The Arellano family said they tried for months to set up a payment plan with Invitation Homes, their landlord, but that the company had been unresponsive
A Riverside family with a severely disabled 10-year-old daughter said they have been given just days to move out of their home after being evicted for falling behind on rent due to COVID-related job loss.“There is the right way to do things and there is a wrong way, and evicting somebody out of their home, behind their back, is not okay,” said Shannon Arellano, who helped her daughter, April, focus on homework as a distraction from the looming threat of eviction.
The family is about $40,000 behind on rent. Antonio Arellano, who works as a flooring contractor, said his business hasn’t recovered from the COVID-related shutdown.Shannon stays home with her daughter, 10-year-old April, who contracted sepsis as a toddler and had to have her right leg, below the knee, amputated. She worries that the eviction situation will be very scary for a child her daughter’s age to understand.
“And I showed her my paperwork, it says March 10th. That’s today at 1 o’clock. I don’t understand how we lost a case that we weren’t here to defend ourselves for,” she said.The Arellanos said they tried for months to set up a payment plan, but their landlord, Invitation Homes, was unresponsive. After CBSLA reached out to Invitation Homes, the Arellanos said a company representative called them the next day saying Invitation Homes would consider a payment plan. The problem, according to the Arellanos, is that the company wants all their missed rent paid back in a year, which would add another $3,000 to their monthly rent.Invitation Homes is one of the largest landlords in America. It saw record profits in both 2020 and 2021, almost $2 billion in revenue last year alone.
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