A woman from California has been served an eviction notice from a senior living home unless she coughs up thousands of dollars.
Jean Jacques, 96, told KSBW that she was served a three-day eviction notice from her senior living home demanding that she cough up $110,000 - either that or she leaves the place she's called home for the past two decades.
She stated that she signed a lifetime contract with California-Nevada Methodist Homes all the way back in 2002 so that she could reside at their Forest Hill Manor nursing home in Pacific Grove, California.
She made a $250,000 down payment in order to do so and then paid $5,000 monthly rent until her savings were finished.
However, things have started to take a turn for the worse in 2022 when the company housing the senior citizen went bankrupt and sold the facility to Pacific Grove Senior Living.
The new owners of the living facility were originally said to be honoring the contracts for the lifetime commitments of those like Jacques, but they have now reportedly made a U-turn decision that is set to impact a handful of people who thought they were safe.
As per the New York Post, Pacifica Senior Living, the San Diego-based parent company of Pacific Grove Senior Living, served the 96-year-old with an eviction notice earlier this month, telling her she's got three days to cough up the wad of cash or risk being homeless.
Speaking to KSBW, she said she was "shocked" at what had happened.
“I was shocked,” Jacques recalled. “The reason I moved into Forest Hill Manor was to be taken care of for the rest of my life."
"She’s devoted all of her savings and money into this place," Bob Sadler, the president of Pacific Grove Senior Living’s residents’ association told the outlet. "I don’t care what the legal ramifications are here. This is morally unthinkable."
It was reported that the contracts allegedly only stand with the previous company, not Pacific Living, and that's the reason for the sudden request of more money.
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, which could cause problems with enforcing it.
“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 - as well as other notable figures - are now trying to do all they can to uphold Jacques' original contract so that she can continue living at the facility until the end of her life, just as she planned.
And it looks like she will not be going without a fight.
The senior confirmed 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 told KSBW. “They have all my money.”
We wish the best for Jacques in her fight against the eviction.
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