A California homeowner has not received rent from her tenants for over 17 months. She also hasn’t received any payments from the state’s COVID-19 rent relief program, after applying for several months. Alyona Nickelsen, an award-winning artist, author, and owner of a three-bedroom condo in Aliso Viejo said her tenants of over six years have been unable to make rent payments since April 2020. “It was over $42,000,” Nickelsen told The Epoch Times. “Not a penny from them.” Nickelsen immigrated to Aliso Viejo from former Soviet-occupied Kiev, Ukraine, in 1999. She started a family and opened an art business called Brush and Pencil. “That was my chance to actually start my life all over,” Nickelsen said. “I came here, and I said ‘I will never ask the government for handouts or help. I will never be dependent on the government ever, ever again.’” The eviction moratorium was extended from March 1, …
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