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MentorHouse
Dec. 29th, 2006 12:17 pmThe first time I found out about the MentorHouse, a kind of co-op house a block or two from Caltech, I read on their wiki that the house might have been demolished. You see, the owner wanted to build condos in its place. Tragedy!
After getting in touch with the MentorHouse folks, I learned that there was a stay of execution, as it were: the house, more than fifty years old, qualified as an historic structure! Saved! Moreoever, someone was just moving out and, yes, would we like to move in today or tomorrow? But then that person decided not to move out after all. Psyche!
Then we showed up here to visit and learned the bizarre epilogue: The landlord sold the house to a new owner, who promptly served the MentorFolks a 30-day notice of Lease Termination. He wants to live here himself, and in California that's legal grounds to dump your tenants.
But they are festive as ever here in this decadence, lounging eveningly in front of a fire (burning the bits of a palm tree that was just chopped down by the new owner's gardening crew), and sampling from what seems to be an abundance of chocolate. Indeed, we walked in to a massage chain and shortly later a MentorResident burst in the door, returned from a trip to Baja, and handed out what he described as "the cheapest beer in Mexico!" It turned out to be made in Belgium.
We're comfortably set up in a spare bedroom for the denouemont. The electricity's to be cut off on Tuesday, and the eviction is January 8th!
After getting in touch with the MentorHouse folks, I learned that there was a stay of execution, as it were: the house, more than fifty years old, qualified as an historic structure! Saved! Moreoever, someone was just moving out and, yes, would we like to move in today or tomorrow? But then that person decided not to move out after all. Psyche!
Then we showed up here to visit and learned the bizarre epilogue: The landlord sold the house to a new owner, who promptly served the MentorFolks a 30-day notice of Lease Termination. He wants to live here himself, and in California that's legal grounds to dump your tenants.
But they are festive as ever here in this decadence, lounging eveningly in front of a fire (burning the bits of a palm tree that was just chopped down by the new owner's gardening crew), and sampling from what seems to be an abundance of chocolate. Indeed, we walked in to a massage chain and shortly later a MentorResident burst in the door, returned from a trip to Baja, and handed out what he described as "the cheapest beer in Mexico!" It turned out to be made in Belgium.
We're comfortably set up in a spare bedroom for the denouemont. The electricity's to be cut off on Tuesday, and the eviction is January 8th!
