Investors bought a historic Los Angeles home. Sisters who have lived there since childhood are fighting to stay
LOS ANGELES -- Lupe Breard remembers coming to live in the Queen Anne Victorian house in Echo Park with her mother and siblings when she was a child. The memory is still vivid decades later, she says, because she didn't want to move there — until she saw the chimney and told herself Santa Claus could bring presents down it at Christmas. She'd never had a fireplace before.
She has stayed ever since, raising her three children in the historic home and watching as the neighborhood changed from a quiet, under-the-radar community to one where homes routinely sell for well over $1 million.
Breard stayed even after her mother died in 2018, leaving the house in her will to three of Breard's older siblings. She stayed after the family estate tried, unsuccessfully, to evict her. And she has continued fighting to stay after the house was sold in
