I'm writing to you to tell you how truly disappointed I am at city government—in particular, code enforcement.

I have been living in Simi for several years and was quite happy until my nightmare began.

I purchased my home and made it a nice house to live in. The house next to me is a rental house, and the prior tenants were wonderful. When they moved out, new tenants moved in, and the homeowner parked a trailer in the driveway.

To my shock he then let his son live in the trailer while giving the new renters a rent break.

I immediately called the Simi Valley code office, which at first appeared not to know what to do.

The homeowner was finally contacted, and he paid me a visit. I told him this was not acceptable, and he even offered to pay me if I stopped calling the city.

I again called code enforcement, who advised me to keep a daily log, which I did for two weeks, showing the individual living in the trailer all hours of the day. This information was given to the city, which did nothing with it.

I was told they could not prove the person was living in the trailer despite my observations; instead, they called the homeowner to say they would conduct an inspection and gave him several days to clean things up while I watched.

When they did come, the location was clean and appeared not lived in. My concern is the individual dumps buckets of waste and dirty water across the street at an elementary school.

This is truly a ridiculous situation, and the city has totally disappointed me.

I will put my house up for sale in the near future and leave this city to one that doesn't tolerate this nonsense. This is exactly why other cities don't allow trailers on private property. Ray Fernandez Simi Valley