About to lose everything to a fraudulent self-help evicting landlord
landlord tenant attorney California Aug 17, 2026
location: California I have tried so much to stop this: several dozen contacts to lawyers to try to enlist help, aid organizations (quick denials—don't meet basic requirements like the correct ZIP code or skin color), my own court filings (link below redacted most recent filing, the content of which the judge essentially ignored informing me that I could not be considered without representation). I've most recently been trying to secure a last-minute mover with storage to at least try to preserve my things (have nowhere to go and am homeless now without all personal effects, meds, IDs, keys to vehicles and vehicles themselves, work items and computers, etc. due to the abusive sheriff's lockout that disallowed me from gathering essentials). It's hard to do all this, maintain a job, and pack at the same time. The disposal people are going to come tomorrow to throw out all my stuff...? (Is what is going to happen from my understanding.) What happened? My biggest surprise was the failure of the judiciary to uphold the law as set forth by statute and precedent, something that in America you're raised to believe is sacred and always available to ensure "liberty and justice for all." My immigrant fiancee, Jane Doe in the document, feels similarly misled and now jaded. I don't really know what to do. We are both highly skilled workers and will be able to recover from this, even while homeless temporarily until we can secure housing (actually much more difficult with this trash on your record, I've already seen it, and credit has already taken a hit), but we stand to lose several hundred thousand dollars of professional equipment from a variety of our ventures, as well as countless priceless family heirlooms of various kinds and invaluable personal items, and undoubtedly will have serious trouble managing our cats during this time. We're both extremely depressed now, extremely helpless and hopeless feeling after exhausting so many resources that would not pull through, and just... I don't know. I'm not sure what I expect, if anything, to come from this posting but interested to see how people feel with insight into how this can happen pretty arbitrarily. It's important not to have any unrealistic expectations about the country, government, or social systems you're subject to. We're taught that they are Good and Moral™ and always there but... the reality is they're invented and run by humans, every single one of which is flawed in some way, mixed in with some truly bad ones with malintent or misguided beliefs. A perfect system from imperfect constituents is probably a pipe dream, I guess. Here is the document I mentioned: https://file.kiwi/71d6d805#LHpI_T_WMx-OOvrYRVGoqA location: California
