- Jurisdiction
- California
I am homeless and waiting to move into an apartment to which a holding deposit was placed. I'll be receiving rental assistance and at the moment, currently in a motel provided by a homeless outreach program. That outreach program provided the holding deposit and the motel vouchers. The rental assistance is coming from a different program. It's been a month that I've been in motels and that's how long the property manager took to reveal a roach infestation that they've been working on since the beginning of the month, notifying us the apartment is not ready yet.
The details of the infestation was told directly to me through a phone call and not including my case workers, yet there's been open communications between all of us. I did inform those case workers and then the property manager mentioned "pest control" in a following email. She told me the infestation is "bad" and taking longer than she thought.
Had she said something before the holding deposit, I likely would have refused the apartment. I wish she had said something prior to all the money invested keeping me sheltered waiting for this apartment. What legal options are there?
I am meeting with a case worker today to discuss the issue.
The details of the infestation was told directly to me through a phone call and not including my case workers, yet there's been open communications between all of us. I did inform those case workers and then the property manager mentioned "pest control" in a following email. She told me the infestation is "bad" and taking longer than she thought.
Had she said something before the holding deposit, I likely would have refused the apartment. I wish she had said something prior to all the money invested keeping me sheltered waiting for this apartment. What legal options are there?
I am meeting with a case worker today to discuss the issue.