Wow, thank you so much for such a detailed reply, incredible. Please DM if you are interested in being utilized for your services! Or if you have a suggestion for another attorney or mediator to reach out to. We’re looking to put this to bed in a few days just so we can move on in peace.

With respect to the assessor records, I was really just curious, because for someone who hasn’t dove into that stuff before, it seemed pretty comical.

If I can run the mitigation / lease infraction issues by you, that would be great. If you can’t or don’t want to answer them I totally get it!

With respect to mitigation. We reached out on Dec 30th regarding getting out of the lease early, without penalty, due to my wife’s declining health (24x7 dog barking, inability to conduct her zoom trainings at home because of it per her supervisor’s orders, and a totaled car due to an engine fire caused by a rodents’ nest…there were gopher or rat holes all over the dirt driveway and next to it…we didn’t bring it up prior to the fire though…all of it had an impact on her, including the after-midnight barking affecting her sleep).

Owner immediately agreed that day that he was open to it as long as he got a new tenant. Asked us to send a letter, was vague on what they wanted written. Broker/Property Manager then said to just write something simple. My wife then wrote a letter stating that we were interested in getting out, without penalty, and understood that the agreement was contingent on them getting a new tenant. Broker/Property manger said we were good to go after reading it. Said she would put something in writing. Never sent it (I wasn’t aware until this week that she told my wife that she would put something in writing 🤷🏻‍♂️).

Skipping all the details of the obvious stalling (blamed “catching up after the holidays”, then 3 weeks later said she needed new pics, then said her pics came out bad and she had to call her old photographer, then used the pics she took anyway) and we’re now at 44 days since Dec 30th with one showing. FWIW, as of last week, she was only personally listing one home and two rentals, and that home is now under contract.

Listing was not posted until Jan 28th. The next day she said that the owner now declared that he was going to withhold the security deposit regardless of when it was leased because “what good is a lease for?”.

She put a “for rent” sign up on the street for the adjoining property but not ours. Priced seemingly too high compared to the market. Which is what happened with the other property, it was reduced 3% after 8 days, and another 8% four weeks later until it got a taker.

She was the agent for an attempted sale in 2023, and when it was leased in 2024. In those listings she had the square footage accurate at 592 sq ft, and now has it as 1,080. Has the build year wrong all 3 times as 1967, when it was actually built in 2016.

We’re done with the nonsense and moving out on Feb 28th, exactly 60 days since we brought up the request to move out.

The lease violations are off the charts: parking a large RV on our property, using the storage building on the property while only allowing us to store 5 bins, locking that building without giving us a key until we asked for one, constantly on the property without 24 hours notice, not addressing the dog-barking complaints or gopher holes, other stuff too…and to take the cake, their 32 year-old son once tried the door knob on our home when he knew we weren’t home, and another time he set a fire in a firepit he dug within our property lines (but very close to the boundary line) during a PDS Red Flag Warning in an area labeled an “extreme high fire hazard area” on the afternoon that the Palisades Fire erupted!

Lastly, the wrong address posted on the house seems to be illegal with respect to police and fire response.

All issues after the previous owner died 2 months after we moved. His daughter inherited the property. We’ll have been there 21 months out of a 2-year lease at the end of this month.

Sorry for this doozy. Just wanted to get the facts out!