Vietnam Veteran Dennis Anderson said his former landlord was generous and allowed him to pay a discounted rent for the place he’s called home for 46 years.<\/p>\n
“It’s a perfect location close to the hospital, close to the gym, close to the beach,” Anderson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anderson said everything changed after his longtime landlord died in March. He and a handful of tenants received eviction notices, making way for the properties to be sold. They have to be out by the end of May.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was in shock,” Anderson said. “I thought she would leave me the house. I added onto the house and did the work. It burnt down in 1996, and I stayed here, living in the garage, just paying rent. Didn’t want to lose the location.”<\/p>\n
Anderson said he doesn’t have the money to pack up and move a lifetime’s worth of belongings from the home. He wrote to the estate attorney for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I explained what was going on, living on disability and social security,” Anderson said. “I mow a few lawns. I have a lawn route, but that’s it.”<\/p>\n
His longtime neighbors are rallying around him, hoping someone will send him a lifeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This is a person who is falling through the cracks,” neighbor Jill Unze said. “He is a legend in our community. If you have ever witnessed him on Second Street, he used to walk the parrots on his shoulders. He always has his big Newfoundland dog.”<\/p>\n
Anderson is taking things day by day, hoping for a miracle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“If somebody here has an ADU or a little place with a yard, let me know. I am looking,” Anderson said. “I’m getting up there. I am almost 80.”<\/p>\n
Most of the other tenants have found new places to live, but Anderson is a different situation.<\/p>\n
He has no immediate family in California, only a cousin in Utah.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He doesn’t know how he can leave without ending up on the streets with his animals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vietnam Veteran Dennis Anderson said his former landlord was generous and allowed him to pay a discounted rent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-292354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}