A 96-year-old California woman was served a three-day eviction notice from her senior living home demanding she cough up $110,000 or leave the unit she’s been living in for 22 years.
Jean Jacques says she signed a lifetime contract with California-Nevada Methodist Homes in 2002 to live at their Forest Hill Manor nursing home in Pacific Grove, Calif., for the rest of her life, according to KSBW.
She secured her spot with a $250,000 down payment and paid $5,000 monthly rent until her savings ran dry.
Things became complicated when California-Nevada Methodist Homes went bankrupt and sold the facility to Pacific Grove Senior Living in 2022.
The for-profit senior living community purchased the property with the clause that it would abide by previous contracts of the tenants who signed lifetime deals, an expectation Jacques thought would be honored.
However, Pacifica Senior Living, the San Diego-based parent company of Pacific Grove Senior Living, served the 96-year-old with the eviction notice on Aug. 16, saying she had three days to send it $110,000 or face eviction.
“I was shocked,” the full-of-life senior shared. “The reason I moved into Forest Hill Manor was to be taken care of for the rest of my life.”
Jacques and senior advocates discovered her previous contract was grandfathered in, but the policies ensuring she could live in her unit until she died were not.
“She’s devoted all of her savings and money into this place,” the president of Pacific Grove Senior Living’s residents’ association, Bob Sadler, told KSBW. “I don’t care what the legal ramifications are here. This is morally unthinkable.”
Sadler told the outlet that the “lifetime care” contracts like Jacques signed in 2002 were only considered unconditional with the previous owners, not Pacific Senior Living.
However, a project manager with the Alliance for Aging, Elizabeth Campos, told the outlet that the eviction notice was allegedly not approved by the Community Care Licensing Division, the California government agency that oversees these facilities.
Furthermore, the notice did not instruct Jacques on how to appeal the eviction, Campos claims.
“You know, it’s frustrating. You do get angry knowing that it’s an elderly person,” Campos told the outlet. “Where is this person going to go?”
Campos and others are fighting for Pacific Senior Living to do the right thing and uphold the original contract so Jacques can stay in the unit she has called home for the past 22 years.
Since receiving the eviction notice, the facility’s business office has not contacted Jacques.
The Alliance for Aging and the Residents’ Committee have attempted to contact the office but have yet to receive a reply, according to KSBW.
Jacques, who turned 96 in July, says she has no plans to leave her home.
“I’m not going. They’ll have to bury me because I have no place to go,” she declared to KSBW. “They have all my money.”
California is going to help illegals buy houses, give them the money to do it and they are going to kick a 96-year-old American citizen out on the street. Being that it’s California, I guess we should not be surprised. Wonder if the whole apartment complex was purchased to house illegals for nothing.
Wish I was the better owner because she s 96 and is at her very old age with respect she deserves and seems actual owner forgets we should be respecting our elders also let her live. I’d be a new owner let her live and forget about the money because 96 years old is close to 100 and present owner must be thinking she’s 4 years old from birth!!
Let her live and leave her alone; if not then you butt out sell the place and new owners with a heart will come along!!
She can file in court to dispute the case. He in Florida there is a self help division that helps with renters and child support cases. So why doesn’t The Alliance for Aging and the Residents’ Committee help her file in court against the eviction.
Well, the insanity doesn’t end in California. Just found out in MO. that all that Medicare and taxes you paid for in your life , not worth a hill of beans! If you have to live in a nursing home, whatever money you have saved, you pay out of pocket anywhere from 8,000 to 15,000 a month, until its gone. Then, you have to sell all property and continue to pay nursing home. When its all gone, you get Medicaid. They take any pensions you receive. They take your Social Security. You get to receive a whopping $50.00 a month for the rest of your life! You have no say about it. Also, this means you do not receive enough to pay your life insurance that you have paid for 20 years or more. So, it will lapse. You don’t even have enough now to pay to be buried! Plus, in my caregiving experience, yet have I seen a nursing home that takes good care of people. Neglect is quite common. People can actually be seen sometimes begging strangers for help. This needs to be addressed and changed in our society. Write your State congress or senate rep. Plus, if you are reading this, get a lawyer or advisor now. There are trust and other things that can be done to prevent you and your family having your income taken away. If you wait, it will be to late. God help us all! Now, before I get told off by nursing home staff, there are good and caring employees at nursing homes. But, they are far a few between . All nursing homes are short staffed and have to behave like sheep. If not, they get let go. Personal experiences in last 10 years, family member not bathed in two weeks. Family member laying in there own urine all day. Bed not changed . No proper meal made. Was given cheese sandwich and chips. Not given fresh water by bedside. Cup or thermal cup not washed, ever! So, check into it everyone. Worth getting a few things changed in the near future!
TAKE IT FROM THE IMMIGRANT MONIES OUR GOVERNMENT IS GIVING AWAY!