All Forum Posts by: James Peters

Quick update from this morning.  I spoke with the detective who is with the Long Beach Police Department and she is going to work on getting me a restraining order today.  She has documentation that I had already sent her months ago that validates the case for a restraining order. 

Since I did not formally evict her before, I am going to need to go thru that process.  Could use any info from anyone who has dealt with that in CA?

Apparently she has made copies of the trust documents and is saying that she has documents on my personal home, my grandfather's old business, etc.  Seems like she is trying to go through the house and is supposedly sharing this with her attorney.  Not sure if she can be held liable for stealing documents.  I thought I had cleaned most of the paperwork out, but who knows.  

Thanks everyone for the support and help!

@Ned Carey  she never did pay rent and I threatened eviction over 2 years ago and she moved out. The newspapers were not really interested but I thought of that as well.

@Account Closed I have control of all bank accounts and the only thing my dad has is a Chevron card with a $300 limit that he is hiding.  The property is in the trust and I have control over all assets that are still left.

@Ned Carey  I do have all the financial documents and have the text messages.  She has had over 4 different phone numbers and is constantly in and out of work and seem to have tried to be a "caretaker" and scam other people as well.  She seem to be manipulating older people.  The Long Beach Police Department does have a detective "working" on our case but she has had it for over 6 months and just now is talking about doing something.  She seems to be overwhelmed with her case load.  In the meantime, the squatter has moved back into my dad's property.  CA is tenant friendly but this is ridiculous.  

Forgot to add that she is threatening to put a lien on the property.  Not sure what is involved with someone one placing a loan in CA and not sure if someone could shine more light on that?

@Steve B.  I have an estate attorney who helped me straighten out a mess with the home not being in the trust properly and also maintain the tax basis from the 1950's (Very important in CA where the property tax would have gone up substantially.)  I do not have a RE lawyer for this and have been mostly reaching out to Criminal and Fraud attorneys.  (Apparently found out that Wells Fargo has no liability beyond 60 days if someone is cleaning out your accounts over years.)  

I have been performing triage on a situation that was brought about by my father who is not mentally well but hid it.  Did not really realize the extent until my grandmother passed away, I started reviewing the accounts, and realized he was a month away from being on the street and losing the house.  

@Tim Chapman, No Tennessee justice here in California, but I appreciate the sentiment.  

@Kim Meredith Hampton I do have power of attorney over the trust, estate, and my father.  

I had changed all the locks and my father had not locked the back door so she found her way back in.  In the past she had taken my father's car and the police would not report it stolen because in the past she had been given permission to use the car before.  With this logic, if you let me borrow your car at anytime in the past and then took it, you could not report it stollen?

This is the kind of craziness that I am dealing with

I had spoken with several attorneys in the past and they said that I could not prove that my father did not give her permission to take 10's of thousands of dollars.  

It seems like I need to file a restraining order so she can not try to move back in.  She also implied that she is "afraid" of my father and that he threatened her.  I am worried that she is going to try to call the police on him and get him arrested in his own home.

@Kim Meredith, a mess is an understatement.  

The Long Beach Police have not been able to help with this situation, so I figured I would reach out to see if the BP community could offer some advice for a huge pain I have been dealing with for over 3 years.

Here is the short story on what is going on today.  A woman who my father met many years ago in Santa Barbara was invited by my father to help him take care of my elderly grandmother.  Apparently my father made an informal agreement (there was no contract or lease) that this would include room and board and $1500 a month.  My grandmother passed away 3 years and it took me a while to get her out of the home, but she moved away.  Turns out that she forced her way back into a back room in the house in Long Beach and does not have a job.  Now she has been texting me and saying that I owe her 18k for back wages and has a lawyer.   Apparently since she has items in the house, the local police are not willing to do anything and get her out.  She is taking advantage of my father who has early onset dementia.  There was no lease or agreement, but she has stolen paperwork from the house and it would not surprise me if she tried to forge something.  

This is just the tip of the iceberg (had to get the house out of foreclosure, 500k disappeared from my Grandmother's estate with some of this linking back to this woman, 45k tax lien, etc.) that I have been made aware of after my Grandmother's death.  

The police have not really been any help and I am wondering what my options are?

Check out Stewart Title.  I have worked with Donna Sepulveda in the past.