Barry Poppins have become a national problem.
Posted on 06/26/2014 7:22:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
UPLAND (CBSLA.com) — A couple in Upland says their live-in nanny refuses to leave their home.
It’s a story Only On 2.
Amy Johnson spoke to the couple who have tried everything, including legal measures, to get the nanny out.
Johnson was there when the woman was served legal papers in the home in the 1200 block of North Vallejo Way.
The couple, Marcel and Ralph Bracamonte, told Johnson the first couple of months with the nanny “were good,” but she soon stopped working and complained of health issues.
At this point, they said they asked the 64-year-old nanny to leave, but Diane Stretton refused to go. They said they served her with legal papers, but they turned out to be the wrong legal papers.
For the time being, officials told the couple the nanny can come and go as she pleases.
Police told Bracamonte there was nothing they could do.
“They told me it was now a civil matter,” Bracamonte said, “and I have to [legally] evict her. So this lady is welcome inside my house, anytime she wants, to eat my food anytime she wants and harass me basically. I’m now a victim in my home and it’s completely legal.”
A judge also ruled in the nanny’s favor because he said Bracamonte did not fill out a three-day quit notice correctly. He also said they would have to fill out the legal paperwork again.
Stretton did not want to answer Amy Johnson’s question. The reporter asked her, repeatedly, “Why won’t you leave?”
She never spoke.
Ralph Bracamonte says it’s all a nanny nightmare.
“Now, this person is in our house,” he said, “and I have to go to work. My kids are still here, my wife is still here. She towers over my wife, my kids. And I know there is nothing I can do about it.”
Marcela, a mother of three, found Stretton on Craigslist in March.
The couple agreed Stretton would live in their home, for free, in exchange of taking care of the children and some housecleaning.
“And then she wouldn’t do anything,” said Marcela. “She would stay in her room 90 percent of the day. I really did try to work with her. She would just sit in her room all day. So I told her, you either have to perform or you gotta leave.”
Stretton has three days to respond to the legal notice she got Wednesday evening.
The Bracamontes know the eviction process can take a while but they wanted to speak out to warn other families and to advise them to always use an attorney is such matters.
In some California Homeowner’s policies there’s also a worker’s comp rider for domestic help that applies under certain conditions. Just wait ‘til the nanny claims an injured lower back incurred in her duties as a nanny...
Pet Skunks : Do Skunks Make Good Pets?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ucgp-GzcE8
Besides keeping no food in the house and disabling the AC, I would consider getting a pet that would stay in her room. I also see nothing wrong with removing her “by any means necessary” as the liberals like to put it.
they better hope that letting someone live in their home gratis in exchange for some work is legal... otherwise they are in really deep crap... according to the article, they were paying her by letting her live there... they should go on Judge Judy...
I once had a crazy girlfriend told me she wasn’t going to leave and I couldn’t make her.
She was wrong.
Picked her up and threw her out the front door like a bale of hay.
BRILLIANT! Let's go on Craigslist and bring a total effing stranger into our home with young children. What could go wrong? This sucks but they are at least partly responsible.
Seems to me that it’s time to tent the house and fumigate.
i know this is tempting, but it will only get him into more trouble...
I knew a guy who had that problem. HE moved out.
That’s why they should have put in the contract the requirement - no work, no room or board.
No doubt. Assault, kidnapping and conspiracy.
Surely Doug there in Upland can find a spare room in the back of his hallway somewhere.. (;
Just slip a note under the door saying “watch out for poisonous spiders”
You are probably right. The story is just incredibly frustrating.
Looking for a child minder on Craiglist wasn’t the sharpest move this family ever made, was it.
they are responsible! did they interview others? did they talk with her previous employers? they agreed to let her live there in exchange for work... sounds like they were wanting a good deal... when it comes to someone living in your home with your children, you have to do better than Craig's List... mis dos centavos...
This is a bit of a unique situation but what you are describing is a constructive eviction, and will be trouble for you in court $$$.
As a landlord of 35 years, the best solution is "Here is a $1000 cash. I will give it to you when you pack up all your belongings and are sitting in the back of a taxi on your way to somewhere else. Otherwise I WILL evict you and you will have nothing."
It works.
I only saw that movie once - in the theater - and have never forgotten it.
they need to stop penny-pinching and hire a lawyer to do this for them... no time to mess around here...
Um, change the locks?
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