My story · The founding account
Eight years a tenant.
Then a technicality aimed us at the street.
This is my account. Where I state a fact, there's a document behind it — you can check every one on The Record. Where I tell you how it felt, I'll say so plainly. I won't blur the two.
What isn't in dispute
The facts, first.
Everything in this section is drawn from court filings, notices, a lease, and an agency letter. Dates and figures are theirs, not mine.
~8 yrs
Continuous tenant of the same landlord, Pacific Rental Properties, across three of its Medford addresses (2018–2026), per successive leases and ledgers.
No finding
The Highland move-out was settled by a mediation agreement that entered no judgment of restitution and made no finding of any lease violation — it only set a date to leave (agreement dated March 25, 2026).
3-year ban
A Housing Authority of Jackson County letter dated June 15, 2026 terminated our housing voucher and barred every adult in the household from assistance until June 13, 2029.
Vacated
A separate eviction case over an apartment I had already left was vacated by the court on April 6, 2026, and the landlord's attorney-fee request was denied.
How it happened
The timeline.
Chronological. Each entry is marked Documented (backed by a filing you can read on The Record) or My account (lived experience, told as mine).
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2018 → October 2025
A long-term tenant, by their own paperwork
I rented from Pacific Rental Properties for about eight years — Tripp Street, then 820 Taylor Street, then 747 Highland Drive. My household includes my four-year-old grandson, who is on the lease and on our housing voucher.
Documented · leases & ledgers -
October 29, 2025
They approve me for a new apartment
PRP approves and leases me 747 Highland Dr #44 at $1,145/month, with $909.22 of the rent paid by HUD — a Housing Choice Voucher unit. They approved me under their own screening, knowing my full rental history with them.
Documented · Highland lease -
January 9, 2026
An eviction over an apartment I'd left
PRP files an eviction on the Taylor Street apartment. I had moved to Highland — their own one-lease-at-a-time policy required it — yet they kept me on the Taylor case anyway.
Documented · case 26LT00703 -
January 2026
Someone walked through without notice
During that stretch, a PRP agent entered the Taylor unit with no 24-hour notice and moved through it, opening doors. I raised it in court as an unlawful-entry claim under Oregon law. That it happened is on the record; how it felt — watched, invaded — is mine to tell.
My account & counterclaim -
January 28, 2026
A move-out notice on Highland — the same day
On the same day I refused to waive my right to a trial in the Taylor case, a 30-day no-cause termination notice went up at Highland. The notice said HUD had been told. HUD contacted me shortly after.
Documented · Highland notice -
March 25, 2026
We settle Highland — with no wrongdoing found
We reach a mediation agreement. Its words: “No Judgment of Restitution is entered at this time. Defendant agrees to vacate by 11:59 p.m. on May 31, 2026.” No money owed. No lease violation. Just a date.
Documented · mediation agreement -
April 6, 2026
The court erases the Taylor eviction
I filed to set aside the Taylor judgment myself. The court vacated it and denied the landlord's attorney fees. I had to fight to get an eviction off my record for a home I no longer lived in.
Documented · order vacating judgment -
June 9–10, 2026
The settlement becomes an “eviction”
An eviction judgment is entered pursuant to the mediation agreement, and a notice of restitution follows with a move-out date of June 14. On paper, a no-fault agreement had turned into an eviction.
Documented · case 26LT06046 -
June 15, 2026
The voucher is terminated. A three-year door closes.
The Housing Authority letter cites federal rule 24 CFR 982.552(b)(2) — mandatory termination when a family is evicted for a “serious or repeated violation of the lease.” There was no such violation. There was a settled date. Assistance ends, and no adult in the household can get help again until June 13, 2029.
Documented · HAJC termination letter -
Summer 2026
Nowhere that takes a child
With the voucher gone and an eviction on record, no one will rent to us. The county's shelters run low-barrier, so they don't take kids. A grandmother and a four-year-old are left with the street.
My account
In my own words
I didn't do anything wrong here. Nothing. And I got kicked in the teeth for it.
I'm not a quiet person. I'm well-read, I was raised to believe that if you speak clearly, people listen. That day in court, they didn't. My family's whole footing was on the line and it felt like an inconvenience between the room and lunch.
I've spent nights railing against all of it. At some point, to keep my own sanity, I had to set it down — to let the bone fall out of my mouth, as I put it to myself. I know, realistically, that nothing legal will come of this. That's not why I built this page. I built it because I needed one place where what happened to us is written down and someone actually reads it.
Where the record ends and I begin
What I lived, but can't hand you on paper.
I'll be honest about the line. I believe I was made to pay for standing up for myself — for refusing to just waive my trial and go quietly. I felt watched in that last stretch, in ways I can't put in a court exhibit. And I carry the certainty that this cost my family something we never earned and can't get back.
Those are my feelings and my read on it, not findings. I'm not going to dress them up as proof, because the parts that are proven are damning enough on their own — and you can check every one of them yourself.
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