About Killer Views
We live at 2965 Waverly Drive, in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
On March 1, 2018, Taylor Equities bought our building. (Formerly called Ness Property Management. They changed their name after the article on CurbedLA, and reviews on Yelp. And in 2019 they hired yet another company, Los Angeles Property Management Group, to hide behind THEIR name.)
Our beautiful building, with yes, Killer Views, was built in 1985, so we don’t have rent control. That means we don’t have any city laws protecting us, and Housing (HCID) won’t help, either.
You know how plastic surgery makes someone unrecognizable, but not younger or better? Our poor homes with these massive changes are different, but worse. Fab to drab.
We are now in Taylor hell.
The question becomes, not how did this happen – the city aided and abetted him every step of the the way – but what to do about it? Will we survive? Any of us?
And can anyone stop this Serial Landlord?
Let’s see.
We’re in the News Now!
We are so grateful to all the alert news sites, TV stations, radio, etc, that have shown interest and concern in our ultimate fight for survival with this unruly landlord.
Univision came to film our very first action, October 6, 2018 in front of our landlady’s restaurant Xi’an on Canon Drive in Beverly Hills! Sweet!
The LA Tenants Union did a great video about how evictions affect the younger set. Our own little dancer (evicted last month) is one of the speakers.
From Knock-LA.com, Jacob Woocher wrote a well-documented article about why he thinks our landlord should stand with the best of the slumlords!
KCRW from NPR came on Nov 15, 2018 when we had a protest and rally outside the landlord’s house near Beverly Hills! Wow, I met Anna Scott!
Well, Jacob Woocher did it again. Published in knock-la.com, his careful research is most impressive. And he explains why he considers Steven Taylor to be the most despicable landlord in Los Angeles.
KTLA, now we’re talkin’! On Jan 28, 2019 after a major protest outside our apartment building on Waverly.
From Capital and Main, February 2019, an in-depth look on how eviction impacts a little girl here…even in tony Silver Lake. It’s not just an inner city problem any more
CBS February 2019, just did a fantastic expose of bad landlords, the housing crisis, and how homelessness is thisclose to many of us. You can see Melinda Peffer and her daughter, the first family to be evicted by Sheriffs here on Waverly. 🙁 Thanks, Grace!
Can you believe, the Los Feliz Ledger invited me to write an editorial for them! I didn’t have to coax them, or anything! I have always lived in the hood while in Los Angeles (our Waverly apartment is only a block or so from Los Feliz) so I hope I can find an affordable place here real soon. Like by May 1, or I’m on the street.
An in-depth article on housing crises in LA by blackrosefed.org. Lots of juicy details on what an occupy is like for tenants groups. (They used to call them sit-ins, but of course that’s way before my time. :))
*Faithful readers,
You can trust that every photo and every word is truthful, and unfortunately, all the events are verifiable. Please ask me for more details, through our Contact page.
About me:
February, 2019
I am the least important part of this building, and the problem, and the housing crisis, but I felt moved to start a tenants organization, of which I was Chair, and to document the events here. Now, after all our struggles, all these months, as I am about to be executed, I mean, evicted, myself, from 2965 Waverly Drive, Apartment 6, I’ll use my real name, just as I do on my Eviction Notice.
I’m the Task Force of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Committee on Housing and Tenants Rights. I’m also a member of the LA Tenants Union.
I’m a cartoonist in multiple periodicals and newspapers. Picky eater, great friend, curious observer, elitist artist, midnight writer, voracious reader, omnivorous chocoholic, impatient driver, and so-so lover.
My editorial cartoons appear in USA Today, WSJ, The New Yorker, LA Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Daily News, CalWatchdog, etc. I’m in the LA Press Club when I remember to pay my dues. I’ve been a delegate in the National Writers Union for several years.
I also do cartoons and write columns for Psych Central. and Psychology Today.
I have two books out and in print, What Do Women REALLY Want? Chocolate!, and Love Me or Go To Hell: True Love Cartoons. Enjoy.
2965 Waverly Drive, Apartment 6
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