[francine]

My old land lord passed away February 8th ,2006 he owned the building for as long as I lived here since 1973, I had a good relationship with him. His son and daughter took over and the son dislikes me and is angry that I am under rent control. Anway to make a long story short, I have had pets since the whole time I have lived here. I have no lease, I live in Los Angeles under rent control. I have 2 little birds two medium sized birds (doves) and I do not cage them however they have their places they roost all day and I am very clean and make sure that daily I clean. The landlord mike that does not like me is demanding to do an inspection... further more he is asked me to stop feeding outside birds, via letter and I said that I am fully cooperative. Then he sent me a second notice and said I am still feeding the birds (which I am NOT) when I phoned him he started snickering and said he's just going to have to pay me a visit and inspect the place and then mentioned my birds flying around and then said that people are seeing me feed birds (his family lives here and at least 5 neighbors will back me saying they do not see me feed birds ) I have stopped completely feeding birds although he says I am please help me thank you francine

[mr.yet]

To protect yourself take pictures of the apartment, document every call from them keep a small tape record close by. They seem to be harassing you. but you have to have evidence. Speak with an attorney about this.

[RickJ]

Yes, document well... and to save some bucks; once you have the documentation lined up (dates, events, copies of notices... everything) you might try a complaint to your State Attorney General. They don't charge anything and are fairly effective in many cases.