From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent:
Friday, July 22, 2005 10:53 AM PT
To: Walt@help411.com
Subject: Gary Gevisser - unlawful detainer

 

While rather wordy I think it helpful to provide you with a detailed chronology of events that led to Greg Beckham deciding to “strike out” at Marie and me that might help you make a stiletto complaint cutting out all my emotion.

 

Although the 18 month lease is dated 11/5/04 and the commencement date 12/1/04 we actually took occupancy on 12/2/04 and that very first night we encountered significant problems with the tenant, Kathy Clark, occupying the illegally converted 2 of 4 garages.

 

Everything is well documented in terms of how Ms. Clark and Marie and I went about resolving Ms. Clark’s extraordinarily uncivil behavior; more importantly Mr. Beckham’s first reaction to my informing him of Ms. Clark ‘s out of control behavior was to let me know that he had issues himself with her, that he knew she had a problem with alcohol and that he thought she was being “medicated” but was more incredulous was that he was placing the burden of bringing her “under control” on me since I had rented the converted garages for some 4 years previous to Ms. Clark and had dealt rather effectively with the tenant who had lived in the main section of the house that we now live in, the previous tenant there for about 12 years, Beckham letting me know in so many words that it should be “as easy as pie” dealing with Ms. Clark to mention little of me paying a $100 less a month than Ms. Clark after Beckham spent some $30,000 “improving” the living conditions of the illegally converted garages, pocketing for himself for “overseeing” the construction-insulation which made little or no difference some $8,000 which brings me back to the point of the 18 month lease.

 

Mr. Beckham gave me his word and I had every reason to trust him based on how well we had got along during the 4 years I rented from him previously, taking a “breather” for just a year, that he saw no reason why we wouldn’t be able to stay in the house for the same period as the previous tenant if not longer given how excellent a tenant I was living in the illegally converted garages dealing with all sorts of problems not only the tenant above but Sam Haim’s and Beckham’s friend who lived in the other house on the same lot, both Sam Haim and “Mr. Mark”, I don’t recall his last name, not exactly your “role models” given how extraordinarily poorly they behaved particularly when dealing with the opposite sex, Mr. Mark and Mr. Haim like Mr. Beckhham very much into drugs which didn’t stop Mr. Mark in fact being granted a “license” via his foster care status to “abuse” a young female teenager under his care, to mention little of when Mr. Mark eventually decided to “run for it” he pulled off a $40,000 insurance scam which both Mr. Beckham as well as the next neighbor had “good cause” to bring to the attention of the authorities including the insurance investigators to mention little of my letting them all know prior to Mr. Mark heading off I believe it was to Thailand that I wasn’t going to put up with such debauchery, also knowing perfectly well it would be rather difficult for me to prove such matters in a court of law since it would be based on information Mr. Haim provided to me during one of his “talkative moments” which brings me to the next point.

 

When Mr. Haim eventually left giving according Beckham not only no notice but owing some $800 in rent Beckham never pursued Mr. Haim who obviously felt comfortable that Beckham would not pursue him which leads me to my next point.

 

Marie and I have every reason to believe that Beckham never communicated with the Knutsons our intentions for a long term lease and for us willing to invest more monies to improve the living conditions, this unique property which Beckham had difficulty in renting having a lot of deferred maintenance, the property today looking a whole lot better given all the time, money and energy we have invested making it “show” rather well, especially for race reason to mention little of Beckham letting me know also in one of his “talkative moments” that given his recent “bachelor” status and concern about the real estate market he could see himself selling his house and moving in to this spot and to have the illegally converted garages available for his 2 older children which brings me to my next point.

 

I have photos of Beckham very recently chipping away at one of the personal paths on the cliffs of Del Mar leading to the beach, Beckham confiding in me that this was his ingenious way of “picking up chicks”, not in the least bit concerned about the liability exposure to the City of Del Mar should someone “slip and fall” matters I happen to be intimately familiar with since not only do I know a thing or “tTOo” [sic] about the insurance industry having been the COO and CFO of the largest marketing-publishing company in the property and casualty insurance industry back in the 1980s I happened to have been the CEO of a medical device company that was credited by Federal Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein in his decision to reverse a landmark multi-million dollar repetitive stress injury jury award based on the evidence my company provided that mainly talked to the “malfeasance” on the part of the plaintiffs and their lawyers who failed to provide the defense, Digital Equipment Corporation, of material evidence in their possession that at a minimum talked to the “lack of integrity” of the plaintiffs which brings me to my next point.

 

I can in fact cut to the chase rather quickly when need be but I believe there are times when it is necessary to lay out carefully and methodically all the evidence allowing one to go “back and forth” with ease without having to read much if anything “in between the lines” since proof is a function of evidence, the better the evidence the better the proof which brings me to my next point.

 

I am quite confident that not only do we have the evidence in our favor but when up on the stand addressing issues of “who to believe” we will be able to prove Beckham is an absolute scoundrel who in playing things extraordinarily “fast and loose” with Marie and me, the City of Del Mar as well as having “snowed” the owners of this property the Knutsons who I am not prepared to declare them “saints” but more likely simply full of themselves and not wanting to see Beckham for what he is since they have managed over the years to accumulate what I understand from Beckham to be a significant estate, moreover, believing Beckham is the “son they never had” which brings me to my next point.

 

Beckham admits in writing that he has thumbed his nose at the City of Del Mar and yet the city are taking their time in holding his feet to the fire, it looks more and more like the city is also corrupt and perhaps should be named as co-defendants in a counter lawsuit which brings me to my next point.

 

I believe it is in our best interests which involves primarily getting an extended lease to bring the Knutsons into a “reality check” by hitting them “square between the eyes” with a lawsuit that contains a complaint that leaves nothing to the imagination of how their property manager, their agent, has interfered with our right to “quiet enjoyment” for the simple reason that he is so self-absorbed in his personal pursuits focused on money, drugs and sex with young women that Beckham, their “replacement son” is in fact no different to the previous tenants as well as Ms. Clark who has “booze” and “boobs”, that Beckham is all so extraordinarily superficial, able to smooze rather well but not quite equipped to deal with the likes of me who while very passionate about my “social cause” of doing the right thing and the smart thing which is also the right thing, pulling out all stops to empower the next generation to parent the parents who needs the most help, is able to eventually “trip up” those who usurp their limited authority as they go about “short-circuiting” from their own lies, dismissing G-D-NAture having got rid of our tails for good reason, only liars need good memories which  becomes all but impossible the more one lies, losing one’s sensitivity in the pursuit of money blah blah which brings me to my final point.

 

I have yet to approach the City of Del Mar with Beckham digging not only the “graves” of all the residents-taxpayers of Del Mar should someone slip and fall as he provides folks with nothing but a false sense of security, but his own grave.

 

To be crystal clear, as one goes back to read-listen to the message he left on my voicemail on June 3rd following me confronting him as he passed by our other rental property and I should add, stinking of pot, why he had not responded to our calls to address Ms. Clark’s “attack” on my wife 3 days prior that resulted in us calling 911 there is not only his acknowledgement that Ms. Clark is a “problem” tenant and saying we can remain for the duration of the lease but more importantly the other “information” he “shared with me” in addition to my willingness to go to the City of Del Mar with the illegally converted garages, again his words:

 

Really it very unfortunate situation to see someone who I have let into my life on a personal level take information or things that were between us and then threaten me with it to intimidate me to act the way you would like me to act for you”.

 

Beckham’s “strategies and tactics” of trying to seduce women while seemingly irrelevant are in my humble opinion so incredibly telling of this monster of a human being and shouldn’t be difficult for a “jury of our peers” to get their “arms around” particularly as he CHOOSES [the photos I have as well as my other landlord serving as an eye witness to Beckham carrying the spade coming back up the cliff] to go about in the “heat of the day” digging away at the cliff, every so often while blocking the path extending a hand to a “damsel in distress” to mention little of how again in one of Beckham’s “talkative moments” he told Marie and me how “proud” he was that only just recently while vacationing with his daughter in Hawaii she, around 20 years old, participated in getting “high” with him and his druggy friends.

 

Back on July 6th I submitted the following to the Mar Times as a “Letter to the Editor” and despite it being “timely” and in the “best interests” of all the residents of Del Mar it has not yet been published:

 

Flirting with Danger

 

It’s easy to look at anything superficially especially those who dig out steps along the cliffs of Del Mar having the best of intentions?

 

While erecting the path nothing wrong with “landing a hand” [sic] to a young female distracted by this false sense of security.

 

The road to hell is NOT necessarily paved with bad intentions but when one considers that in the end this world is all about money then surely we should be looking at the fact that while we ticket people who walk their unleashed dogs on what is essentially railroad property very much falling apart, WHAT IF someone slips breaks their neck, left a quadriplegic while the digger of all our graves appears to do the right thing helping out a carefully orchestrated scene not necessarily all geared to attract a damsel in distress?

 

Okay lets not worry about lawsuits and the Del Mar City council somehow finding the money to settle multiple class action lawsuits WHAT ABOUT the damage to the cliff if more people under the guise of civil duty were to create their own paths not just the less than a handful that currently exist inviting more erosion to some of the better surfing spots.

 

Why is it asking so much of those perhaps not in the best of shape to walk the path at 15th Street without the majority paying a hefty price for so few bent out of shape?

 

Careful should we all be of those who flirt with danger?

 

Risk Assessment” is my business

 

Gary S. Gevisser