Carmela Kramer Prime West Properties Deceptive, unlicenced realtor. Underhanded and illegal activity. San Diego, California

I first started renting a four bedroom with three other roommates from Carmela Kramer in December of 07. I suspected something was up when we first moved in seeing as how we never received copies of the lease and my deposit was quite high.

Everyone moved out and had been replaced, the landlady knowledgeable of the situation, and I, being the only original tenant, retained the lease.

When it came time for the lease to be renewed, she put it off completely, refusing to comply with my request. Legally, as far as I am aware, if she does not renew it or present a new lease within 30 days, the previous lease rolls over.

As months went on, we were sometimes late with our rent, a roommate was late, whatever. We still kept in good contact with her.

Now, we're a few days late and she's blatantly harassing us, threatening to throw us out TOMORROW [which is completely illegal] saying she's serving us over email [doesn't work that way] and giving us a "20 day notice" [also doesn't work that way.] BUT! Only me INDIVIDUALLY.

Which is illegal, as I retain the original lease.

She wants to go behind my back and give my three roommates a lease [even though two of them were late] and kick me out.

Her English is awful. She altered our original lease and forged my signature. She refused to give us a copy until a few days later when she had done her "corrections". She has listed our apartment on the market even though we still retain the legal rights to this apartment. She lies about our deposit CONSTANTLY. She said she paid my previous roommates when they moved out, which is a lie. I have to get signed statements from each of them.

I doubt her license is even up to date.

To make matters worse, the property owner is actually her brother. He speaks no English.


I'm being scammed and harassed here and I have no idea what to do or who to call right now.