Long story short: The Fillmore Center doesn't care...

Long story short: The Fillmore Center doesn't care about people who have been severely financially impacted by the pandemic. Details below.

I've live here for over a year and resigned my lease in February. Then the pandemic hit a few weeks later. My girlfriend and I both work in the hospitality industry and were immediately out of work.

Initially, I made some phone calls to ask what the Fillmore Center was doing to help during this unprecedented time. I was told to be patient and that they would get back to me. They didn't get back to me. For the past 6-months, I've sent numerous emails, filled out several forms explaining our financial misfortune, spoken with people in person. Invariably, these conversations have fallen on deaf ears, I've been ghosted, ignored, forgotten about.

It's now 6 months later and after paying our rent with unemployment money. We've hit a dead end and now need to move out because we can't afford it anymore. There are many cheaper options on the market now and we need to find something better. The Fillmore Center has neglected us in every way and is now telling us that we need to pay them 2-months rent or $7,000 in order to move on from this disaster. Was this stipulated in our lease? Yes, it was. But given the unprecedented times that we are going through, I thought that someone here would have some shred of human decency and understanding to find some kind of compromise.

Hospitality workers are getting crushed due to this pandemic with no end in sight. The Fillmore Center doesn't care though. They'll just ignore you and happily kick you in the gut when you're at your lowest point and have given up.