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Jean Jacques says she signed a lifetime contract with California-Nevada Methodist Homes in 2002 to live at their Forest Hill Manor nursing home in Pacific Grove, Calif., for the rest of her life, according to KSBW.
She secured her spot with a $250,000 down payment and paid $5,000 monthly rent until her savings ran dry.
Things became complicated when California-Nevada Methodist Homes went bankrupt and sold the facility to Pacific Grove Senior Living in 2022.
The for-profit senior living community purchased the property with the clause that it would abide by previous contracts of the tenants who signed lifetime deals, an expectation Jacques thought would be honored.
“I’m not going. They’ll have to bury me because I have no place to go. They have all my money.”
However, Pacifica Senior Living, the San Diego-based parent company of Pacific Grove Senior Living, served the 96-year-old with the eviction notice on Aug. 16, saying she had three days to send it $110,000 or face eviction.
“I was shocked,” the full-of-life senior shared. “The reason I moved into Forest Hill Manor was to be taken care of for the rest of my life.”
Jacques and senior advocates discovered her previous contract was grandfathered in, but the policies ensuring she could live in her unit until she died were not.
“She’s devoted all of her savings and money into this place,” the president of Pacific Grove Senior Living’s residents’ association, Bob Sadler, told KSBW.
“I don’t care what the legal ramifications are here. This is morally unthinkable.”
