Weed

BACKGROUND

This appeal arises from the trial court’s orders sustaining demurrers to Weed’s second amended complaint without leave to amend. The parties to the action include Weed and Coviare. Defendant Sherwood Escrow is not a party to this appeal. Nor is Coviare, who appears to have defaulted. The remaining parties are the defendants whose demurrers were sustained and who are the respondents in this appeal. They consist of a real estate broker, Royal Rep Realty (Royal), and its alleged alter ego, Houman Jahangard, and a mortgage lender, Effective Mortgage Company (Effective), and its alleged alter ego, Bijan Vaziri. From the allegations of the complaint and the parties’ briefs, we infer Royal represented Coviare in purchasing his home and Effective made the home loan. Defendants are sometimes referred to as the Broker defendants and the Lender defendants. We accept the truth of the following allegations set forth in Weed’s second amended complaint. Weed met Coviare on an Internet dating site in July 2010 and started lending him money. They entered into a relationship. By November 2010 she

2 had loaned him $54,000. In that month, he told her he intended to buy a house. He asked…