1522 parking front of lot Hi Point 90035
A Black tenant at this location says that there are available parking stalls, including 1A, 3, 4, 6, 10, (tandem) 13, 14, 15. Stalls 17 and 18 tandem contain one car each therefore, there are two available stalls for re-assignment. This is a rent-controlled building receiving federal assistance. Property owner agent Thomas Khammar of Power Property Inc says there are no parking stalls available. Look at the pictures.
Why is Mr. Khammar lying? Mr. Khammar refuses to provide a list of the parking assignments. He also claims that some stalls cost $150 per month, but for at least six months, he has not provided a list of which tenants are paying $150, nor has he provided a copy of the parking application. Many if not, all tenants are paying the parking in the rent paid, so no extra fees. Mr. Khammar disagrees but provides no proof.
The owner collects about $37,000 per month in rents at this property.
There are 18 one-bedroom units. There are 20 full parking stalls. 20-18 = 2 available. Or another way of putting it is that there are 18 one-bedroom units, and there is parking for a total of 27 cars. Why won’t Khammar explain who is parked where?
According to Public Documents, Power Property Management Inc (agent for owner Hi Point 1522 LLC) employees include Thomas Khammar, Brent Parsons, Cynthia Reynosa, Benjamin Renkainen, Bessy Cerna, David Diaz, Luis Rodriguez, Nisi Walton, and Brian Vasquez.
Hi Point 1522 LLP owner can be reached at Power Property Management Group Inc., 8885 Venice Blvd #205 Los Angeles. CA. 90035. Phone 310-593-3955. thomas@powerpropertygrp.com, brent@powerpropertygrp.com, 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us , cynthia@powerpropertygrp.com, frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com, edi@powerpropertygrp.com, luis@powerpropertygrp.com. maintenance@powerpropertygrp.com, benjamin@powerpropertygrp.com, vasquezbrian79@gmail.com
In 2021, at a court hearing, Khammar told the Black tenants that they already had a two-car tandem parking stall. His testimony went on for over five minutes. Three years later, Khammar says he never said that and that now he only has one tandem stall available but after he claimed that the stall is $150 per month, the tenant claimed that he had already paid for the parking through his rent agreement, which was true because he had been parking in the same tandem stall for four years with no separate charge. So the owner retaliated against the Blackman and targeted the Black man’s car with permanent adhesive and violently ruined his window. Khammar refuses to remove the adhesive from Black man car.
Most tenants in this building are Black or Hispanic. There is a running controversy because the owner has not supplied any of the tenants with an indoor monitor or interface in order to operate the Wi-Fi based door entry Intercom system (“Akuvox”). But some tenants may have free WiFi. The owner also recently changed the locks to the front door of the building without supplying a key to all tenants or an explanation. There are city and state laws that required that the owner give the tenants the housing service parts in order to use the intercom function. The city code enforcement department refuses to enforce the accessibility code (called two way communication building code) which mandates an indoor monitor or interface to enable the tenants to use the system. It is also mandated under the accessibility laws that there be a wheelchair height unit door peephole as well as handicap parking, but there is none at this property. Trash is always piled up behind and outside the garbage dumpster.” The resident manager is Hispanic but has trouble addressing the concerns of Black tenants. Some have described this building as “The Ghetto Building”.
(“Ghetto” does not refer to the tenants but to the way they are treated by the owner.)
LA Rent Control (RAC) and Permits (LADBS) 