BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Eyewitness News is known as a TV station that investigates stories others don't. Every day, people call the Eyewitness News Tipline looking for help.

One of those people is Bakersfield resident Mary Graham, who rents an apartment on Flower Street. She claims the property owner has been refusing to make repairs.

"On the 17th of (September) all the apartments got flooded," explained Graham. She says the property owner, Leonda Wandick, promised to fix the floor but never did.

Graham added that the owner's temporary fix was hazardous.

"After the floor flooded (Wandick) put the big rocks on the floor, because she said she didn't want her tile to raise up off the floor," said Graham. "I almost broke my neck one night going to the bathroom."

With no repairs made in the past month, Graham told Wandick she had called Eyewitness News about the problem. On Tuesday, Graham had an interesting visitor come to her front door.

"The girl had an 'Eye 29' badge but no picture, and she had one on her hip," Graham recalled.

But the person at Graham's door wasn't from Eyewitness News and used the reporter disguise to serve Graham with an eviction notice.

The eviction notice was for non-payment of rent. Graham says every time she has tried to pay her rent Wandick refuses to take it. Wandick disagrees.

When Eyewitness News asked Wandick about the server's methods she said, "They're posing as anyone that (the Grahams) would open the door for."

That practice turns out to be legal, but it does raise questions about how someone can make sure a person at their front door is who they say they are.

Kern County Sheriff's Senior Deputy Michael Whorf said the only person you must open your door for is a law enforcement officer with a search warrant. If it's anyone else, Whorf says it pays to be cautious.

"Ask to see identification. And if you're still not sure call us or the police and we'll come out and investigate," he said.

As for Graham, she's planning on moving out and says she'll be more careful from now on.

"I didn't know people would get that low to do something like that, but I guess they do," she said.

Even though what the server did is not illegal, she did misrepresent herself as a reporter from Eyewitness News, and Eyewitness News does consider that an unauthorized use of its name, trademark and reputation.

When Eyewitness News asked the property owner why the repairs had not been made, she claims the tenants will not let her.