Posted by Jamie on 8/11/06

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It starts off that I meet a friend of a friend, who's
roomates have just moved out of the 2nd bedroom (2 bdrm
apt) in HB, CA. She say's to move in May 1st, which I do. A
couple of weeks go by and I see the landlord occasionally,
never says anything to me about moving in. I go up to her
one day to ask if I needed to be on the lease and she says
'It doesn't matter either way'. A week goes by and my
roomate tells me that the 'roomates' that moved out where
actually a brazilian couple who had just gotten pregnant
and moved out to find their own place. The shady part is
that my roomate married the man to get his visa. All of the
bills AND the apartment is under his name in order to keep
up the jig, which worked perfectly for her due to her bad
credit. I've met this guy once super early in the morning
for about 30 seconds when he showed up one day looking for
my roomate. He comes by to get his mail and that's his only
tie to this apt. So 4 months has gone by and our roomate
situation has gone sour due to her bringing home strange
men constantly, drug addicts that have trashed my bathroom
and tried to break into my bedroom (luckily i had put a key
lock on my door envisioning something of this nature would
happen), her cat (the apt doesn't allow cats) spreading
fleas everyone and her not caring, her breaking my
furniture and holding loud parties all the time. After
things started getting this way, I approach the landlord
and say I want to get on the lease thinking that my roomate
was gonna try and get me to leave. I liked the apt, and I
didn't want to be the one that would have to go figuring
because she couldn't get on the lease. So I do, she never
turns in her paperwork. The landlord finds out she has a
cats and tells her that she or the cat have to move out.
She tells me she's moving out on the first (is now hiding
the cat in her room) so I assume that I get the apt. I
leave a note on the door of my landlord telling her that
I'd like my bf to move in and to see what paperwork had to
be done. My roomate tells me that this is her 'husbands'
apartment and that I would have to leave. I didn't stress
because I knew several things about this place and them
were illegal and figured since I actually lived here AND
was on the lease, I had the most authority. Well, I was
just handed an eviction notice by my roomate. It's dated
yesterday at 10pm. Signed by my landlord stating that my
she served this paperwork to me yesterday, which she
obviously didn't.

Sorry to run on and on but I'm so peeved by this situation.
Basically my roomate and her marriage fraud require that
this apartment be in her 'husbands' name. The landlord
KNOWS about this illegal marriage and is quite buddy buddy
with this guy. She's a slumlord in the sense that she's
never returned by calls, fixed anything in the apt that I
notified her about and pretty much runs from me when I ask
her about apt stuff. Not only that, but this small complex
has an abundancy of the origin of people that this illegal
is, making me think she's got some shady ties - although I
could totally be wrong, just kinda seems that way.

I have done NOTHING to validate being kicked out - pay rent
always on time, don't make any noise, etc. Absolutely
nothing.

I love this apartment! What do I do?? Any help would be so
incredibly appreciated.

Jamie, 27 Huntington Beach

Re: CA 30 day evict notice , Section1946: I didn't do anythi, 8/28/08, by suzanne.

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