Lisa Jacobsen agreed to pay money owed, and now refuses, and I'm not the first or only person she has refused to pay money owed. She is a licensed (inactive) attorney in the state of California, and supposedly a Christian woman, but her words and actions say otherwise.
Lisa suddenly had to "close" the house down (yet there are still people living there). She gave several of us only one weeks notice to vacate and four of us honored that notice and left asap. She agreed to refund our remaining rent for the rest of the month, and now refuses to pay any of us. she owes at least three of us significant amount of money as of the date of this post. Despite mine and the other girls requests, none of us have been paid to date (been over four weeks). We are newly sober and we don't have much money at all.
The house was in disarray. dust was collected on the walls and furniture, including cloth window coverings. it was extremely cluttered (the laundry area has shelving (the pantry) behind it and it is maybe 2 feet wide walkway, to access the washing machines, which had a lot of dust and grime all over). The HVAC unit was leaking in the ceiling in the living room (we had a bucket collecting water and had to empty it often) when I was there--I had to soak up the water on the floor with my own towels, and the house is in need of repairs. There was mold in at least one of the showers, and there was oil/dust all over the kitchen and on old food (lots of expired) in the cupboards--really gross! There was a lot of opened food items in the "pantry" next to the washing machines, which said it should be refrigerated after opening, but it sat on the shelves the entire time (including pickles, olives, ranch dressing, sauces, etc). I had to replace the dishrack b/c it had mold growing in sitting water, and an awful odor came from it (of course no one paid me back for the new rack). For the time I lived there, there was no working oven or stove, and the above range microwave was used as a food cabinet (had several cereal boxes in it).
Oh! And the cockroaches!!! We had to kill them! And it was gross!! See picture of cockroach in the bathroom.
It is shocking that the sober living is not regulated it seems. What's worse. She agreed to refund me the money owed. then told me she refunded it, and now she flat out refuses to refund the money owed because "she thought about it" and decided it was no longer owed. This is downright dishonest, unethical, immoral, and it saddens me that she takes advantage of newly sober women.
Unfortunately, Lisa's refusal to return money owed is unethical and she ran her sober living home very poorly. She hid her true illness from us and allowed several women to stay in the home and told us all she suffered from a back injury (not sure if this is true or not), but she has a deteriorating illness she hid from all of us until she was forced to go the hospital. Several of her family members had to intervene.
Cockroaches were observed in the bathroom.
Since I posted this, Lisa Jacobsen texted me within minutes and threatened to sue me for "defamation"--I think this tells you everything you need to know about her and the way she manages her sober living home. It saddens me that she feels the need to justify her not paying money owed to newly sober women.
I see other posts note that she refused to pay them back as well. I wish I had read them before I gave her my money. read more