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On Feb. 20th, I got a message that the remediation had been approved, and work starts on Friday. I don’t know what lit the fire under EGL. Was it just waiting for the OK? Was it a letter from HCIDLA, which performed an inspection the past week? Was it a social worker making a serious…

We paid out of pocket to get some furniture moved out. It was only $72, which I find amazing. It was only a few bulky pieces because everything else had been boxed up and jammed into closets. I also sold off a few items and left a few items out to give away. I got…

It’s now 1/31/2018, and the remediation of the apartment hasn’t really started, yet. Rosa said the carpet is smelling skunky. I hope that’s not mold, but it might be mold. The apartment upstairs flooded on the 18th, so it’s now been 13 days since we haven’t been able to sleep in the bedrooms. The management…

On Friday the 18th, the upstairs apartment’s bathroom got flooded, and water flooded their apartment and drained down onto us. I don’t know the particulars, but I suspect it’s a bad valve. If it was a clog, it would have been like one gallon of water, or less. This was far more than that –…

Hello, neighbor to my dead family. A photo on a headstone, a teenage boy, his hair in a pompadour, collar rumpled, smiling, facing the sun, one of the neighborhood guys. Dead at age 18, in the 1950s, buried in the neighborhood. Tono, the only name on the grave. Japanese headstones stand at attention, waiting for…