Marissa

City: 
Merced
Residence Type: 
20 or more units

Where should I start my family and I have been renting a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom for 13 years. Throughout all these years out landlord has not complied as a landlord to fix the necessary things that the apartment needed. For instance our kitchen ceiling fan was nearly falling down we called him but took him 2 years to fix. (That's one of the smallest things that I can think of) We are in a situation where we have not had hot water to shower or too wash our dishes.We contacted him multiple times about a leaking and from their he sent out a plumber the plumber told him that he had to break down the walls in order to fix it. The landlord told us we had to move out that he would give us 60 days(with no paper notice) we are in a situation where we have no money to rent somewhere else to pay the expensive deposit. I sent him the template from this website and he replied more than a half a month letter saying that we had to move out by Nov 1,2013 (received the letter today October 29,2013) His wife wrote to me that she had told us that we had to move and gave us an option to rent my parents a hotel (which never happened) only told us she will give us a $500 deposit and that we where lucky enough to be getting it. My family and I are my sure what to do! If anybody can give me information on what to do!!!

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