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Racism has More Power than the Mayor
November 8, 2022
“Interference with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property”
Subject: Violation of tenant right to quiet enjoyment – Opportunity to Provide Housing Services- RSO complaint number CE 273371-CRD complaint 202201-15997931
From: G Johnson ( )
To: nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; francisco@powerpropertygrp.com; 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; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; meghan@boldpartnersre.com
Cc: gavin@gavinnewsom.com; james.cortes@dfeh.ca.gov; andrew.dawson@sen.ca.gov; shou.committee@senate.ca.gov; senator.laird@senate.ca.gov; senator.chang@senate.ca.gov; senator.wolk@senate.ca.gov
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 02:04 PM PST
At one point, Martinez called Bonin a “little bitch” and referred to his son as “parece changuito,” or “like a monkey.” Gov. Gavin Newsom called Martinez’s resignation “the right move.” “Again, these comments have no place in our state, or in our politics, and we must all model better behavior to live the values that so many of us fight every day to protect,” he said in a statement. Brent Parsons and Thomas Khammar were heard to say they agree with the position of Martinez, that there are monkeys at 1522 Hi Point St Apts that are not entitled to housing services.
Health and Safety
Define intercom
An intercom, also called an intercommunication device, intercommunicator, or interphone, is a stand-alone voice communications system for use within a building or small collection of buildings which functions independently of the public telephone network.[1] Intercoms are generally mounted permanently in buildings and vehicles. Intercoms can incorporate connections to public address loudspeaker systems, walkie talkies, telephones, and other intercom systems. Some intercom systems incorporate control of devices such as signal lights and door latches. Intercoms are used on a wide variety of properties; from houses that only require one connection between a resident and the property’s entrance to multi-unit apartments that require intercom hardware to be installed in every individual apartment. (Source: Wikipedia)
Define secured gated parking
Secured Parking should be interpreted by most as either being enclosed within walls and locked – or having security guards on permanent surveillance to protect the vehicles in an enclosed area. Secured parking means that there are measures in place to create a safe environment. (Source:Google)
3483. California Civil Code Every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon,or in the use of ,such property, created by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it.
3479. Anything which is injurious to health, including, but not limited to, the illegal sale of controlled substances, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in a customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, street, or highway, is a nuisance.
3484. The abatement of a nuisance does not prejudice the right of any person to recover damages for its past existence.
“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
Dear Hi Point 1522 LLC, Power Property Management, Liliana Morales (PPM), Ann Sewill, Director, Catherine Taylor-Gomez, Tricia Keane, Mike Feuer: KALEENA WILEY, Thomas Khammar, Brent Parsons, Liliana Morales, Jacqueline Gallardo, Jennifer Cleveland, Renee Henderson, Giovanni Dubon, Kassandra Harris, Kristopher Gordon, Jason Ortegon:
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 entities above.
There is an abandoned vehicle at parking stall #4. It has been there in the same shape since before 2014. Of course the tenant is white and that is the white privilege afforded to him as a white tenant, courtesy of the biased Power Property management Inc. Nisi Walton, where the white tenant is not subjected to the racist, murderous* conduct for having storage or misc items on the property (abandoned vehicle).
- I am asking the state Real Estate Commission to suspend all applicable real estate broker licenses until housing services requested have been restored.
2. This shall memorialize that on Friday, November 4, 2022, repairs were made to the bathtub shower and sink fixtures, i.e replacement from normal wear and tear, between 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.
3. Unit 9 tenants still have not received repair of the intercom system, nor assignment for two cars parking or tandem parking stall.
4. It has been well over 35 days since these housing services have been requested.
5. I have indicated the intercom is a housing service provided to me because it was “available” (present) at the inception of the tenancy, and it is included under maintenance because the rent agreement says of maintenance, “including but not limited to”. I let her (Judge) know the owner’s latest excuse for the denial of tandem parking is that we already have a tandem parking stall and on the intercom, the entire building needs to be re-wired. Thus the intercom has not been repaired and the parking has not been supplied; our current parking stall is not tandem and only allows for the parking of one vehicle.
6. On November 5, 2022, (as indicated similarly before), I received a notice from Publisher’s Clearinghouse that I am eligible to receive “$5,000 a week for life.” Such money is distributed by a “prize patrol” that must have access to the occupant/tenant such as myself by ringing the intercom; I cannot receive such white privilege* because my intercom does not function.
7. A successive owner must honor the conditions of the rent agreement and services. The previous rent agreement and service of the previous owner in writing provided that unit 9 tenants could have tandem parking for $50 additional per month. That part of the rental conditions has not been honored by the new owner.
8. And Jesus said(sic), if all those before me read this email and are racist Ku Klux Klan, then let only one come forward and disagree with the majority and grant the relief requested, even though that one person will still be a racist KKK.
9. The owner has installed in some units (presumably without city permits) mini-ductless air conditioning units but has not offered such housing service to unit 9 tenants as Black Americans; we have also not been offered the keyless door entry system some tenants have, another discriminatory act prohibited by the state Unruh Act.
10. The failure to repair the intercom and failure to provide parking for two vehicles are continuing breaches of the rental agreement and new damages. See cashed rent checks indicating that money is for rent, parking for two cars, and intercom maintenance, authorizing a court-filed lien against the property.
11. I have spent another two hours in labor attempting to repair the intercom myself. Please remit to me $25/hour x 3 hours = $75.00 in damages.
12. Failure to provide the services requested has resulted in the violation of my peaceful enjoyment of the premises.
13. Stalls 1-1a-12 are single-car parking stalls. Stalls 13-20 are tandem/two car stalls. Since there are eighteen units, there are 20 parking stalls; since 13-20 are tandem, the result is another seven stalls so about parking for 28 vehicles. There are often vacant stalls. Stalls 1, 1A-12 are single = 13 stalls. 13-20 = 16 car slots. Stall 13 was by the COO a single-car stall, but due to a white female tenant’s request, the owner extended the striping for the stall into a two-car stall. That such privilege was denied to both Black tenants in unit 9. This calculates there are extra stalls available. Resident manager Kassandra “KKK” Harris has alleged some of the stalls are illegal guest stalls, for illegal home sharing I imagine, but she has not had the intelligence to identify any fair housing procedure by which tenants can apply for the guest stalls.
14. Unit 1 has undergone improvements in the last seven days. Even though unit 1 is about six feet from my unit, no attempt was made to repair our intercom. Denied white privilege violative of the state Unruh Act.
(15-16-17 redacted)
18. Resident Manager Kassandra Harris appears to have parking for four cars and takes up two tandem stalls even though her one-bedroom unit only has two tenants and two cars.
19. The rental agreement entitled unit 9 tenants to unlimited maintenance, as long as the conditions are reported to the owner, the repair item is not owned by the tenant, and the owner is given a reasonable time to make repairs. The intercom need for repair has been reported, the intercom is the property of the owner, and the owner has had ample time to make repairs.
20. Suspected home-sharing tenants are in units 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2, 3, 4, 6. 7. Persons living here illegally may be K. Raha, T. Cooper, V. Dupree, M. Kazin, O. Azzink, I. Perez, J. Gilbert, Zalmon Solomon. Other tenants are John Chionis, Kaitlyn Drew Smith, Ly Pham, Mae Wang, Kevin Fajardo, Richard Reyna, Kirk Hamel, Tyler Ruggieri.
21. At a May 2022 court hearing, Thomas Khammar acting under the authority of owner Meghan Haynes (Hi Point 1522 LLC) lied under oath and made false statements.
22. Repair is here today (from 9:30 am) resurfacing the bathtub. Tub was damaged because Power Property did not respond to my requests for intercom repair. If they had responded last year to that request, I would have told them about the hot water constantly running for a year and damaging the tub. But Power Property did not respond. The hot water eroded the surface of the tub.
23. See attached declaration of city resident Cliff White regarding intercom and parking damages to me as his observations.
All rights reserved.
Geary J. Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
A Black male American
cc: California Senate Housing Committee Senator Scott D. Wiener (Chair)
Senator Patricia C. Bates (Vice Chair) Senator Anna M. Caballero Senator Dave Cortese Senator Mike McGuire Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh Senator Nancy Skinner Senator Thomas J. Umberg Senator Bob Wieckowski
c: FBI 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 1700 Los Angeles, CA
c: California Department of Real Estate
Via Facsimile/US Mail (916) 263-8943
REFERENCE:
Property owner is located at Hi Point 1522 . LLC; 520 Pacific Street #5, Santa Monica CA 90405. Email: meghan@boldpartnersre.com. Phone 818-219-1587. (As forwarded from Nisi Walton).
* REFERENCE: “Murderous” defined: barbaric, cruel, inhuman, punishing, killing, unpleasant, savage) (City Records Published at https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-8835 )
references:
Power Property Management
09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us
Brent Parsons at Power Property Management
brent@powerpropertygrp.com
Thomas Khammar at Power Property Management
thomas@powerpropertygrp.com
Kassandra Harris – resident manager at 1522 Hi Point St Apts 90035 highpoint1522@gmail.com
frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com
frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com
REFERENCE PAST EMAILS TO OWNER:
2021-8-9 Email REAP Complaint New 2021-8-2 Email Power and City re CC 1954.pdf 2021-8-18 Email with new code complaint.pdf
2021-9-26 Email City and Power DFEH Complaint 2021-10-4 Email council on CPRA
2021-10-14 Email Power on Door Repair 2021-11-3 Email demand letter.pdf
2021-11-18 Email re Services and FBI
2021-11-13 Email owner and city with code complaint.pdf 2021-11-4 Email with parking request form.pdf 2021-12-17 Email on intercom and parking and crews onsite.pdf 2022-1-9 Email re Notices to Enter.pdf (This list is indicative but not all-inclusive)
If the lessor retaliates against the lessee because of the exercise by the lessee of his or her 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 or her 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: […] has made an oral complaint to the lessor regarding tenantability…. [or] after the date upon which the lessee, in good faith, has filed a written complaint, or an oral complaint which is registered or otherwise recorded in writing, with an appropriate agency, of which the lessor has notice, for the purpose of obtaining correction of a condition relating to tenantability. Civil Code § 1942.5
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. Los Angeles)
*42 USC 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.
FRAUD, OPPRESSION, MALICE
“Fraud” for purposes of a punitive damages award means “an intentional misrepresentation, deceit, or concealment of a material fact known to the defendant with the intention on the part of the defendant of thereby depriving a person of property or legal rights or otherwise causing injury.” (Civ. Code, § 3294, subd. (c)(3).)
“Oppression” means “despicable conduct that subjects a person to cruel and unjust hardship in conscious disregard of that person’s rights.” (Civ. Code, § 3294, subd.(c)(2).) Although malice requires a showing of willful conscious disregard, “oppression” does not require willful behavior. (Major v. Western Home Insurance Co. (2009) 169 Cal.App.4th 1197, 1225-1226.
“Malice” means “conduct which is intended by the defendant to cause injury to the plaintiff (i.e., intentional tort), or despicable conduct which is carried on by the defendant with a willful and conscious disregard of the rights or safety of others.” (non-intentional tort). (Civil Code, § 3294, subd. (c)(1); College Hospital, Inc. v. Superior Court (1994) 8 Cal.4th 704, 725.) To establish malice plaintiff need not prove an evil mental intent or motive on the part of the defendant. Plaintiff need only establish (by clear and convincing evidence) that the defendant intended the consequences that were substantially certain to occur from his or her wrongful conduct. (Schroeder v. Auto Driveway Co. (1974) 11 Cal.3d 908, 922; George F. Hillenbrand, Inc. v. Insurance Co. of North America (2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 784, 816.)
“For the last year at least, the owner has harassed myself by not repairing the intercom, restricting repairman from making the repairs, and did “substantially interfere with or disturb the comfort, repose, peace or quiet of a tenant(s) and that cause, are likely to cause, or are committed with the objective to cause a tenant(s) to surrender or waive any rights in relation to such tenancy.”, a violation of the city harassment ordinance. The owner and agents have engaged in acts or omissions which interferes with the tenant’s right to use and enjoy the rental unit (harassment).” https://wp.me/P57D2C-m
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. California Civil Code 51,52
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office 211 West Temple Street Suite 1200
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 974-3512 info@da.lacounty.gov
The Office of Mike Feuer Los Angeles City Attorney
James K. Hahn City Hall East, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90012
https://www.facebook.com/mnfeuer
California Attorney General Attn: Public Inquiry Unit
P.O. Box 944255 Sacramento, CA 94244-2550
Fax: (916) 323-5341
https://www.facebook.com/AGBecerra
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
RE: CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE 52 (d)
First, I am asking that you intervene in this case mentioned under the authority of CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE 52 (d). I am also asking that you access a civil penalty under the provisions of CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE section 52(b)(2).
Second I am asking that you investigate the defendants/cross complainants in this case for violations of Penal Code section Chapter 4 section 115(a). “Forging, Stealing, Mutilating, and Falsifying Judicial and Public Records and Documents [112-117]. The record shows that the defendants, in concert with Walter Barratt, filed with the court a cross-complaint that was falsified in that the cross- complainants did not sign the complaint under penalty of perjury but conspired with Walter Barratt so that he was the only person to sign the cross-complaint under penalty of perjury that he was in fact not only Walter Barratt but that he was also Cynthia Reynosa, Kassandra Harris, Brett Parsons, and Power Property Group. Barratt under court rules was only allowed to sign for himself and possibly Hi Point Apts LLC.
Third, I am asking you to investigate the court’s involvement in this matter in that the court officials have conspired with the cross complainants for violating Penal Code section Chapter 4 section 115(a). “Forging, Stealing, Mutilating, and Falsifying Judicial and Public Records and Documents [112-117]. The court has refused to make corrections to the record and claimed that the cross- complaint was “properly accepted and filed”. This is not in compliance with the rules of court which state that the court clerk has a mandatory duty to assure that “every pleading…must be signed by the party” and “the clerk must not accept for filing or file any papers that do not comply with the rules”.
This is also criminal fraud on the court.
The court case is Los Angeles Small Claims case 19STSC14394. Johnson vs Power Property group filed December 16, 2019. The next court hearing is set for February 19, 2021. I enclose a five-page letter dated December 17, 2020 to Gregory C. Drapac from me. Such letter is meant to be illustrative but not all-inclusive.
This is a matter of Public Interest.
Sincerely yours,
Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone ( )
(City Public Records Request https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-11484)
Picture – Declare from …. on Intercom and Parking
Picture – Power Property staff as seen on the Internet
Picture- Geary at parking stalls 18-19 showing extra stalls
Picture- Workers install the door at 1522
Picture- Tenant stalls 14 (and 13) with only one car parked in tandem stalls All rights reserved.
(Posted to City Public Records Request https://recordsrequest.lacity.org/requests/22-11484)
LA Rent Control (RAC) and Permits (LADBS) 