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Updated almost 5 years ago, 01/05/2020

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helping friends out not worth it

Brian Chen
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I the late summer of 2019, I opened up my home to 2 young men who had nowhere to go and had recently been forcibly removed at their previous place of residence. When they came to my door uninvited begging and crying for me to have some compassion to let them stay for "just a week, cause I [tenant A], have family in TX, and we [tenant A and B] can move there and get out of CA." I gave in but will stipulation, only a week (clearly that didn't happen), and no loud screaming arguments, also didn't happen. The week came and went they didn't do anything unless I bugged them to figure things out or when I just is happened to at work. During this time let it go cause I had prior commitments I had already promised to attending, so I took advantage of the fact they offered to look after my pets while I was gone for 10 days. But I told them that this doesn't mean you are staying here, told them to keep at A's family to get them to TX. Of course to no surprise they came up with a million excuses as to why they weren't able to get intouch with his family. So in the coming weeks I urged and pushed them to make contact with A's family. I even suggested they to have B to contact his family here in CA to see if they could help them, to no surprise both families couldn't open up their home to their own children who desperately needed help. And with the prolonging and the constant nagging by me, I myself got tired of hearing me go on and on. So I sat them down and said if you want to say there you're going to have to be more than just bums, you must at the minimal pick up your own mess, clean our own utensils and bowl and anything you use must be asked before usage, keep the absurdly loud obnoxious arguments to a minimum and continue contacting family members to help them, but most importantly you MUST have a job by the end of August, 2019 so that you can pay rent and get your food stamps cause I can not afford to feed the 2 people. We all agreed verbally and through that whole month I saw no progress and more loud screaming obnoxious arguments because A can't handle B's excessive rude, mean, evil, vindictive, insults and would leave to room, but B being obsessed with A puts restrictions and literally keeps him from for doing anything without his permission. A couldn't even look for work and B just in bed blaming him being tired to his testicular cancer and HIV+ status of which he has done nothing, not even doctors visit or go to a support group, to help in the recovery. In the middle of it all I have asked them to leave because they broke all their promises, and they would throw the fact that there had squatters rights here in CA. Because they kept using that as a defence I drew an extended guest stay where I referred to them as a guest and they were not given keys or codes to my house. In the extended stay agreement it reiterated everything from prior verbal agreements and again another month to find a job, we all acknowledged, agreed and signed. To no surprise whatsoever nothing on their end of the bargain was upheld, this time the added property damage due to A's beating B down and putting a holes in the quest room, which they both have said they were not going to fix, B has threaten to burn my house down, A trying to get physical with me but failed, a neighbor calling police one day when I was at work due to the horrific sounds B makes when A has had enough for B excessive onset of verbal insult after insult and mental abuse towards A. Now not only are the using the squatters right against me, the are adding on top of that that B is terminally ill, to which B nor A have taken steps to fix. Neither have a job, but have each had 1 interview at as gas station and at a Wendy's, during and ending conveniently while I was at work and when asked for proof of even going they both blow up at me accusing them for lying. What can you advise me to do next?

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