Davis v. Rental Associates, Inc.

I

I concur in the judgment essentially for the reasons set forth in Part V of Judge Kern’s plurality opinion. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in declining to vacate the judgment of possession for the landlord. The tenant-appellant — who had counsel — had never opposed a protective order in the amount of existing rental payments, had failed to make payments for November, December, and January, took no timely step to request permission for late payment or to seek modification of the protective order, and thus made no timely effort to relate her defaults to her eventually proffered…