September 4, 2025 • 28 mins
Hour 3 (9.4.2025)
FIFA has unveiled ticket prices and sale dates for the upcoming World Cup, but Los Angeles fans are disappointed — the city will only host eight games.
Joining the show is Dean Sharp, “The House Whisperer” and custom home designer, host of HOME on KFI AM 640. Today’s topic: foundation repairs and what to do when the bottom falls out. Dean explains the best options for fixing foundation issues, often tied to soil conditions or drainage problems.
Meanwhile, Downtown Los Angeles — once revitalized during the boom of the Staples Center and new condo developments — now faces fresh backlash. Tenants are speaking out, calling some of the city’s apartments “unlivable.”
FIFA has unveiled ticket prices and sale dates for the upcoming World Cup, but Los Angeles fans are disappointed — the city will only host eight games.
Joining the show is Dean Sharp, “The House Whisperer” and custom home designer, host of HOME on KFI AM 640. Today’s topic: foundation repairs and what to do when the bottom falls out. Dean explains the best options for fixing foundation issues, often tied to soil conditions or drainage problems.
Meanwhile, Downtown Los Angeles — once revitalized during the boom of the Staples Center and new condo developments — now faces fresh backlash. Tenants are speaking out, calling some of the city’s apartments “unlivable.”
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(01:16):
all right, let's talk people.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
That, buddy. Yeah, I'll be fine. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
All right, we've got the World Cup coming to Los Angeles.
I thought there's you know, it's one hundred and eight
or one hundred and ten World Cup Games, and from
and I didn't do any research. I probably should have,
but I thought, and I bet you did, that every
game was going to be in LA. You know, Home
Depot Center, Sofi Stadium, Coliseum, Pasadena, you know, the Big
(01:55):
Rose Bowl. And I thought every game was going to
be in LA. And then I was shocked to learn
that the out of the one hundred and ten games
that are going to be the World Cup in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
LA only gets eight. We're gonna have eight total games.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We're not gonna have the quarterfinals or the semi finals
or even the finals. The finals are going to be
in New York. They're not even gonna be in New York.
They're gonna be in.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
New Jersey, where the Jets and the Giants play.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
So I don't know why we're all, you know, sprucing
up the streets and getting ready for the World Cup
because we're not going to get many games.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
We're gonna get eight games.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Eight So anyway, I know a lot of people are
excited about it. I'm you know, a soccer is not
my thing, but I understand it's popular. So we will
let you know tickets are available and the price and
the date.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So let's roll.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
So the tournament, it's ten months away, but we are
thinking about it right now, right because it's coming to
LA It's coming to Sofi Stadium, So the ticket hype
is happening. And yes, we have new information on how
it all.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So here is your step by step guy.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
First, at least for this first phase, you have to
have a Visa credit or debit card.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And that is because.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The first phase of ticket sales, this kind of pre
sale time is for Visa members only.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well I didn't know that, but I think most people
have a visa. Robin, do you have a Visa card?
Is there a Visa card in your wallet or your
handbag or your purse or your gym bag.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Of course you have visa.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, okay, crazier, you've probably got a visa somewhere right, Yeah,
I had a couple of belly.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh you got visa? Has Visa allowed you credit?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Angel, you got a Visa card?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, Well we're all set. We can all go to everybody.
Everybody's going to the World Cup.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The entry period for the draw starts next Wednesday, September
tenth at eight am. O.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Did you hear that? That's important? Important information.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
The entry period for the draw starts next Wednesday, September tenth,
at eight.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Am eight am next Wednesday, which, by the way, I
don't know if you've heard, the weather is going to
be spectator acula next week.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Oh I got I gotta lay this on you. This
is great.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The weather for next week in Los Angeles. Let's start
with the valley. The high temperature next Wednesday, a week
from yesterday, will be seventy six degrees. It's gonna feel chiley.
It's gonna go down to sixty one at night. Seventy
six will be the high next Wednesday in the San
Fernando Valley. That is sweater weather almost I guess, Cord, Yeah,
(04:29):
sweater weather. But in Huntington Beach, your high next week
will be seventy four degrees sweater weather. And then if
you live up in the mountains, next week the high
on Fridays sixty two degrees. Forty four is the low.
So next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the low is
forty nine, forty seven, forty five, and forty eight in
(04:52):
Big Bear. Up in the mountains, it's getting chili, it's
getting cold. Sixty four, sixty three sixty two and sixty
seven will be the high in Big Bear, Lancaster. And
we've got a lot of people who listened to KFI
out in the Lancaster area. Next Wednesday, the high in
Lancaster seventy seven degrees low fifty nine, fifty nine degrees.
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Hey, now, yeah? Is that great? Crows?
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Does that make you feel better? We're number one? Always
known that, Yeah, I was. I was pushing the the
extolling the virtues of the Inland Empire and our listening
audience out there as long as I've been here. That's true,
that's true. When how long ago did you move to
Montclair claimont Claremont? Sorry, ninety three, But even before that,
I was in Cuckamonga.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Okay? So, and when were you in Cuckamonga, like from
eighty or from ninety on?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, So you've been out there, you've been out there
for thirty five years.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
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And Croser's always been a big fan of the Inland Empire.
He's the King of the I've always said underserved audience
by us, but now for you. Yeah, no, I'd love
it out there. If i'd do it all over again,
I'd buy a house out there and raise my daughter
out there, probably alone because my wife wouldn't slide out there,
but maybe never know. Eighty six will be the high
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next Thursday in the Illan Empire. Sixty four is your low.
It's going to be sixty four degrees in the Inland
Empire next week, so that's going to be great. I'm
going to the Inland Empire. Is Hemmot, the Ilant Empires
up part of Hemmet. Is Hemmet part of them?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Like South yeah, South, I.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
E yeah, I mean Riverside buzzing out there tomorrow, all right?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
For people going to Mammoth.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
How about this, It's going to be thirty six degrees
next Thursday in Mammoth Belly. You're a big fan of Mammoth.
I know that you and U and John Bellio liked
to buzz out there. Huh yeah yeah. What are you eating? Nothing,
big old sandwich, No, big old bites wrong, big bites wrong.
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Six Thirty six is the low. Fifty four is the
high in Mammoth that's that's skiing weather. Get out there
and enjoy yourself, and then one more here and then
we'll get back to news the coast Santa Monica, Malibu
next week. Your high at seventy four degrees, low as
fifty nine, fifty nine degrees. So all this crazy heat
(07:29):
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Speaker 3 (08:48):
Dean Sharp is with us. He's the house whisper.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
He does the show every single Saturday morning six eight
am here on KFI and then on Sunday from nine
am until noon.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Welcome to the program, you bob, you know what I am? Great.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
I just spent I know you can appreciate this. I
spent the last forty five minutes enjoying one of the
most satisfying things a man can engage in.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh, you're listening to our show. That's awest well as
you can.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
It was actually referring to pressure washing. I've been pressure washing. Okay, Well,
you know what I think.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You're right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I think pressure washing of all the things I do
around the house. Krozer will attest to this because he
just recently bought his first one. There's nothing more satisfying
than pressure washing.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
No, there isn't. There isn't. It's just the best. I
am a huge, huge pressure washing I'm with advocate. But
here's here's the problem with it. And you'll know this
and Krozier will as well. When you're pressure washing, the
mist gives you his false sense that you that your
body's not hot, and you get exhausted and dehydrated because
(09:52):
you feel like you're cool, but your body needs more water.
And once you're done pressure washing, your exhaust lost it
and dehydrated. Yeah, that's true, because you feel like you
feel like you're standing in line at an amusement park
ride with those.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Misters all around you. That's right, the mist is all
around you.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
And then you realize, wow, I've just been out in
the sun for two hours.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's no good. That's great. Let me talk to real
quickly about this. I know, belly oh if this is
one of her big things. How much a foundation and
movement in your foundation is acceptable?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And when to worry.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
When you start to see cracks on the outside of
your house, should you immediately be alarmed?
Speaker 8 (10:31):
You should move out and sell just sell some other
chump huh, try and clean them up, try and hide them,
sell the house, don't report them, and leave the state.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That's great, Okay, all right, that's great advice. Yeah. Yeah, no,
it always works out that way.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
No.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Uh, you know, you know what, that's the probably the
trickiest thing about foundation repair is figuring out is this
a real problem. Because here's the thing. Foundation's crack because
they're made of concrete. Okay, concrete cracks. We say in
this business, we say there are only two kinds of
concrete in the world, concrete that has cracked and concrete
(11:10):
that has not cracked yet. Okay, so concrete's gonna crack.
It's just the nature of what concrete is. It's very
very strong, incredibly strong in one way one way, and
that is what we call compressive strength. You could take
a six inch by six inch block of concrete that
(11:31):
is that's rated at let's they say thirty two hundred
psi thirty two hundred pounds per square inch of resistive force,
and you could park your car on that block of
concrete and it would not even know it was there. Okay, wow.
And then you take that same block of concrete here's
the problem though, because that's compressive strength, but concrete is
(11:52):
also very brittle. So you can take that same block
of concrete and just carry it into the garage and
whack it with a hammer and crack it right in two.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
So that's why we put rebar in concrete reinforcement steel,
because the reinforcement steel helps it with the fact that
it's brittle and helps hold it together. But even at that,
as years pass, as years turn into decades, the concrete settles,
the ground shifts, because it's only as good as the
ground that it's sitting on. And then eventually we get cracks,
(12:23):
but little tiny spider cracks, what we call spider cracks,
kind of like webby kind of things in which there's
no separation and there's no there's no change in elevation
from one side of the crack to the other. Those
are the things that we're really looking for. Okay, Is
that crack opening up and is it rising up? Is
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one side all of a sudden, you know, a quarter
of an inch or a half an inch above the
other side. Now we've got reason to be concerned, and
we should call in some pros to take a look.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
At okay, But now where do cracks most happen? Are
they near the doorways where you know it's not as solid,
or are the interior walls exterior walls?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Where do you Where do you see the most often
cracks are gonna occur.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
It's it's hard for me to tell you, Okay, it's
gonna happen here because every house layout is different. But
cracks are gonna occur in the easiest place possible. So
wherever we've got a thin stretch of concrete versus a
thicker stretch of concrete, or where we've got a corner,
a short corner, you know, pressure on that area. Think
of a cracker. And I hate to freak people out
(13:32):
when they you know, think of a cracker. And depending
on where you put pressure on that cracker, where is
it going to crack? Well, chances are if you start
to bend it, probably one of the corners is going
to snap kind of diagonally across the corner. Uh, those
kinds of things. So part of the art of pouring
concrete and designing concrete is to get it to crack
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where we want it to, but where we expect it
to and to be ready for that and to reinforce
when it comes to a foundation. There is no such
thing as scoring a foundation, so that we're encouraging it
to crack. We just don't want it to at all, right,
and so as a result we got to keep an
eye on it. If a floor is starting to sink
out of level, out of you know, if it's starting
to dip, if you can if you can feel that
(14:17):
you're going downhill when you're crossing the living room.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
These are things to be concerned about. Yeah, okay, can
you stay with us? Sure? Okay, Dean Sharpers Weathers.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We'll come back and talk to you more about foundations
and we have some more ideas as well.
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If nobody wins on Saturday, could go to two billion
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So go get your tickets. Dean Sharps Weathers.
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He's on every Saturday from six a to eight am
here on Saturday, and then on Sunday nine am until noon.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Dean sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He's on every weekend, Saturday morning and Sunday morning right
here on KFI. We're talking about foundations and this all
came up because Bellio has a wall in She lives
in this huge palace in Irvine, and one of her
walls that is surrounding the moat at her house is leaning.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
What's going on with you, Bellio?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
So it's yeah, at my moat, the wall's leaning.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
So a company that.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
They put cables into your grass, i guess, and they
hook it onto the wall and they pull it back.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Are you familiar with this?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, Are those any good to help with that?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You know?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Sure? Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Okay, thank you Gan. Excellent.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So here's the problem, Sharon, here's the problem.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
You know, here's the problem is that there's no magic
bullet for any one thing. And that's one of the
most difficult things about foundation repair, retaining wall repairs, you know,
because we see different situations all the time. So, yeah,
that is a fix. That's one of the fixes that
sometimes works.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Okay, wait, there's another one that belly O they offered Bellio.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What about the phone foam that expands?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Yeah, So it sounds to me like maybe the the
soil underneath this wall is starting to like like there's
an irrigation issue, that's there's there's a washout issue, because
if they're talking about foam, then they're talking about filling voids, yes,
voids in the soil underneath the footing, and I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That I would treat. You know, I'm not treating. Here's
the thing.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
I got no problem doing a sidewalk with foam underneath
the sidewalk or some flatwork, right, But if this is
a retaining wall, I mean, if it's holding back the
hillside from falling into the moat, Okay, then then I'm
not filling it up with the foam. I'm not filling
it up with foam. I'm probably filling it up with
more cement, more concrete.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Right.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
And before that, I'm trying to figure out where is
this water coming from? Why am I getting washed out
on this wall, and how can we stop that from happening.
Maybe we need to excavate the backside of the wall
and get some French drain action down at the bottom
so that we can take because I'll tell you what, Sharon,
you know one of the things that never that no
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wall anywhere, no concrete anywhere on planet Earth survives and
that is what we call hydrostatic pressure. Water in the
soil pushing on one side of the wall. The water
will win. Really, it will always win. Okay, it will
always win. So we have to find a way to
waterproof the wall and drain. That's what French drains at
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the bottom of retaining walls are all about. And weeps
weeps at the bottom of retaining walls. And what I
mean by that is at the bottom of retaining wall
we will often leave areas of the mortar open so
that moisture can come through the wall at the bottom
because what we don't want is water building up at
the base of that wall, because it will.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You just here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Just take a trip to the Grand Canyon and you
take a look at this ten mile wide hole okay
in solid rock, and just remind yourself water always wins.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It started with water. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I also have a question, is this true?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Someone once told me that a house that's fifty years
fifty years or older will shift up to a foot
in that fifty year span.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Uh, it can can shift, but will it shift?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
No?
Speaker 8 (18:27):
No, that's I mean, that's that's that's somebody saying, you know,
the Yeah, sure, a house can move up to a
foot up or down depending and that's relative elevation, okay,
And so what we mean is the entire neighborhood may
shift up and down a foot in a fifty year span.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That doesn't mean that the house, you know, sitting in
your yard all of.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
A sudden, you're why is my house a foot taller
than it was fifteen years ago?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Am closer than neighbor? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
So just to remember that a foundation is a snowshoe, Okay,
It's it's it's sitting there. It's this broad thing that's
that's trying to lay itself out and kind of key
itself into the soil. But I said kind of at
the beginning. You know, foundation is only good as the
soil that it's sitting on, and so it's trying its
best to kind of float out all this weight and
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spread it out.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
As far as possible on the soil.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
And that's why when it comes to this, you know there,
we don't turn to the concrete guys who built the walls.
We don't turn to the concrete guys who pour the slabs.
We turn to specialty concrete contractors. And those are the guys,
by the way, that I have on the show this sun.
I've got Mark and James from Foundation Repair LA. These
guys are the finest foundation repair surgeons in the land.
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And so we're gonna spend three hours talking about all
these different kinds of things. And that's why it's so
critical that you have somebody look at it like me,
who you trust to tell you honestly what should happen next,
because you know, anybody, because you have no idea what's
going on with this wall. But it could come out
and say all.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Right, we're gonna use some uh, we're gonna use some
cheese whiz.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
And uh and and some you know, and you're like, okay,
I guess if that's standard practice. And so it's just
an area that is so obscure, so out of the
wheelhouse of most homeowners that you just got to get
eyes on by somebody that you can trust. And believe me,
there's some people out there who will just take advantage
and just not that they won't fix the problem ultimately,
(20:26):
but fix it for three times as you know, more
money than it needs to be and so and and
you wouldn't know any better and so it's a it's
a tough, tough area, and that's why we're trying to
address it.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
This belly.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Are other places around you also experiencing water and walls moving? Yes, okay,
then it's a huge problem. I would it's the soil.
He's right, it's the soil.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Yeah, so this sounds like it is a development wide soil.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But then, but then shouldn't her homeowners association take care
of it if it's.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Well? But it is the funniest thing you've said all day.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But if it's affecting five or six units, they should.
That's one of the reasons why you pay for that
is it isn't it Pellia?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
No? You know, here's the thing, homeowners.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
I mean, if there is a fundamental flaw in the development,
that's right, that's what happens, then sure, maybe the homeowners
association will be on the hook, you know, with their
massive dues that they collect, right, and they're they're they're
huge trust fund savings account after several lawsuits. Okay, but
that's not that's really it's really not what the homeowners
(21:36):
association is for. It's really outside of their purview. And
I'm not sure. In most ccnrs, and I'm sorry for
using that term covenance codes and restrictions. That means the
agreement that you have in your property with the homeowners association.
Most of the time, the homeowners association is not on
the hook for Oh, by the way, the entire third
block of the development is moving quickly towards the second
(21:58):
block of the development. Usually they're not on the hook
for that kind of stuff. They're just the people who
maintain the community pool.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well, I mean that's what you get when you, you know,
you build a house or in your case, belly on
on on the site of an old garbage dump.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, bad move.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
So you know what, Hey, here's the thing. There is hope, though,
there is hope. There's hope. So listen listening to Sunday Show.
Listen talk to Mark and James. They'll they'll get it straightened.
If these guys can't fix it, then you have to
do what I said at the beginning, which you just
move out, leave the state and if everything will be
if it can be fixed, it can be these guys.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
These guys have an ants. I'll get down there this weekend.
Belly I'll not better.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I'm busy this weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, all right, Dean.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Thanks Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI. We'll talk
to you next week. Hey, and Saturday. By the way,
I'm going to be out there at the American.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'll see you there, all right, Thanks man, all right,
Dean Sharp will be out there this Saturday and Seem
Valley from eleven am till three pm in American Vision windows,
So get on out there. I'll be there from one
to three and there's fun food and prizes. So if
you live in Seni Valley, Thousand Oaks, Moore Park, that
whole area, we don't get out there often, but we're
out there this Saturday, eleven am to three pm.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
We'll see there.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty Back.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
When Staples Center was being built and all the unbelievable
condominiums that were being erected downtown Los Angeles, and everybody
wanted to move to downtown. It seemed like such a
beautiful move, you know, spacious, big apartments and lost downtown LA.
There's a vibe where everybody was moving to downtown LA,
(23:35):
and you didn't want to be left out. You wanted
to get like a condo down there, or some kind
of townhouse or an apartment and be part of the resurgence.
That's downtown LA. All right, Well that was thirty years ago.
How's it going in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We were given the opportunity to speak with those tenants
inside their homes. They invited us into their apartments to
show us what they call unlivable conditions. What unlivable conditions?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Unlivable conditions. Man, it went from the gold rush to
unlivable conditions pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
We also have the opportunity to speak with the landlord,
who says that she's actually willing to do repairs, but
she blames the tenants for the fact that things haven't
been fixed. First thing, Wednesday mornings, City of Los Angeles
housing inspectors came knocking at an apartment complex on South
Wright Street. All have a good day.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
We were access access you heard it, so anyways, you
have a good day.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They didn't get far. The person who turned away the
inspectors is the building's owner and landlord, who said the
city didn't give her thirty days notice. The people around
the door are tenants who tell us they've been complaining
about their living conditions for years and they're demanding a change,
inviting us inside to show missing ceilings, limited light, what
appears to be molled holes, and walls, plumbing issues.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That's downtown. It was the it was the golden jewel
of downtown for a while. Everybody wanted a piece of it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Now inviting us inside to show missing.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Ceilings, missing ceilings, What happened to the ceiling? It's missing,
What happened to it?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's just missing, limited light, what appears to be moled
holes and walls, plumbing issues.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
There you go, Downtown La.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
The building with sits directly under the ten one ten
interchange has forty three units. It's unclear how many are occupied,
but tenants say dozens of people are in the same boat.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Wit How close is it to the one ten and
the ten with The.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Building with sits directly under the ten one ten interchange has.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Sped well the ten one ten interchange.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
It's unclear how many are occupied, but tenants say dozens
of people are in the same boat. Adriana Montez has
lived here over two years. She says it's been hell.
This isn't life. Hire no, I'm Karna def Maria Pala.
We're from NBC and Telemundo. We're doing a story about
some conditions tenants have been complaining about the owners. Nella
(25:58):
Patruscan who also lives there. I can't do repairs if
they don't let me in. Both the landlord and tenants
accuse each other of violence and intimidation.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Oh, this is the worst. When you hate your landlord
and your landlord hates the tenants. Nothing gets done, nothing.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And they deny the other's allegations.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
They don't want repairs.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
What they want is discounted rent through sinceys, most people's
rent is between five hundred and eight hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
That's a good deal five to eight hundred bucks living
in downtown Lla, though some.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
May be required to pay less because of the condition
of their apartments. This building was built in nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Now, as you're going to tell, the rents reflect the page.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
So it's an old building.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I fix everything, but you know it's an old building.
The City of La Housing Department website shows the city
has received over one hundred complaints about the condition of
the property.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Wow, one hundred complaints. That's people taking time to actually complain.
Can you imagine how horrible that building is if it
has one hundred complaints because most people don't want to
make any waves. You know, maybe you're you know, you
got three jobs. You have time to go to downtown
LA and go through all the paperwork and all the
politics to complain to the right people. So there must
(27:05):
be hundreds and hundreds of people complaining.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Many marked as resolved, but others have led to legal action.
The La City Attorney's Office confirms the landlord Protrucian is
accused of forty three counts of tenant harassment, nineteen counts
of building code violations, three counts of battery.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
A fun place to live where there's just arguments and
fights all day long.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Tenant harassment, nineteen counts of building code violations, three counts
of battery, two counts of unlawful demand for rent relating
to complaints from July of twenty twenty four to June
of twenty twenty five. She has another pending criminal case
regarding sixteen alleged building code violations from a May twenty
twenty four inspection.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
That we've been fighting for a couple of years now
to get the building taken from her control and for
the conditions to change in the building.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
David Albright is a member of the LA Tenants Association
who has helped the tenants of this building organize.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
And it's our position that no one should be allowed
to own a building who treats their tenants like this.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The people who live here tell us they feel they
must fight for this place.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I Mekemanos muss Le, Eleentre adding up the costs moving
Monte says is simply too expensive.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And landlords actually do in court tomorrow to face some
of those charges and then do in court on October thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
H that's wild, What a wild place to live downtown
Los Angeles. Hey, if you're a big Uber fan, we'll
do this story. I don't know, maybe tomorrow, if we're
on tomorrow, I think we or not on tomorrow. Chargers
and the chiefs r on tomorrow. But Uber is now
taking cash. If you're an Uber driver and you want
to pay in cash, you could do so now in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
All right, Moe Kelly coming up next.
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Oh well, then tune in at six oh seven because
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(01:16):
all right, let's talk people.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
That, buddy. Yeah, I'll be fine. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
All right, we've got the World Cup coming to Los Angeles.
I thought there's you know, it's one hundred and eight
or one hundred and ten World Cup Games, and from
and I didn't do any research. I probably should have,
but I thought, and I bet you did, that every
game was going to be in LA. You know, Home
Depot Center, Sofi Stadium, Coliseum, Pasadena, you know, the Big
(01:55):
Rose Bowl. And I thought every game was going to
be in LA. And then I was shocked to learn
that the out of the one hundred and ten games
that are going to be the World Cup in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
LA only gets eight. We're gonna have eight total games.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We're not gonna have the quarterfinals or the semi finals
or even the finals. The finals are going to be
in New York. They're not even gonna be in New York.
They're gonna be in.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
New Jersey, where the Jets and the Giants play.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
So I don't know why we're all, you know, sprucing
up the streets and getting ready for the World Cup
because we're not going to get many games.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
We're gonna get eight games.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Eight So anyway, I know a lot of people are
excited about it. I'm you know, a soccer is not
my thing, but I understand it's popular. So we will
let you know tickets are available and the price and
the date.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So let's roll.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
So the tournament, it's ten months away, but we are
thinking about it right now, right because it's coming to
LA It's coming to Sofi Stadium, So the ticket hype
is happening. And yes, we have new information on how
it all.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So here is your step by step guy.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
First, at least for this first phase, you have to
have a Visa credit or debit card.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And that is because.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The first phase of ticket sales, this kind of pre
sale time is for Visa members only.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well I didn't know that, but I think most people
have a visa. Robin, do you have a Visa card?
Is there a Visa card in your wallet or your
handbag or your purse or your gym bag.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Of course you have visa.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, okay, crazier, you've probably got a visa somewhere right, Yeah,
I had a couple of belly.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh you got visa? Has Visa allowed you credit?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Angel, you got a Visa card?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, Well we're all set. We can all go to everybody.
Everybody's going to the World Cup.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The entry period for the draw starts next Wednesday, September
tenth at eight am. O.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Did you hear that? That's important? Important information.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
The entry period for the draw starts next Wednesday, September tenth,
at eight.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Am eight am next Wednesday, which, by the way, I
don't know if you've heard, the weather is going to
be spectator acula next week.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Oh I got I gotta lay this on you. This
is great.
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The weather for next week in Los Angeles. Let's start
with the valley. The high temperature next Wednesday, a week
from yesterday, will be seventy six degrees. It's gonna feel chiley.
It's gonna go down to sixty one at night. Seventy
six will be the high next Wednesday in the San
Fernando Valley. That is sweater weather almost I guess, Cord, Yeah,
(04:29):
sweater weather. But in Huntington Beach, your high next week
will be seventy four degrees sweater weather. And then if
you live up in the mountains, next week the high
on Fridays sixty two degrees. Forty four is the low.
So next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the low is
forty nine, forty seven, forty five, and forty eight in
(04:52):
Big Bear. Up in the mountains, it's getting chili, it's
getting cold. Sixty four, sixty three sixty two and sixty
seven will be the high in Big Bear, Lancaster. And
we've got a lot of people who listened to KFI
out in the Lancaster area. Next Wednesday, the high in
Lancaster seventy seven degrees low fifty nine, fifty nine degrees.
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and have a good night sleep. Now the Inland Empire,
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Hey, now, yeah? Is that great? Crows?
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Does that make you feel better? We're number one? Always
known that, Yeah, I was. I was pushing the the
extolling the virtues of the Inland Empire and our listening
audience out there as long as I've been here. That's true,
that's true. When how long ago did you move to
Montclair claimont Claremont? Sorry, ninety three, But even before that,
I was in Cuckamonga.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Okay? So, and when were you in Cuckamonga, like from
eighty or from ninety on?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, So you've been out there, you've been out there
for thirty five years.
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And Croser's always been a big fan of the Inland Empire.
He's the King of the I've always said underserved audience
by us, but now for you. Yeah, no, I'd love
it out there. If i'd do it all over again,
I'd buy a house out there and raise my daughter
out there, probably alone because my wife wouldn't slide out there,
but maybe never know. Eighty six will be the high
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next Thursday in the Illan Empire. Sixty four is your low.
It's going to be sixty four degrees in the Inland
Empire next week, so that's going to be great. I'm
going to the Inland Empire. Is Hemmot, the Ilant Empires
up part of Hemmet. Is Hemmet part of them?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Like South yeah, South, I.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
E yeah, I mean Riverside buzzing out there tomorrow, all right?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
For people going to Mammoth.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
How about this, It's going to be thirty six degrees
next Thursday in Mammoth Belly. You're a big fan of Mammoth.
I know that you and U and John Bellio liked
to buzz out there. Huh yeah yeah. What are you eating? Nothing,
big old sandwich, No, big old bites wrong, big bites wrong.
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Six Thirty six is the low. Fifty four is the
high in Mammoth that's that's skiing weather. Get out there
and enjoy yourself, and then one more here and then
we'll get back to news the coast Santa Monica, Malibu
next week. Your high at seventy four degrees, low as
fifty nine, fifty nine degrees. So all this crazy heat
(07:29):
we've had last week and a half two weeks, it's
all going away by midweek next week and we're going
back to fall. So decorate for you know, for Halloween,
get yourself ready for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanza, Honica, New Year's.
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We're on the way. We're on our way.
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Welcome to the program, you bob, you know what I am? Great.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
I just spent I know you can appreciate this. I
spent the last forty five minutes enjoying one of the
most satisfying things a man can engage in.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh, you're listening to our show. That's awest well as
you can.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
It was actually referring to pressure washing. I've been pressure washing. Okay, Well,
you know what I think.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You're right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I think pressure washing of all the things I do
around the house. Krozer will attest to this because he
just recently bought his first one. There's nothing more satisfying
than pressure washing.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
No, there isn't. There isn't. It's just the best. I
am a huge, huge pressure washing I'm with advocate. But
here's here's the problem with it. And you'll know this
and Krozier will as well. When you're pressure washing, the
mist gives you his false sense that you that your
body's not hot, and you get exhausted and dehydrated because
(09:52):
you feel like you're cool, but your body needs more water.
And once you're done pressure washing, your exhaust lost it
and dehydrated. Yeah, that's true, because you feel like you
feel like you're standing in line at an amusement park
ride with those.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Misters all around you. That's right, the mist is all
around you.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
And then you realize, wow, I've just been out in
the sun for two hours.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's no good. That's great. Let me talk to real
quickly about this. I know, belly oh if this is
one of her big things. How much a foundation and
movement in your foundation is acceptable?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And when to worry.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
When you start to see cracks on the outside of
your house, should you immediately be alarmed?
Speaker 8 (10:31):
You should move out and sell just sell some other
chump huh, try and clean them up, try and hide them,
sell the house, don't report them, and leave the state.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That's great, Okay, all right, that's great advice. Yeah. Yeah, no,
it always works out that way.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
No.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Uh, you know, you know what, that's the probably the
trickiest thing about foundation repair is figuring out is this
a real problem. Because here's the thing. Foundation's crack because
they're made of concrete. Okay, concrete cracks. We say in
this business, we say there are only two kinds of
concrete in the world, concrete that has cracked and concrete
(11:10):
that has not cracked yet. Okay, so concrete's gonna crack.
It's just the nature of what concrete is. It's very
very strong, incredibly strong in one way one way, and
that is what we call compressive strength. You could take
a six inch by six inch block of concrete that
(11:31):
is that's rated at let's they say thirty two hundred
psi thirty two hundred pounds per square inch of resistive force,
and you could park your car on that block of
concrete and it would not even know it was there. Okay, wow.
And then you take that same block of concrete here's
the problem though, because that's compressive strength, but concrete is
(11:52):
also very brittle. So you can take that same block
of concrete and just carry it into the garage and
whack it with a hammer and crack it right in two.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
So that's why we put rebar in concrete reinforcement steel,
because the reinforcement steel helps it with the fact that
it's brittle and helps hold it together. But even at that,
as years pass, as years turn into decades, the concrete settles,
the ground shifts, because it's only as good as the
ground that it's sitting on. And then eventually we get cracks,
(12:23):
but little tiny spider cracks, what we call spider cracks,
kind of like webby kind of things in which there's
no separation and there's no there's no change in elevation
from one side of the crack to the other. Those
are the things that we're really looking for. Okay, Is
that crack opening up and is it rising up? Is
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one side all of a sudden, you know, a quarter
of an inch or a half an inch above the
other side. Now we've got reason to be concerned, and
we should call in some pros to take a look.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
At okay, But now where do cracks most happen? Are
they near the doorways where you know it's not as solid,
or are the interior walls exterior walls?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Where do you Where do you see the most often
cracks are gonna occur.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
It's it's hard for me to tell you, Okay, it's
gonna happen here because every house layout is different. But
cracks are gonna occur in the easiest place possible. So
wherever we've got a thin stretch of concrete versus a
thicker stretch of concrete, or where we've got a corner,
a short corner, you know, pressure on that area. Think
of a cracker. And I hate to freak people out
(13:32):
when they you know, think of a cracker. And depending
on where you put pressure on that cracker, where is
it going to crack? Well, chances are if you start
to bend it, probably one of the corners is going
to snap kind of diagonally across the corner. Uh, those
kinds of things. So part of the art of pouring
concrete and designing concrete is to get it to crack
(13:54):
where we want it to, but where we expect it
to and to be ready for that and to reinforce
when it comes to a foundation. There is no such
thing as scoring a foundation, so that we're encouraging it
to crack. We just don't want it to at all, right,
and so as a result we got to keep an
eye on it. If a floor is starting to sink
out of level, out of you know, if it's starting
to dip, if you can if you can feel that
(14:17):
you're going downhill when you're crossing the living room.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
These are things to be concerned about. Yeah, okay, can
you stay with us? Sure? Okay, Dean Sharpers Weathers.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We'll come back and talk to you more about foundations
and we have some more ideas as well.
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So go get your tickets. Dean Sharps Weathers.
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He's on every Saturday from six a to eight am
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You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Dean sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He's on every weekend, Saturday morning and Sunday morning right
here on KFI. We're talking about foundations and this all
came up because Bellio has a wall in She lives
in this huge palace in Irvine, and one of her
walls that is surrounding the moat at her house is leaning.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
What's going on with you, Bellio?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
So it's yeah, at my moat, the wall's leaning.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
So a company that.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
They put cables into your grass, i guess, and they
hook it onto the wall and they pull it back.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Are you familiar with this?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, Are those any good to help with that?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You know?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Sure? Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Okay, thank you Gan. Excellent.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So here's the problem, Sharon, here's the problem.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
You know, here's the problem is that there's no magic
bullet for any one thing. And that's one of the
most difficult things about foundation repair, retaining wall repairs, you know,
because we see different situations all the time. So, yeah,
that is a fix. That's one of the fixes that
sometimes works.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Okay, wait, there's another one that belly O they offered Bellio.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What about the phone foam that expands?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Yeah, So it sounds to me like maybe the the
soil underneath this wall is starting to like like there's
an irrigation issue, that's there's there's a washout issue, because
if they're talking about foam, then they're talking about filling voids, yes,
voids in the soil underneath the footing, and I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That I would treat. You know, I'm not treating. Here's
the thing.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
I got no problem doing a sidewalk with foam underneath
the sidewalk or some flatwork, right, But if this is
a retaining wall, I mean, if it's holding back the
hillside from falling into the moat, Okay, then then I'm
not filling it up with the foam. I'm not filling
it up with foam. I'm probably filling it up with
more cement, more concrete.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Right.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
And before that, I'm trying to figure out where is
this water coming from? Why am I getting washed out
on this wall, and how can we stop that from happening.
Maybe we need to excavate the backside of the wall
and get some French drain action down at the bottom
so that we can take because I'll tell you what, Sharon,
you know one of the things that never that no
(17:16):
wall anywhere, no concrete anywhere on planet Earth survives and
that is what we call hydrostatic pressure. Water in the
soil pushing on one side of the wall. The water
will win. Really, it will always win. Okay, it will
always win. So we have to find a way to
waterproof the wall and drain. That's what French drains at
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the bottom of retaining walls are all about. And weeps
weeps at the bottom of retaining walls. And what I
mean by that is at the bottom of retaining wall
we will often leave areas of the mortar open so
that moisture can come through the wall at the bottom
because what we don't want is water building up at
the base of that wall, because it will.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You just here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Just take a trip to the Grand Canyon and you
take a look at this ten mile wide hole okay
in solid rock, and just remind yourself water always wins.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It started with water. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I also have a question, is this true?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Someone once told me that a house that's fifty years
fifty years or older will shift up to a foot
in that fifty year span.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Uh, it can can shift, but will it shift?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
No?
Speaker 8 (18:27):
No, that's I mean, that's that's that's somebody saying, you know,
the Yeah, sure, a house can move up to a
foot up or down depending and that's relative elevation, okay,
And so what we mean is the entire neighborhood may
shift up and down a foot in a fifty year span.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That doesn't mean that the house, you know, sitting in
your yard all of.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
A sudden, you're why is my house a foot taller
than it was fifteen years ago?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Am closer than neighbor? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
So just to remember that a foundation is a snowshoe, Okay,
It's it's it's sitting there. It's this broad thing that's
that's trying to lay itself out and kind of key
itself into the soil. But I said kind of at
the beginning. You know, foundation is only good as the
soil that it's sitting on, and so it's trying its
best to kind of float out all this weight and
(19:15):
spread it out.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
As far as possible on the soil.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
And that's why when it comes to this, you know there,
we don't turn to the concrete guys who built the walls.
We don't turn to the concrete guys who pour the slabs.
We turn to specialty concrete contractors. And those are the guys,
by the way, that I have on the show this sun.
I've got Mark and James from Foundation Repair LA. These
guys are the finest foundation repair surgeons in the land.
(19:43):
And so we're gonna spend three hours talking about all
these different kinds of things. And that's why it's so
critical that you have somebody look at it like me,
who you trust to tell you honestly what should happen next,
because you know, anybody, because you have no idea what's
going on with this wall. But it could come out
and say all.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Right, we're gonna use some uh, we're gonna use some
cheese whiz.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
And uh and and some you know, and you're like, okay,
I guess if that's standard practice. And so it's just
an area that is so obscure, so out of the
wheelhouse of most homeowners that you just got to get
eyes on by somebody that you can trust. And believe me,
there's some people out there who will just take advantage
and just not that they won't fix the problem ultimately,
(20:26):
but fix it for three times as you know, more
money than it needs to be and so and and
you wouldn't know any better and so it's a it's
a tough, tough area, and that's why we're trying to
address it.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
This belly.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Are other places around you also experiencing water and walls moving? Yes, okay,
then it's a huge problem. I would it's the soil.
He's right, it's the soil.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Yeah, so this sounds like it is a development wide soil.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But then, but then shouldn't her homeowners association take care
of it if it's.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Well? But it is the funniest thing you've said all day.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But if it's affecting five or six units, they should.
That's one of the reasons why you pay for that
is it isn't it Pellia?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
No? You know, here's the thing, homeowners.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
I mean, if there is a fundamental flaw in the development,
that's right, that's what happens, then sure, maybe the homeowners
association will be on the hook, you know, with their
massive dues that they collect, right, and they're they're they're
huge trust fund savings account after several lawsuits. Okay, but
that's not that's really it's really not what the homeowners
(21:36):
association is for. It's really outside of their purview. And
I'm not sure. In most ccnrs, and I'm sorry for
using that term covenance codes and restrictions. That means the
agreement that you have in your property with the homeowners association.
Most of the time, the homeowners association is not on
the hook for Oh, by the way, the entire third
block of the development is moving quickly towards the second
(21:58):
block of the development. Usually they're not on the hook
for that kind of stuff. They're just the people who
maintain the community pool.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well, I mean that's what you get when you, you know,
you build a house or in your case, belly on
on on the site of an old garbage dump.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, bad move.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
So you know what, Hey, here's the thing. There is hope, though,
there is hope. There's hope. So listen listening to Sunday Show.
Listen talk to Mark and James. They'll they'll get it straightened.
If these guys can't fix it, then you have to
do what I said at the beginning, which you just
move out, leave the state and if everything will be
if it can be fixed, it can be these guys.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
These guys have an ants. I'll get down there this weekend.
Belly I'll not better.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I'm busy this weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, all right, Dean.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Thanks Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI. We'll talk
to you next week. Hey, and Saturday. By the way,
I'm going to be out there at the American.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'll see you there, all right, Thanks man, all right,
Dean Sharp will be out there this Saturday and Seem
Valley from eleven am till three pm in American Vision windows,
So get on out there. I'll be there from one
to three and there's fun food and prizes. So if
you live in Seni Valley, Thousand Oaks, Moore Park, that
whole area, we don't get out there often, but we're
out there this Saturday, eleven am to three pm.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
We'll see there.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty Back.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
When Staples Center was being built and all the unbelievable
condominiums that were being erected downtown Los Angeles, and everybody
wanted to move to downtown. It seemed like such a
beautiful move, you know, spacious, big apartments and lost downtown LA.
There's a vibe where everybody was moving to downtown LA,
(23:35):
and you didn't want to be left out. You wanted
to get like a condo down there, or some kind
of townhouse or an apartment and be part of the resurgence.
That's downtown LA. All right, Well that was thirty years ago.
How's it going in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We were given the opportunity to speak with those tenants
inside their homes. They invited us into their apartments to
show us what they call unlivable conditions. What unlivable conditions?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Unlivable conditions. Man, it went from the gold rush to
unlivable conditions pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
We also have the opportunity to speak with the landlord,
who says that she's actually willing to do repairs, but
she blames the tenants for the fact that things haven't
been fixed. First thing, Wednesday mornings, City of Los Angeles
housing inspectors came knocking at an apartment complex on South
Wright Street. All have a good day.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
We were access access you heard it, so anyways, you
have a good day.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They didn't get far. The person who turned away the
inspectors is the building's owner and landlord, who said the
city didn't give her thirty days notice. The people around
the door are tenants who tell us they've been complaining
about their living conditions for years and they're demanding a change,
inviting us inside to show missing ceilings, limited light, what
appears to be molled holes, and walls, plumbing issues.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That's downtown. It was the it was the golden jewel
of downtown for a while. Everybody wanted a piece of it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Now inviting us inside to show missing.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Ceilings, missing ceilings, What happened to the ceiling? It's missing,
What happened to it?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's just missing, limited light, what appears to be moled
holes and walls, plumbing issues.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
There you go, Downtown La.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
The building with sits directly under the ten one ten
interchange has forty three units. It's unclear how many are occupied,
but tenants say dozens of people are in the same boat.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Wit How close is it to the one ten and
the ten with The.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Building with sits directly under the ten one ten interchange has.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Sped well the ten one ten interchange.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
It's unclear how many are occupied, but tenants say dozens
of people are in the same boat. Adriana Montez has
lived here over two years. She says it's been hell.
This isn't life. Hire no, I'm Karna def Maria Pala.
We're from NBC and Telemundo. We're doing a story about
some conditions tenants have been complaining about the owners. Nella
(25:58):
Patruscan who also lives there. I can't do repairs if
they don't let me in. Both the landlord and tenants
accuse each other of violence and intimidation.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Oh, this is the worst. When you hate your landlord
and your landlord hates the tenants. Nothing gets done, nothing.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And they deny the other's allegations.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
They don't want repairs.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
What they want is discounted rent through sinceys, most people's
rent is between five hundred and eight hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
That's a good deal five to eight hundred bucks living
in downtown Lla, though some.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
May be required to pay less because of the condition
of their apartments. This building was built in nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Now, as you're going to tell, the rents reflect the page.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
So it's an old building.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I fix everything, but you know it's an old building.
The City of La Housing Department website shows the city
has received over one hundred complaints about the condition of
the property.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Wow, one hundred complaints. That's people taking time to actually complain.
Can you imagine how horrible that building is if it
has one hundred complaints because most people don't want to
make any waves. You know, maybe you're you know, you
got three jobs. You have time to go to downtown
LA and go through all the paperwork and all the
politics to complain to the right people. So there must
(27:05):
be hundreds and hundreds of people complaining.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Many marked as resolved, but others have led to legal action.
The La City Attorney's Office confirms the landlord Protrucian is
accused of forty three counts of tenant harassment, nineteen counts
of building code violations, three counts of battery.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
A fun place to live where there's just arguments and
fights all day long.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Tenant harassment, nineteen counts of building code violations, three counts
of battery, two counts of unlawful demand for rent relating
to complaints from July of twenty twenty four to June
of twenty twenty five. She has another pending criminal case
regarding sixteen alleged building code violations from a May twenty
twenty four inspection.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
That we've been fighting for a couple of years now
to get the building taken from her control and for
the conditions to change in the building.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
David Albright is a member of the LA Tenants Association
who has helped the tenants of this building organize.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
And it's our position that no one should be allowed
to own a building who treats their tenants like this.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The people who live here tell us they feel they
must fight for this place.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I Mekemanos muss Le, Eleentre adding up the costs moving
Monte says is simply too expensive.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And landlords actually do in court tomorrow to face some
of those charges and then do in court on October thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
H that's wild, What a wild place to live downtown
Los Angeles. Hey, if you're a big Uber fan, we'll
do this story. I don't know, maybe tomorrow, if we're
on tomorrow, I think we or not on tomorrow. Chargers
and the chiefs r on tomorrow. But Uber is now
taking cash. If you're an Uber driver and you want
to pay in cash, you could do so now in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
All right, Moe Kelly coming up next.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
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