Over the course of a few days, Samantha Forbes has received a seven day no-cause eviction notice as well as a letter from her Siegel Suites property manager demanding she pay the full amount of rent she has fallen behind on, about $5,000, within 10 days.

Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, citing the need to thwart the spread of COVID-19, released an order saying landlords couldn’t evict people for the nonpayment of rent, Forbes said many of her neighbors who are behind on payments have received similar notices.

“We handed in a CDC coverage letter saying they cannot do no-cause evictions and that we are protected until Dec. 31, yet they are trying to evict us right now,” she said. “They are literally ignoring everything and trying to bully everyone here into leaving or paying.”

Hours before the eviction moratorium was set to expire in Nevada Sept. 1, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced he would extend the moratorium 45 days. But the CDC order, issued the next day, went much farther in its scope and halted evictions until Dec. 31.

Legal groups have said some landlords and property managers — the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada specifically named Siegel Suites — are defying eviction protections and still attempting to evict people.

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