived of that service.” Key points: * This is a racially motivated situation. * The City is requested to pay the effected tenants and seek a court lien against the 1522 Hi Point Street property for reimbursement treble damages. The municipal code permits the city to make payment to the tenants and seek a lien against the property. * Effected tenants are entitled to treble damages and a rent reduction from April 2014 forward * The intercom for apartments #9, 8, 6, 10, 15, 5, 18 remains un repaired even though city code enforcement has inspected the property numerous times since April 2014 * Rents paid by tenants with the un repaired intercom represent an illegal rent increase that has been sanctioned by city government officials under HCID and the Mayor’s office The last illegal rent increase collected from affected tenants occurred on March 1, 2015. Please make restitution today to the affected tenants and take legal action against the owner Walter Barratt and HI Point Apts LLC. All rights reserved. I reserve the right to pursue this issue in a claim for damages against the city of Los Angeles based on new evidence of the illegal rent paid on March 1, 2015. Sincerely, [name redacted] Tenant c: Select tenants, Housing Rights Center, employee Norman Koplin, HCIDLA, Code enforcement [emphasis added]

UPDATE March 24, 2015

Faircrest Heights Graffiti and Million Dollar Homes Next to McDonalds

Lingering Problems at Hi Point Apts in Faircrest Heights

Owner Walter Barratt still refuses a rent refund for tenants who were without a resident manager for about four months last spring at the 1522 Hi Point Street property (90035). Even though rent control ruled tenants were entitled to a refund, the owner still have not given the refund to six tenants. The Legal Aid Foundation and the Housing Rights Center seem unable to help the tenants, many of whom are African American. When the HCIDLA’s Armida Olguin-Flores was contacted, she said tenants must put in individual complaints and explain what happened. She ignored two tenant complaints previously filed with her. She refused to explain why she herself has not paid the tenants, and under rent control authority put a lein against the property for the amount paid to the tenants. It was Olguin-Flores who made the written ruling that tenants were entitled to the refund, but now she refuses to assist six other tenants in getting the refund. Her supervisor is Araceli Sophia Gonzalez. Her phone: 213-252-1425.

Black Tenants Object to Rent Increase

The city Gestapo HCIDLA granted a rent increase to the owner. Black tenants continue to protest the increase while the city government refused to hold the required hearing within 30 days. The city housing department granted a rent increase that included an exorbitant $2,575 for a piece of timber clad siding, and $1780 for replacing about twelve light bulbs on the property. The city government granted $480 for replacing key pads that were clearly for the benefit of primarily WHITES ONLY. The gestapo housing department has refused to say why the hearing was not being held in 30 days even though it accepted the $35.00 fee for the hearing. The hearing officer at Housing and Community Investment Department (HCIDLA) is Norman Koplin. His phone is: 213-808-8681.

Rent Increase Complaint Filed Against Hi Point Apts

Another complaint was filed around February 28 2015 citing an illegal rent increase by the owner in that he is seeking a rent increase before twelve months has elapsed before the last increase, and the premature increase is cumulative. So far rent control and Housing Rights Center have refused to address the issues.

I asked that all Angelenos join me and contact Armida and her supervisor Araceli Sophia Gonzalezso at phone number 213-252-1425 and demand that she perform her duty to enforce rent control regulations against Hi Point Apartments LLC and demand that she assist all tenants without regard to race, color, creed, sex,national origin, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. If Armida and her supervisor Araceli Sophia Gonzalezso cannot immediately comply with this demand and cease their Gestapo tactics on behalf of the Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council, then they should immediately resign from their positions with the city government of Los Angeles.

UPDATE News November 29, 2014 Applications for permit copies still Not Released Around September 26 2014 an open records act request was made for applications for permits that appeared on the LADBS website. After numerous requests to the Mayor and Council, LADBS, and Los Angeles Housing Department, still have not been supplied to the requestor. What is the City hiding about certificate of occupancy at 1522 Hi Point? What inspectors have been paid off? There are the application numbers in case you want to view them on line: No THP has been issued for the applications and the owner failed to attach primary renovation checklists to each application. LADBS refuses to say how the permits were approved without a primary renovation checklist. This is a long list of complaints against rent control and code enforcement regarding substandard conditions and rent control violations and retaliation at the property apparently at the direction of Mayor Eric Garcetti and council members. These are LADBS website numbers for applications for permits: 14042 30000 08909, 14041 30000 23841, 14042 30000 16615; a synopsis of each application appears on the city website but numerous city officials including the city council and city attorney Mike Feuer refuse to release copies? Why? Where is the Certificate of Occupancy? Apparently for some units at the property no certificate of occupancy was approved prior to the tenants moving in. Health and Safety violations have been reported at the property as well as numerous robberies. New Claim for Damages Names LADBS Employees All LADBS employees are named in a new damage claim against the city government dated November 25, 2014. Gentrification and Racism: Targeted for Racism at 1522 Hi Point Street At least four African American tenants have reported charges of housing discrimination to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council in communications Nov. 23 thru Nov. 29. The owner of the property and his employees continue to pit white tenants against African American tenants in escalating retaliation at the property. City Housing Officials Accused of “Gestapo” Tactics Tenant Says He Should Have Called for Employees' Arrest In terse letters to the to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and council members and attorney Mike Feuer, November 18-21, a local resident at Hi Point Apts LLC told the mayor that city employees improperly engaged in “gestapo” tactics by saying they would enter and did enter his apartment without complying with state civil code 1954. The code 1954 details the only reasons a landlord can enter a dwelling. “If they do it again,” said the tenant, “I will call the police and have them arrested for trespassing.” One of two tenants was not home at the time of the illegal entry. Yet to be named city employees of the Los Angeles Housing Department claimed in a notice from Hi Point Apts Cliff Renfrew and Walter Barratt that the city LAHD would be entering the apartment for a “cursory survey”. Before the illegal entry occurred, the tenant told the owner and city attorney that the state code 1954 did not authorize a “cursory survey”. The tenant also told the city employees 30 days prior that he would not be home that day. Mayor Garcetti's Storm Troopers The mayor Garcetti's storm troopers entered the apartment anyway, didn't ask any questions, and did not make any statements, or identity themselves. A neighbor said they were just trying to “cover their ass” after numerous housing complaints have been lodged against the 1522 Hi Point Street 90035 property and against code enforcement. Yet another tenant in a different apartment refused to let the LAHD employees enter so the owner retaliated and served the tenant with a three day notice. The Mayor and Council and LAHD will face a continued claim for damages against the city attorney's office and LAHD for not taking steps to protect tenants rights at the property and for engaging in conspiracy to violate rights under state code section 1954, and conspiracy to commit consumer fraud. The Los Angeles Legal Aid foundation has been asked to mount a class action against the owner of the property. The city government still refuses to release permit application documents pursuant to an open records act request. Employees of LADBS who may have been in the apartment unlawfully include Raymond D. Chan, Lincoln Lee, Steve Ongele, Larry Galstian, Giovani Dacumos, Karen Penera, Steve Davey, Frank Bush, Andy Yung, Ifa Kashefi, Colin Kumabe, Choi Yan, Tanny Svetich, Ken Gill, Bob Steinbach, Todd Borzi, Mark casey, Rickey Jackson, David Tsau, Rick Horn, Larry Isidro, Peter Calas, Jon Biezins, Dean Staron, martin Weight, Craig Davis, David Lara, Sam Portillo. There have been reports from Cliff Renfrew of substandard plumbing and tenants have complained of substandard unrepaired wiring and health and safety violations. City documents show the maintenance person as Ali Mozannar. Ali is reported as being responsible for the unrepaired substandard unconnected wiring intercom systems known to the owner Walter Barratt since April of 2014. LAHD has refused to enforce a rent rebate to affected tenants. "The city government still refuses to release permit application documents pursuant to an open records act request." News Oct 27 2014 Housing Discrimination Charges Filed Against Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti's City Rent Control and Code Enforcement Agencies The Los Angeles government agencies are accused of refusing to supply documents requested under the Open Records Act including applications for permits; refusal to enforce rent control complaints, refusal to enforce code enforcement regulations affecting the health and safety of tenants. The city attorney Mike Feuer is named after refusing to file a complaint for injunction, civil penalties, and equitable relief to protect tenants at the property. The mayor and council members are named as co-defendants for refusing to process a REAP complaint against the property. Also named in the damage claim is RAC employee Armida Olguin-Flores, code enforcement inspector David James, RAC members Jeffrey J. Daar, Tai Glenn, Jose Oliva, Carole Brogdon, and Leonora Gershman Pitts. The claim seeks damages, special damages, treble damages, injunctive relief, and jury trial. The claim asks for damages for “failure by city employees/public entity to enforce reduction in rent due to removal tenants ... from tandem to single [parking[ stall; Failure by city employees/public entity to enforce required rent reduction due to no separate utility meters and shared utilities at 1522 Hi Point Street per city LAMC and state law. Substandard housing.” Failure by LADBS and/or building and safety inspectors, Richard Brinson, David James, Charles Garcia, and as named employees in the department records release circa October 2014, and as named in code enforcement or building and safety complaints, to comply with HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 17920. (e) "Enforcement" means diligent effort to secure compliance, including review of plans and permit applications, response to complaints, citation of violations, and other legal process. Except as otherwise provided in this part, "enforcement" may, but need not, include inspections of existing buildings on which no complaint or permit application has been filed, and effort to secure compliance as to these existing buildings.” “HCIDLA and its named employees have failed to discharge their duties (GC 815.6) and failed to exert a diligent effort to secure compliance with the rent control ordinance and any and all applicable code enforcement regulations and ordinances. (Health and Safety Code section 17920(e).” Claim #C15-1634. [Please pass onto anyone residing at 1522 Hi Point Street at zip 90035.] October 19 2014. Rent Reduction due to un repaired door entry system From: [Redacted] To: LAHD.RSO@lacity.org; hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.rso@lacity.org; Cc: walter.barratt@gmail.com; cliffrenfrew@gmail.com; Date: Sunday, October 19, 2014 9:43 PM Rent Adjustment Commission LAHCID Jeffery J. Daar, Chairperson Tai Glenn, Vice Chairperson Jose Oliva Carole Brogdon Leonora Gershman Pitts Paula Leftwich Jane Paul Armida Olguin-Flores, Investigator P.O. Box 17340, Los Angeles, CA 90017-0340 Email LAHD.RSO@lacity.org Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council [Via Facsimile] Dear Parties: [Redacted] I want to address here the lack of repaired door entry system. We are entitled to a rent reduction because the door entry intercom system has not been repaired to our apt 9. Pursuant to California Health and Safety Code sections "substandard housing" 17920.3(a)(13) and17920.3(d). This also affects about six other apartments in the building who also have defective wiring re the intercom door entry. Door entry “un repaired electrical wiring disconnected and/or abandoned and electrical service requires maintenance.” [Redacted] The current owner of the building Walter Barratt and employees around April 28 2014 disconnected the door entry system and installed new entry systems in select apartments. Our apt #9 did not receive repairs or upgrade. We have been denied a housing service freely afforded to others. We have continued to pay the full rent May, June, July, August, September, October 2014 without receiving a rent reduction from the owner. As the owner has not complied with the RSO, we are entitled to treble damages. The door entry system and intercom is also for the purpose of health and safety, such health and safety we are denied. It is quite bad faith for the owner to claim in the Jul 23 email “our maintenance manager has not received any requests to repair the system” while at the same time he knew that his employees were installing new units, proving they were aware a housing service was being denied. [Redacted] It is true he started refurbishing the building without the proper permits and numerous tenants complained that routine repairs were not being done. Stop work orders were issued April 14 and August 6 after the owner had proceeded with repairs without the proper permits; this occurred because tenants made complaints to code enforcement.... Thus damages are owed from April 2014 to current, with such damages and treble owed to all tenants similarly situation (about 6 other tenants)....[“Where a public entity is under a mandatory duty imposed by an enactment that is designed to protect against the risk of particular kind of injury, the public entity is liable for an injury of that kind proximately caused by its failure to discharge the duty unless the public entity establishes that it exercised reasonable diligence to discharge the duty.” GC 815.6.]. /s/ Tenant * HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 17920-17928 17920.3 (a)(13) General dilapidation or improper maintenance. 17920.3 (d) (d) All wiring, except that which conformed with all applicable laws in effect at the time of installation if it is currently in good and safe condition and working properly. 17920.3 (i) All materials of construction, except those that are specifically allowed or approved by this code, and that have been adequately maintained in good and safe condition. 17920.3(k) Any building or portion thereof that is determined to be an unsafe building due to inadequate maintenance, in accordance with the latest edition of the Uniform Building Code. “un repaired electrical wiring disconnected and/or abandoned and electrical service requires maintenance.”

Substandard Housing Conditions

Subject: Illegal Rent Increase Oct 1 2014 by Hi Point Apts- Complaint to RAC and HCIDLA From: [tenant and email redacted] To: hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.rso@lacity.org; Cc: walter.barratt@gmail.com; cliffrenfrew@gmail.com; Date: Saturday, October 4, 2014 2:12 PM

Dear HCIDLA and RAC [rent adjustment commission]:

Hi Point Apts LLC [Walter Barratt and Cliff Renfrew et al.] [1522 Hi Point St 90035] collected rent October 1 of $ [redacted] for apt [redacted].

This amount represents an illegal rent increase under the jurisdiction of the RAC.

It is an illegal rent increase due to:

1. We are entitled to a rent reduction because the visitor parking stall is not available to us. Another tenant is currently parking in the stall.

2. We are entitled to a rent reduction because we have not been compensated for the reduction of the tandem parking stall; RSO regulations say we are entitled to $200 per month rent reduction.

3. We are entitled to a rent reduction because the door entry intercom system has not been repaired to our apt 9. [pursuant to California Health and Safety Code sections "substandard housing" 17920.3(a)(13) and 17920.3(d).]

4. We are entitled to a rent reduction because shared utilities are being paid by other tenants according to the owner ads on the internet. [Civil Code Section 1940.9.]

In addition, the owner of the property has in bad faith not sent any notices to all tenants explaining: (1) use of the housing service visitor parking stall (2) use of the housing service of the door entry intercom system (3) shared utilities [civil code section 1940.9] (4) use of the housing service of owner installed outside window air conditioning.

The LAHD is requested to process this complaint. This complaint is pursuant to California government code sections 815.2(a), 815.3(a), 815.3(b), and 815.6; herein also that the LAHD and RAC and LAHD employees, and LADBS code enforcement employees, are required to exercise reasonable diligence to discharge their duties as regards these housing complaints.

This is being emailed "CC" above to the email addresses provided by the owner Walter Barratt and Cliff Renfrew at Hi Point Apts LLC. Hi Point Apts LLC is requested to respond in writing by first class mail only. This will also be mailed to the owner at the state of California declared address of record.

[tenant name address and phone redacted] Los Angeles, California

c: City Attorney Mike Feuer; Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council; RAC members Jeffery J. Daar, Chairperson; Tai Glenn, Vice Chairperson, Jose Oliva, Carole Brogdon Leonora Gershman Pitts, Paula Leftwich, Jane Paul.

Corruption as told to city Attorney Mike Feuer

Fax to Los Angeles Mayor and Council* and City Attorney Mike Feuer on September 18, 2014: “Corruption. Today code enforcement manager said do not inspect [at 1522 Hi Point Street 90035]. (1) Tenants apt 10 are affected by repairs in Apt One having their (Apt 10) wall knocked out and pipes replaced without a THP anywhere for Apt 10 (2) The city ordinance is 60 days must pass after service Notice of Primary Renovation before repairs can start (3) inspect non working door entry system (4) inspect lead paint hazard and cut hazard to common areas (5) inspect for termites (6) inspect tandem parking stalls (7) inspect parking stall striping (8) inspect brick wall to right of motorized gate (9) provide lead paint hazard mitigation steps by bldg owner (10) see where lead paint dust has accumulated (11) proof of permitted hours for construction. P.S. I understand the THP served on Apt 9 and filed Sept 10 2014 states there are 17 occupied units. This is proof that 17 units should receive written notification of renovations , which are taking an excessive amount of time to complete.” From tenant [name redacted]. * City Council members are: Gilbert Cedillo, Paul Krekorian , Bob Blumenfield, Tom LaBonge, Paul Koretz, Nury Martinez, Felipe Fuentes, Bernard Parks, Curren D. Price, Jr., Herb J. Wesson, Jr., Mike Bonin, Mitchell Englander, Mitch O’Farrell, Jose Huizar, Joe Buscaino.

Updated October 17 2015

New Letter Again Accuses City Agency of Housing Discrimination

[Assemblyperson Karen Bass is asked to seek restriction of federal funding to city government of Los Angeles based on the Los Angeles government practice of illegal separate and unequal housing facilities.] [As seen on Facebook Karen Bass.] [Redacted email]

“Demand for Payment of Damages re reduction in housing services intercom and parking, Housing Discrimination etc re 1522 Hi Point St Apt 9”

"Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department LAHCID /RSD Rushmore Cervantes/Director 1200 W. 7th St., 1st Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 [via email above and US Mail ] Board of Building and Safety Commissioners Department of Building and Safety Javier Nunez Raymond D. Chan Frank Bush 201 N. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 [via email above and US Mail ] HCIDLA Rent Adjustment Commission Jeffery J. Daar, Chairperson • Tai Glenn, Vice Chairperson • Carole Brogdon • Leonora Gershman Pitts • Paula Leftwich • Jane Paul • Dash Stolarz Armida Olguin-Flores, Investigator/Barbara Araceli Sophia Gonzalezso P.O. Box 17340, Los Angeles, CA 90017-0340 [via email above and US Mail ] Mr. Walter Barratt Mr. Cliff Renfrew Marilyn London Hi Point Apts, LLC 226 Carroll Canal Venice CA 90291-4578 [via email above and US Mail ] LAHCID admits discriminatory role in denial of housing services at 1522 Hi Point Street As regards continuing violations and continuing damages, and the renewal of the rental agreement apt 9 on October 1 2015, please remit within 10 days from the date of this email damages as calculated: (1) parking stall reduced from tandem stall to single stall from May 2014 thru October 2015 @$200 per month x 15 months = $3000; (2) intercom housing service not provided 15 months @60/month from May 2014 thru October 2015 = $900. Please add treble damages. Please issue a letter reducing the monthly rent by $260 until such time the tandem parking stall/additional single stall is provided and working intercom is provided. Pursuant to LAMC 151.02 and RAC regulations 410 thru 415.03. GC 815.6. JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY. The city government has actual and constructive knowledge, due to the visits and code inspections/permits of this property by LADBS and LAHCID personnel over the past 15 months or so, that the parking stalls and apartment door entry intercom systems are housing services at 1522 Hi Point St. But the city government has sanctioned and practices unlawful separate and unequal housing facilities, making the city government liable. The city government is well aware of the actual injuries/damages that are occurring to tenants of apt 9, and other tenants, due to the reduction in parking and reduction in intercom door entry system, and failure by the owner to provide, and city government to order, rent reductions. FURTHER UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. PLEASE RESPOND SUBJECT TO GC 815.6, ET AL. 1. What are the qualifications for a tenant to be assigned an intercom/tandem parking stall? 2. Which tenants by apartment number do not qualify for an intercom/tandem parking stall? 3. Which tenants by apartment number had their rent reduced because their intercom is not working or parking reduced? 4. How much was the rent reduced for tenants who did not receive a working intercom or tandem parking stall? 5. Specify the fee for intercom/tandem parking at the 1522 Hi Point and detail by corresponding apartment number, i.e apartment unit and fee for intercom service. 6. Are there any other qualifications for having an intercom/tandem parking stall at 1522, i.e race, color, sex, source of income, etc.? 7. What is Cliff Renfrew's employment title? 8. What employee is responsible for the assignment of intercoms/tandem stalls? 9. List any tenant(s) whose apartments do not have working intercoms/tandem stalls. 10. How is "first come first served" applied to the assignment of intercoms/tandem stalls? 11. What state government training/certification/license have you [Hi Point Apts LLC] received to be hired as a resident manager? 12. Have you received sensitivity training on the civil rights laws that govern the rights of tenants? Please respond in writing by first class mail. All rights reserved to bring suit for damages due to violations the Ku Klux Klan Act [42 U.S.C. 1983], Executive Order 11063, Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VIII Civil Rights Act of 1968; declarative, injunctive, and punitive damages; California GC 12900 et seq, California GC 51, 51.2, 53, consumer fraud act, Equal Protection Act. [Tenant name redacted] [Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black] 1522 Hi Point St #9 Los Angeles CA 90035 [Phone Redacted] October 17, 2015 c: Senator Lois Wolk Assembly person Karen Bass [Facebook page] Fair Housing Department of Justice David Greene, code enforcement via email DFEH Byron L. Wilson Federal HUD complaint against LAHCID DFEH complaint against LAHCID City Attorney Michael Feuer State Bar of California City Prosecutor's office State Labor Commissioner State Immigration Office Reference p. 10, October 1-14, 2015 issue, "Random Lengths" newspaper; Reference continuing rental agreement " [This letter has been redacted from the original.]

Updated October 19 2015

City Sets Hearing on "Slum Landlord"

LOS ANGELES.

Hi Point Apts LLC and Abady Holdings are set to be questioned at a Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department hearing. The purpose is to examine an appeal of a tenant habitability plan [primary renovations] submitted by Hi Point Apts LLC . Part of the 27 page tenant appeal of the THP received by city officials questions is the owner renting apartments illegally due to no previous THP's, charges of racism against the LAHCID and the property owner, failure to provide fair and impartial treatment to Blacks at a previous hearing April 15 2015, repairs taking over 16 months but failure to inspect by the code enforcement, corruption, request for dust extractor and air locks, and describing the owner as a "slum landlord". Recently the LAHCID ruled that the owner had engaged in illegal rent increases for certain tenants. According to a notice from the city agency under Rushmore D. Cervantes, topics at the Oct 26 hearing will also include hours of primary renovation 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Friday, precautions to secure a safe environment; loss/transfer/reduction of services of phone, internet, alarm, parking, intercom; concerns about lead, asbestos, and mold; and the legality of the THP Notice. The hearing is open to the public and concerns the property at 1522 Hi Point Street 90035. The hearing is set for October 26 2015, Monday, at 2:00 pm at 1200 W 7th Street, first floor hearing room, Los Angeles CA 90017. To verify any changes in the hearing time, call 213-808-8681 city employee Norman Koplin. [Editor note: date has been changed to October 28 Wed at 2:00 p.m.]

Update November 22 2015

Continued request for Rent Reductions re Reduction of Tandem Parking Stall and Loss of Intercom service at 1522 Hi Point St From: [Tenant] Sent: Sun 11/22/15 3:08 PM To: Hi LLC (walter.barratt@gmail.com); Cliff Renfrew (cliffrenfrew@gmail.com); Lorrie Manager Sakauchi (misswholefoods@aol.com); LAHD RSO (hcidla.rso@lacity.org) Cc: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org (councilmember.wesson@lacity.org); RSO Contact (hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org); Charles Floyd (thefirstjew@yahoo.com); Ambassador Charles Linder Floyd (thekushite@gmail.com); Fair Housing Doj (fairhousing@usdoj.gov); Debbie L. Harmon (debbie.l.harmon@hud.gov); contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov (contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov); Justice Department (askdoj@usdoj.gov); complaints_office_00@hud.gov (complaints_office_00@hud.gov); David Greene (david.greene@lacity.org); Leila Ajalova (lajalova@ph.lacounty.gov); fairhousing@usdoj.gov (fairhousing@usdoj.gov); Ali Maintenance (amozannar@gmail.com) To Hi Point Apts LLC Walter, Cliff, Lorrie et al: These sections are listed on the Rent Adjustment Commission regulations website: "410.04 Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services)." "411.01 When a tenant makes a complaint that there has been a reduction in housing services in violation of housing codes related to habitability of a dwelling under California Health & Safety Code 17920.3 or 17920.10, the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investments Department will determine a corresponding reduction in rent under the Rent Escrow Account Program regulations (RAC Regulations 1200.00 et . seq)." "411.02 When a tenant makes a complaint that there has reduction in housing services in violation of housing codes related to habitability of a dwelling under California Health & Safety Code 17920.3 or 17920.10, the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investments Department will determine a corresponding reduction in rent under the Rent Escrow Account Program regulations (RAC Regulations 1200.00 et . seq)."

Please answer the following questions in writing by first class mail within the next three days:

1. What are the qualifications for a tenant to be assigned an intercom/tandem parking stall? 2. Which tenants by apartment number do not qualify for an intercom/tandem parking stall? 3. Which tenants by apartment number had their rent reduced because their intercom is not working/ did not receive a tandem parking stall? 4. How much was the rent reduced for tenants who did not receive a working intercom/tandem parking stall? 5. Specify the fee for intercom/tandem parking stall at the 1522 Hi Point St and detail by corresponding apartment number, i.e apartment unit and fee paid for intercom service/parking stall. 6. Are there any other qualifications for having an intercom/tandem stall at 1522, i.e race, color, sex, source of income, etc.? 7. What is Cliff Renfrew's employment title? 8. What employee is responsible for the assignment of intercoms? 9. List any tenant(s) whose apartments do not have working intercoms. 10. How is first come first served applied to the assignment of intercoms/tandem parking stalls? 11. What state government training/certification/license have you received to be hired as a resident manager? 12. Do you have a real estate broker's license? Does your employer who hired you to manage this property have a real estate broker's license and if so provide the license number. 13. Have you received sensitivity training on the civil rights laws that govern the rights of tenants? In the past month, I believe Cliff Renfrew, agent of Hi Point Apts LLC, as well as maintenance persons, have been in the Apt 9, at least three or four times. Still the intercom is not repaired and my requests to secure a tandem parking stall are not answered. Renfrew et al actions are intentional to cause harm to me.

Code enforcement employees have also as a habitability complaint and health and safety complaint not issued an order that the intercom should be repaired, [apts 9, 5, 8, 15] although code enforcement has been to the property numerous times and in the apt 9 numerous times over the past 6 months. In all due respect, I imagine that if any of you had parents living at this location and their intercom was not working, I imagine you would treat them in the same discriminatory and callous manner that I am being treated. I would imagine since Michael Feuer's Robert P. Moore said an intercom is not a housing service, that Moore's parents if they lived here would also be denied a working intercom.

The owner and with the actual and constructive knowledge of the LAHCID/RSD, has switched tenants who are White who asked for their parking stall to be switched; he has supplied two car stall to those white tenants who requested them. He has ignored my request for a tandem parking stall. To help resolve this matter, all the owner/city government has to say is “We will fix your intercom on November 26. It should take us no longer than two hours. We will also switch you to a tandem parking stall on November 26. We will reimburse you 18 x 60 for the loss of intercom $1080 and for loss of parking stall 18 x 200 = $3600, by check payable to you November 26 2015” : other than for reasons of racial discrimination and retaliation against me, why is it so hard for the owner/city LAHCID to say this? 26 seconds to say it. One minute and 33 seconds to write it. “Rental agreements involving units that were constructed without building permits or lack a certificate of occupancy are ordinarily regarded as unlawful and void. (Espinoza v. Calva (2008) 169 Cal.App.4th 1393, 1400; Salazar v. Maradeaga (1992) 10 Cal.App.4th Supp. 1, 4 (Salazar ).) This is because “[t]he object of a contract must be lawful [citation]; i.e., it must not be in conflict either with express statutes or public policy. [Accordingly, i]f the contract has a single object, and that object is unlawful (whether in whole or in part), the entire contract is void.” (1 Witkin, Summary of Cal. Law (10th ed. 2005) Contracts, § 420, p. 461.) “- Carter v Cohen. Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 4, California. - 2010 “Generally, section 12.21 prohibits the use of any structure or building in the absence of “all permits and licenses required by all laws and ordinances.” Section 12.26(E)(1) further provides that “no building erected or structurally altered shall be occupied or used until a certificate of occupancy shall have been issued.” A certificate of occupancy is issued only when a structure is completed in conformity with the Los Angeles Municipal Code. (Pope v. State Bd. of Equalization (1983) 146 Cal.App.3d 1132, 1139.) - Carter v Cohen. Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 4, California. - 2010. In this instant case, no permit for the brick wall and for extending striping stall 13 prohibits owner from collecting rents on any renovated units at 1522 Hi Point St. A plaintiff fair housing organization seeking punitive damages in a fair housing case must show that the Defendants acted with "reckless or callous indifference" for the fair housing rights of others. See Fair Housing of Marin, 285 F.3d at 906-07 (citing Smith v. Wade, 461 U.S. 30, 56, 103 S.Ct. 1625, 75 L.Ed.2d 632 (1983)); Szwast v. Carlton Apartments, 102 F.Supp.2d 777, 780 (E.D.Mich.2000) (standard used for punitive damages for 1983 violations is the same for FHA violations). In determining whether to impose punitive damages, the fact finder will consider "an evaluation of the nature of the conduct in question, the wisdom of some form of pecuniary punishment, and the advisability of a deterrent" to future illegal conduct. Gore v. Turner, 563 F.2d 159, 164 (5th Cir.1977). The owner's direct participation in the discriminatory practice is not necessary; punitive damages may be awarded where the owner ignored its duties under the law or otherwise engaged in "knowledgeable inaction." See Miller v. Apartments and Homes of New Jersey, Inc., 646 F.2d 101, 111 (3d Cir.1981); Badami v. Flood, 214 F.3d 994 (8th Cir.2000); see also Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Haslip, 499 U.S. 1, 111 S.Ct. 1032, 113 L.Ed.2d 1 (1991). Nor must the conduct be outrageous to warrant punitive damages. Preferred Properties v. Indian River Estates, Inc., 276 F.3d 790, 799-801 (6th Cir.2002). SCHRC v Krug I am simply following my obligations under the rental agreement to report when something is not working in the apartment unit. As was said by Cliff in a letter dated Nov 4 2015: "Lorrie...is the first point of call if you have general concern or need help." My emails and voicemails have noted my general concern over the non-working intercom and my need for help in getting the owners to respond to my requests for a tandem parking stall. If I feel the best way to resolve this is to contact you every month, every week, or every day, I will continue to do so. As new evidence, my rent was paid current November 1, 2015. I demand that the intercom for apt 9 be fixed today. I demand that apt 9 be provided a tandem parking stall today, with no additional rent charge. I demand an immediate rent reduction of $260 per month for every month forward that apt 9 is without a working intercom or tandem parking stall. I demand reimbursement since May 2014 for the loss of parking stall, and loss of working intercom, of $260 per month for total of $4680, plus applicable double or treble damages. Hope you can comprehend English. All rights reserved. Tenant ref: Google "Futility of Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies" c: DFEH, via email above DFEH 2218 Kausen Drive Suite 100 Elk Grove CA 95758-7178 Housing and Urban Development, federal government agency via email above Los Angeles City Council and Mayor by President Herb Wesson, email above Walter Barratt, Hi Point Apts by email above ; Cliff Renfrew, Hi Point Apts by email above Ali Mozannar, Hi Point Apts by email above HCIDLA by email above Justice Department United States by email above U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Los Angeles County Public Health Assemblyperson Karen Bass, Senator Lois Wolk bcc: LADBS LAMC 41.33 Peaceful Enjoyment SEC. 41.33. LANDLORDS – DISTURBING TENANTS. No person, except a duly authorized officer pursuant to the authority of legal process, shall interfere with the peaceful enjoyment, use, possession or occupancy of any premises by the lawful lessee or tenant of such premises either by threat, fraud, intimidation, coercion, duress, or by the maintenance or toleration of a public nuisance, or by cutting off heat, light, water, fuel or free communication by anyone by mail, telephone or otherwise, or by restricting trade or tradesmen from or to any such tenant. [To the Justice Department: Like it was done in the sixties civil rights era, please send federal marshals to assist me to stop the deprivation of my civil rights at the 1522 Hi Point Street address 90035, by named government officials and private parties.] [Editor note: as this is quoting a document to public officials, the original document is subject to the California Public Records Act.]

Update November 24 2015

[redacted Response to November 20 Postmarked Discriminatory Letter of Yeom-Garcetti-Cervantes re 1522 Hi Point Apts LLC From: [tenant name redacted] Sent: Tue 11/24/15 10:46 PM To: RSO Contact (hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org); LAHD RSO (hcidla.rso@lacity.org); Hi LLC (walter.barratt@gmail.com); Cliff Renfrew (cliffrenfrew@gmail.com); Lorrie Manager Sakauchi (misswholefoods@aol.com); councilmember.wesson@lacity.org (councilmember.wesson@lacity.org) Cc: Charles Floyd (thefirstjew@yahoo.com); Ambassador Charles Linder Floyd (thekushite@gmail.com); Ali Maintenance (amozannar@gmail.com); Fair Housing Doj (fairhousing@usdoj.gov); Debbie L. Harmon (debbie.l.harmon@hud.gov); contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov (contact.center@dfeh.ca.gov); Justice Department (askdoj@usdoj.gov); David Greene (david.greene@lacity.org); Leila Ajalova (lajalova@ph.lacounty.gov); Larry Galstian (larry.galstian@lacity.org); Da Lacounty Info (info@da.lacounty.gov); sylvia.lacy@lacity.org (sylvia.lacy@lacity.org); Rodney Arias (rodney.arias@lacity.org); steve.davey@lacity.org (steve.davey@lacity.org); giovani.dacumos@lacity.org (giovani.dacumos@lacity.org); Ifa Kashefi (ifa.kashefi@lacity.org); Rep. Karen Bass (113-ca37kb.inbox@mail.house.gov) November 24 2015 Via Email and US First Class Mail

Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department LAHCID /RSD Ian Yeom Rushmore Cervantes/Director

1200 W. 7th St., 1st Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 [via email above and US Mail ] Board of Building and Safety Commissioners Department of Building and Safety Javier Nunez Raymond D. Chan Frank Bush 201 N. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 [via email above and US Mail ] HCIDL A Rent Adjustment Commission

- - - Jeffery J. Daar, Chairperson • Tai Glenn, Vice Chairperson • Carole Brogdon • Leonora Gershman Pitts • Paula Leftwich • Jane Paul • Dash Stolarz Armida Olguin-Flores, Investigator/Barbara Araceli Sophia Gonzalezso P.O. Box 17340, Los Angeles, CA 90017-0340 [via email above and US Mail ] Mr. Walter Barratt Mr. Cliff Renfrew Lorrie Sakauchi Hi Point Apts, LLC 226 Carroll Canal Venice CA 90291-4578 [via email above and US Mail ]

Re: LAHCID admits discriminatory role in denial of housing services at 1522 Hi Point Street ; Violation of state and federal civil rights and equal protection and under color of law; joint and several liability; violation LAMC 41.33 by government officials; health and safety and habitability violations by government officials and property owner; denial due process I have received the letter of Ian Yeom, Manager of Investigation and Enforcement, such letter postmarked November 20 2015 from Eric Garcetti Mayor and Rushmore D. Cervantes, General Manager, LAHCID. I received the letter today November 24. Attached as PDF is a copy of your letter. This letter is being forwarded to the News Media as a matter of urgent public interest. I am a Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black. Your letter is not acceptable as a resolution to the issues of tandem parking stall and intercom rent reductions for apt 9 at the 1522 Hi Point St location. Your letter references your city case numbers CE203006 and CE212259. Thru this letter, the United States Justice Department is asked to suspend federal funding from the city government of Los Angeles for sixty days based on the November 20 postmarked discrimination letter of Ian Yeom as attached as PDF. “Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance. Specifically, Title VI provides that[n]o person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. 42 U.S.C. § 2000d. Title VI is the model for several subsequent statutes that prohibit discrimination on other grounds in federally assisted programs or activities, including Title IX (discrimination in education programs prohibited on the basis of sex) and Section 504 (discrimination prohibited on the basis of disability).” “The clearest example of Federal financial assistance is the award or grant of money. Federal financial assistance, however, also may be in nonmonetary form. See Department of Transportation v. Paralyzed Veterans, 477 U.S. 597, 607 n.11 (1986).” The November 20 postmarked letter of Ian Yeom [Eric Garcetti, Rushmore D. Cervantes, et al.] is not in compliance with the Rent Adjustment Commission regulations 410.04, 411.01, 411.02, and is also a violation of my civil rights. "410.04 Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services)." "411.01 When a tenant makes a complaint that there has been a reduction in housing services in violation of housing codes related to habitability of a dwelling under California Health & Safety Code 17920.3 or 17920.10, the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investments Department will determine a corresponding reduction in rent under the Rent Escrow Account Program regulations (RAC Regulations 1200.00 et . seq)." "411.02 When a tenant makes a complaint that there has been a reduction in housing services and those services do not correspond to the habitability of a dwelling under California Health & Safety Code 17920.3 or 17920.10, the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department will determine a corresponding reduction in rent under regulations 413.00 et seq. and 414.00 et. seq. below." [emphasis added]. Yeom in his letter appears to be engaged in some type of discriminatory retaliatory deranged mind masochistic fit of fantasy that is not in compliance with the RAC regulations above.

The Parking Tandem Stall Issue

THE PARKING TANDEM STALL ISSUE I reserve the right to modify, revoke, or amend this email at any time. It is not intended as a remedy or resolution of any claims against the parties named. The rental agreement which the city admits to receiving indicates that apt 9 had two cars at the inception of the tenancy [“parking spaces...2]”. By conduct of the parties, which the city admits to receiving a declaration under penalty of perjury re the parking oral agreement, the previous owner and apt 9 tenants agreed that apt 9 could park in a tandem two car stall. Photographic evidence supplied to LAHCID [and for purposes of the federal jury and/or grand jury] evidence shows apt 9 cars parked in stall #14, a two car stall, thus proving, much to the LAHCID dismay, that apt 9 was receiving services of a two car stall. There is no evidence that prior to the new owner that any tenant at 1522 other than apt 9 was assigned to stall #14; there is no rental agreement for any other tenant that might have been assigned to stall #14 prior to May 2014. So for the LAHCID to say we did not present written evidence is false. Further written evidence received by the LAHCID [also available for a grand jury] is that I provided the owner 30 day notice circa April 2014 where the owner agent Cliff Renfrew writes that apt 9 was parked in stall #14; irrefutable written evidence that apt 9 was receiving the housing service stall #14. Under RAC section 411.02 or 411.01, apt 9 suffered a housing reduction entitling us to a rent reduction when the owner unilaterally and arbitrarily moved apt 9 to parking stall #8 under threat of eviction. Alternatively, after the May 2014 reduction in housing parking stall, even if that argument is not accepted, the address still had tandem stalls available i.e. stalls 1-12 were single stalls and 13-19 were tandem; apt 9 tenants in still not having a tandem stall at the property still suffer a housing reduction in that apt 9 has been repeatedly denied a tandem parking stall, i.e. in May 2014 six tandem stalls were empty. If the city argues apt 9 did not suffer a reduction in housing services prior to May 2014, apt 9 has still suffered a reduction in housing service after May 2014, entitling apt 9 to a reduction in rent.

The Intercom Issue

THE INTERCOM ISSUE I reserve the right to modify, revoke, or amend this email at any time. It is not intended as a remedy or resolution of any claims against the parties named. The intercom is a health and safety as well as habitability issue, as well may be the intercom since the intercom is viewed as a safety device, which after 15 months the LAHCID code enforcement has yet to address. Typical corruption. If Yeom-Garcetti-Cervantes’ mothers lived in this building, I suppose Yeom-Garcetti-Cervantes would deny such mothers, in all due respect, a working intercom. Other than for purposes of racial discrimination and corruption, why is the owner and the government employees allowed to take this practice? I do not understand or agree with the November 20 postmarked case decision of LAHCID. The city claims that it has “written declarations from other long term residents in the property” and that “the intercom has been inoperable since 2006”. First, the city has no such declarations, so that is false; what the city turned over to me were “letters” of residents Tyler and Marilyn. Neither letter was verified under penalty of perjury, neither was notarized. Neither Tyler or Marilyn lived in apt 9 so they were not witness to the condition of apt 9’s intercom. Apt 9 tenants were actually tenants in 2010 BEFORE Marilyn became a tenant around 2012. Yeom-Garcetti-Cervantes triplets claim “the intercom was not a service provided to you at inception of tenancy.” As for the city’s claim that the intercom was “inoperable”, the rental agreement attests to the fact that there was nothing in the apartment that was not working at the time of inception of tenancy, that all appliances were in working order; the city’s claim that the intercom was not provided at the inception of tenancy [presumably because it is not specifically listed in the rental agreement] is false because many things may not be listed in the rental agreement like kitchen sink, bathroom cabinet, closet, but they are still provided for the use of the tenant. The RAC 410.04 overrides this argument of the city by stating the city obligation as “Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting.” The owner Hi Point Apts LLC (Abady Holdings) has admitted in letters to the city that the building had an intercom system when he purchased the building. RAC 410.04 defines that the intercom is “connected with the use or occupancy” and that the intercom under city regulation is subject to “ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance”, such that whether in the rental agreement or not, it is in the apartment and if not maintained or repaired, apts 9, 5, 15, and 8 are entitled to a rent reduction. Code enforcement is also a witness to the intercoms in the apartment and the city authorized a prior $17.08 rent increase partially based on the intercom-door entry system. Finally, the owner’s conduct, and such building interior witnessed by code enforcement, is that every apartment comes with an intercom; that is what he has stated in writing, and as to what he inherited by purchasing the building. I remind you that on a civil rights level, the majority of tenants who are whites in the 1522 Hi Point St building have a working intercom, and received one immediately upon moving in and did not have to beg for one for over 15 months. "Unanswered Questions About Parking Posed to City Government: what does it take in Los Angeles County for a Black Tenant to Get Fair Housing?" The city government has assumed responsibility for this property thru the rent control ordinance and thru LAHCID. FURTHER UNANSWERED QUESTIONS TO ALL PARTIES ABOVE. PLEASE RESPOND. SUBJECT TO GC 815.6, ET AL. 1. What are the qualifications for a tenant to be assigned an intercom/tandem parking stall? 2. Which tenants by apartment number do not qualify for an intercom/tandem parking stall? 3. Which tenants by apartment number had their rent reduced because their intercom is not working or parking reduced? 4. How much was the rent reduced for tenants who did not receive a working intercom or tandem parking stall? 5. Specify the fee for intercom/tandem parking at the 1522 Hi Point and detail by corresponding apartment number, i.e apartment unit and fee for intercom service. 6. Are there any other qualifications for having an intercom/tandem parking stall at 1522, i.e race, color, sex, source of income, etc.? 7. What is Cliff Renfrew's employment title? 8. What employee is responsible for the assignment of intercoms/tandem stalls? 9. List any tenant(s) whose apartments do not have working intercoms/tandem stalls. 10. How is "first come first served" applied to the assignment of intercoms/tandem stalls? 11. What state government training/certification/license have you [Hi Point Apts LLC] received to be hired as a resident manager? 12. Have you received sensitivity training on the civil rights laws that govern the rights of tenants?

"The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1983"

The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1983 Please respond in writing by first class mail. All rights reserved to bring suit for damages due to violations the Ku Klux Klan Act [42 U.S.C. 1983], Executive Order 11063, Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VIII Civil Rights Act of 1968; declarative, injunctive, and punitive damages; California GC 12900 et seq, California GC 51, 51.2, 53, consumer fraud act, Equal Protection Act. Govt Code 815.6. Please provide immediate rent reductions for the intercom and tandem parking stall without further delay, in accordance with my email of 11/22/2015 and applicable RAC regulations stated herein. Again, the discriminatory and retaliatory letter of Yeom-Garcetti-Cervantes is not acceptable as a resolution of the damage claims against the city government or property owner. Sincerely [Tenant] [Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black] November 24, 2015 c: Senator Lois Wolk Assembly person Karen Bass [Facebook page] Fair Housing Department of Justice David Greene, code enforcement via email DFEH Federal HUD complaint against LAHCID DFEH complaint against LAHCID City Attorney Michael Feuer State Bar of California City Prosecutor/District Attorney’s office State Labor Commissioner State Immigration Office LADBS ref: Emails Oct 17 2015 at 8:18 am and Email 11/22/15 at 3:08 pm to property owner and city government, demands for payment of damages. LAMC 41.33 Peaceful Enjoyment SEC. 41.33. LANDLORDS – DISTURBING TENANTS. No person, except a duly authorized officer pursuant to the authority of legal process, shall interfere with the peaceful enjoyment, use, possession or occupancy of any premises by the lawful lessee or tenant of such premises either by threat, fraud, intimidation, coercion, duress, or by the maintenance or toleration of a public nuisance, or by cutting off heat, light, water, fuel or free communication by anyone by mail, telephone or otherwise, or by restricting trade or tradesmen from or to any such tenant.

Update December 4 2015

Mayor Eric Garcetti Asked to Fire Employees Garcia and Brown Complaint alleges tenants cheated out of thousands $$

"Request for Investigation re LAHCID and Hi Point Apts LLC"

From: [tenant name redacted] Sent: Sun 11/29/15 5:08 PM To: mayor.garcetti@lacity.org (mayor.garcetti@lacity.org) Cc: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org (councilmember.wesson@lacity.org); Fair Housing Doj (fairhousing@usdoj.gov); Charles Floyd (thefirstjew@yahoo.com); Ambassa dor Charles Linder Floyd (thekushite@gmail.com); Debbie L. Harmon (debbie.l.harmon@hud.gov); David Greene (david.greene@lacity.org); Leila Ajalova (lajalova@ph.lacounty.gov); Rep. Karen Bass (113- ca37kb.inbox@mail.house.gov); Rep. Karen Bass (web-112-ca33@mail.house.gov); Hi Point Apts LLC agent (cliffrenfrew@gmail.com); Lorrie Sakauchi Hi Point Apts LLC Manager (misswholefoods@aol.com); Walter Barratt Hi Point Apts LLC (walter.barratt@gmail.com)

November 29 2015 Mayor Eric Garcetti 200 N. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 978-0600 mayor.garcetti@lacity.org

This letter is to the Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and council requesting that you bring civil charges against LAHCID city employee Charles Garcia for entering into a conspiracy with Hi Point Apts LLC to cheat various tenants out of entitled to relocation monies over the past year since April 2014.

The building should not have a certificate of occupancy since there are non-working intercoms in apartments 9,8,5 ,15 , making the building uninhabitable. Intercoms are considered to be a habitability issue. Non-working intercoms means that the building is not habitable. Therefore no rent can be charged.

Complaints have been made to the local, county, state, and federal government officials but the intercom after 17 months is still not fixed in apartment nine for one. Inaction by the owner and others is intentional to cause harm to tenants apartments nine, eight, five, fifteen. The same problem occurs with the tandem parking stall issue at Apartment 9: white tenant have been moved to new apartments, whites have been given two car stalls or two stalls, I am the Black Kushite male who is ignored. The mayor is requested to file a civil complaint against Charles Garcia as well as Hi Point Apartments LLC for money owed to previous tenants. That money has been used to do illegal repairs to the building. This is a conspiracy by Garcia and the Los Angeles housing with the owner to defraud tenants at 1522 Hi Point St. Contractors listed on the permits from LADBS, as well as LADBS, also are part of the conspiracy against tenants rights. Monies that were earmarked for tenant permanent relocation were illegally diverted to the primary renovation and capital improvement monies, repairs that were approved by and sanctioned by city government officials LAHCID code enforcement and LADBS. LAHCID and LADBS were made aware by me in 2014 there were no THP’s for certain apartments and that such tenants were essentially deprived of their civil rights to receive permanent relocation monies. "The October 28 hearing was a Ku Klux Klan hearing"

I ask that the LAHCID hearing officer Andre Brown be terminated from his position on the grounds that he did not on Oct 28 2015 address the corruption in the LAHCID and LADBS departments, he did not address the habitability issues , and did not address the illegal occupancy for 1522 Hi Point St.

I request that the hearing officer Andre Brown be terminated from employment because he denied me as a Black African- American equal protection under the law, and denied me a fair hearing. The October 28 hearing was a “done deal” with denial of equal protection to me as a tenant by government officials. Please stop all primary renovation at this property until a federal investigation of Los Angeles housing and Los Angeles Department of building and safety. LADBS should not have granted permits to this property knowing that certain apartment were uninhabitable due to non-working intercoms since April 2014, and that at least eight tenants did not receive the required THP before moving out of the building. LADBS and LAHCID had actual and constructive knowledge that the intercoms are not working but ignored this habitability concern and kept handing out permits even for apts where there were current tenants but no THP. LADBS has constructive knowledge that there were no THP's for numerous apartments at this building thus making the permit clearance process illegal and permits should not have been cleared nor CFO [sic] issued for this building. Charles Garcia admitted this to me privately by email and also at the Oct 28 2015 hearing that many THP’s were never filed or served for about eight out of eighteen apartments. Only one apartment #9 has ever been served with a THP; and five apartments out of eighteen were vacant at the time this new owner purchased the building and announced that primary renovations were starting. The intercom at apartment nine is still not fixed, a rent reduction still has not been granted to tenants apt 9. The city LAHCID government has participated in a criminal kick back and bribery conspiracy to breach the warranty of habitability at the 1522 Hi Point St. particularly as regards apartment 5, 8,15 and 9 who do not have working intercoms. Damages due to loss of intercom can also be brought under a state law claim of negligence and breach of the warranty of habitability.

I ask that the mayor’s office also bring civil charges against city attorney Robert Moore for telling the LAHD that an intercom is not a housing service, thus helping deprive tenants of monies they are entitled to under the LAMC RAC regulation section re loss of housing services.

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SHRC v Krug A plaintiff fair housing organization seeking punitive damages in a fair housing case must show that the Defendants acted with "reckless or callous indifference" for the fair housing rights of others. See Fair Housing of Marin, 285 F.3d at 906-07 (citing Smith v. Wade, 461 U.S. 30, 56, 103 S.Ct. 1625, 75 L.Ed.2d 632 (1983)); Szwast v. Carlton Apartments, 102 F.Supp.2d 777, 780 (E.D.Mich.2000) (standard used for punitive damages for 1983 violations is the same for FHA violations). The LAHCID, Robert Moore, Charles Garcia, Andre Brown, and the property owner have acted with reckless and callous indifference to my fair housing rights. In determining whether to impose punitive damages, the fact finder will consider "an evaluation of the nature of the conduct in question, the wisdom of some form of pecuniary punishment, and the advisability of a deterrent" to future illegal conduct. Gore v. Turner, 563 F.2d 159, 164 (5th Cir.1977). The owner's direct participation in the discriminatory practice is not necessary; punitive damages may be awarded where the owner ignored its duties under the law or otherwise engaged in "knowledgeable inaction." See Miller v. Apartments and Homes of New Jersey, Inc., 646 F.2d 101, 111 (3d Cir.1981); Badami v. Flood, 214 F.3d 994 (8th Cir.2000); see also Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Haslip, 499 U.S. 1, 111 S.Ct. 1032, 113 L.Ed.2d 1 (1991). Nor must the conduct be outrageous to warrant punitive damages. Preferred Properties v. Indian River Estates, Inc., 276 F.3d 790, 799-801 (6th Cir.2002). The property owner, along with the conspirators of the city government named herein, has ignored his duties under the law and otherwise engaged in knowledgeable action along with Sol Asttuu to deprive myself as tenant of a tandem parking stall, deprive myself of a working door entry building intercom, and deprive other tenants of required relocation monies. The Mayor and Council having been made aware of such illegal transgressions, need to face scrutiny from the Congress of the United States in a public hearing on housing discrimination. “Rental agreements involving units that were constructed without building permits or lack a certificate of occupancy are ordinarily regarded as unlawful and void. (Espinoza v. Calva (2008) 169 Cal.App.4th 1393, 1400; Salazar v. Maradeaga (1992) 10 Cal.App.4th Supp. 1, 4 (Salazar ).) This is because “[t]he object of a contract must be lawful [citation]; i.e., it must not be in conflict either with express statutes or public policy. [Accordingly, i]f the contract has a single object, and that object is unlawful (whether in whole or in part), the entire contract is void.” (1 Witkin, Summary of Cal. Law (10th ed. 2005) Contracts, § 420, p. 461.) “- Carter v Cohen. Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 4, California. - 2010 “Generally, section 12.21 prohibits the use of any structure or building in the absence of “all permits and licenses required by all laws and ordinances.” Section 12.26(E)(1) further provides that “no building erected or structurally altered shall be occupied or used until a certificate of occupancy shall have been issued.” A certificate of occupancy is issued only when a structure is completed in conformity with the Los Angeles Municipal Code. (Pope v. State Bd. of Equalization (1983) 146 Cal.App.3d 1132, 1139.) - Carter v Cohen. Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 4, California. - 2010. In this instant case, no permit for the brick wall and for extending striping stall 13 prohibits owner from collecting rents on any renovated units at 1522 Hi Point St; failure to comply with LAMC as regards the required THP for applicable units; those units do not conform with the LAMC. At the Oct 28 hearing I was prevented from presenting evidence to show that the THP application approved by city employee Charles Garcia was an attempt to illegally extort illegal rent from apt 9 in that the rent amount stated in the application was incorrect. Garcia would not make the correction nor did the hearing officer Andre Brown make the correction. The owner has since corrected the rent amount [without waiving the loss of parking stall and loss of intercom reductions owed] but the LAHCID THP extortion attempt documentation remains.

Ref : Google “Futility of Administrative Remedies”

Update December 13 2015

Re 1522 Hi Point St New Code Enforcement Complaint and Request for Criminal Charges

From: [tenant named redacted] Sent: Sun 12/13/15 4:41 PM To: LAHD RSO (hcidla.rso@lacity.org); councilmember.wesson@lacity.org (councilmember.wesson@lacity.org) Cc: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org (councilmember.wesson@lacity.org); RSO Contact (hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org); Larry Galstian (larry.galstian@lacity.org); Da Lacounty Info (info@da.lacounty.gov); Karen Penera (karen.penera@lacity.org); raymond.chan@lacity.org (raymond.chan@lacity.org); mayor.garcetti@lacity.org (mayor.garcetti@lacity.org); Malika Ibrahim (malika.ibrahim@lacity.org); Michelle Wilson (michelle.wilson@lacity.org); kimani.black@lacity.org (kimani.black@lacity.org)

Denied a Fair Hearing

To Whom It May Concern/Rushmore Cervantes:

On October 28 2015 before a hearing of the LAHCID regarding appeal of a THP, I was denied a fair hearing in that Andre L. Brown limited my presentation and my exhibits. Brown did not advise me at any time before the hearing or at the hearing as to how much time I might have for my presentation. He did not place similar shackles on Cliff Renfrew, the white plantation property owner.

LA County District Attorney Asked to File Criminal Charges

Prior and at the hearing Charles Garcia, city employee, admitted that many of the apartments at 1522 Hi Point St never received the THP application before apartments were renovated. I believe this means that such apartments did not have the required permit clearance before permits were issued; I believe this policy and practice effected hundreds of tenants over the years across the city who were unjustly cheated out of required relocation monies due to the lack of THP. Accordingly I have asked the Mayor's office to order the termination from employment of Charles Garcia and Andre L. Brown. In addition, I have also asked the District Attorney's office/Prosecutor to bring criminal charges against Garcia and Hi Point Apts LLC. With no THP, the owner would be prohibited from raising the rent on those units past the previous rent before the renovations.

Owner Cannot Collect Rents if Proper Permits Not Issued

Please see the attached code enforcement complaint dated December 12 2015 as linked, city number 555278. The LAHCID has previously said that those at Hi Point Apts who are without a working intercom, apts 9, 8, 5, and 15, are not entitled to rent reductions due to loss of housing services, the intercom. However, around December 9, 2015, by email the Los Angeles County Public Health

[see link in the code complaint] Alan Chen effectively overrode the LAHCID and ordered the property owner to repair, replace, or remove the intercom system as regards apt 9, by January 13, 2016. I believe that is a very generous amount of time being that over 17 months has passed since the intercom was without repair, i.e. health and safety and habitability codes. The owner takes in about $30,000 per month in rents for this building so that is plenty of money to buy time to fix an intercom, which should not take more than an hour to repair.

I ask that the LADBS and all city employees comply with the intent and directive of the county Public Health December 9 2015 email re the intercom system at 1522 Hi Point St. Rent reimbursements are in order due to the lack of working intercom as has been verified by the County Public Health Department. All rights reserved.

[Tenant named redacted] [Editor note: The latest is that the Public Health Inspector Alan Chen reversed himself by email December 17 and said he now does not have jurisdiction over the state Health and Safety Code and apparently will not order the intercoms repaired. How many white inspectors are required in Los Angeles county before a Black man can get one inspector to enforce the Health and Safety code? Is it any wonder why Blacks riot against racist Police?]

Update December 20 2015

Housing Corruption told to Los Angeles

Mayor Eric Garcetti

No CFO Fax: 323-345-5070 Fax To: Mike Feuer From: [Tenant name redacted] Fax: 2139788312 Pages: 1 Re: Permit at 1522 Date: December 20, 2015 Dear Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council: In order for there to exist certificate of occupancy at this address, there have to be on file all required permits. Out of 18 units, it appears there is no permit on file for some of the smoke detectors, no permit for call outs, no permit for a sprinkler control box, no permits for new windows for four apts, no THP for seven apartments or more. Also Richard Schindler on June 22 2015 issued a final for permit 15041-30000-13969 which applies to apts 1-18; however, the permit is corrupt because apts 5, 8, 9, 15 have not undergone any renovations; please revoke the permit and order the other permits needed. /s [Tenant] 1522 Hi Point Street #9, Los Angeles, CA 90035 Your transmission has completed. DOC Identifier : 61280250 Fax Number : 2139788312 Recipient : Mike Feuer Status Classification : "Success" Status Outcome : "Success" Last Attempt Date : 12/20/2015 Last Attempt Time : 13:47:51 Pages Scheduled : 1 Pages Sent : 1 Baud Rate : 28800 Duration (in seconds) : 18 Number of Retries : 1 Remote CSID : ""

City Inspector Richard Shindler falsified the permit where he said all apartments underwent repairs. But four apartments have not been renovated. Why does Shindler still have a job?

Update January 8 2016

Summary of Topics for discussion in the following email:

Mayor Eric Garcetti: how long does it take for a city employee who is white to ask slum landlord plantation owner Walter Barratt is the intercom apt 9 working?

Why does it take over 18 months for your white employees to ask the question does the intercom work?

Is intercom security safety just for the privileged few?

How many white people does it take to get an intercom fixed?

Flyer at 1522 Hi Point St 90035 as forwarded to property owner, manager, and numerous government officials. No response has been received.

2016-1-8 Flyer Jan 7 left hallway 1522 Cropped

City and Los Angeles County Officials Garcetti, Wesson, Rent Control, Justice Department, Raymond Chan, LADBS, Alan Chen Told of Housing Discrimination

[Editor note: below is redacted from an email that was also posted on Facebook.] From: [Tenant at 1522 Hi Point name redacted] Sent: Thu 1/07/16 9:36 PM To: Lorrie Sakauchi Hi Point Apts LLC Manager (misswholefoods@aol.com); Hi Point Apts LLC agent C Renfrew (cliffrenfrew@gmail.com); Agent Walter Barratt Hi Point Apts LLC (walter.barratt@gmail.com); mayor.garcetti@lacity.org (mayor.garcetti@lacity.org) Cc: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org (councilmember.wesson@lacity.org); Charles Floyd (thefirstjew@yahoo.com); Ambassador Charles Linder Floyd (thekushite@gmail.com); RSO Contact (hcidla.rso.central@lacity.org); Fair Housing Doj (fairhousing@usdoj.gov); Charles Garcia (charles.v.garcia@lacity.org); David Greene (david.greene@lacity.org); Justice Department (askdoj@usdoj.gov); Debbie L. Harmon (debbie.l.harmon@hud.gov); Jeff Paxton (jeff.paxton@lacity.org); Da Lacounty Info (info@da.lacounty.gov); sylvia.lacy@lacity.org (sylvia.lacy@lacity.org); raymond.chan@lacity.org (raymond.chan@lacity.org); Alan Chen (alchen@ph.lacounty.gov); Larry Galstian (larry.galstian@lacity.org); deron.williams@lacity.org (deron.williams@lacity.org); Lincoln Lee (lincoln.lee@lacity.org); Steve Ongele (steve.ongele@lacity.org); steve.davey@lacity.org (steve.davey@lacity.org); Ifa Kashefi (ifa.kashefi@lacity.org); David Casian (david.casian@lacity.org); Rodney Arias (rodney.arias@lacity.org); Karen Penera (karen.penera@lacity.org); Leila Ajalova (lajalova@ph.lacounty.gov); Michelle Wilson (michelle.wilson@lacity.org); Malika Ibrahim (malika.ibrahim@lacity.org); vincent.burditt@lacity.org (vincent.burditt@lacity.org); Alan Chen (AlChen@ph.lacounty.gov); AlChen@ph.lacounty.gov (AlChen@ph.lacounty.gov)

Intercom Still Needs Repair at 1522 Hi Point St- joint and several liability of city government

Dear Manager Lorrie, Cliff Renfrew, Walter Barratt, Abady Holdings et al:

First, please fix the intercom

Apt 9 *

Second, what race do I have to be to get a tandem parking stall?

Tenant rights.

“I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.” Rosa Parks “The question shouldn't be "Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is "Why aren't all the Christians here?” ― Joel C. Rosenberg, The Auschwitz Escape The intercom apt 9 has been non-operational since April 2014, over eighteen months, without a corresponding reduction in rent. Mayor Eric Garcetti: How long does it take for a city employee who is white to ask slum landlord plantation owner Walter Barratt is the intercom apt 9 working? Why does it take over 18 months for your white employees to ask the question does the intercom work? Is intercom security safety just for the privileged few? How many white people does it take to get an intercom fixed? As seen on Facebook under Congressperson Karen Bass. Vote the next Los Angeles election to remove Los Angeles Eric Garcetti as mayor due to his racial bias. Addressed above to: misswholefoods@aol.com (Manager Lorrie Sakauchi), cliffrenfrew@gmail.com (Hi Point Apts LLC Cliff Renfrew, walter.barratt@gmail.com [Hi Point Apts LLC agent), Mayor Eric Garcetti (mayor.garcetti@lacity.org), City Council, HCIDLA, Charles Garcia, David Greene, Justice Department, HUD, LADBS, Los Angeles County Public Health, and others. *with the required 24 hour written notice. [The media is directed to view the website updates.] [Editor note: these sections below did not appear in the email above]

Tenant rights.

Upcoming elections: April 12 2016 Arcadia; April 12 2016 Long Beach; June 7 2016 Presidential Primary. This is a political sign and may be posted on door or window under California code section 1940.4 (a) and (b). 1940.4. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a landlord shall not prohibit a tenant from posting or displaying political signs relating to any of the following: (1) An election or legislative vote, including an election of a candidate to public office. (2) The initiative, referendum, or recall process. (3) Issues that are before a public commission, public board, or elected local body for a vote. (b) Political signs may be posted or displayed in the window or on the door of the premises leased by the tenant in a multifamily dwelling, or from the yard, window, door, balcony, or outside wall of the premises leased by a tenant of a single-family dwelling. CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION : ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SECTION 1. All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy. CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION: ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SEC. 3. (a) The people have the right to instruct their representatives, petition government for redress of grievances, andassemble freely to consult for the common good. “California Civil code 1942.5 (c) t is unlawful for a lessor to increase rent, decrease services, cause a lessee to quit involuntarily, bring an action to recover possession, or threaten to do any of those acts, for the purpose of retaliating against the lessee because he or she has lawfully organized or participated in a lessees' association or an organization advocating lessees' rights or has lawfully and peaceably exercised any rights under the law. “

Update February 7 2016

City and Los Angeles County Officials Garcetti, Wesson, Rent Control, Justice Department, Raymond Chan, LADBS, Alan Chen Told of Housing Discrimination

[Editor: Redacted from email sent]

"Is anyone available to cite owner for non-working intercom? re 1522 Hi Point St- Security is for all tenants not just the privileged few"

from tenant at Hi Point Apts Tue 2/2/2016 10:38 PM To:David Greene ; Charles Garcia ; LAHD RSO ; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org ; Cc:Charles Floyd ; Ambassador Charles Linder Floyd ; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org ; Fair Housing Doj ; Hi LLC ; Hi Point Apts LLC agent C Renfrew ; Lorrie Sakauchi Hi Point Apts LLC Manager ; Justice Department ; Da Lacounty Info ; Alan Chen ; sylvia.lacy@lacity.org ; Jeff Paxton ; raymond.chan@lacity.org ; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org ; Larry Galstian ; deron.williams@lacity.org ; Debbie L. Harmon ; Steve Ongele ; Lincoln Lee ; David Casian ; Ifa Kashefi ; Karen Penera ; Leila Ajalova ; steve.davey@lacity.org ; giovani.dacumos@lacity.org ; Harmon, Debbie L ; George Cerda ; Rep. Karen Bass ; Rep. Karen Bass ; Dear Inspector Greene/LAHCID et al. Intercom for my apt 9 remains un maintained and not working. I believe apt 5, 8, and 15 also have non-working intercoms. I believe the city SCEP inspector would have noted this if the city government did an SCEP inspection in 2014 of the property. Lack of health and safety. In my interest as well as that of the Public, I filed city code enforcement case number HCIDLA 555278 around December 12 2015. The intercom has still not been repaired. City Los Angeles code enforcement inspectors have no excuse for not inspecting the intercom. State law takes precedent and makes it clear that I do not have to be present for any apartment inspection. However I have made the resident manager and Cliff and Walter available if code enforcement needs to inspect the apartment 9, other than the fact I believe the entire city government is aware the intercom does not work for select apartments. No one has used force to prevent the city employees or owner from entering the apartment at any time from April 2014 forward. The city admitted to having in their possession statements from residents London and Ruggieri that select intercoms do not work. The owner's maintenance crews can testify that they are the ones who removed the intercoms from most of the apartments. The city government approved a capital improvement rent increase of $17.08 and based on pictures that showed the door entry intercom system from the outside of the building. Who has the city government decided that intercoms are for? How many whites, Asians, Blacks, Latinos, females [inspectors], are required to have these intercoms fixed? Or don't you know? The owner and the city government employees acts are intentional to cause harm. The acts herein are the proximate cause of the damages that have occurred to me. If not for racism and retaliation because I opposed unlawful discrimination, what is your reason for not taking reasonable steps to have the intercom repaired or replaced? Mr. Green and Mr. Chen et al: I ask: if the Public included your Mother, and she wanted to become a tenant, or became a tenant and lived here at 1522 Hi Point St, would you also deny her a working intercom? All rights reserved. Tenant Ham-Kushite-DNA-Black 1522 Hi Point St Los Angeles CA 90035 Home 323-319-4280 c: To owner, Cliff, and resident manager at supplied emails P.S. This email is subject to a government open records act request. It may be used as evidence to seek injunctive and declarative relief. ref: Government code 815.6. The Unruh Act. The Ku Klux Klan Act The Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution Pre-discovery

CA B & P code 6128. Every attorney is guilty of a misdemeanor who either: (a) Is guilty of any deceit or collusion, or consents to any deceit or collusion, with intent to deceive the court or any party. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE SECTION 17200-17210 17200. As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising and any act prohibited by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17500) of Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code. [as seen on Facebook Karen Bass:]

"Los Angeles- FairCrest Heights. re 1522 Hi Point St 90035. In the past month there were reported twenty two assaults with deadly weapons in the area. There has been lack of security and safety at the building due to non-working intercoms, mold and asbestos, and allegations of terrorist activity. While state law civil code 1940.4 gives tenants the right to post and display flyers, the property owner Hi Point Apts LLC has vowed to evict those tenants who try to do that. He even has a section in the rental agreement asking tenants to report other tenants who try to exercise their rights under state law. This property owner is the subject of criminal fraud complaints filed with the County Los Angeles Office of the District Attorney. So far Congressperson Karen Bass has refused to support tenant rights at the property. Of course you will hear none of this from realtor Williams Real Estate Advisors. You can reach the realtor Rance at 424-354-9239. You might want to ask him must you give up your rights in order to live at this property."

Update April 3 2016

As told to

Los Angeles Rent Control

Council man Herb Wesson

Inspector Charles Garcia

Inspector David Greene

Fair Housing department of Justice

LA District Attorney Jackie Lacey

Mayor Eric Garcetti

Deron Williams

Jeff Paxton

Lincoln Lee

Alan Chen

HUD

George Cerda

Congressperson Karen Bass

General Concerns to the New Resident Manager at Hi Point Apts

from tenant

Sun 4/3/2016

To:Hi Point Resident Manager Cynthia Ogan ;

Cc:RSO Contact ; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org ; Charles Floyd

; Ambassador Charles Linder Floyd

; Charles Garcia ; David Greene ; Fair Housing Doj ; raymond.chan@lacity.org ; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org ; Da Lacounty Info ; Larry Galstian ; sylvia.lacy@lacity.org ; deron.williams@lacity.org ; LAHD RSO ; Jeff Paxton ; Alan Chen ; Lincoln Lee ; Justice Department ; Debbie L. Harmon ; Ifa Kashefi ; Steve Ongele ; George Cerda ; Rep. Karen Bass ; Karen Penera ; Rodney Arias ; mayor.garcetti@lacity.org ; Da Lacounty Info ;

Hi Point Apts is substandard, unsanitary, unsafe

Dear Resident Manager Cynthia Ogan:

On April 1, 2016, sometime between the hours of 9-5, Hi point Apts LLC employee Cliff Renfrew entered the building at 1522 Hi Point St and left a notice at my door. The notice indicates that you are the new resident manager and your phone number is 310-406-4075 and your email 1ccanary@gmail.com.I understand that from a previous communication from Renfrew, that your duties are "the first point of call if you have a general concern or need help." So I enter into a review here of my general concerns that I need help with. I also have cc'd various public officials and employees who either have a concern about this building or who have jurisdiction, i.e LA County District Attorney, LA County Public Health Department, city Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Department, and city Los Angeles code enforcement inspectors. I also have gotten little response from the owner on these issues so my second reason for contacting you as resident manager since the owner is substantially unresponsive.

1. As resident manager, the state Labor Commissioner governs certain requirements that would apply to yourself or anyone in the building who becomes resident manager. I speak here for information purposes, not legal advice. Is your resident manager agreement with Walter in writing? If it was, you probably want to show it to the labor commissioner to see if it was legal. Did the agreement state your hours of work and hours of pay? If the owner does NOT pay you a check for hours worked, the maximum he could charge you in rent 2016 is around $564.81 per month. Maximum. Will the owner charge you a reduced rent as manager or give you a deduction? Will the owner give you a check for the hours you work each month? Is the paycheck he gives you itemized for taxes, etc.? Do you keep a time card? If the owner did reduce your rent, was the amount reduced by 1/3 off your current rent? Example if your rent was $1750 did he agree to reduce it to around $1172.00 for the months you are manager? The labor commissioner indicated to me that the "ordinary rental value" could be your current rent amount, or the amount it was when you became manager. So I estimated $1750 as your current rent. The owner should provide the tools to do your job which includes cleaning supplies, vacuum, etc. If the owner has asked you to use your cell phone for manager business, will he reimburse you a percentage for your phone?

2. Re front door safety. As you know, you and I both live in apts that are at the front door of the building. Many tenants use the front door, while some prefer to enter the building using their key to get in the back door of the building which is in the parking lot. I continue to express my general concern that we should have a peephole in the front door of the building. If you look up and down the street, you will see many buildings that have some type of front door intercom system or even security system....... I myself have [a security system]. As density in this area increases, so does the potential for crime. I am sure you have experienced as I have near physical misses at the front door as it is opened from either side without being able to see who is outside the door. It only costs a few dollars to replace a peephole. The owner Walter Barratt as well as Cliff Renfrew have been unresponsive on this issue. I realize also that the peephole to your apt door allows you to see the entire hallway; our apt peephole does not. I am sure you hear the police helicopters in this area frequently so there is crime and as last as October 2015, a few months ago, it was reported to city officials and the owner [as seen on the internet also] that an Air Force employee claimed there were terrorists in this building. So safety should be a concern for everyone and for everyone in the building, not safety just for those of a certain race, sex, age, or nationality.

3. House rules. I understand that the owner passed out house rules that say in part that tenants cannot post flyers on the door or window or they will face eviction, and also other tenants should report other tenants who violate that rule. Under state civil code section 1940.4, however, tenants have the right to post flyers on their door or window under certain circumstances. I consider that sections of the house rules to be void and a violation of my rights under state law. As the owner is collecting rent having misrepresented the state law, I consider him to be involved in a criminal act under the penal code, as reported to LA District Attorney Jackey Lacey. If I see anyone taking anything off my door that I put there, I will file a police complaint for theft.

4. Trash. I frequently see the trash overflowing and tenants have placed trash on the ground outside the dumpster. Maybe we need a second dumpster. This creates unsanitary, unsafe, and substandard conditions that affect all tenants. Thank you for your attention to this.

5. Parking stalls. City rent control regulations state that if a housing service is removed, or not maintained, and the tenant is not given a rent reduction, then the tenant is paying illegal rent, and must be given a rent reduction. Previous to this current owner, our apt had the tandem two car stall. The owner threatened us with eviction if we did not move to a one car stall, which we did. Since that time I have seen tenants come and go and receive the two car stall while we still only have a single stall. The owner once said the tandem stalls were first come first served but that has not applied to myself as a Black tenant so I still do not have the privilege of a tandem parking stall, while I see other tenants request to be moved, or tenants who request a two car stall but only have one car. My complaints about this unfair discriminatory system, and my requests for a copy of the parking availability rules that apply to all tenants, have been ignored by Walter and Cliff for almost two years. By the way, the city government HCIDLA Barbara Brascia recently said that the owner can charge a fee for the extra tandem stall, I guess admitting that there are not enough tandem stall for all 18 tenants, and admitting that there are 21 stalls but 18 tenants, but was not communicated to all tenants and appeared to single me out for unfair treatment. However my questions as to what are the qualifications to get a tandem stall i.e. race, sex, age, and what is the fee, and what is the application process, have been ignored by the owner and the city government Brascia and others. If you Cynthia, know of the application process, please forward me a copy of the form. I also believe , however, that any fee for parking would be an illegal rent increase.

6. Intercoms. The intercom is a safety and security feature. Every apartment should have a working intercom to assure that the building is not substandard, unsafe, and unsanitary. My apt and I believe three others do not have a working intercom in this 18 unit building. I have reported this repeatedly over the past two years to the city employees as well as to the owner, which is my duty under state law and under the rent agreement to report such conditions; the city government and the owner remain unresponsive over the last two years. As a Black tenant, by the conduct of the parties, apparently I am not entitled to a working intercom, such practice I feel is a violation of my civil rights under federal, state, and local law.

As I have filed numerous complaints with rent stabilization and code enforcement, and the owner has been found liable on a few other occasions for illegal rent, and being that code enforcement and public health inspectors have been in the building numerous times over the past year but my intercom remains not maintained and un repaired, I hereby give permission to the resident manager Cynthia to let the code enforcement into my apartment for inspection, not waiving the fact my roommate may be available. State law does not require me to be present for any inspections.

So I have brought these general concerns and areas I need help with, to your attention, Cynthia.

[tenant name and phone redacted]

Hi Point Apts is substandard, unsanitary, unsafe

c: via email: Council President Herb Wesson, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Inspector David Green, Inspector Richard Brinson, Inspector Alan Chen, District Attorney LA County, HUD Debbie Harmon, etc.

[Editor Note: This letter has been redacted. Neither the manager or anyone of the other government employees has responded to the complaints about the intercom and the parking stalls and the owner's violation of civil code 1940.4. The complaining tenant is Black, the resident manager is White, the owners are white, and most of the government employees are non-Black. There have been reports to the owner and manager of inadequate asbestos removal. Out of 14 apartments renovated, with four remaining, all apartments had a popcorn ceiling. The ceiling was removed in all 14 apartments but the owner failed to notify the city of any contractor qualified to perform asbestos removal. As a result, tenants who live in the building and those coming to look at apartments and move in may be exposed to asbestos contamination. While the owner may be telling tenants the asbestos removal was done, the government already ruled that the asbestos inspection itself was not adequate. Asbestos contamination is a long term ailment so tenants, children, or seniors in the building who may be infected will not see the effects of the ailment until years from now. Here is a link to an article on asbestos:]

A popcorn ceiling that may contain asbestos

Updated September 19 2016

Los Angeles, California officials say Black tenant treated as "Nigger" not entitled to full and equal housing privileges. Select tenants are named. United States Central District Court case CV16-03236 JLS. Filed May 11, 2016. Johnson v. City of Los Angeles, et al.

Attorneys for the defendants are ATTORNEY FOR COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, AND ALAN CHEN Renee E Jensen lduarte@fwhb.com, rjensen@fwhb.com; ATTORNEY FOR WILLIAMS REAL ESTATE ADVISORS, Inc. Thomas L Watters twatters@hartwattersandcarter.com; ATTORNEY FOR STATE OF CALIFORNIA Martin Ageson martin.ageson@doj.ca.gov, marsha.petty@doj.ca.gov; ATTORNEY FOR CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CHARLES GARCIA, BARBARA BRASCIA, RICHARD BRINSON, ARMIDA-OLGUIN FLORES Robert P Moore robert.p.moore@lacity.org, julie.martinez@lacity.org; ATTORNEY FOR HI POINT APTS, LLC, WALTER BARRATT, CLIFF RENFREW Jared A Barry jared@barrylawgroup.com [UPDATED SEPT. 19, 2016]

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Nidia Azucena Escobedo says:

May 30, 2015 at 8:20 pm

How do we take these bastards down?

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- hudincomeexclusions says:
  
  June 6, 2015 at 3:18 pm
  
  A very astute question. It takes hard work, dedication, long hours, and time is money. I am not quite sure I have the answer. Documentation that you asked them for a response is the first step; administrative agencies are the next step but they can take months and do nothing and in the meantime the statute of limitation is running. Sometimes certain civil laws have criminal penalties that can be researched. Seeking lawyer assistance is an option but no more guaranteed than the rest. Try to get press coverage or start your own community grassroots group of people with similar concerns. Call a meeting of the tenants. This is not legal advice. When it comes to civil rights, nothing is handed to you on a platter. Publicize, publicize, publicize! Document everything! Small claims court is a do-it-yourself option. Study guerrilla tactics. Remember that the people you are up against have probably been doing this for years and their plan to screw you is well practiced and well funded. What is your goal? Are you satisfied with the victory of bringing the injustice to light on a daily basis or is your goal big money damages? Each goal has its different requirements as far as time and money. These “bastards” as you say depend on you giving in or doing nothing. How much is your time worth? How much are your values worth? Take pictures and video and post to social media.
  
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  - Joshua Scott Wood says:
    
    July 2, 2015 at 6:51 am
    
    Hello sir– My fiancee (Nidia Escobedo who commented “How can we take these bastards down”) and I came across your website after we found ourselves dealing with this department regarding our unit and the lack of cooperation from Code Enforcement.
    
    For six months we have engaged this department, and have gone elsewhere: Building and Safety, Zoning, City Ethics Department, Jose Huizar’s Office, Department of Water and Power, even Housing Specialists out of The Mayor’s Office. And for six months we have experience a sort of game they all play–where even when you provide proof and the answers, they act aloof–or refer the matter to the very swine who are lying. And yes, time gets wasted. Time gets wasted and in the meantime things get worse.
    
    In our efforts we utilized every division of HCIDLA, put in a reduction case, had an RSO Determination done, of course code complaints, etc–and HCIDLA botched every single case. The RSO Determination cited permits for a unit that wasn’t even on the same lot.. Essentially, our unit is not even legal–there are no CofO’s for it, nor any permits. Furthermore when we moved in a REAP hearing was pending–as for six months the previous tenant endured code violations with no compliance. REAP was accepted, Landlord appealed, and so it was in REAP pending the GM Hearing–but 20 days prior to the hearing a senior inspector closed the case citing compliance…
    
    A week later we move in… A week after that notice of public hearing goes up… We call Code and Compliance Hearing Section and find that compliance could not have been achieved–many of the code violations in the previous complaint WERE STILL IN THE APARTMENT. When we asked the inspector who closed the case he said to us “Look, I’m not going to talk about past cases I already closed…” Furthermore Hearings section told us NOT to attend the Hearing–NOT to appeal, as it would be A WASTE OF TIME, and A WASTE OF MONEY. All we could do was file a complaint…
    
    Unfortunately we listened, and so we filed a complaint and what followed was a joke. Inspectors wouldn’t cite code violations, lied, and basically told us we were out of luck.
    
    We have received letters from Principal Inspectors and Director of Code Enforcement Jeff Paxton… This letter is quite interesting, as Jeff repeatedly says our complaints have no grounds or basis in reality, and in this same letter gets some 10 facts wrong–as proven by HCIDLA’s own paperwork… He’s got inspectors at inspections they were not present for, he’s got dates wrong, he’s even said A member of Jose Huizar’s office was present for a Health Department inspection in March, when she was in fact present for a HCIDLA SCEP Reinspection in APRIL. You would think this would seriously damage Code Enforcement credibility, but no–nothing..
    
    Also I put in a CPRA request for emails amongst the department employees regarding our case–and not only do Principal Inspectors and the Director LIE about circumstances, inspections, and their contacting us when they haven’t, but also DISCREDIT us by portraying us as pig headed, bratty children who refuse to accept their answers, and are too stupid to understand.
    
    We still have yet to speak to Jeff Paxton, nor the Principal Inspector out of the responsible office–though they repeatedly told superiors (Rushmore, Roberto, Laura, even the district attorney’s office Robert Moore, Michael Duran) that they spoke to us and handled each and every complaint ethically…
    
    This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
    
    Would you be interested in collaboration? Could we combine our efforts to bring this situation to light? Could we start organizing tenants? Could we combine our evidence to show to media? Would you be interested in litigation against the city/HCIDLA? Attendance at Council Meetings? RAC Meetings? General Manager’s Hearings?
    
    Your site inspired us early on, and gave us strength when we felt the whole world was against us…. as it sure seems that way.
    
    Let me know…
    
    We have an abundance of evidence… Video of inspections, audio, etc. You can check out our youtube–which apparently had an RSO investigator transferred to a different office due to his laughing off the importance of RSO posting.. Search Interaction with HCID RSO Investagator or Spare my children spare my wife; HCID + Huizar ruined my life…
    
    WHAT DO YOU EXPECT, WHEN YOU DON’T INSPECT.
    
    Regards
    
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  - hudincomeexclusions says:
    
    May 21, 2016 at 2:01 am
    
    Here is a site you might like to follow. http://wp.me/P6ztbL-K
    
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hudincomeexclusions says:

July 9, 2015 at 4:52 am

First I wish I could do much more to help, and I am glad this site inspired you, but you must primarily pat yourselves on the back for having the determination and conscience to do the right thing. Having worked for the government in a number of capacities, I do not have good things to say. You are up against a well oiled corrupt machinery that has been doing this shell game for many years. Unfortunately everything you have experienced I have experienced almost the same things. I will take a look at your youtube site and that is a step in the right direction because the corruption of public officials must be made public and photographed if necessary. Yes, even though under government code 815.6 the agencies are required to make a diligent effort to protect you from risk of injury, they rarely do and that may be a code section you must frequently quote. I cannot give you legal advice, and you seem like you have covered all the agencies including legal aid foundation who all receive government funds to screw the little guy [would you be better off moving to another apartment but that may not be financially feasible and its admirable to fight for tenant rights], but you must do your legal research and visit the free law library; look up department of fair employment and housing cases [the DFEH is just as crooked as the rest of the agencies]; court litigation is an option but may be costly and of course is no more guaranteed than the next option. Sometimes when you don’t seem to see the light ahead, you just have to keep going, and your momentum will help you find the answers you need, and sometimes you will get unexpected help. Try media contact David Goldstein? Yes, I would be interested in collaboration. If you plan on litigation, you must first file a claim against the city agency of which I have numerous ones; such claim if rejected may not be subject to res judicata because a lease/rent agreement is an ongoing obligation between two parties. So a denial of what happened to you last month under the rent agreement may not act as a precedent to stop complaints of new evidence against your apt owner. Do your research. We are snowballs up against a giant brick wall and I don’t expect the fight to be easy. Documentation is your best friend. Give me the weekend and I will do some research.

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hudincomeexclusions says:

July 10, 2015 at 3:55 am

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hudincomeexclusions says:

July 10, 2015 at 4:00 am

Try to get newspaper coverage. Smaller papers on college campuses or papers in the San Pedro area may be eager to publish your story. Two to three paragraphs and a link to your youtube should do it. Remember no more than two to three paragraphs.

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- Joshua Scott Wood says:
  
  July 10, 2015 at 5:44 am
  
  God bless L.A. renters under rent control if this is how the LAHCID handles their complaints… #unethical pic.twitter.com/shsn4E1XXE
  
  — Nidia Escobedo (@807NAve57) July 9, 2015
  
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Jeffrey David Morris says:

January 5, 2016 at 12:18 am

LA – pumping out 13,000 new homeless a week!

No one loves YOU more than Jesus! Homeless 5 plus yr’s; Google me: jeffreydavidmorris, http://www.jeffreydavidmorris.com

GET A CLUE! I NO care what / who’s stats’s – number’s THEY say. And OH, I JUST DID!

THEY (power?) < NOT! THEY wouldn't know power if it starred THEM in the face (GOD / Jesus / Heaven), and I wouldn't be surprised if it (GOD / Jesus / Heaven) hasn't, THEY just wouldn't know it!

The DAY is COMING! THEY ain't done NOTHING in 20 year's / 2 decade's, Local – National! HUD is CORRUPT!

I’m just a LA local laborer, whom previously 5 – 6 year’s ago had what I thought was a down to earth, simple, easy, clean, normal residential home life (before realizing a) just whom I was doing rental business with (local corrupt housing authority and further more, HUD as a Whole), and b) just what I was involved with ie: badly, corrupt run non-human HUD Section 8 housing program);

Please stop the stigmatization of us homeless out there

HUD’s leadership? UGH!

Alphonso Jackson – former head of HUD, before Shaun Donovan, AJ – federal embezzlement of given annual fund’s by congress to budget and properly disperse downward throughout HUD and down unto local level;

INSTEAD, AJ – those $$$, unto friends/family, thus, NO federal prosecution, NO federal imprisonment and NO federal restitution < ($ payback) by Alphonso Jackson AND those he paid, NOTHING! But (a slap on hand?) and sent into shadows, misc. I mean, what’s that say about Congress as a Whole?!?

Then Shaun Donovan (formerly of SBA – Small Business Administration) to then head of HUD, thus, NOTHING enough done right, you KNOW what I mean, loosely said.

Now Shaun Donovan heading up “Office of Personnel Management” < WHICH I hear was hacked recently. I mean what a F- – – k up! He, nor any of them can run ANYTHING right.

Then – now Julian Castro / was formerly mayor of San Antonio, Texas heading of HUD and note: has the audacity to go downtown LA and (-) unto those affected, huh, who’s that fool kidding?!? UGH! Thus, same B/S just goes on and on.

Take your pick, re: (local?) corruption, for which even FBI has had to be called in to (babysit?) do their thing with these foul asses amidst us in public office.

But take your pick, re: (local?) corruption – LAHD (LA Housing Dept), LADBS (LA Building and Safety), LA Environment Health (=) code violations (enforcement? – ain’t that a HOOT) agencies – (kiss up?), misc re: $ slumlord’s, while they (slumlord’s) still laugh it up all the way to the bank, punking down tenant’s, even amidst small claim’s court’s, as if to say: “Who you think a Black robe is gonna believe, YOU tenant or I? HUH!”

And there’s also pathetic, misc local housing authority’s inspection dept (before a tenant can move in), but more so the owner’s dept thereof amidst a housing authority.

And why? Because NO system thereof has been set up ie: a blacklist – locally unto federal level, being a slumlord or them trying to trick system by having a family member apply, you know, all the B/S game’s thereof they play, ugh!

And I know thereof, misc: “Guide to Residential Tenants’ and Landlords’ Rights and Responsibilities”: http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/catenant.pdf

$ slumlord’s still laughing it up all the way to the bank and allowed to keep getting monthly share of $ per / via local housing authority, per / via local HUD office (downtown LA on 6th, AT&T building, hence, misc from HUD D.C., which annually comes from Congress).

Then there’s the various throughout LA County corrupt housing authorities, NOT just HACLA on Wilshire, but also Hawthorne – past busted, and misc other’s.

Word being: Section 8 housing program voucher’s = frozen v.s. while other’s apparently seem to be getting them (ie: from ? thereof locally unto individual’s).

And then there’s fool’s coming outta prison – to local jail’s OR from local jail’s alone UNTO getting a voucher, side tracking / before those on 8 – 10 year or MORE waiting list.

Instead of these fool’s being shown / pointed unto homeless shelter’s, misc to begin anew and start again.

So yeah, I’ve witnessed – seen / heard it all = loosely said. Even with, separately Today’s Roman Soldier’s (ie: 5-0, cops, police) though they no pack sword’s anymore. THINK I’m B/S-ing, think again!

I just never GOT – who I was really doing business with (as I minimally care enough to admit that I have a deep, keen, misc respect for business itself), nor just what I was involved with, thus, with my back up against wall;

Ok, sure, I made a choice to walk away, give up voucher, regardless of paying 30 percent of my monthly income – apt rent: $253 example.

AGAIN, I have a deep, keen, misc respect for business itself, PERIOD. We (???) either do it right (in writing, legal bound, notarized) OR we NO do nothing at all, period! That make me a dam fool, ETC under the sun? Huh, in Jesus name, I think NOT!

I should be homeless (even as some odd job clientele of mine have shared with me).

My back was up against the wall, so to speak, knew sort of that per / via some small claims court, what? THEY slumlord’s against a tenant, huh.

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- hudincomeexclusions says:
  
  January 23, 2016 at 4:39 pm
  
  Thanks for your very helpful post.
  
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Jeffrey David Morris says:

January 5, 2016 at 12:19 am

No one loves YOU more than Jesus! Homeless 5 plus yr’s; Google me: jeffreydavidmorris, http://www.jeffreydavidmorris.com

Huh, sad and unfortunate of my fellow homeless brother’s / sister’s out there, WHOM kindly need more ‘care’, misc than me; I AM EASY to assist and help get off the street’s and become housed.

PLUS, there’s (below); huh, come people, please, I’d kindly like to NOT die homeless. I have been trying to network unto local – national human’s, homeless (related?) agencies, non-profit’s, organization’s, misc and ETC across the board. I’ve been trying to ‘reason’ kindly with you all for over 5 plus year’s, with no thus far housing securement discussion, misc. Sigh, please?

I’m kindly asking, if your offering, for your help, hence, we can do this, let’s just try and have a discussion and see how we can make this happen. A nice little studio apt in a decent, safe neighborhood would be nice, and I do have my ie: studio apt size belonging’s safely secured in a Hermosa Beach 5′ x 9′ storage unit;

And note, I don’t do bed’s, what I got is a personally, long time self bought Cot < 7' long x 3' wide x 2' high, my own little TV, 3' high little refrig and small microwave, misc belonging's. I'd need though assistance with move-in cost's and time available to find a a apt and doing the 'move' per driving, misc per a "UHaul' as I do have a driver's license. Thank you kindly and sincerely in advance, God bless and good day.

No one loves YOU more than Jesus! Google me: jeffreydavidmorris

Re: homelessness, me 5 plus yr's – to date homeless and not why anyone thinks; I DID step / stand up, voluntarily involved with local residential, community neighborhood improvement per / via my own personal, individual spare time, energy AND $ money, and where'd that get me: Ruined, blacklisted and retaliated against.

There's vast, discussable deal's 'out there to be had' per / via barter and housing in exchange for doing (?)'. Even walked (as I've done in the past and know the place well) – "Lake Hollywood Reservoir", 3.2 mile walk around; anyway, my point is, I've walked through and down some of those street's throughout Hollywood Hills / 90068, HUH, the neglect and lack of upkeep on some of these home's which (?) spent so much money $ for. Geez, I'd love to do a 'room', misc housing arrangement in exchange for low rent AND doing work around home, misc. SIGH . . . ya just don't know enough. Wow.

Past / Previous Accomplishments / Achievements;

Homeless are NOT human financial commodities! Stop demonizing the homeless (generally speaking).

Left HUD’s Section 8 housing program (8/2004 – 4/30/10), via civil code: 1942.5, besides all the stuff I did via voluntary tenant advocacy & the 'Martin Luther King Jr" thing – on a smaller scale =

Ruined to homelessness (4/30/10 – current / present), though past voluntary, misc achievement's and misc, though not even any – informed local 'legal' cared, misc to do anything, nothing; ME:

Tenant advocacy on behalf of (22) plus low income tenant's (some Section 8, some non) – whom, more less, imagined me doing the ‘Martin Luther King Jr’ thing but on a much, much smaller scale.

I've past shown and exhibited – being involved with local community neighborhood, such as sole, self financially and voluntarily exercised physical labor with NO desired 'lime light', NOR financial reimbursement – from anyone. I deemed I, as a residential civilian, had a fellow responsibility to 'step up' and be involved, hence, my choice and of my own free will, thus, safer, clean, misc area.

Networking with the normal community neighborhood standard of first point of contact with the local senior lead assigned community neighborhood "L.A.P.D." Rampart officer: Matthew Zeigler, Basic Car 2A1, 34208@lapd.lacity.org, on whatever local community neighborhood concern’s, misc, you know, generally speaking.

Then there’s (what I was involved with) – As I just got tired of it being too dark, as I know same for other’s, even ill potential for night crime, but I covered & voluntarily paid for (7) night time light's ie: additional residential community neighborhood outdoor lighting, via/per a civilian contract with “LADWP”– invoiced / billed $254 / bi monthly, on various wooden pole's in (8/2004 – mid 2010). Post / after being 'ousted' from residential area, I simply returned local residential community neighborhood area back unto 'The Darkness' for which I found it, misc – (8/2004).

Then there’s- "Tru-Green" landscape services, (Tree and shrub as well as grass/lawn spray treatment’s every 4 – 6/wk's), under $50/mo I voluntarily covered – unto/atop of the old rental properties front yard landscape (which should have never been an issue, since owner lived off site and I was paying for it voluntarily and self $ financially).

And additionally, I had a separate landscaper sole guy / man (John Winberry – seanberry04@yahoo.com) come by every (3) month's – ($80 each time) to do 'weed trimming', while I was behind the landscaper – sweeping and picking up freshly cut / trimmed landscape debris, hence, me – involved.

And even then, in the rental building itself, during normal day time hour’s, periodically say, vacuuming each of the (3) floor’s – hallway’s, water/rag – wiping down hand rail’s, cleaning of window’s; huh, I should have been a manager, but I’m a loner, sole guy.

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- hudincomeexclusions says:
  
  January 23, 2016 at 4:39 pm
  
  Thanks for your valuable input.
  
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Anonymous says:

June 29, 2017 at 6:52 pm

No one loves YOU more than Jesus! Homeless 5 plus yr’s; Google me: jeffreydavidmorris, http://www.jeffreydavidmorris.com

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- hudincomeexclusions says:
  
  June 4, 2020 at 5:20 pm
  
  Thank you. Same to you!
  
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from 2010 to 2014, of which the owner admits in writing, and of which I have provided

November 11, 2020

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October 1, 2020

Subject: Vacancies at 1522 Hi Point St 90035

Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 10:17 AM PDT“Come on Down!” New vacancies at 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035

Pros and Cons:

“This is one of those issues that management refuses to respond to. Big red flag.”

“…before you sign to pay the $100 for utilities, I would ask to see the copies of the electric and gas bills…”

September 27, 2020

SUBJECT: Maintenance is not permitted on a Sunday. Intercom still not repaired

DATE: Sunday, September 27, 2020, 02:09 PM PDT

According to city LADBS, Permitted Construction/Demolition Hours are as follows:

However, as regards occupied residential multi-family dwellings such as this address, such work is prohibited on Saturday as well as Sunday. (Otherwise M-F 8-5).

Subject: Continuing Damages due to non-working intercom Unit 9

Sunday, September 27, 2020, 01:45 PM PDT

Total damages: $19.00 x 2.5 = $47.50.

September 10, 2020

September 10, 2020

September 7, 2020

August 10, 2020

Governor Newsom asked to fire ‘racist’ state employee over refusal to investigate housing discrimination

Intractable, systemic racism persists

“Again I ask to you personally as you are a racist, how do I as a Black American male, in this United States of America, qualify for housing services requested at this location? Pamela, how many hoops do I have to jump thru to get full and equal housing services?”

Pamela Phimmasenh

Subject: Need for Intercom repair – DFEH case 2020006-10405912 – to Racist Pamela

Date: Saturday, August 8, 2020, 09:45 AM PDT

Dear Pamela/DFEH:

I realize that the DFEH in a biased illegal manner has stated that only white females at this location are entitled to a new intercom. All white females at this location have a working intercom.

Update June 21, 2020

“You’re nothing but a bunch of animals”

Update June 16, 2020

Subject: Housing Services have still not been restored – rent controlled building 1522 Hi Point St 90035

To whom it may concern:

Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black

June 7, 2020

Subject: Code Violation Complaint Filed Against Hi Point Apts LLC

Date: Sunday, June 7, 2020, 10:32 AM PDT

Property management company is Power Property Management Group

City Councilperson Herb Wesson staff is:

March 23, 2020

February 20, 2020

Los Angeles city council told of denial of housing services; denial equal opportunity from neighborhood councils; election fraud

The letter given to the city council members appeared in the Random Lengths news, January 23, 2020, page 19, and also the online edition, entitled “Denied a Turn at the Podium“.

January 19, 2020

Seven city funded $42,000 each groups block candidate from speaking

SUBJECT: RE A New Rep for CD-10? Come Meet The Candidates This Saturday!

Dear UNC and seven other groups and FAME church:

A New Rep for CD-10? Come Meet The Candidates This Saturday!

January 16, 2020

SUBJECT: Does city employee Joseph HCIDLA comprehend English?

Does Joseph comprehend English?

DO NOT CLOSE THE COMPLAINTS UNLESS SERVICES HAVE BEEN RESTORED AND RENT REIMBURSEMENTS PROVIDED.

Updated September 29, 2019

August 8, 2019

JULY 3 2019

SUBJECT: The tree

Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2019, 07:09 PM PDT

See the picture of the tree at the front door. Can you see the two criminals hiding behind the tree? No one else can see them either.

JUNE 3 2019

Date: Monday, June 3, 2019, 9:03 AM PDTLos Angeles Housing Committee Item No. 14- 0268-S13 – Community Impact Statement-

Power Property Management, Inc. (310) 593-3955 http://www.PowerPropertyManagement.com

May 25, 2019

Los Angeles Housing Committee Item No. 14- 0268-S13 – Community Impact Statement- ILLEGAL RENT COMPLAINT RE HI POINT APTS – a rent controlled building

Date: Saturday, May 25, 2019, 6:39 PM PDT

DEAR Garcetti RSD LA, et al:

Please remit today to the address below 36 x $200 = $7,200.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

[tenant name redacted]

1522 HI POINT ST 9

LOS ANGELES CA 90035

March 15, 2019

Continued Denial of Housing Services at 1522 Hi Point St Apartments 90035

Date: Friday, March 15, 2019, 9:45 AM PDT

14. We pay $17.08 per month capital improvement increase yet the intercom does not work, and recently all outside exterior lights failed so they were replaced. This is grounds for the $17.08 increase to be cancelled from Unit 9 rent amounts.

cc: Kasandra Harris, Resident Manager, Hi Point Apts LLC and Power Property Management Group

March 12, 2019

Racism at Hi Point Apts malice oppression and fraud

3. I ask that Chad give testimony on March 27, 2019 at the LA Housing Hearing.4. According to the city REAP procedures, maintenance and parking is housing services.

Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 10:17 AM PDT
“Come on Down!” New vacancies at 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035

Date: Monday, June 3, 2019, 9:03 AM PDT
Los Angeles Housing Committee Item No. 14- 0268-S13 – Community Impact Statement-

3. I ask that Chad give testimony on March 27, 2019 at the LA Housing Hearing.
4. According to the city REAP procedures, maintenance and parking is housing services.