Ruebe

FACTS

Ruebe's Evidence The Parsas have owned the rental property located at 58 North Oak Street in Ventura since 1980. Lashkari and Buena Properties have been managing the property since 2002. The property includes a driveway leading to a parking lot, which the Parsas also own. The driveway is the only means of access to the parking lot. Parsa also owns a commercial building (Zander building) that connects to the parking lot. Ruebe moved into the property next door at 50 North Oak Street in 1989 or 1990 when she was pregnant with her son, Lancelot, and the two of them have lived there since. The Parsas' driveway runs between the house they own and Ruebe's house. At the time Ruebe purchased her house, she understood from disclosures in the purchase agreement that there was a prescriptive easement allowing her access to her backyard area via the driveway.3

2 Throughout this opinion, "Parsa" in the singular refers to Dayrush Parsa, "Parsas" in the plural refers to Dayrush and Kathleen Parsa, and "appellants" refers to the Parsas 3and Lashkari. This was only her understanding. Nothing in the record suggests that a prescriptive easement was ever recorded. 2 At the time…