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ALAMEDA — Tenants have once more been told to vacate the Bayview Apartments on Central Avenue, the same complex where a mass eviction was threatened nearly two years ago.

Rommel Laguardia, who lives with his wife and three children in a one-bedroom unit for $1,064 each month, said he found a three-day notice on his front door when he woke up Friday morning. Three other tenants got similar notices at the 33-unit complex at 470 Central Ave. An additional three tenants received 60-day notices.

“These notices that are coming now are just retaliation,” said Laguardia, who has fought to stay at the complex ever since San Jose-based Sridhar Equities Inc. bought the property in October 2015 for $6.1 million and soon afterward told all tenants to leave so that upgrades could be carried out. No one from Sridhar Equities was immediately available for comment.

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The potential evictions at the complex follow landlords gathering enough signatures from Alameda voters to have changes that the City Council made in May to the city’s rent ordinance put on hold, including the addition of a provision requiring “just cause” for orders to vacate.

Tenants say the provision offers a safeguard from landlords who might evict them with little notice, including to possibly get more money out of a unit from someone else. Landlords say problem tenants can use the provision to fight an eviction, and that it can also deny them the flexibility to get into a unit to make repairs or other upgrades.

The council adopted the ordinance in March 2016 — partly in response to the threatened evictions at the Bayview Apartments — and Alameda voters affirmed it last November.

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Landlords are now campaigning for the ordinance, without the council’s May amendments, to be part of the City Charter. Landlords spent more than $130,000 on the campaign between January and June, according to a statement filed July 31 with the city clerk’s office.

About five units at the Bayview Apartments are vacant. One- and two-bedroom units at the complex are being advertised on Apartments.com, a listings site, for $1,845 to $2,695 a month.

Laguardia, who has a month-to-month tenancy and has lived in his unit about seven years, has received similar notices to vacate in the past, including a 60-day notice in July 2016.

Tenants who got the recent notices were told they had outstanding balances on their rents or owed other fees, said Laguardia, who stated he was told he owes $266.

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He said he does not know where that figure comes from, that he’s up to date on his rent and that he has requested an explanation from the property owner. He also also said he forwarded documents on his case and his fellow tenants to City Attorney Janet Kern and said he has obtained his own legal help.

“They can’t do this to us,” the 50-year-old Laguardia said. “We will fight back. We will fight until the end and will keep on fighting.”