ONCE HOMELESS WILLIAM NOWELL CAME INTO MONEY RENTED AN APARTMENT AND GOT EVICTED ANYWAY

LA WEEKLY ARTICLE - THE MAN WHO SMELLED TOO MUCH  link to the full article.

ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN BARTLETT as it appears in the LA Weekly November 8 2012 edition.  Link to the full article and pictures of Mr. Nowells many bags that he brought to the apartment and had not yet unpacked when the trouble with management and fellow tennants started.

We were reading this article with interest.  We think the neighbors are a shitty people and so is the management of this building.  They stink as humans.  Nowell may have smelled bad, but so did most people until the era of indoor plumbing and hot water heaters.  We think that if they knew he smelled bad when they rented to him - and he paid a huge deposite and months in advance - then all these other tactics they did were over the top, and especially having cops show up. 

some excerpts:

"William Nowell lived at 650 Spring St. for eight months, but he never got a chance to feel at home. He never unpacked the 100 percent Egyptian cotton sheets, the printer, the kitchenware, the camera or the blender."

"Unfortunately for Nowell, smell is not one of the seven categories protected by the Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status or disability. Nowell does not fall into any of them. He is, however, in poor health. The medical condition he declines to name prevents him from bathing regularly, he says. Nowell claims that past surgery has made full immersion in water difficult. Instead, he prefers to give himself sponge baths while sitting at the edge of the tub. Nowell has, though, never claimed disability in any official capacity."