Nearly all of Coastline’s inherited tenants have been driven out, so more than a dozen empty units are under renovation in preparation for rent hikes to new tenants. Workers without masks (during a mask mandate) or uniforms arrive in unmarked personal vehicles to blast music outside of legal construction hours and garbage piles up after Coastline removed one of the building’s trash bins.
Covid is raging. Veronica works overnight shifts as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit from 7pm to 7am. She returns home from work at 8am to the sound of hammers and machinery drilling directly into our bedroom wall and finds it impossible to sleep.
Nov 15, 2020 – Renovations begin
Construction noise and blasting music fill the courtyard. Renovations in shared wall apartment #2 prevent Veronica from sleeping between overnight shifts as an ICU nurse during Covid lockdowns.
Nov 18, 2020 at 8:51 AM – Veronica makes reasonable request
Asks for renovation inside shared-wall apartment #2 to be done in the afternoons so she can sleep in the mornings between overnight ICU shifts during Covid lockdowns. Gloria Camou says she’ll bring the issue up with the project manager but the request is ignored. Unbearable noise persists.
Seems a reasonable request as there are more than a dozen other units to renovate in the mornings.
nov-18-2020-851-am-Construction-Afternoon-requestDec 3, 2020 at 9:18 AM – Drilling/sawing into bedroom wall
The sound coming from shared-wall apartment #2 continues to prevent Veronica from sleeping between Overnight ICU shifts during Covid.
Dec 3, 2020 at 10:07 AM – Hammering directly in bedroom wall
Dec 3, 2020 at 10:13 AM – Hammering continues
Dec 3, 2020 at 10:40 AM – Gloria Camou insists its Coastline’s right to bang on our bedroom wall
The construction noise filling our bedroom in the mornings has become a safety issue. Veronica is not sleeping adequately putting her and her ICU patient’s safety at risk during the height of the pandemic, so Chris sternly emails Coastline’s Gloria after Veronica’s emails went ignored.
When pushed, Gloria denies our request for construction in shared-wall apartment #2 to be done in the afternoon and claims it’s Coastline’s right to bang on our bedroom wall. When pushed further, she stops responding and instead has Coastline’s lawyer respond as an act of intimidation.
The emails mention the first occurrences of our water being shutoff without notice.
gloria-renovation-request-dec-2020-email-chainDecember 11, 2020 – Unresponded then Lawyer
Our last three emails to Gloria Camou go unresponded and then we receive this stern letter from Coastline’s lawyer which effectively ends the discussion. Coastline, aware they are preventing an overnight ICU nurse from sleeping during Covid, continues to drill into our bedroom wall in the mornings for more than a month.
2020-12-11-Ltr-to-Tenants-re-ConstructionDec 29, 2020 at 10:53 AM – Noise keeping Veronica up continues
Coastline is fully aware they are keeping an overnight ICU nurse awake between shifts. They refused to simply schedule renovations in shared-wall apartment #2 for the afternoons to allow her to rest. The construction noise is now undeniably intentional.
Dec 30, 2020 at 9:19, 9:20 and 9:21 AM – Veronica continues to find it impossible to rest
Her safey and the safey of her patients was put in jeopardy by Coastline.
Mar 19, 2021 at 2:41 PM – Coastline Workers Continues to Blast Music
Music blasts throughout the property all day during renovations. It can heard over the TV in our apartment and clearly heard from a distance down the street. This continues to make it difficult for Veronica to sleep between overnight shifts as an ICU nurse during the height of Covid.
This practice spanned for more than four months and continued daily despite multiple attempts to call Coastline for it to stop.