It sounds like a movie, a woman manages a nice, peaceful uptown Garden District apartment complex called “Amie’s Paradise,” a play on the woman’s last name of Amiewalan. In this serene world comes a tenant and a conflict ensues. In an escalating war of words, the tenant not only threatens the peace, but ultimately destroys the property and disrupts a lot of lives.
Manager Vivian Amiewalan endured wrathful, expletive laden texts and emails from tenant Jazlynn Major during the eviction process.
Amiewalan admits there were problems with the plumbing stemming from a 4th of July water outage and delays in finding a plumber, first over a national holiday, then one capable of fixing the problems.
Major, a law student at Loyola, apparently added fuel to the fire by refusing to pay rent, until the problems with her apartment were fixed.
Amiewalan, at the end of her rope, filed for an eviction—she wanted Jazlynn Major out.
“I must warn you that this will be unpleasant,” Major says in a text obtained by the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate. “I’m staying my ass through August like I said. Don’t be an idiot, before you lose everything.”
Then the nastiness turned threatening.
“[I will] slap the dog s—t out of you, when I see you again... believe that.” The text on the day she was ordered to leave read.
Major’s text goes on to say Amiewalan “picked the wrong one [to start a fight with].”
By Monday afternoon, after Major had been ordered to leave, she reportedly issued a direct threat, promising to kill Amiewalan and her daughter.
Fire investigators found the mattress in Major’s apartment had been set on fire and that in turn set the building on fire, killing a dog, and leaving 26 other tenants homeless.
Major meanwhile skipped town, still owing two months of back rent, and was caught in Huntsville, Texas.
She’s since been returned to this jurisdiction to face 26-charges of arson for the destruction she caused to Amie's Paradise Apartments.