After taking back the 3% rent increase lease, they went up on our rent again illegally. L. Management did not follow the proper protocols for the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Rental Accommodations Division (RAD) that states on the same day that the RAD Registration/Claim of Exemption Form is filed with RAD, the owner must also give a copy of the registration form to each tenant in-person or via U.S. First Class mail or post a copy in a place at the rental property where the registration form is easily seen by all tenants. This was not done. We found out they had us under radar, meaning where we live the property was listed as VACANT (then) under 4013 Gault Place Partners (alias name). This property is owned by the Menkiti Group/Aroli Group. The Menkiti Group does not have an accurate record of us living here since 2009. Note: It was changed (a pattern) from Vacant to Occupied by Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) for damage control (a pattern) after we brought it out in the Housing Conditions Court. We made it known we knew and called out DCRA at the court hearing. It is on record in the court. In reference to the 3408 18th Street NE property that was listed as vacant, several DCRA representatives would not give us a direct answer on the matter. One of the DCRA representatives stated it was not public information. It was only information for the landlord. It had not been registered until supposedly in 2019. The Unit 2 that L. Management listed in our tenant portal, emails, and so forth does not match with the letter A that is on our door overhang and inside door. It was required to be put on the inside door by the Housing Code Court Inspector with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) trying to cover for the Menkiti Group. Note: The letter A that was put up on the door overhang after we moved here. It was put up by one of the Menkiti Group representatives, other aliases used was F22 or Upper. Our One Family Rental License shows the wrong property management and no registered agent or address is listed. The license before showed the date issued: 08/21/2015 with the license period 2017 to 2019. It should have listed M_ _ A_____ LLC name as the property manager and address, instead it listed C. Property Management with their address. This company is no longer in business. It was put up on the wall by the same person who claimed on the RAD registration form he was an agent and certified on 1/18/19 that this Housing Accommodation was in substantial compliance with the D.C. Housing Regulations to the best of his knowledge and that the information he gave was complete and accurate and he signed it. No inspection happened. We didn’t have a fire extinguisher or proper working smoke detectors at that time. He never step foot in our rental unit until 1/28/2020 for a thorough inspection. The first inspection we had was on March 15, 2019, not a thorough inspection. There were items and utility (electric) included in our rent that were not included in our rent at all. Note: We found out later he had ties with some of the members of the CEO and Leadership Team with the Menkiti Group. The present One Family Rental License is still listing C. Property Management with their address and no registered agent’s name or address listed, date issued: 11/09/2017 (incorrect date issuance – a pattern) with the license period 10/01/19 – 09/30/2021. This company is no longer in business.

We had a hard time getting into Irving Street office where L. Management was located only to find out L. Management is the property management for this Irving Street building. We discovered another address used by L. Management, 3509 NW () Washington DC 20008. This address location is occupied by another business, () does not exist, and the business has no ties to L. Management. We discovered L. Management have a office at a apartment complex with their name and logo sign in plain view nearby on the grounds in Baltimore, MD – L. Management has used various addresses such as 1015 NW Washington DC 20001 at random in the Landlord Tenant Court, on their website and so forth. They used an incorrect zip code (a pattern) such as 20009 including suffix names such as LLC and Inc. onto L. Management which is the trade name for L____, LLC (foreign). As the plaintiff (L. Management) none of the addresses listed the Irving Street address that was listed on their website before the latest change (a pattern) to 12th Street NE according to the Change of Address email on May 28, 2020 at 4:17 PM. On the DCRA Business Filings it was changed to the Irving Street address just before they supposedly moved from that address to the address property on 12th Street NE associated with the Menkiti Group/Aroli Group under an alias name. Since the change of address to 12th Street NE, L. Management’s website states Future Office Address (Under Construction – last checked and documented Feb 21, 2021). Also, the email in 2018 from a Menkiti Group representative listed the Irving Street NE address. This is what L. Management were advertising on their website then. We don’t have locations across the country or an out-of-state office that does business in multiple metro areas. Our office is on 2217 _ St. NW and just minutes from downtown. 1015 address is not 2217 address, 3509 address is not 2217 address, and Irving Street NE speaks for itself and you can’t get in without being let in, nor is this address used in court. Furthermore, the entity L LLC (foreign) is not in good standing and was forfeited for failure to file property return for 2018 in Maryland. Forfeited means the right of the entity to conduct business in the State of Maryland has been relinquished and it has no right to use its name. In most circumstances a business is forfeited only after it has been “not in good standing” for a period of time. Note: According to the DCRA Business Filings, L. Management is Expired (a pattern) Trade Name Expiration Date: 4/01/2020. It was last checked Feb 3, 2021. L. Management sent Via Certified Mail (label postage Crownsville, MD, stamped in Baltimore MD) and Electronic Delivery dated: August 12, 2020 – Re: Noise complaints – First two paragraphs stated as follows: Please be advised we are in receipt of your most recent email communications from August 6, 2020 regarding noise concerns from the 1st floor tenant at 3408 18th Street , NE, B _ F_. As you are aware, B____ _ F_ is operating a gym on the 1st floor, directly below your rented premises, and has been in occupancy since February 2017. Over the course of the last 15 months, you have submitted multiple complaints to the Landlord and L. Management about noise and made many accusations that the tenant below you, B___ _ F_ is intentionally creating noise in order to disturb you in your place of residence. Conversely, B____ _ F_ asserts that you have been harassing them for the last 15 months by entering their place of business and yelling at the gym clients about the noise. Additionally, please note that in response to the latest concerns of noise, B___ F has asserted that they do not have clients in the space and in fact, are only hosting virtual classes. Note: We were here since 2009, B____ _ F_ has just been here since the summer of 2017. Their plan was that we would be gone with all their unhanded tactics and pressure. We are the victims of their unhanded tactics then and now and not all the classes have been hosted virtual either! The tactics on us ramped up after B_____ _ F_ arrived on the scene. Note: They listed 12th Street NE address as their office on their certified letter.