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.
Keep all your food under lock and key and give her no money. She’ll get hungry and leave soon enough.
did she ask for references?
That and turn off the power to her room. Other things come to mind.
So a couple in a Los Angeles, CA suburb has a live-in nanny who won’t leave? LOL. The entire state government is a live-in nanny that won’t leave.
Padlock fridge and cupboards, then call cops and have her arrested when she breaks into them.
Remove the door to her room for repairs.
I know in NYS, if you give domicile to anyone for more than 30 days in your house and they don’t leave after being asked, you have to do a formal eviction.
Rent or living there free is not a consideration.
I went down that road with an alcoholic girlfriend.
If you just put their stuff at the curb and lock them out, a cop will show up at your door instructing you to let them back in.
I’d be willing to be this woman has pulled this crap elsewhere. There is an old movie with Michael Keaton (IIRC) called “Pacific Heights”......
My guess is this woman has a bevy of paperwork on her - none of it good.
If she was hired through a service, the company through which she obtained her services should be sued for negligence and damages
Barring any of that, she should just get “disappeared.”
i do not think they pay her money... the man said they agreed she would live there in exchange for nanny/housekeeping...
I can only assume this couple tried to be above board and pay her “on the books,” as opposed to the approach 90% of Manhattanites do it, fostering illegals and paying them with a weekly wad of cash “under the table.” Firing an illegal is quick and clean, as neither side has a vested interest in making an issue out of it. It’s ironic how the legal approach screws you in California.
Welcome to the hotel California, nanny. Such a lovely place.
ooh--i remember that movie... he was awful! (Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine... beautiful house)...
i bet that's not legal...
I know 4 guys who will come in the evening, literally pick her up, put her in a car, and drop her anywhere you want.
would probably cost about $200 each.
Hmmm...kinda reminds me of all the illegal squatters we have, living right here in Our Big House, America!
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