The eviction

My name is Brian soderstrum...In June of 1999 my wife Hope and I purchased a home in Lamplighter mobile home park, 425 Shorewood ln. We moved in on July 1st with our son cory who was born with downs and is not able to live independantly along with Ms belle (cat) and stevie the "dog" neither of which can live independantly either!. In the following 11 years we have become friendly and or friends with most all of our neighbors, I do neighborhood watch and we've  never once been late on our lot rent, which over the years I've paid around $100,000 in for a 60'X 100' lot . The nightmare starts in Aug. 2010...on 8/2 Hope deposited 3 checks into our Wells fargo account for a total of 1,492.66 and a total balance of 1571.82  the deposit was made via electronic teller and was accepted and credited to our account. On the 3rd I wrote the check for the park  (rent is due by the 6th) and paid the 1036.23 we also paid some bills etc. leaving us (what I believed) to be 255.32....on thurs. evening 8/17 I found an envelope taped to our back door containing a notice that our check had been returned their was also a 3-60 notice included, since this could'nt be right I pulled up our WF acct. online and this is where things really start to get wierd...I see our deposit for 1.492.66 recorded 8/2, but I see that on the 3rd they did a "adjustment to EF ATM deposit" in the amount of 229.34 this amount was for my state of calif. payroll check..so first call to bank gets no satisfactory answer as to why...the second call got me this answer, the check was pulled for nsf and I needed to contact the issuer??? contacting a person in payroll at IHSS scco is to say the least an odyssy, I was able to get ahold of someone on 8/22 who told me in no uncertain terms that my check was fine and I needed to talk to my bank!!. Now in the meantime Hope had called Mikki Reibholz the park magr.Fri. the 18th  and told her what happened and that we were working on it..Mikki basically told her don't worry about it...they chatted a few min.and Hope told her we'd take care of it as fast as we could. Hope next called her tues 8/22 to update her and that we were concerned about the 3day Mikki again assured her it wasn't a problem and she would drop off an "eviction dismissal" form in our mailbox which she did and Hope returned it the following day, so we were shocked to find a notice 9/1 that our request was rejected and eviction action against us would continue....Hope called Mikki and told her we had the funds for Aug. which now totaled with fees $1.154.06  plus the 35.55 WF charged.us!..Mikki (not being so nice now) told her they would not accept our payment and that is that...now back to the bank...when I called them the 3rd time their story was that it had not been endosed properly?? so where's the check?? well....we would have sent it back to you...well I never got it...hmmm don't know what else to tell you sir...it took hours on hold and 6 wks. for the check to be replaced. So now it's the first wk of Sept. and we have not (no surprise) recieved our sept. bill and it's really starting to sink in that they're serious..we had attempted to communicate with MCM co. after the denial but we did not recieve any replies via voice or email. At this point I realised we needed legal help...but were broke so I thought I'd try and learn a little about civil matters and  recourse we might have, well fuggetabout do it yourself civil cases like ours, because as I figured and was right, that I wouldn't even be able to present my case to a judge without an attorney, we recieved a little help with paperwork from the legal aid folks, but theirs not much they can do in cases like this...we recieved referrals but nothing that could help us...we were told all we could do was wait for them to serve us with papers at which time they could help (LA) us file an unlawful detainer to buy us more time,  So now were in "limbo", and I won't even try and convey the stress this puts on one, but for me.. it's worn me out mentally and physically, and we already had enough health problems as it is..to add to all this Cory was diagnosed in Aug. with severe spinal stenosis and needed major surgery which was sched. for sept.10, Hope had told Mikki that we were also dealing with his situation when she told her not to worry about it..I think Mikki knew about this then.. which makes her a pretty "cold" person to put it nicely. By Nov.20th the 60 days had passed without further word....I like to call it 3 mos. in purgatory, but on Dec. 6th we were officially served, I guess they were saving it for Christmas. So back to legal aid for more paperwork..to the couthouse to file papers...then recieving a court date Jan.6 to do battle unrepresented against Todd B. Rothbard & assoc.  attorneys at law  RE: Beaumont investments Ltd. vs B. Soderstrum, or as I like to think of it bringing a squirt gun to a machine gun fight and as expected we got rolled over..since we had no attorney they send you out into the hall to mediate with their attorney and their only agreement was you have till the 18th of Jan. with the option to buy up to an additional 40 days at around $31 a day....to stay in my own house...and to get this done we had to go back to the superior court on the 18th go to the clerks...do more paperwork then go to a different court and wait 3 hours in a courtroom for a judge to approve and sign an order and then go to the bank to get 1100 cash and back to the court clerk to pay them so they wouldn't send the sherrifs out. I have to say this whole process is insane, and all that accomplished is to give us till Feb.10th. to move.... which I don't see as financially or logistically even possible, hell we don't even have a car anymore after ours blew a head gasket...so much for a roof over your head!... and that's where were at  and I'm kinda getting to the end of my rope here. My plan is to put out copies of this to Lamplighter residents as a warning  to how easily they can do this to you and it's all within the law now...the law deems it reasonable that 60 days is enough time to sell or move your home which as all here know is not possible on either account since the owners have priced the park out of what little market their is for buying here, why would you buy a home and pay 1100-1200$ a month rent on top of a house pmt. for no equity!!...yes I know I did ..but things were different in '99 and we bought ours for cash, and it seemed like a good idea at the time ...hindsight being what it is...which begs the question ..why?? are they so dead set on getting rid of us, we pay 928$ a mo. space rent it makes no good biz sense since they have over a half dozen empty lots and at least 20-30 with for sale signs so it's not like they need the space and if it's for monetary reasons I don't see it, even if they steal my home I guarantee they won't be selling it...and I doubt that someone will bring in a new one, buy into their rip off lease and pay 3 grand a month to live in a mobile home park, but that is the only way they could profit and it's crazy to think they would destroy me and my family inc. a 14 yr. old cat and a 12 yr old "dog" for what... to lose money? it makes no sense, If we were a nuisance or problem causers I could understand..if paying our rent had been a problem with a history and warnings I could see it, but those just aren't the facts..the facts are I'm 54 and I'm into scale modeling as some of you know or google me, Hope is 62 and has been trying to run a home biz in travel which unfortunately has not been successful, we vote, abide the law and although I can be a litttle grumpy lol..I think we're pretty well liked and as for Cory ..well this is really unfair to him since it directly affects him and he can't defend himself either. So what would motivate what I now call the Tatum & kaplan gang to pursue us like this...well that's an unanswered question, but judging from their past sins with the lease scams and forced evictions this just seems to be the way they do business ...for a good run down on the Tatum&Kaplan/Beaumont Inv. ltd./ MCM co,/ etc...criminal enterprise go to http://badlease.blogspot.com/2009/10/tatum-kaplan-gangexposed.html  this is the same group that lost their appeal in  the 6th dist. court in '03 for running whats called a straw man scheme from '87-2000 for a total of 14,124 violations in Lamplighter&Casa de Lago ...and sorry but I gotta say these "people" Jeffrey Kaplan, thomas tatum, chelu travieso, teddy Dy, David Starnes natalie Costaglio, todd B. Rothbard law office, Mikki Rebholz and I'm sure others are IMO some very evil folks. So thanks for listening, as of today 1/19 I don't have a clue what were going to do since we have no place to go and no way to get there suggestions welcome!..I also want to say that in listening to Obama speak about the events in Tucson that we need to try and prevent these tragedys from occurring...well I think by taking a case like mine and escalating it out of control you are creating a perfect scenario for it, it won't be me, but who's to say the next Brian wont be armed and a few degrees crazier than they've made me and welll,,geee how could that have been prevented??. and when you feel you have nothing left to lose you start having some pretty crazy thoughts...anyway as much as I've dwelled on this I can't see that we did anything wrong and it honestly baffles me and yea I'm also pretty pissed off..and yes they are operating within the laws they worked very hard in Sac. to get enacted that basically gives them complete power over us and presently you will get zero help from the uncivil justice system unless you can afford an attorney that specializes in the legal black hole of these mobile home parks in Ca. and especially ones owned by this pack of thieves...Ya know this is just plain wrong, immoral and just plain mean, but like everything it's got to be about greed...and it's legal!. So one last thing..I grew up with the message that you fight for family,home and country, well I can't even convey how hollow that concept looks to me right now. Thanks Brian Soderstrum......brihop@mail.com