April 25, 2008
Evil Landlords Arrested for Tenant Abuse
Software engineer Kip Macy, 33, and real estate agent Nicole Macy, 32, were arrested the other day for "waging a war of terror"on their tenants occupying their six-unit, three-story SOMA house. It seems that the Macys bought the place a few years back and have since been trying to have the old tenants evicted.
But instead of going through a lengthy legal process to get them out, the Macys cut support beams, had electricity shutoff, pulled phone lines, had workers saw a hole in the living room floor of one tenant, "stole $2,000 in cash, a Gucci watch and a cell phone," dismantled renters' furniture, poured ammonia over tenants' possessions, and, finally, physically assaulted one of them.
As one Curbed commenter points out, "[u]mm, where's the other party's side of the story? This is awfully one-sided...[t]here is no absolute frame of reference; everything is subjective." So please, for the sake of fair and balanced Journalism, advise us as to when it's OK to assault your tenants, SFist readers.
Neither Nicole Macy nor Kip Macy ("well-known in FreeBSD circles") live in San Francisco. Oh yeah, and they were charged with felony stalking, felony residential burglary, conspiracy, and much, much more. Both of the mad-as-hell landlords posted bail on Tuesday.
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It's legally and morally appropriate to assault your tenants if they put Roger Dean posters on the wall.
Recently overheard at the Macy household. "Those fuckers installed bird feeders, Nicole, BIRD FEEDERS!!! - there's birds EVERYWHERE GODDAMMIT!!!"
hehe...what a freakin tool...get thee a valium and vokda cocktail son.
Anyone named Kip is automatically a douchebag.
"...advise us as to when it's OK to assault your tenants, SFist readers."
It's OK when their is no assault. We haven't heard the other side of the story. It's not as though every tenant is an blameless angel who would never invent a story for the sake of squeezing the landlord. Cool your nuts for a bit and let's find out what's what.
"Cool your nuts for a bit..."
awesome.
I love the fact that they cut a hole into the floor of one tenant from below.
Hope the tenant wasn't a paranoid meth head or anything.
dear SFJackass, er, SFJoe:
these douchebags had already been sued by the city for illegally using Ellis act evictions to get the previous tenants out. read the sfgate article.
kthxbai.
What is it about the open source developers that makes them go batshit crazy? (cf. Hans Reiser.)
Still, I'm with the commenters that say these are just allegations until proven. From the article it sounds as if they are real, but you can never be sure. Meanwhile, I can't wait to see the counter-allegations.
SFJoe, I'm all about getting the full story, but did you read the part about sawing through support beams and cutting a hole in the living room floor? Those scenarios seem difficult to explain away as a tenant/landlord misunderstanding. Unless they are fabrications, that's either criminal negligence or batshit crazy vindictiveness.
SFjoe:
Um, these people have been accused of breaking into people's homes, stealing their possessions, and destroying their property. I don't care if their tenants were psychotic meth heads, this kind of behavior is never warranted under any circumstances. People like this should be rounded up and gassed.
Read this in newspaper yesterday. Off the charts! Can you believe contractors removing support beams and sawing holes in floors? I'd like to get those names too.
I guess I should quit bitching just because using the hair dryer and toaster at teh same time causes all the electricity in my apartment to go out. Oh yeah, and the fact that the landlord tried to change the terms of our agreement three years into my residence. Apparently I could have it much worse.
What's with all the anti-methhead-landlord sentiment in this thread?
I've seen homeless tweakers with only four teeth left who have shit dripping down their leg on the 14-Mission who would make better landlords than these guys.
I like to cool my nuts with a little Gold Bond Medicated Powder on occasion.
Anyway, I have a horrible landlady who is bat-shit crazy. Even the Judge hearing the lawsuit we had against her said "She's nuts!" But I'm not even going to go into all the crazy shit she's done to us as it basically pales in comparison to what these people have gone through.
I liked the comment on curbed that said not even Ed Jew's legal team could spin this the right away for Kippers.
Heh, aj. When I was covering Open Source about a million years ago I met many brilliant, yet deeply disturbed, programmers. Of course, most of them were also working at their day jobs for Microsoft, Apple, Red Hat, etc. so one could just as easily say that programmers for those companies were deeply insane as well.
However, I'm not here to bring the butthurt, but only to say that I think the development of those coding skills is due, in part, to not having or being unable to develop people skills. You can make code do whatever you want or get rid of it if it causes too many problems. Sounds like Kip tried to carry this over to his property management business, with predictable results.
"Anyone named Kip is automatically a douchebag."
Guess now I know.
-Kip
hey, icbalaam -- you don't live on Bryant street by any chance do you? Just wondering. I'm sure there are a number of batshit crazy landladies in town, but there's this one in particular that I've heard tales about.
Heck I can remember years back having a manager of the building I live in that was illegally searching peoples places and having others who worked in the building doing the same thing when the tenants weren't home. They were using the security camera's walkie talkies to pull it off. When I found this out but couldn't prove it I started to set up my video camera whenever I left my place and made it very clear to the manager I was doing so and informed other tenants in the building of what was going on. They stopped before anyone could get any real proof that could have been used in a court of law. There is a part of me to this day that wants to hunt the manager down as well as the spouse of said manager and let them know with real world physical violence of just how violated I felt... just remembering it still enrages me... but if I were to hunt them down I would be the one going to jail not them. Sometimes life simply sucks and all you can do is walk away.......