The fired California nanny who wouldn't leave is blaming the weather, the media and physical disabilities as the reasons she hasn't moved out of her former employers' home, but said she will be out by July 4 - under certain conditions, according to an email she sent to her employer's lawyer. 
 
 But Marcella Bracamonte, who fired Diane Stretton earlier this month, thinks Stretton's demands are a ploy. 
 
 “I don’t believe her. She is going to show up when I am not here with a bunch of food and water and she will barricade herself in her room,” Bracamonte said. 
 
 “I want her to leave by tomorrow, Tuesday 4 p.m. I am not going to play games with this lady,” she said. 
 
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 Stretton, 64, was hired by Marcella and Ralph Bracamonte in early March to help care for their three children in exchange for room and board. After several weeks, Stretton stopped working and said she was unable to perform her job because health problems and only came out of her room to eat, the Bracamontes claim. The family asked Stretton to sign a letter on June 6 giving her 30 days to leave, but Stretton threatened to sue the family for elder abuse and improper firing, Marcella Bracamonte said. 
 
 In an email sent this weekend to Marc Cohen, the Bracamontes' lawyer, Stretton said she tried to move out of the house but there was "always a bunch of news vehicles right in front of the house. The media needs to be completely gone before I continue moving." 
 
 She said her departure will now be delayed by a coming heat wave. "The temperature over the next 5 days is expected to be near 100 degrees. I can't work in that kind of heat," she wrote in her email. 
 
 Stretton said in her email that she wants to be able to sleep in the Bracamonte home for three more nights and to be able to shower in their bathroom. 
 
 "If the media stays away, I will be out by the 4th of July. But that depends on the circus not continuing," she wrote. 
 
 The Bracamontes have plans to be away for July 4, but Marcella Bracamonte does not intend to leave her house unattended. 
 
 “I have my sister-in-laws, brother-in-laws and their children, so at least seven people will be here,” she told ABC News. 
 
 Stretton disappeared from the Bracamontes' house Thursday morning and was later discovered in her car outside of a police station on Friday. She has refused to speak to the media, hiding under window screen. 
 
 During Stretton's standoff with the Bracamontes, her litigious past has emerged. She has a long history with litigation and is listed on California's Vexatious Litigant List, which includes people who have been found to bring legal action that is frivolous or repetitive. 
 
 The majority of the lawsuits were directed at her own family members, particularly her two sisters. According to documents, Stretton tried to block her sisters from selling family property. 
 
 Last year, Stretton even sued her son, Michael, according to court records, and a car rental agency for property damage and personal injury in connection with a motor vehicle accident. 
 
 Court documents show that when Stretton's father, John Richardson, died in 2000, his will included Stretton's two sisters, Donna Tobey and Sharon Freeburn. Richardson "specifically and expressly omitted Stretton," according to court documents.Stretton has not returned calls from ABC News. ||||| Family: Nightmare Nanny Agrees to Leave 
 
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 It was the story that made every parent wince. Ralph and Marcella Bracamonte hired Diane Stretton as a live-in nanny to watch their children, ages 11, 4 and 16 months. When things didn't work out, they let her go. But, according to the Bracamontes, the 64-year-old nanny refused to leave their home in Upland, California.Since the story became national news on Friday, Stretton, who has refused to speak to media, hasn't returned to the house. She has been spotted driving past the house by the assembled media and her belongings remain in her room.But now, the Bracamontes say that Stretton has agreed to move out by July 4, under certain conditions. "She wrote a [email] stating what she wants to do," Marcella Bracamonte tells PEOPLE. "She would like to move out but because of the hot weather that's going to happen soon." The only hitch: the Bracamontes were scheduled to go out of town for a family wedding on July 2. "I feel like it's a trap," says Bracamonte, adding that the couple will have other family members house-sitting while they're out of town. "I feel like she knows that I'm going to be gone and that she wants to lock me out of my home."While Stretton and the Bracamontes come up with a solution, the case raises some burning questions. Speaking to PEOPLE inside their home, the Bracamontes answered some of them.The family had posted an ad on Craigslist, and Stretton seemed like a promising candidate. But did they do a criminal background check before hiring her? "Of course I did," Marcella Bracamonte tells PEOPLE. "I'm a mom. My family is the most important thing, so of course I did. I called references. I didn't do a credit check, because I wasn't accepting money from her. I just didn't think it was necessary. I was too trusting."According to the Bracamontes, they were initially pleased with Stretton's work – until the third week. "She began slowing down," says Bracamonte. "I thought maybe it was because she was a little older, but then things got worse the next week. And the next week." Adds Ralph Bracamonte: "She didn't want to pick up anything anymore. She didn't want to help out."Because the employment agreement included a place to live, the family must go through the proper legal channels to evict her. "The eviction process is a civil action and, in some cases, can take months to complete," says Cindy Bachman, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff. "Once the process is complete, a deputy will remove the tenant and lock them out. If the tenant refuses to leave, they could face arrest for trespassing and/or violation of a court order."If they interfere with the nanny's room, the Bracamontes could face legal repercussions. "She came in as a nanny in exchange for services," says the Bracamontes' attorney, Marc Cohen. (The laws regarding the housing agreement are different than those governing the employment arrangement.) "She was given a room. She has a legal right to that room. I don't think there is a legal obligation to feed her. There would be a legal obligation to ensure that she has lights, running water, things like that."Under landlord/tenant laws, the Bracamontes cannot become the roommates from hell. When Stretton felt that the Bracamontes had their television up too loud, she called police. "We could be fined up to $1,000 for disrupting our tenant," says Marcella. Adds Ralph, "My TV doesn't even have surround sound. It wasn't too loud."Although there is no record of a similar case involving employment as a nanny, PEOPLE has found Stretton's name attached to more than a dozen cases in three Southern California counties ranging from nonpayment to property damage to negligence. Of the 13 cases found by PEOPLE dating back to 2002, she is a plaintiff in 7 cases and a defendant in 6 more. ABC News reports that she is listed by California Courts as a vexatious litigant for abusing the legal system. ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video 
 
 Upland couple Marcella and Ralph Bracamonte were caught in what they described Thursday as a "nightmare." 
 
 The Bracamontes fired their live-in nanny three weeks ago, but said the woman was refusing to leave and even threatened the couple with legal action. 
 
 "She said, 'if you want me to go, you'll need to evict me. I have rights,'" Marcella Bracamonte said. 
 
 In March, Marcella Bracamonte placed an ad on Craigslist looking for a retiree to watch her three children — two boys, ages 11 and 4, and a 16-month-old girl — and help around the house in exchange for room and board. 
 
 Diane Stretton, 64, accepted the job after the Bracamontes conducted a background check and checked her references. The couple said Stretton was amazing, at least at first. 
 
 "She completely reverted after a couple weeks into someone who didn't want to do anything and that only came out when it was time to eat," Ralph Bracamente said, adding that Stretton claimed she suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a breathing condition. 
 
 After asking Stretton repeatedly to help out around the house, Marcella Bracamonte said she gave her a last-chance letter, asking her to either live up to her part of the agreement or leave. 
 
 Stretton allegedly responded again by threatening legal action. 
 
 "If we're to lock her out of our house she could sue us, if we're to grab her stuff and throw it out of our house she can sue us," Ralph Bracamente said. 
 
 The Bracamontes said they tried everything to get the unwanted nanny to leave, even turning off the cable and internet and locking the refrigerator at night. 
 
 But that only made things worse, the couple said. 
 
 Instead of leaving, the couple said Stretton is threatening to sue them for breach of contract, wrongful termination and false imprisonment. 
 
 When the Bracamontes contacted police, according to the couple, authorities said that law-enforcement officials could not get involved because Stretton had established residency in the home and the dispute was a civil matter. 
 
 "We own this house. We own it. Our names are on the title, not hers, and we can't make her leave," said Marcella Bracamonte. "I want everybody to know that you have no rights in your home. How is this legal? How is this America? How is this the land of the free?" 
 
 The couple claimed they recently discovered that the former employee had been involved in 37 lawsuits and had even sued several of her own family members. 
 
 Stretton has declined to comment on the matter. She approached the Upland home in a vehicle on Thursday evening but drove away after seeing members of the media in front of the house. 
 
 KTLA's John A. Moreno contributed to this report. 
 
 Correction: A previous version of this story misspelled Diane Stretton's name. It's been updated to reflect the correct spelling.
– The fired nanny who has been refusing to leave her former employers' home says she is now ready to go—when conditions are just right. Diane Stretton over the weekend emailed Marcella and Ralph Bracamonte's lawyer blaming the weather and the media for her failure to depart their California home, ABC News reports. There are "always a bunch of news vehicles right in front of the house," the 64-year-old complains. "The media needs to be completely gone before I continue moving." She noted a predicted near-100-degree heat wave will make it impossible to move in the next few days because she "can't work in that kind of heat"—though "if the media stays away, I will be out by the 4th of July. But that depends on the circus not continuing." But Marcella Bracamonte, who says she fired Stretton last month after she "just stopped working," isn't convinced. "I don’t believe her. She is going to show up when I am not here with a bunch of food and water and she will barricade herself in her room," she says. Stretton, for her part, tells KNX 1070 news radio she only refused to work twice, when she had the flu and had worked 90 days straight. "I didn’t get lunch breaks, I didn’t get coffee breaks, I didn't get any holidays. Basically, I was working 24/7." Bracamonte, who tells People that she hired Stretton through a Craigslist ad and that her references checked out, says she and her family will be out of town on the day when Stretton claims she is going to move—but there will be plenty of other family members house-sitting. "I feel like she knows that I'm going to be gone and that she wants to lock me out of my home," she says.