Unlawful eviction challenges migrant(2)

Landlord, page 2.

Leticia Ponce, who lives in Canoga Park, CA. is the property owner, and DKG Inc., located at 16302 Brook Forest Dr., Houston TX. 77059, is the property beneficiary, or the company which can collect rental fees or income generated from the property.

Ponce’s property is a strip of land that has big-rig metal containers for rent to tenants who work in construction, landscaping, painting and house and commercial refurbishment. It has about 10 more uncovered spots that tenants rent to park their work trucks and vehicles.  

The lot stretches underneath a Glendale freeway overpass. It is located one block east of N. San Fernando Rd., corner with Roswell St.  

The encyclopedia California Jurisprudence, Third, says an aggressive landlord, like Ponce, “can be punished by the courts if he or she acts with malice, offends and behaves outrageously against a tenant”  like Felix, in his efforts to evict him.

California Civil Code, section 1945 also says “a landlord, property manager or a lessor who receives money in advance from a tenant, or a lessee who has possession of a unit or a plot of land is presumed to have renewed the rental agreement “on the same terms and for the same time.”  

The law firm Kimball, Tirey and St. John published on its website www. kts-law.com that contested landlord-tenant evictions have increased in Los Angeles County 31% since the Shriver Act was phased in 2010. In San Diego County, unlawful detainer cases peaked 27%.  

The Shirver Act provides attorney access to poor residents in unlawful detainer actions. Currently, each case costs $240 to file. Felix, who earned several automotive repair certificates at the East Los Angeles Occupational Center Felix, said he is thinking about his chances to file a suit against his landlord.